Tritium Leaks from Nuclear Power Plants: A Legal & Regulatory Discussion

Environmental issues continue actively to affect many clients. Whether your client is concerned about the stringencies of over-regulation or the laxity of environmental protection, you need to know how to deal with regulatory agencies to protect that client. 

In this program, Sheldon Trubatch, Esq. applies his experience from both successfully defending the decisions of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and also successfully representing clients before that agency to give you practical advice on how to support your client in interacting with a regulatory agency, especially a regulatory agency that regulates in a highly-technical area. Specifically, Sheldon examines the response of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to the release of radioactive water from nuclear power plants into lakes and streams to illustrate useful insights into this technically oriented regulatory landscape. 

Learning Objectives:

I.    Get a basic technical level of understanding needed to deal knowledgeably with legal issues imbued with that technology

II.   Grasp the extent to which you must become familiar with enough of the details of environmental impacts to formulate legal strategies for dealing with them, either to challenge them or to show that they are not significant

III.  Develop a facility for using the regulatory agency’s rules and publications to ferret out the factors that drive the agency’s decisions and that you need to harness to interact successfully with the agency on behalf of your client

IV.  Understand the alternative non-legal pressure points that can be used to support legal positions before the regulatory agency