I. The need for a specialised uniform international nuclear liability regime In the excerpt from the Exposé des Motifs1 quoted above, the fathers of the 1960 Paris Convention on Third Party Liability in the Field of Nuclear Energy, as revised in 1964 and 1982 (Paris Convention – PC),2 clearly spelt out that the potential risks associated with the peaceful use of nuclear energy require a ‘uniform’ international third party liability regime. A regime of this