ABSTRACT
This book presents and analyses the German constitutional system's responses towards nuclear energy. The number of constitutional discussions that nuclear energy triggered in Germany in the last 70 years is surprisingly high (considering that the German Constitution has scarcely since 1959 directly regulated nuclear energy in a dedicated and detailed manner). The time for those analyses covers the entire commercial usage of nuclear energy for power generation. This broad perspective of nearly 70 years allows for unwrapping and explaining those perplexing legal and social issues related to nuclear energy. Approaching nuclear energy from this non-obvious perspective deserves to be comprehensively presented in a separate volume. All this allows us to achieve the primary objective of this book: presenting those universal issues of nuclear energy along with the German measures to readers from other legal systems than the German legal system. The second objective of the book was to analyse and present how the public task of ensuring security, especially energy security, has been coupled with the nuclear power sector in the German legal and constitutional system.
