Licensing models

A large variety of examples of licensing methodologies can be found in updates published by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) on analytical studies of nuclear legislation in Member States (NEA, 2004). Likewise, Chapter 2 of the IAEA Handbook of Nuclear Law (Stoiber et al., 2010) recognizes the large variety of regulatory organizations. The Handbook also includes recommendations on the establishment of such bodies. For illustra­tion, three very different and relevant examples are discussed in the Appendix in Section 20.10.