Nuclear Energy Ordinance
(NEO)

¹ Nuc­le­ar ma­ter­i­als are:

a.

source ma­ter­i­als:

1.

nat­ur­al urani­um, i.e. urani­um with the mix­ture of iso­topes that oc­curs in nature,

2.

de­pleted urani­um, i.e. urani­um that has a lower per­cent­age of urani­um 235 than nat­ur­al urani­um,

3.

thori­um,

4.

the sub­stances men­tioned in num­bers 1-3 above in the form of met­al, al­loys, chem­ic­al com­pounds or con­cen­trates and oth­er ma­ter­i­als that con­tain one or more of the above­men­tioned sub­stances in a con­cen­tra­tion spe­cified by the In­ter­na­tion­al Atom­ic En­ergy Agency or high­er;

b.

spe­cial fis­sile ma­ter­i­als:

1.

plutoni­um 239,

2.

urani­um 233,

3.

urani­um 235,

4.

en­riched urani­um, i.e. urani­um in which the per­cent­age of urani­um 233, urani­um 235 or both iso­topes to­geth­er is high­er than that of urani­um 235 in nat­ur­al urani­um,

5.

the sub­stances men­tioned in num­bers 1-4 above in the form of met­al, al­loys, chem­ic­al com­pounds or con­cen­trates and oth­er ma­ter­i­als that con­tain one or more of the above­men­tioned sub­stances in a con­cen­tra­tion spe­cified by the In­ter­na­tion­al Atom­ic En­ergy Agency or high­er.

² The fol­low­ing are not clas­si­fied as nuc­le­ar ma­ter­i­als:

a.

urani­um and thori­um ores;

b.

source ma­ter­i­als and products made from source ma­ter­i­als that are not used for ob­tain­ing en­ergy by means of nuc­le­ar fis­sion pro­cesses, and in par­tic­u­lar shield­ing ma­ter­i­als, sensors in meas­ur­ing in­stru­ments, ceram­ic com­pounds and al­loys;

c.

spe­cial fis­sile ma­ter­i­als with a weight of up to 15 grams and products made from spe­cial fis­sile ma­ter­i­als that are not used for ob­tain­ing en­ergy by means of nuc­le­ar fis­sion pro­cesses, and in par­tic­u­lar sensors in meas­ur­ing in­stru­ments and oth­er fin­ished products for which the re­cov­ery of the spe­cial fis­sile ma­ter­i­als con­tained therein re­quires dis­pro­por­tion­ate tech­nic­al ef­fort or fin­an­cial ex­pense.

¹ In­stall­a­tions in which the fol­low­ing nuc­le­ar ma­ter­i­als are ob­tained, pro­duced, used, pro­cessed or stored are not clas­si­fied as nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tions:

a.

sub­stances that con­tain a total of not more than 1,000 kg of nat­ur­al urani­um, de­pleted urani­um or thori­um;

b.

source ma­ter­i­als for which evid­ence can be provided that a sus­tain­able chain re­ac­tion is not pos­sible due to the chemico-phys­ic­al con­di­tion of the ma­ter­i­als and the ex­ist­ing op­er­at­ing con­di­tions;

c.

spe­cial fis­sile ma­ter­i­als that con­tain a total max­im­um of 150 grams of plutoni­um 239, urani­um 233 or urani­um 235.

^1bis In­stall­a­tions out­side nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tions in which ra­dio­act­ive waste is stored in or­der to de­cay in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 117 of the Ra­di­olo­gic­al Pro­tec­tion Or­din­ance of 26 April 2017³ (RPO) are also not clas­si­fied as nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tions.⁴

² The Fed­er­al Of­fice of En­ergy (the Fed­er­al Of­fice) shall de­term­ine wheth­er source ma­ter­i­als meet the re­quire­ments with­in the mean­ing of para­graph 1 let­ter b.

Activ­it­ies in­volving nuc­le­ar goods with­in the mean­ing of Art­icle 3 let­ter k of the Nuc­le­ar En­ergy Act are not clas­si­fied as broker­age activ­it­ies if the nuc­le­ar goods con­cerned are in­ten­ded to meet own needs with­in Switzer­land.

The defin­i­tions in An­nex 1 ap­ply.

The fed­er­al gov­ern­ment shall spe­cify in a sec­tor­al plan the ob­ject­ives and cri­ter­ia for the dis­pos­al of ra­dio­act­ive waste in deep geo­lo­gic­al re­pos­it­or­ies which are leg­ally bind­ing for the rel­ev­ant au­thor­it­ies.

The su­per­vis­ory au­thor­it­ies are:

a.

the Swiss Fed­er­al Nuc­le­ar Safety In­spect­or­ate (EN­SI) with re­gard to nuc­le­ar safety and se­cur­ity;

b.

the Fed­er­al Of­fice for oth­er areas of en­force­ment of the NEA.

The fol­low­ing meas­ures must be taken in or­der to guar­an­tee nuc­le­ar safety.

a.

Es­tab­lished or proven high-qual­ity pro­cesses, ma­ter­i­als, tech­no­lo­gies and or­gan­isa­tion­al struc­tures and pro­cesses must be used in con­nec­tion with design, con­struc­tion, com­mis­sion­ing and op­er­a­tion of nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tions. This ap­plies es­pe­cially to the areas of plan­ning, man­u­fac­ture, test­ing, op­er­a­tion, sur­veil­lance, main­ten­ance, qual­ity as­sur­ance, eval­u­ation of op­er­a­tion­al ex­per­i­ence feed­back, er­go­nom­ic design as well as ba­sic and ad­vanced train­ing and pro­fes­sion­al de­vel­op­ment.

b.

Any de­vi­ations from nor­mal op­er­a­tion should be countered as far as pos­sible by en­sur­ing that the be­ha­viour of the in­stall­a­tion is self-reg­u­lat­ing and fault-tol­er­ant. Wherever pos­sible, the be­ha­viour of the in­stall­a­tion must be in­her­ently safe. The term «in­her­ently safe» is un­der­stood to mean that a giv­en sys­tem func­tions safely on its own, i.e. without the sup­port of aux­il­i­ary sys­tems.

c.

In or­der to deal with ac­ci­dents, the in­stall­a­tion must be de­signed in such a man­ner as to en­sure that the sur­round­ings are not ex­posed to im­per­miss­ible ra­di­olo­gic­al ef­fects. For this pur­pose, the in­stall­a­tion must be equipped with both pass­ive and act­ive safety sys­tems.

d.

Ad­di­tion­al tech­nic­al, or­gan­isa­tion­al and ad­min­is­trat­ive meas­ures must be taken to pre­vent and mit­ig­ate the con­sequences if harm­ful quant­it­ies of ra­dio­act­ive sub­stances might be re­leased in case of an ac­ci­dent

¹ Pre­vent­ive and pro­tect­ive meas­ures must be taken to avoid ac­ci­dents in nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tions that may ori­gin­ate either with­in (in­tern­al) or out­side (ex­tern­al) the in­stall­a­tion.

² In­tern­al ini­ti­at­ing events in­clude re­act­iv­ity dis­turb­ance, loss of coolant, loss of heat sink, fire, flood­ing, mech­an­ic­al dam­age due to com­pon­ent fail­ure, dam­age to clad­ding when hand­ling fuel ele­ments, fail­ure of op­er­at­ing sys­tems, un­in­ten­tion­al ac­tiv­a­tion or faulty func­tion­ing of safety sys­tems, and mis­takes made by per­son­nel.

³ Ex­tern­al ini­ti­at­ing events in­clude earth­quake, flood­ing, ac­ci­dent­al crash of civil or mil­it­ary air­craft, squall, light­ning strike, shock wave, fire, loss of off-site power, impair­ment or loss of ex­tern­al cool­ing wa­ter sup­ply.

⁴ For the design of a nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tion in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 7 let­ter c, ac­ci­dents with­in the mean­ing of para­graph 2 and ac­ci­dents not triggered by nat­ur­al events with­in the mean­ing of para­graph 3 must be clas­si­fied by the fre­quency spe­cified in Art­icle 123 para­graph 2 RPO⁶. In ad­di­tion to the ini­ti­at­ing event, an un­re­lated single fail­ure must also be as­sumed. Proof must be provided that the re­quire­ments re­lat­ing to max­im­um ra­di­ation doses in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 123 para­graph 2 RPO are met.⁷

^4bis For the design of a nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tion in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 7 let­ter c, in the case of ac­ci­dents triggered by nat­ur­al events in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 3, the as­sump­tion shall be made of a nat­ur­al event with a fre­quency of 10^‑3 per year and a nat­ur­al event with a fre­quency of 10^‑4 per year. In ad­di­tion to a nat­ur­al event trig­ger­ing the ac­ci­dent, a sep­ar­ate in­di­vidu­al er­ror shall be as­sumed. It must be demon­strated that the dose res­ult­ing from a single such event for mem­bers of the pub­lic:

a.

is no great­er than 1 mSv in the case of a fre­quency of 10^-3 per year;

b.

is no great­er than 100 mSv in the case of a fre­quency of 10^-4 per year.⁸

⁵ Proof must be provided by prob­ab­il­ist­ic ana­lys­is that there is ad­equate pro­tec­tion against bey­ond-design-basis ac­ci­dents. For this pur­pose, the pre­vent­ive and mit­ig­at­ing meas­ures in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 7 let­ter d may be taken in­to ac­count.⁹

⁶The Fed­er­al De­part­ment of the En­vir­on­ment, Trans­port, En­ergy and Com­mu­nic­a­tions (the De­part­ment) shall define the haz­ard as­sump­tions and as­so­ci­ated eval­u­ation cri­ter­ia in an or­din­ance.

¹ The pro­tec­tion of nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tions and nuc­le­ar ma­ter­i­al against sab­ot­age, ma­li­cious acts and un­au­thor­ised re­mov­al must be based on the prin­ciple of de­fence in depth, which en­com­passes struc­tur­al, tech­nic­al, or­gan­isa­tion­al, per­son­nel and ad­min­is­trat­ive meas­ures.

² The prin­ciples for se­cur­ity zones and bar­ri­ers and for the pro­tec­tion of nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tions, nuc­le­ar ma­ter­i­als and ra­dio­act­ive waste are defined in An­nex 2.

³ The De­part­ment shall define the prin­ciples for haz­ard as­sump­tions and for struc­tur­al, tech­nic­al, or­gan­isa­tion­al and ad­min­is­trat­ive se­cur­ity meas­ures in an or­din­ance.

¹ The fol­low­ing prin­ciples ap­ply to nuc­le­ar power plants:

a.

Safety func­tions must also re­main ef­fect­ive even if a single fail­ure oc­curs in­de­pend­ently of an ini­ti­at­ing event, and also if a com­pon­ent is not avail­able due to main­ten­ance or re­pair. Such sep­ar­ate single fail­ures in­clude the ran­dom fail­ure of a com­pon­ent that res­ults in its in­ca­pa­city to per­form its in­ten­ded safety func­tion. Sub­sequent fail­ures arising from such ran­dom fail­ures are also re­garded as part of the ori­gin­al single fail­ure.

b.

Wherever pos­sible, safety func­tions must be im­ple­men­ted in ac­cord­ance with the prin­ciples of re­dund­ancy and di­versity. Re­dund­ancy refers to the ex­ist­ence of a lar­ger num­ber of func­tion­al devices than are re­quired for ful­filling the in­ten­ded safety func­tion. Di­versity refers to the use of dif­fer­ent types of phys­ic­al or tech­nic­al prin­ciples.

c.

Re­dund­ant trains of safety sys­tems in­stalled for per­form­ing safety func­tions must as far as pos­sible be in­de­pend­ent of one an­oth­er in terms of func­tion and in terms of both mech­an­ic­al and sup­port sys­tems such as in­stru­ment­a­tion and con­trol and pro­vi­sion of en­ergy, cool­ing and vent­il­a­tion.

d.

Each re­dund­ant train of a safety sys­tem in­stalled for per­form­ing a safety func­tion must as far as pos­sible be spa­tially sep­ar­ated from the oth­er trains.

e.

Re­dund­ant devices in­stalled for per­form­ing safety func­tions must be test­able, as far as pos­sible in their en­tirety, or oth­er­wise sub­divided in­to the broad­est pos­sible sub­parts, both manu­ally and through sim­u­lated auto­mat­ic ac­tiv­a­tion, in­clud­ing un­der emer­gency power sup­ply.

f.

Safety func­tions must be auto­mated so that, in the event of ac­ci­dents in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 8, no in­ter­ven­tions im­port­ant to safety by per­son­nel are re­quired dur­ing the first 30 minutes fol­low­ing the ini­ti­at­ing event.

g.

The design of sys­tems and com­pon­ents must take suf­fi­cient ac­count of ap­pro­pri­ate safety mar­gins.

h.

As far as pos­sible, sys­tems should be de­signed to en­sure safety-ori­ented sys­tem be­ha­viour in the event of equip­ment fail­ures.

i.

Pref­er­ence must be giv­en to pass­ive rather than act­ive safety func­tions.

j.

Work sta­tions and pro­cesses for the op­er­a­tion and main­ten­ance of the in­stall­a­tion must be de­signed so that they take ac­count of hu­man cap­ab­il­it­ies and their lim­its.

k.

While en­sur­ing the same de­gree of safety, pref­er­ence must be giv­en to meas­ures to pre­vent ac­ci­dents in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 7 let­ter d over meas­ures to mit­ig­ate their con­sequences.

² EN­SI shall spe­cify de­tailed design prin­ciples for light-wa­ter re­act­ors in guidelines.¹⁰

¹ In or­der to guar­an­tee long-term safety, the site for a deep geo­lo­gic­al re­pos­it­ory must meet the fol­low­ing re­quire­ments:

a.

suf­fi­cient ex­tent of suit­able host rock;

b.

fa­vour­able hy­dro-geo­lo­gic­al con­di­tions;

c.

long-term geo­lo­gic­al sta­bil­ity.

² A deep geo­lo­gic­al re­pos­it­ory must be de­signed to en­sure that:

a.

it com­plies by ana­logy with the prin­ciples of Art­icle 10 para­graph 1;

b.

it guar­an­tees long-term safety through mul­tiple pass­ive safety bar­ri­ers;

c.

steps to ease sur­veil­lance and re­pairs of the re­pos­it­ory, or for the re­cov­ery of the waste, in no way im­pair the ef­fect­ive­ness of the pass­ive safety bar­ri­ers after clos­ure of the re­pos­it­ory;

d.

it can be closed with­in a peri­od of a few years.

³ EN­SI shall spe­cify de­tailed design prin­ciples for deep geo­lo­gic­al re­pos­it­or­ies in guidelines.¹¹

¹ Art­icle 10 para­graph 1 ap­plies by ana­logy to the design of nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tions oth­er than nuc­le­ar power plants and deep geo­lo­gic­al re­pos­it­or­ies.

² An in­ter­im stor­age in­stall­a­tion for ra­dio­act­ive waste must be de­signed to en­sure that:

a.

the suit­ab­il­ity for dis­pos­al of the waste pack­ages will not be im­paired;

b.

suf­fi­cient stor­age ca­pa­city is avail­able for the an­ti­cip­ated volume of waste.

³ EN­SI shall spe­cify de­tailed design prin­ciples for in­di­vidu­al types of nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tions in guidelines.¹²

The Fed­er­al Of­fice is re­spons­ible for:

a.

is­su­ing li­cences for hand­ling nuc­le­ar ma­ter­i­als;

a^bis.¹³

is­su­ing li­cences for the ex­port and me­di­ation of tech­no­logy re­lat­ing to nuc­le­ar ma­ter­i­als;

b.¹⁴

ap­prov­ing the agree­ment con­cern­ing the re­turn of ra­dio­act­ive waste.

¹ The Fed­er­al Of­fice shall au­thor­ise ap­plic­a­tions for li­cences for the ex­port and me­di­ation of nuc­le­ar ma­ter­i­als and tech­no­logy re­lat­ing to nuc­le­ar ma­ter­i­als un­less there is an in­dic­a­tion that the li­cens­ing re­quire­ments in Art­icle 7 NEA have not been met.

² It shall re­fuse the ap­plic­a­tion if a ne­ces­sary li­cens­ing re­quire­ment in Art­icle 7 NEA has not been met.

³ In oth­er cases, it shall de­cide by agree­ment with the com­pet­ent of­fices of the Fed­er­al De­part­ment of For­eign Af­fairs, the Fed­er­al De­part­ment of Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs, Edu­ca­tion and Re­search and the Fed­er­al De­part­ment of De­fence, Civil Pro­tec­tion and Sport and in con­sulta­tion with the Fed­er­al In­tel­li­gence Ser­vice. If no agree­ment can be reached, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall de­cide based on the De­part­ment’s pro­pos­al.

¹ Ap­plic­a­tions for a li­cence for the trans­port as well as for im­port, ex­port or trans­it of nuc­le­ar ma­ter­i­als must be sub­mit­ted jointly by the con­signor, the con­sign­ee, the car­ri­er and the trans­port or­gan­iser.

² The doc­u­ments must provide all the ne­ces­sary in­form­a­tion for as­sess­ing the ap­plic­a­tion, in­clud­ing in par­tic­u­lar in­form­a­tion on:¹⁶

a.

the com­pos­i­tion and prop­er­ties of the ma­ter­i­al;

b.

the spe­cif­ic tech­nic­al data con­cern­ing the equip­ment;

c.

the place of man­u­fac­ture;

d.

the des­tin­a­tion and re­cip­i­ent;

e.

the des­ig­nated pur­pose;

f.

the con­di­tions of pur­chase or sale;

g.

trans­port, in par­tic­u­lar evid­ence of com­pli­ance with the re­quire­ments on the car­riage of dan­ger­ous goods;

h.¹⁷

the own­ers of a nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tion that are li­able in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 2 let­ter b of the Nuc­le­ar En­ergy Pub­lic Li­ab­il­ity Act of 13 June 2008¹⁸;

i.¹⁹

proof of cov­er in ac­cord­ance with den Art­icles 1 let­ter c und 2 para­graph 3 of the Nuc­le­ar En­ergy Pub­lic Li­ab­il­ity Or­din­ance of 25 March 2015²⁰.

³ Doc­u­ments re­lat­ing to ap­plic­a­tions for li­cences for the me­di­ation of nuc­le­ar ma­ter­i­als or the ex­port or me­di­ation of tech­no­logy con­cern­ing nuc­le­ar ma­ter­i­als, must con­tain the fol­low­ing in­form­a­tion:

a.

for nuc­le­ar ma­ter­i­als, in par­tic­u­lar de­tails con­cern­ing:

1.

com­pos­i­tion of the ma­ter­i­al,

2.

quant­ity,

3.

place of ori­gin and des­tin­a­tion or if un­known at the time of ap­plic­a­tion, place of per­form­ance;

b.

for tech­no­logy, de­tails with­in the mean­ing of para­graph 2 let­ters c to f, and in­form­a­tion about form and con­tent of the tech­no­logy.

⁴ On re­quest, the hold­er of a li­cence for the me­di­ation of nuc­le­ar ma­ter­i­als must peri­od­ic­ally provide the Fed­er­al Of­fice with the fol­low­ing de­tails:

a.

com­pos­i­tion of the ma­ter­i­al;

b.

quant­it­ies;

c.

place of ori­gin and des­tin­a­tion or if un­known at time of ap­plic­a­tion, place of per­form­ance;

d.

type of un­der­ly­ing trans­ac­tion, time of per­form­ance;

e.

con­trac­tu­al part­ner(s).

⁵ The Fed­er­al Of­fice re­serves the right to re­quest ad­di­tion­al doc­u­ment­a­tion.

¹ At the re­quest of the ap­plic­ant, the Fed­er­al Of­fice shall carry out pre­lim­in­ary cla­ri­fic­a­tions to de­term­ine wheth­er, and un­der which con­di­tions, a li­cence may be is­sued in ac­cord­ance with the re­quire­ments afore­men­tioned in this chapter.

² Pre­lim­in­ary cla­ri­fic­a­tions do not en­title the ap­plic­ant to a li­cence.

³ For the pur­pose of de­cid­ing on the is­su­ing of a li­cence, any already ex­amined pre­con­di­tions shall only be as­sessed dif­fer­ently if the ac­tu­al or leg­al cir­cum­stances have changed since the pre­lim­in­ary cla­ri­fic­a­tions were car­ried out, or if new facts should come to light.

The fol­low­ing types of de­liv­er­ies are equi­val­ent to im­port and ex­port activ­it­ies:

a.

from and to dip­lo­mat­ic or con­su­lar of­fices;

b.

from and to in­ter­na­tion­al or­gan­isa­tions;

c.

from or to bon­ded ware­houses, ware­houses for bulk art­icles, duty-free bon­ded ware­houses or areas out­side cus­toms ter­rit­ory.

Li­cences are val­id for no longer than 12 months and may only be ex­ten­ded for a max­im­um peri­od of 6 months.

All doc­u­ments re­lat­ing to li­cences must be re­tained for a peri­od of 5 years after is­sue of the li­cence, and must be sub­mit­ted to the rel­ev­ant au­thor­it­ies on re­quest.

¹ Li­cence hold­ers must re­port to EN­SI in par­tic­u­lar on the fol­low­ing events and find­ings re­lat­ing to the safety of the trans­port of nuc­le­ar ma­ter­i­als:²³

a.

ex­ceed­ing of dose rate, activ­ity or con­tam­in­a­tion lim­its;

b.

tech­nic­al de­fects on trans­port con­tain­ers sub­ject to ap­prov­al;

c.

any oth­er events and find­ings that im­pair or may im­pair safety.

² The li­cence hold­er must re­port the fol­low­ing events and find­ings re­lat­ing to se­cur­ity to EN­SI without delay:²⁴

a.

sab­ot­age and at­temp­ted sab­ot­age;

b.

bomb threats;

c.

ex­tor­tion and host­age-tak­ing;

d.

ac­ci­dent, dam­age to or fail­ure of se­cur­ity equip­ment and sys­tems that last longer than 24 hours;

e.

any oth­er events and find­ings that im­pair or may im­pair se­cur­ity.

³ The li­cence hold­er must sub­mit a re­port on every event or find­ing to EN­SI or to the Fed­er­al Of­fice. Re­ports on events and find­ings re­lat­ing to safety must be made in ac­cord­ance with An­nex 6. Re­ports re­lat­ing to se­cur­ity must be sub­mit­ted with­in 30 days and must be clas­si­fied.²⁵

¹ Nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tions do not re­quire a gen­er­al li­cence if the fre­quency of all ac­ci­dents in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 8 para­graphs 2 and 3 with a res­ult­ing dose of more than 1 mSv for mem­bers of the pub­lic does not ex­ceed 10^-6 per an­num. In the case of in­ter­im stor­age in­stall­a­tions and deep geo­lo­gic­al re­pos­it­or­ies, the total of activ­it­ies of all nuc­lides to be em­placed must not ex­ceed 10¹⁶ g LL in ac­cord­ance with An­nex 3 column 9 RPO²⁶.²⁷

² EN­SI shall spe­cify the meth­od­o­logy and bound­ary con­di­tions for the ac­ci­dent ana­lys­is called for in para­graph 1 in guidelines.²⁸

Ap­plic­a­tions for a gen­er­al li­cence must be ac­com­pan­ied by the fol­low­ing doc­u­ment­a­tion:

a.

safety ana­lys­is re­port and se­cur­ity re­port that in­clude the fol­low­ing in­form­a­tion:

1.

site char­ac­ter­ist­ics,

2.

pur­pose and out­line of pro­ject,

3.

an­ti­cip­ated ex­pos­ure to ra­di­ation in the vi­cin­ity of the in­stall­a­tion,

4.

im­port­ant in­form­a­tion re­gard­ing or­gan­isa­tion and per­son­nel,

5.

in the case of deep geo­lo­gic­al re­pos­it­or­ies, in­dic­a­tion of long-term safety;

b.

en­vir­on­ment­al im­pact re­port;

c.

re­port on com­pli­ance with spa­tial plan­ning re­quire­ments;

d.

concept for de­com­mis­sion­ing, or for the mon­it­or­ing peri­od and clos­ure;

e.

feas­ib­il­ity demon­stra­tion of the man­age­ment and dis­pos­al of res­ult­ing ra­dio­act­ive waste.

¹ Ap­plic­ants for a con­struc­tion li­cence must demon­strate that:

a.

they are able to com­ply with the prin­ciples afore­men­tioned in Art­icles 7 to 12;

b.²⁹

…

c.

in the case of nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tions with low haz­ard po­ten­tial, the re­quire­ments afore­men­tioned in Art­icle 22 are met.

² They must sub­mit the fol­low­ing doc­u­ment­a­tion:

a.

re­quired doc­u­ments for con­struc­tion li­cence as in­dic­ated in An­nex 4;

b.

en­vir­on­ment­al im­pact re­port;

c.

re­port on com­pli­ance with spa­tial plan­ning re­quire­ments;

d.

qual­ity man­age­ment pro­gramme for the plan­ning and con­struc­tion phase;

e.

emer­gency pre­pared­ness concept;

f.

de­com­mis­sion­ing plan or pro­ject for the mon­it­or­ing peri­od and plan for clos­ure of the in­stall­a­tion;

g.

re­port on com­pli­ance of the pro­ject with the gen­er­al li­cence re­quire­ments.

³ EN­SI shall reg­u­late the type, con­tent, present­a­tion and num­ber of re­quired ap­plic­a­tion doc­u­ments in guidelines.³⁰

¹ In their qual­ity man­age­ment pro­gramme for the plan­ning and con­struc­tion phase, ap­plic­ants are re­quired to de­scribe the or­gan­isa­tion­al struc­ture and pro­cesses, in­clud­ing their co-op­er­a­tion with con­tract­ors, and with the rel­ev­ant li­cens­ing and su­per­vis­ory au­thor­it­ies.

² The qual­ity man­age­ment pro­gramme must take ac­count of the state of the art of nuc­le­ar safety and se­cur­ity tech­no­logy.

³ Ap­plic­ants must have their qual­ity man­age­ment pro­gramme peri­od­ic­ally ex­amined by ex­tern­al aud­it­ors – and mod­i­fied where ne­ces­sary – in ac­cord­ance with cur­rent in­dustry stand­ards.

⁴ EN­SI shall spe­cify the de­tailed re­quire­ments on qual­ity man­age­ment pro­grammes in guidelines.³¹

¹ For build­ings and sys­tem com­pon­ents that re­quire a per­mit in ac­cord­ance with the con­di­tions of the con­struc­tion li­cence, EN­SI shall grant per­mits:³²

a.

for the con­struc­tion of build­ing struc­tures in­clud­ing em­bed­ded at­tach­ment ele­ments and the in­stall­a­tion of re­in­force­ment bars or the as­sembly of steel con­struc­tions and for the meth­od­o­logy ap­plied for modi­fic­a­tions to the ori­gin­al struc­ture and sub­sequently in­stalled fasten­ing ele­ments;

b.

for the man­u­fac­ture of the main mech­an­ic­al com­pon­ents;

c.

for the in­stall­a­tion of mech­an­ic­al and elec­tric­al sys­tems, in­clud­ing their in­stru­ment­a­tion and con­trol and for se­cur­ity equip­ment.

² To ob­tain the ne­ces­sary per­mit, ap­plic­ants must sub­mit all the doc­u­ment­a­tion ne­ces­sary for the as­sess­ment as afore­men­tioned in An­nex 4.

³ EN­SI shall reg­u­late the type, con­tent, present­a­tion and num­ber of re­quired ap­plic­a­tion doc­u­ments in guidelines.³³

¹ Li­cence hold­ers must fully doc­u­ment the con­struc­tion of build­ings and the man­u­fac­ture and as­sembly of tech­nic­al equip­ment, as well as im­ple­men­ted con­trols and in­spec­tions in a re­trace­able man­ner at all times.

² All doc­u­ment­a­tion must be se­curely archived un­til com­ple­tion of the de­com­mis­sion­ing, or un­til clos­ure or ex­piry of the spe­cified mon­it­or­ing peri­od.

³ All modi­fic­a­tions car­ried out on the in­stall­a­tion, in­clud­ing de­com­mis­sion­ing or clos­ure, must be doc­u­mented.

⁴ The li­cence hold­er must hand over all doc­u­ment­a­tion to EN­SI after the in­stall­a­tion has been de­com­mis­sioned, or after it has been closed or the peri­od of ob­ser­va­tion has ex­pired to the De­part­ment.³⁴

⁵ EN­SI shall spe­cify the de­tailed re­quire­ments on doc­u­ment­a­tion and archiv­ing in guidelines.³⁵

¹ Ap­plic­a­tions for an op­er­at­ing li­cence must be ac­com­pan­ied by the fol­low­ing doc­u­ment­a­tion:

a.

the re­quired or­gan­isa­tion­al and tech­nic­al doc­u­ment­a­tion as in­dic­ated in An­nex 3;

b.

the re­quired doc­u­ments for an op­er­at­ing li­cence as in­dic­ated in An­nex 4;

c.

evid­ence of in­sur­ance cov­er;

d.

the re­port on com­pli­ance of the in­stall­a­tion with the re­quire­ments of the gen­er­al li­cence and the con­struc­tion li­cence.

² EN­SI shall reg­u­late the type, con­tent, present­a­tion and num­ber of re­quired ap­plic­a­tion doc­u­ments in guidelines.³⁶

¹ The op­er­at­ing li­cence shall re­quire per­mits for the fol­low­ing stages of the com­mis­sion­ing pro­ced­ure:

a.

the first de­liv­ery of nuc­le­ar fuel;

b.

the first fuel load;

c.

the first crit­ic­al­ity;

d.

the next stages in ac­cord­ance with the com­mis­sion­ing pro­gramme;

e.

con­tinu­ous op­er­a­tion in the first op­er­at­ing cycle;

f.

the first stor­age of waste pack­ages of a giv­en type;

g.

the stor­age of trans­port and stor­age casks with spent fuel ele­ments or high level waste.

² To ob­tain the ne­ces­sary per­mit, ap­plic­ants must sub­mit the doc­u­ment­a­tion ne­ces­sary for the as­sess­ment as afore­men­tioned in An­nex 4.

³ EN­SI shall reg­u­late the type, con­tent, present­a­tion and num­ber of re­quired ap­plic­a­tion doc­u­ments in guidelines.³⁷

¹ The or­gan­isa­tion of the in­stall­a­tion must be struc­tured in such a man­ner that it en­sures in­tern­al re­spons­ib­il­ity for at least the fol­low­ing activ­it­ies and areas:

a.

op­er­a­tion of the in­stall­a­tion in all op­er­at­ing modes;

b.

main­ten­ance, ma­ter­i­al tech­no­logy and test­ing meth­ods, tech­nic­al sup­port;

c.

design and sur­veil­lance of the re­act­or core;

d.

ra­di­ation pro­tec­tion and ra­dio­act­ive waste;

e.

wa­ter chem­istry and use of chem­ic­al ad­dit­ives.

f.

emer­gency plan­ning and pre­pared­ness;

g.

su­per­vi­sion and as­sess­ment of nuc­le­ar safety;

h.

se­cur­ity;

i.

qual­ity as­sur­ance for ser­vices provided by con­tract­ors;

j.

ini­tial and con­tinu­ing train­ing of per­son­nel;

k.

fos­ter­ing of safety aware­ness.

² The li­cence hold­er must or­gan­ise the per­son­nel in­to a man­age­able num­ber of or­gan­isa­tion­al units which are headed by a des­ig­nated man­ager. Depu­ties must also be ap­poin­ted for all man­agers.

³ The li­cence hold­er must ap­point a com­mit­tee that ana­lyses events and find­ings that are at­trib­ut­able to hu­man factors, and that pro­poses meas­ures and su­per­vises their im­ple­ment­a­tion.

⁴ The li­cence hold­er must des­ig­nate a po­s­i­tion for tech­nic­al op­er­a­tion of the in­stall­a­tion that is provided with the ne­ces­sary com­pet­en­cies and re­sources, and that is re­spons­ible for de­cisions re­lat­ing to safety and se­cur­ity.

⁵ EN­SI shall spe­cify the de­tailed re­quire­ments on the or­gan­isa­tion in guidelines.³⁸

The qual­ity man­age­ment sys­tem for op­er­a­tion must meet the fol­low­ing re­quire­ments in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

Re­spons­ib­il­it­ies and com­pet­en­cies for pro­cesses in the or­gan­isa­tion must be de­scribed clearly and in de­tail.

b.

Tasks of rel­ev­ance to safety and se­cur­ity must be defined in a man­age­ment cycle and must be sys­tem­at­ic­ally planned, ex­ecuted, con­trolled, doc­u­mented, in­tern­ally and ex­tern­ally audited on a peri­od­ic­al basis, and ad­jus­ted as ne­ces­sary.

c.

The qual­ity man­age­ment sys­tem must cor­res­pond to the state of the art of nuc­le­ar safety and se­cur­ity tech­no­logy.

¹ The li­cence hold­er must define sys­tem­at­ic pro­grammes for the main­ten­ance of safety and se­cur­ity equip­ment and must im­ple­ment the meas­ures spe­cified therein, in par­tic­u­lar re­lat­ing to:

a.

main­ten­ance;

b.

non-de­struct­ive in-ser­vice in­spec­tions;

c.

peri­od­ic func­tion­al tests.

² Any de­vi­ations from the tar­get state must be rec­ti­fied by tak­ing the ap­pro­pri­ate re­pair meas­ures.

³ Qual­i­fied pro­ced­ures and equip­ment must be used for main­ten­ance, in­spec­tion and re­pair tasks, and these must be car­ried out by qual­i­fied per­son­nel.

⁴ All main­ten­ance and re­pair work must be doc­u­mented and the out­come peri­od­ic­ally eval­u­ated. Pro­grammes must be sup­ple­men­ted as ne­ces­sary.

¹ The li­cence hold­er must carry out sys­tem­at­ic safety as­sess­ments for the fol­low­ing areas:

a.

im­pacts of modi­fic­a­tions to the in­stall­a­tion, and of events and find­ings, on the safety of the in­stall­a­tion, and in par­tic­u­lar on risk; each risk as­sess­ment must in­cor­por­ate an up-to-date, plant-spe­cif­ic prob­ab­il­ist­ic safety ana­lys­is (PSA);

b.

op­er­a­tion­al ex­per­i­ence feed­back from elec­tric­al and mech­an­ic­al equip­ment im­port­ant to safety, fuel ele­ments, struc­tures im­port­ant to safety and wa­ter chem­istry;

c.

ra­di­ation pro­tec­tion and ra­dio­act­ive waste;

d.

or­gan­isa­tion and per­son­nel;

e.

emer­gency plan­ning;

f.

cri­ter­ia in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 44 para­graph 1.

² The li­cence hold­er must carry out sys­tem­at­ic se­cur­ity as­sess­ments for the fol­low­ing areas:

a.

se­cur­ity concept;

b.

phys­ic­al pro­tec­tion meas­ures.

³ EN­SI shall spe­cify the de­tailed re­quire­ments on sys­tem­at­ic safety and se­cur­ity as­sess­ments in guidelines.³⁹

¹ The reg­u­lar re­li­ab­il­ity as­sess­ments on per­sons who carry out func­tions that are es­sen­tial for nuc­le­ar safety and the se­cur­ity of the nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tion are gov­erned by the Or­din­ance of 8 Novem­ber 2023⁴¹ on Per­son­nel Se­cur­ity Screen­ing (PSSO).

² The costs of the as­sess­ments are borne by the in­stig­at­ing body in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 15 para­graph 4 let­ter a PSSO.

¹ The hold­er of an op­er­at­ing li­cence for a nuc­le­ar power plant must carry out a com­pre­hens­ive safety re­view every 10 years (Peri­od­ic Safety Re­view, PSR).

² For this pur­pose it must:

a.

ex­plain and eval­u­ate the safety concept;

b.

con­duct a de­term­in­ist­ic ana­lys­is of the safety status and a PSR;

c.

ex­plain and eval­u­ate the over­all safety status;

d.

ex­plain and eval­u­ate wheth­er the or­gan­isa­tion of the plant and its per­son­nel sat­is­fy safety re­quire­ments.

³ The PSR doc­u­ments must be sub­mit­ted to EN­SI two years at the latest be­fore the end of any op­er­at­ing dec­ade.

⁴ For the peri­od fol­low­ing the fourth op­er­at­ing dec­ade, proof of safety for long-term op­er­a­tions in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 34a must also be sub­mit­ted as part of the PSR.

⁵ EN­SI shall spe­cify the de­tailed re­quire­ments on peri­od­ic­al safety re­views in guidelines. It may provide re­lief for nuc­le­ar power plants for the peri­od fol­low­ing their be­ing defin­it­ively taken out of ser­vice or ex­empt them en­tirely from the ob­lig­a­tion to sub­mit a PSR.

¹ Proof of safety for long-term op­er­a­tions shall com­prise the fol­low­ing in­form­a­tion in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

the rel­ev­ant peri­od of op­er­a­tion;

b.

proof that the design lim­its for the parts of the plant with tech­nic­al safety rel­ev­ance will not be reached dur­ing the planned peri­od of op­er­a­tion;

c.

the back­fit­ting and tech­nic­al or or­gan­isa­tion­al im­prove­ments planned for the fol­low­ing op­er­at­ing dec­ade;

d.

the meas­ures in­ten­ded to guar­an­tee suf­fi­cient num­bers of staff with the re­quired ex­pert­ise for the planned peri­od of op­er­a­tion.

² EN­SI shall spe­cify the de­tailed re­quire­ments on proof of safety for long-term op­er­a­tions in guidelines.

¹ With the aid of a pro­gramme for man­aging age­ing, the li­cence hold­er must sys­tem­at­ic­ally mon­it­or the age­ing of all sys­tems, struc­tures and com­pon­ents, the func­tions and in­teg­rity of which are of im­port­ance with re­gard to safety and se­cur­ity.

² The res­ults must be eval­u­ated, and any ne­ces­sary meas­ures must be defined and duly im­ple­men­ted.

³ With the aid of the said pro­gramme for man­aging age­ing, the li­cence hold­er must doc­u­ment the in­spec­tion of the in­stall­a­tion from the point of view of the ef­fects of age­ing, and the pro­gramme must be peri­od­ic­ally up­dated in ac­cord­ance with the cur­rent status of the in­stall­a­tion.

⁴ EN­SI shall spe­cify the meth­ods and scope of the age­ing man­age­ment pro­gramme in guidelines.⁴⁴

¹ The li­cence hold­er must mon­it­or field-re­lated sci­entif­ic de­vel­op­ments, es­pe­cially find­ings ob­tained from re­search activ­it­ies, and must ex­am­ine the ex­tent to which con­clu­sions may be drawn there­from con­cern­ing safety and se­cur­ity of the li­cence hold­er’s in­stall­a­tion.

² The li­cence hold­er must mon­it­or tech­no­lo­gic­al de­vel­op­ments, in­clud­ing those re­lat­ing to or­gan­isa­tion and per­son­nel, and must ex­am­ine the ex­tent to which con­clu­sions may be drawn there­from con­cern­ing the safety and se­cur­ity of the li­cence hold­er’s in­stall­a­tion. The fol­low­ing are of par­tic­u­lar rel­ev­ance:

a.

re­cog­nised do­mest­ic and for­eign tech­nic­al stand­ards;

b.

reg­u­la­tions of the coun­try sup­ply­ing the nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tion, as well as of oth­er coun­tries, re­lat­ing to nuc­le­ar tech­no­logy;

c.

re­com­mend­a­tions of in­ter­na­tion­al bod­ies;

d.

state of the art in nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tions of a sim­il­ar nature and in oth­er rel­ev­ant in­stall­a­tions.

³ The li­cence hold­er must mon­it­or op­er­at­ing ex­per­i­ences and find­ings of sim­il­ar in­stall­a­tions and as­sess their sig­ni­fic­ance for his own in­stall­a­tion.

¹ In ac­cord­ance with An­nex 5, the li­cence hold­er must sub­mit re­ports to EN­SI for the pur­pose of as­sess­ing the status and op­er­a­tion of the in­stall­a­tion.⁴⁵

² EN­SI shall reg­u­late the type, con­tent, present­a­tion and num­ber of re­quired re­ports in guidelines.⁴⁶

¹ Hold­ers of an op­er­at­ing li­cence must re­port the fol­low­ing activ­it­ies in par­tic­u­lar to EN­SI be­fore they are car­ried out:

a.

planned shut­down of a re­act­or;

b.

re­start of a re­act­or fol­low­ing shut­down due to an ac­ci­dent;

c.

work with an an­ti­cip­ated col­lect­ive dose ex­ceed­ing 50 mSv;

d.

planned non-routine dis­charge of ra­dio­activ­ity in­to the en­vir­on­ment;

e.

change of ac­tiv­ated car­bon in emer­gency fil­ters of vent­il­a­tion sys­tems;

f.

plan­ning and ex­e­cu­tion of emer­gency ex­er­cises;

g.

ex­per­i­ments on sys­tems or com­pon­ents im­port­ant to safety.

² They must re­port the fol­low­ing activ­it­ies to EN­SI:

a.

modi­fic­a­tions of sys­tems that are not sub­ject to li­cence or per­mit;

b.

changes in the con­tent of doc­u­ment­a­tion with­in the mean­ing of Art­icles 27 and 41.

³ They must re­port the fol­low­ing events and find­ings to EN­SI:

a.

any events that im­pair or may im­pair safety;

b.

any oth­er events of pub­lic in­terest;

c.

find­ings that may im­pair safety but have not giv­en rise to an event.

⁴ They must sub­mit to EN­SI all ne­ces­sary re­ports as in­dic­ated in An­nex 6.

⁵ EN­SI shall reg­u­late the re­port­ing pro­ced­ure in ac­cord­ance with para­graphs 1 and 2 and the meth­od of clas­si­fic­a­tion of events and find­ings in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 3 in guidelines.

¹ The hold­er of an op­er­at­ing li­cence must in par­tic­u­lar re­port the fol­low­ing activ­it­ies to EN­SI be­fore they are car­ried out:

a.

struc­tur­al and tech­nic­al modi­fic­a­tions or new in­stall­a­tions that re­quire a per­mit from EN­SI;

b.

se­cur­ity-re­lated ex­er­cises with the in­volve­ment of mil­it­ary, can­ton­al or mu­ni­cip­al au­thor­it­ies;

c.

ex­traordin­ary se­cur­ity-re­lated activ­it­ies.

² The hold­er of an op­er­at­ing li­cence must re­port the fol­low­ing ma­li­cious acts and find­ings to EN­SI without delay:

a.

use of vi­ol­ence against per­son­nel;

b.

sab­ot­age and at­temp­ted sab­ot­age;

c.

bomb threats;

d.

ex­tor­tion and host­age-tak­ing;

e.

ac­ci­dents, dam­age to or fail­ure of se­cur­ity equip­ment and sys­tems that last longer than 24 hours;

f.

ma­li­cious acts in and in the vi­cin­ity of the nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tion that are at­trib­ut­able to, or in­dic­ate, un­au­thor­ised in­ter­fer­ence;

g.

any oth­er ma­li­cious acts and find­ings that im­pair or may im­pair se­cur­ity.

³ The hold­er of an op­er­at­ing li­cence must sub­mit a re­port on every ma­li­cious act or find­ing to EN­SI with­in 30 days. The re­port must be clas­si­fied.

¹ The fol­low­ing modi­fic­a­tions are gen­er­ally re­garded as modi­fic­a­tions that do not de­vi­ate sig­ni­fic­antly from the re­spect­ive li­cence but which re­quire a per­mit in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 65, para­graph 3 of the Nuc­le­ar En­ergy Act:

a.

modi­fic­a­tions to struc­tures, sys­tems and com­pon­ents sub­ject to safety or se­cur­ity clas­si­fic­a­tion and to equip­ment rel­ev­ant to safety or se­cur­ity, provid­ing the ex­ist­ing safety or se­cur­ity func­tions are main­tained or im­proved;

b.

the fol­low­ing modi­fic­a­tions to the re­act­or core:

1.

modi­fic­a­tions to the load­ing of the re­act­or core with fuel ele­ments as part of the re­fuel­ling pro­ced­ure,

2.

modi­fic­a­tions to and re­pair of fuel ele­ments and con­trol rods,

3.

in­crease of per­miss­ible burn-up,

4.

modi­fic­a­tion to safety as­sess­ment meth­ods,

5.

modi­fic­a­tion of safety cri­ter­ia,

6.

in­crease of the pro­por­tion of urani­um-plutoni­um-mixed-ox­ide fuel ele­ments in re­act­or core up to a max­im­um of 50 per­cent;

c.

changes in the con­tent of the fol­low­ing doc­u­ments:

1.

the power plant or op­er­at­ing reg­u­la­tions,

2.

the emer­gency pre­pared­ness reg­u­la­tions,

3.

the ra­di­ation pro­tec­tion reg­u­la­tions,

4.

the tech­nic­al spe­cific­a­tions,

5.

the reg­u­la­tions and in­struc­tions re­lat­ing to se­cur­ity.

² To ob­tain the ne­ces­sary per­mit in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1 let­ters a and b, the li­cence hold­er must sub­mit all the doc­u­ment­a­tion ne­ces­sary for the as­sess­ment as afore­men­tioned in An­nex 4.

³ To ob­tain the ne­ces­sary per­mit in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1 let­ter c, the li­cence hold­er must sub­mit all the re­quired doc­u­ment­a­tion to­geth­er with an ex­plan­a­tion of the reas­on for the changes.

⁴ For modi­fic­a­tions of tech­nic­al spe­cific­a­tions, the li­cence hold­er must also ex­plain the meth­od and tech­nic­al cri­ter­ia that have been used for as­sess­ing the im­pacts of the modi­fic­a­tions on the safety of the in­stall­a­tion.

⁵ EN­SI shall reg­u­late the type, con­tent, present­a­tion and num­ber of re­quired ap­plic­a­tion doc­u­ments in guidelines.⁴⁹

¹ The li­cence hold­er must up­date the or­gan­isa­tion­al and tech­nic­al doc­u­ments in ac­cord­ance with An­nex 3 throughout the en­tire peri­od of op­er­a­tion of the nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tion, up to its de­com­mis­sion­ing or clos­ure, and must ad­apt them to the cur­rent status of the in­stall­a­tion.

² The li­cence hold­er must at all times trace­ably doc­u­ment the op­er­a­tion of the in­stall­a­tion on the basis of re­cords in ac­cord­ance with An­nex 3 and doc­u­ments de­scrib­ing func­tion tests and main­ten­ance op­er­a­tions.

³ All doc­u­ment­a­tion must be se­curely archived un­til com­ple­tion of the de­com­mis­sion­ing, or un­til clos­ure of the in­stall­a­tion or ex­piry of the spe­cified mon­it­or­ing peri­od.

⁴ The li­cence hold­er must hand over all doc­u­ment­a­tion to EN­SI after the in­stall­a­tion has been de­com­mis­sioned, or to the De­part­ment after clos­ure of the in­stall­a­tion or ex­piry of the mon­it­or­ing peri­od.⁵⁰

⁵ EN­SI shall spe­cify the de­tailed re­quire­ments on doc­u­ment­a­tion and its archiv­ing in guidelines.⁵¹

¹ Every ten years, the hold­er of an op­er­at­ing li­cence must re­view and up­date the plan for the de­com­mis­sion­ing of a nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tion or, in the case of a deep geo­lo­gic­al re­pos­it­ory, the pro­ject for the mon­it­or­ing peri­od and the plan for clos­ure.

² Up­dat­ing is also re­quired if:

a.

sig­ni­fic­ant changes have been made to the in­stall­a­tion;

b.

sig­ni­fic­ant re­quire­ments have been changed that re­late to de­com­mis­sion­ing, or the mon­it­or­ing peri­od and clos­ure of the in­stall­a­tion;

c.

sig­ni­fic­ant tech­no­lo­gic­al de­vel­op­ments make up­dat­ing ne­ces­sary.

¹ The hold­er of an op­er­at­ing li­cence for a nuc­le­ar power plant must shut down the in­stall­a­tion if one of the shut­down cri­ter­ia in the tech­nic­al spe­cific­a­tions or power plant reg­u­la­tions should be ful­filled.

² The li­cence hold­er may only re­sume op­er­a­tion with a re­act­or out­put of more than 5 per­cent after the ne­ces­sary meas­ures have been taken.

¹ The hold­er of an op­er­at­ing li­cence must take the nuc­le­ar power plant out of ser­vice and back­fit it if one or more of the fol­low­ing tech­nic­al cri­ter­ia are ful­filled:

a.

ac­ci­dent ana­lyses in­dic­ate that core cool­ing in the event of an ac­ci­dent in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 8 para­graphs 2 and 3 can no longer be as­sured and a dose of 100 mSv will be ex­ceeded as a con­sequence;

b.

the in­teg­rity of the primary coolant sys­tem can no longer be as­sured;

c.

the in­teg­rity of the con­tain­ment can no longer be as­sured.

² In the ana­lys­is un­der para­graph 1 let­ter a, ac­ci­dents with a fre­quency of more than 10^-6 per year that are not triggered by nat­ur­al events and nat­ur­al events with a fre­quency of 10^-4 per year must be taken in­to ac­count.

³ The De­part­ment spe­cifies the meth­od­o­logy and bound­ary con­di­tions gov­ern­ing the re­view of cri­ter­ia in an or­din­ance.

The or­gan­isa­tion re­quired to carry out de­com­mis­sion­ing must sub­mit the fol­low­ing doc­u­ments con­cern­ing the de­com­mis­sion­ing pro­ject:

a.

com­par­is­on of vari­ants for the dif­fer­ent stages, timetable for the de­com­mis­sion­ing op­er­a­tions and ex­pec­ted end status, in­clud­ing the reas­on for choice of vari­ant;

b.

de­scrip­tion of each step and re­quired fund­ing, i.e. de­term­in­a­tion of ra­di­olo­gic­al status of the in­stall­a­tion, dis­as­sembly, dis­mant­ling and de­con­tam­in­a­tion of in­stall­a­tions, de­con­tam­in­a­tion and de­moli­tion of build­ings;

c.

pro­ced­ure for sep­ar­at­ing ra­dio­act­ive from non-ra­dio­act­ive waste and man­age­ment of the ra­dio­act­ive waste;

d.

meas­ures to pro­tect per­son­nel against ra­di­ation and to pre­vent the re­lease of ra­dio­act­ive sub­stances in­to the en­vir­on­ment;

e.

se­cur­ity meas­ures;

f.

ac­ci­dent ana­lys­is, spe­cific­ally the iden­ti­fic­a­tion of po­ten­tial ac­ci­dents dur­ing de­com­mis­sion­ing, as­sess­ment of their fre­quency and ra­di­olo­gic­al im­pacts, as well as counter-meas­ures and any ne­ces­sary emer­gency pre­pared­ness meas­ures;

g.

evid­ence of avail­ab­il­ity of the re­quired num­ber of suit­able and qual­i­fied per­son­nel for ex­ecut­ing and su­per­vising de­com­mis­sion­ing op­er­a­tions, and of a suit­able or­gan­isa­tion­al struc­ture with clear al­loc­a­tion of re­spons­ib­il­it­ies;

h.

qual­ity man­age­ment pro­gramme;

i.

en­vir­on­ment­al im­pact re­port;

j.

sum­mary of all costs arising from the de­com­mis­sion­ing of the in­stall­a­tion, in­clud­ing those for the man­age­ment of ra­dio­act­ive and non-ra­dio­act­ive waste, and the se­cur­ing of the ne­ces­sary fin­an­cing.

The de­com­mis­sion­ing or­der spe­cifies the fol­low­ing de­tails:

a.

scope of de­com­mis­sion­ing activ­it­ies;

b.

the vari­ous de­com­mis­sion­ing stages, in par­tic­u­lar the dur­a­tion of any safe en­clos­ure of the nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tion;

c.

lim­its for the dis­charge of ra­dio­act­ive sub­stances in­to the en­vir­on­ment;

d.

mon­it­or­ing of im­mis­sions of ra­dio­act­ive sub­stances and of dir­ect ra­di­ation;

e.

or­gan­isa­tion.

The de­com­mis­sion­ing or­der sets forth the need for a per­mit es­pe­cially for the fol­low­ing activ­it­ies:

a.⁵³

pro­ced­ure for the clear­ance meas­ure­ment of res­ult­ing ma­ter­i­als;

b.

con­di­tion­ing of res­ult­ing ra­dio­act­ive waste;

c.⁵⁴

de­moli­tion of build­ings after their de­con­tam­in­a­tion and clear­ance meas­ure­ment;

d.

non-nuc­le­ar use of in­stall­a­tions after com­ple­tion of the de­com­mis­sion­ing pro­cess;

e.

re­peal of se­cur­ity meas­ures;

f.

in the case of de­com­mis­sion­ing of nuc­le­ar power plants, dis­as­sembly of the re­act­or ves­sel and its sur­round­ing build­ing ele­ments.

The or­gan­isa­tion re­quired to carry out de­com­mis­sion­ing must re­port to EN­SI once a year on the status of de­com­mis­sion­ing of the in­stall­a­tion, and must also sub­mit a fi­nal re­port after com­ple­tion of the pro­cess.

Art­icles 38 and 39 ap­ply by ana­logy to re­port­ing ob­lig­a­tions re­lat­ing to de­com­mis­sion­ing.

Nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tions must be de­signed, con­struc­ted and op­er­ated in such a man­ner as to en­sure that the low­est pos­sible quant­ity of ra­dio­act­ive waste in terms of activ­ity and volume arises from their op­er­a­tion and de­com­mis­sion­ing. For this pur­pose the fol­low­ing re­quire­ments ap­ply in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

for the con­struc­tion of nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tions, ma­ter­i­als must be chosen that en­sure that the form­a­tion of ac­tiv­a­tion products is min­im­al;

b.

for the op­er­a­tion of nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tions, the use of con­sum­ables in the con­trolled zone must be kept to a min­im­um;

c.

ma­ter­i­als that have been con­tam­in­ated with ra­dio­act­ive sub­stances must be de­con­tam­in­ated wherever pos­sible and ap­pro­pri­ate.

For the pur­pose of man­age­ment and dis­pos­al, ra­dio­act­ive waste is clas­si­fied in the fol­low­ing cat­egor­ies:

a.

high level ra­dio­act­ive waste:

1.

spent fuel which is no longer used,

2.

vit­ri­fied fis­sion product solu­tions res­ult­ing from the re­pro­cessing of spent fuel;

b.

al­phat­ox­ic waste: waste in which the con­tent of al­pha emit­ters ex­ceeds 20,000 becquer­els per gram of con­di­tioned waste;

c.

low and in­ter­me­di­ate level waste: all oth­er ra­dio­act­ive waste.

The fol­low­ing are not sub­ject to the ob­lig­a­tion to man­age and dis­pose of nuc­le­ar waste in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 31 NEA:

a.

low-level ra­dio­act­ive waste that may be dis­charged in­to the en­vir­on­ment in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 111–116 RPO⁵⁷;

b.

ra­dio­act­ive waste that may be placed in de­cay stor­age in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 117 RPO.

¹ Those re­quired to man­age ra­dio­act­ive waste must in­clude the fol­low­ing in­form­a­tion in the waste man­age­ment pro­gramme:

a.

ori­gin, type and quant­ity of ra­dio­act­ive waste;

b.

the re­quired deep geo­lo­gic­al re­pos­it­or­ies, in­clud­ing their design concept;

c.

al­loc­a­tion of ra­dio­act­ive waste to the deep geo­lo­gic­al re­pos­it­or­ies;

d.

plan for the real­isa­tion of the deep geo­lo­gic­al re­pos­it­or­ies;

e.

dur­a­tion and re­quired ca­pa­city of cent­ral and de­cent­ral in­ter­im stor­age;

f.

fin­an­cial plan for the waste man­age­ment op­er­a­tions through to de­com­mis­sion­ing of the nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tions, in­clud­ing de­tails con­cern­ing:

1.

the activ­it­ies to be car­ried out,

2.

the as­so­ci­ated costs,

3.

the type of fin­an­cing;

g.

the in­form­a­tion concept.

² The waste man­age­ment pro­gramme must be up­dated every five years.

³ EN­SI and the Fed­er­al Of­fice are re­spons­ible for re­view­ing and mon­it­or­ing com­pli­ance with the waste man­age­ment pro­gramme.⁵⁸

¹ Any per­son in­tend­ing to re­move ma­ter­i­als from con­trolled zones of a nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tion must carry out a clear­ance meas­ure­ment with ap­pro­pri­ate qual­ity as­sur­ance and doc­u­ment it.⁵⁹

² Quant­it­ies of ma­ter­i­al weigh­ing more than 1,000 kilo­grams or with a volume great­er than a cu­bic metre must be re­por­ted to EN­SI at least 10 days pri­or to re­mov­al from the nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tion, and the re­quired doc­u­ment­a­tion must be sub­mit­ted.⁶⁰

³ EN­SI shall spe­cify the de­tailed re­quire­ments on clear­ance meas­ure­ment and re­port­ing in guidelines.⁶¹

¹ Ra­dio­act­ive waste must be con­di­tioned as quickly as pos­sible. The col­lec­tion of non-con­di­tioned waste for the pur­pose of car­ry­ing out peri­od­ic­al con­di­tion­ing cam­paigns is per­mit­ted.

² Con­di­tioned waste pack­ages must be suit­able for trans­port, stor­age and dis­pos­al.

³ Each waste pack­age must be la­belled and provided with doc­u­ment­a­tion that de­scribes pro­duc­tion, com­pos­i­tion and prop­er­ties. This doc­u­ment­a­tion must be re­tained and handed over to the com­pany that is to carry out the fur­ther waste man­age­ment op­er­a­tions.

⁴ For the pro­duc­tion of a con­di­tioned waste pack­age a type or in­di­vidu­al per­mit is­sued by EN­SI is ne­ces­sary.⁶²

⁵ Ap­plic­a­tions must be ac­com­pan­ied by all doc­u­ments that are ne­ces­sary for as­sess­ment pur­poses, and these must provide in­form­a­tion re­lat­ing in par­tic­u­lar to:

a.

the con­di­tion­ing pro­ced­ure;

b.

the waste pack­age and its com­pon­ents;

c.

the qual­ity as­sur­ance;

d.

the doc­u­ment­a­tion.

⁶ EN­SI shall spe­cify the de­tailed re­quire­ments on con­di­tion­ing and ap­plic­a­tion doc­u­ments in guidelines.⁶³

¹ The Fed­er­al Of­fice is the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity for:

a.

is­su­ing li­cences for hand­ling ra­dio­act­ive waste;

b.

ap­prov­ing the agree­ment con­cern­ing the re­turn of ra­dio­act­ive waste in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 34 para­graph 3 let­ter d and para­graph 4 of the Nuc­le­ar En­ergy Act.

² The spe­cial com­pet­ence un­der Art­icle 11 para­graph 2 let­ter f RPO⁶⁴ is re­served.⁶⁵

³ The De­part­ment is re­spons­ible for con­clud­ing the agree­ment un­der in­ter­na­tion­al law in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 34 para­graph 3 let­ter a NEA in the case of the ex­port of low and in­ter­me­di­ate-level waste for con­di­tion­ing pur­poses.⁶⁶

¹ Ap­plic­a­tions for a li­cence for the trans­port and for the im­port, ex­port or trans­it of ra­dio­act­ive waste must be sub­mit­ted jointly by the con­signor, the con­sign­ee, the car­ri­er and the trans­port or­gan­iser.

² The doc­u­ment­a­tion must provide the ne­ces­sary in­form­a­tion for as­sess­ing the ap­plic­a­tion, in­clud­ing in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

the com­pos­i­tion and prop­er­ties of the ra­dio­act­ive waste;

b.

the per­son re­spons­ible for waste man­age­ment, con­signor and con­sign­ee;

c.

the place of ori­gin and des­tin­a­tion;

d.

the mode of trans­port, in par­tic­u­lar evid­ence of com­pli­ance with re­quire­ments on the car­riage of dan­ger­ous goods.

Art­icles 16, 18, 20 and 21 ap­ply by ana­logy with re­spect to the hand­ling of ra­dio­act­ive waste.

Ap­plic­a­tions for a li­cence for geo­lo­gic­al in­vest­ig­a­tions must be ac­com­pan­ied by the fol­low­ing doc­u­ment­a­tion:

a.

an in­vest­ig­a­tion pro­gramme;

b.

a geo­lo­gic­al re­port;

c.

a re­port on the po­ten­tial im­pacts of the in­vest­ig­a­tions on the geo­lo­gic­al con­di­tions and the en­vir­on­ment;

d.

maps and plans;

e.

an in­dic­a­tion of de­sired valid­ity of the li­cence.

The in­vest­ig­a­tion pro­gramme must con­tain de­tails con­cern­ing:

a.

the ob­ject­ives of the in­vest­ig­a­tions;

b.

the an­ti­cip­ated scope of the in­vest­ig­a­tions;

c.

the start­ing date and ex­pec­ted dur­a­tion of the in­vest­ig­a­tions.

The geo­lo­gic­al re­port must con­tain the fol­low­ing de­tails:

a.

a de­scrip­tion of the geo­logy of the re­gion con­cerned;

b.

a sum­mary of geo­lo­gic­al in­vest­ig­a­tions already car­ried out in the re­gion con­cerned and ac­cess­ible to the ap­plic­ant, to­geth­er with a sum­mary of the find­ings ob­tained from such in­vest­ig­a­tions;

c.

a de­scrip­tion of the geo­lo­gic­al and hy­dro-geo­lo­gic­al factors that are de­cis­ive for the choice of the re­gion con­cerned.

¹ The fol­low­ing geo­lo­gic­al in­vest­ig­a­tions do not re­quire a li­cence:

a.

seis­mic and oth­er geo­phys­ic­al meas­ure­ments, e.g. gra­vi­met­ric, geo­elec­tric and elec­tro­mag­net­ic re­cord­ings;

b.

geo­lo­gic­al stud­ies on the sur­face and in ex­ist­ing un­der­ground struc­tures, in­clud­ing ex­trac­tion of rock samples;

c.

col­lec­tion of ground­wa­ter and well-wa­ter samples, meas­ure­ments of wells, shal­low piezo­met­ric meas­ure­ments and mark­ing tests;

d.

meas­ure­ments of ground gases.

² The above ex­emp­tions re­main sub­ject to any au­thor­isa­tions that may be re­quired for the activ­it­ies con­cerned in ac­cord­ance with can­ton­al or fed­er­al le­gis­la­tion.

In ad­di­tion to the ap­plic­a­tion doc­u­ments in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 23, ap­plic­ants for a gen­er­al li­cence for a deep geo­lo­gic­al re­pos­it­ory must also sub­mit a re­port con­tain­ing the fol­low­ing in­form­a­tion:

a.

a com­par­is­on of avail­able op­tions from the point of view of safety of the planned re­pos­it­ory;

b.

an eval­u­ation of the de­cis­ive prop­er­ties for the se­lec­tion of the site;

c.

the costs of the re­pos­it­ory.

The cri­ter­ia to be spe­cified in the gen­er­al li­cence in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 14 para­graph 1 let­ter f num­ber 1 of the Nuc­le­ar En­ergy Act re­late to:

a.

the ex­tent of suit­able host rock;

b.

the on-site hy­dro-geo­lo­gic­al con­di­tions;

c.

the age of deep ground­wa­ter.

A deep geo­lo­gic­al re­pos­it­ory com­prises a main in­stall­a­tion for the em­place­ment of the ra­dio­act­ive waste, a pi­lot in­stall­a­tion and test areas.

¹ In test areas, the prop­er­ties of the host rock of rel­ev­ance to safety must be ex­amined in depth in or­der to con­firm the safety.

² Be­fore a deep geo­lo­gic­al re­pos­it­ory may be put in­to op­er­a­tion, the tech­no­lo­gies of rel­ev­ance to safety must be tested and their func­tion­al ca­pa­city must be as­cer­tained. This con­cerns in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

the em­place­ment of back­fill ma­ter­i­al;

b.

the re­mov­al of back­fill ma­ter­i­al for the pur­pose of re­cov­ery of waste pack­ages;

c.

the meth­od of re­cov­ery of waste pack­ages.

³ Dur­ing the op­er­a­tion of the re­pos­it­ory, the seal­ing of cav­erns and gal­ler­ies must be tested and its func­tion­al ca­pa­city must be as­cer­tained.

¹ In the pi­lot in­stall­a­tion, the be­ha­viour of waste, back­fill ma­ter­i­al and host rock must be mon­itored un­til the ex­piry of the mon­it­or­ing peri­od. Dur­ing mon­it­or­ing, data must be col­lec­ted in or­der to con­firm long-term safety with a view to clos­ure.

² The ob­tained find­ings must be trans­fer­able to the pro­cesses go­ing on in the main sec­tion. They form the basis for the de­cision on the clos­ure of the re­pos­it­ory.

³ The fol­low­ing prin­ciples must be ob­served in con­nec­tion with the design of the pi­lot sec­tion:

a.

The geo­lo­gic­al and hy­dro-geo­lo­gic­al con­di­tions must be com­par­able to those of the main sec­tion.

b.

The pi­lot sec­tion must be spa­tially and hy­draul­ic­ally sep­ar­ated from the main sec­tion.

c.

The con­struc­tion of the pi­lot sec­tion and the em­place­ment pro­ced­ure of waste and back­fill ma­ter­i­al must cor­res­pond to those of the main sec­tion.

d.

The pi­lot sec­tion must con­tain a small but rep­res­ent­at­ive quant­ity of waste.

¹ The own­er of a deep geo­lo­gic­al re­pos­it­ory must back­fill the stor­age cav­erns and gal­ler­ies after the waste pack­ages have been em­placed.

² Back­filling must be car­ried out in such a man­ner that long-term safety is as­sured and the re­cov­ery of the waste is pos­sible without un­due ef­fort.

¹ The own­er of a deep geo­lo­gic­al re­pos­it­ory must de­scribe in an up-dated pro­ject the planned meas­ures for mon­it­or­ing the re­pos­it­ory after em­place­ment of the waste has been com­pleted. He must also pro­pose a dur­a­tion for the mon­it­or­ing peri­od.

² The De­part­ment or­ders the start of the mon­it­or­ing peri­od and spe­cifies its dur­a­tion. It may also ex­tend this peri­od as re­quired.

¹ When clos­ing a deep geo­lo­gic­al re­pos­it­ory, its own­er must back­fill all ex­cav­a­tions of the re­pos­it­ory and seal the sec­tions rel­ev­ant for long-term safety and se­cur­ity.

² The clos­ure pro­ject must de­scribe the fol­low­ing as­pects in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

the back­filling and seal­ing of the ac­cesses to the dis­pos­al areas;

b.

the trans­form­a­tion of the pi­lot sec­tion in­to a state suit­able for long-term safety;

c.

the back­filling and seal­ing of the ac­cesses to the re­pos­it­ory;

d.

the as­sur­ance of long-term safety.

³ When clos­ing the re­pos­it­ory, the own­er must in par­tic­u­lar en­sure:

a.

that no in­ad­miss­ible re­lease of ra­di­o­nuc­lides takes place via the back­filled ac­cesses;

b.

that the sep­ar­a­tion of wa­ter-con­duct­ing rock lay­ers ex­ist­ing pri­or to the con­struc­tion of the deep geo­lo­gic­al re­pos­it­ory is re­stored over the long-term;

c.

that the mark­ing of the deep geo­lo­gic­al re­pos­it­ory is per­man­ent.

¹ The pro­tec­tion zone of a deep geo­lo­gic­al re­pos­it­ory must be defined on the basis of the re­port on long-term safety sub­mit­ted with the li­cence ap­plic­a­tion. The pro­tec­tion zone must en­com­pass:

a.

all parts of the re­pos­it­ory, in­clud­ing ac­cesses;

b.

the rock volumes that provide the hy­draul­ic con­tain­ment of the re­pos­it­ory;

c.

the rock volumes that sig­ni­fic­antly con­trib­ute to the re­ten­tion of ra­di­o­nuc­lides that could be re­leased from the re­pos­it­ory over the course of time.

² After is­su­ing the gen­er­al li­cence, the Fed­er­al Of­fice shall re­quest the rel­ev­ant land re­gistry to add the fol­low­ing note to the entries for the plots of land situ­ated with­in the peri­met­er of the pro­tec­tion zone: «Pro­vi­sion­al pro­tec­tion zone of a deep geo­lo­gic­al re­pos­it­ory». After is­su­ing the op­er­at­ing li­cence, the Fed­er­al Of­fice shall re­quest the rel­ev­ant land re­gistry to add the note, «Defin­it­ive pro­tec­tion zone for a deep geo­lo­gic­al re­pos­it­ory».

³ The de­cision on the re­peal of a pro­vi­sion­al or defin­it­ive pro­tec­tion zone is made by the De­part­ment. In the event of such a de­cision, the Fed­er­al Of­fice shall re­quest the rel­ev­ant land re­gistry to de­lete the cor­res­pond­ing note.

⁴ The De­part­ment shall is­sue li­cences for activ­it­ies that af­fect the pro­tec­tion zone. A li­cence may only be is­sued if the activ­it­ies con­cerned do not im­pair the long-term safety of the deep geo­lo­gic­al re­pos­it­ory.

¹ The own­er of a deep geo­lo­gic­al re­pos­it­ory must com­pile doc­u­ment­a­tion that is suit­able for se­cur­ing in­form­a­tion about the re­pos­it­ory over the long term.

² This doc­u­ment­a­tion must con­tain the fol­low­ing:

a.

the loc­a­tion and ex­tent of un­der­ground struc­tures;

b.

an in­vent­ory of dis­posed ra­dio­act­ive waste by type, quant­ity and dis­pos­al area;

c.

the design of safety bar­ri­ers, in­clud­ing seal­ing of ac­cesses;

d.

the basis for and find­ings of the defin­it­ive ana­lys­is of long-term safety.

³ The own­er must hand over all doc­u­ment­a­tion to the De­part­ment after clos­ure or on ex­piry of the ad­di­tion­al mon­it­or­ing peri­od.

¹ The find­ings ob­tained from geo­lo­gic­al in­vest­ig­a­tions or dur­ing the con­struc­tion of a deep geo­lo­gic­al re­pos­it­ory must be passed on to the Swiss Fed­er­al Geo­lo­gic­al In­form­a­tion Centre.

² The lat­ter and the per­son who is re­quired to sup­ply the in­form­a­tion in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1 con­trac­tu­ally reg­u­late the con­di­tions of ac­cess to and use of said data.

EN­SI shall re­view ap­plic­a­tions sub­mit­ted for li­cences and ap­provals in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 49 to 63 of the Nuc­le­ar En­ergy Act.

The fol­low­ing dead­lines gen­er­ally ap­ply for deal­ing with ap­plic­a­tions for li­cences and ap­provals in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 49 to 63 of the Nuc­le­ar En­ergy Act:

a.

from date of re­ceipt of com­plete ap­plic­a­tion un­til it is passed on to the can­tons and fed­er­al au­thor­it­ies con­cerned, or un­til pub­lic­a­tion and present­a­tion for pub­lic con­sulta­tion: one month;

b.

from com­ple­tion of in­struc­tion pro­ced­ure un­til a de­cision is taken: six months.

¹ The fol­low­ing are not pub­lished or presen­ted for pub­lic con­sulta­tion:

a.

ap­plic­a­tions for per­mits in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 26, 29, 40 and 47 of this Or­din­ance, and Art­icle 36, para­graph 1 let­ter b, Nuc­le­ar En­ergy Act;

b.

ap­plic­a­tions for type or in­di­vidu­al ap­provals in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 54, para­graph 4.

² EN­SI shall if ap­plic­able trans­mit the ap­plic­a­tion to the spe­cial­ist de­part­ments of the Con­fed­er­a­tion for re­view. For this it shall set an ap­pro­pri­ate dead­line.⁶⁸

³ The pre­con­di­tion for grant­ing a per­mit is that the re­quire­ments of an un­der­ly­ing li­cence or or­der con­tin­ue to be met and that the con­di­tions spe­cified in the li­cence or or­der are taken in­to ac­count.

⁴ …⁶⁹

¹ EN­SI shall no­ti­fy the gen­er­al pub­lic without delay of any spe­cial events and find­ings in nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tions that:

a.

rep­res­ent a haz­ard to the in­stall­a­tion or its per­son­nel, or have sig­ni­fic­ant ra­di­olo­gic­al im­pacts on the en­vir­on­ment (events and find­ings of cat­egory 3 or great­er of the INES scale, ac­cord­ing to An­nex 6);

b.

are of sig­ni­fic­ance in terms of safety, but have no or only a neg­li­gible ra­di­olo­gic­al im­pact on the en­vir­on­ment (events and find­ings of cat­egory 2 or great­er of the INES scale, ac­cord­ing to An­nex 6).

² In the case of spe­cial events and find­ings of pub­lic in­terest that are not covered by para­graph 1 above, EN­SI shall ar­range for the pro­vi­sion of in­form­a­tion to the pub­lic.

¹ With­in the scope of ap­proved cred­its, the su­per­vis­ory au­thor­it­ies shall sup­port pro­jects in the area of ap­plied re­search, edu­ca­tion­al activ­it­ies and the train­ing of per­son­nel in the areas of safety and se­cur­ity of nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tions and nuc­le­ar waste man­age­ment.

² Their sup­port shall take the form of fin­an­cial aid or the as­sist­ance provided by per­son­nel from the Fed­er­al Of­fice or EN­SI.⁷¹

Any per­son who wil­fully or neg­li­gently fails to com­ply with the ob­lig­a­tion to keep re­cords in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 20, 27 para­graph 2 and 41 para­graph 3 shall be li­able to the pen­al­ties in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 93 of the Nuc­le­ar En­ergy Act.

The De­part­ment may amend An­nexes 2 and 6 on the basis of de­cisions taken by ex­port con­trol au­thor­it­ies sup­por­ted by Switzer­land and re­com­mend­a­tions of the In­ter­na­tion­al Atom­ic En­ergy Agency.

The fol­low­ing Or­din­ances are re­pealed:

1.

Or­din­ance of 11 Ju­ly 1979⁷²on the Gen­er­al Li­cens­ing Pro­ced­ure for Nuc­le­ar In­stall­a­tions with Site Li­cence;

2.

Or­din­ance of 27 Novem­ber 1989⁷³on Pre­par­at­ory Meas­ures;

3.

Atom­ic En­ergy Or­din­ance of 18 Janu­ary 1984⁷⁴;

4.

Or­din­ance of 14 March 1983⁷⁵on the Su­per­vi­sion of Nuc­le­ar In­stall­a­tions.

Amend­ments to cur­rent le­gis­la­tion are dealt with in An­nex 7.

For the spe­cific­a­tion of the scope of back­fit­ting activ­it­ies in nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tions that were com­mis­sioned pri­or to the en­act­ment of the Nuc­le­ar En­ergy Act, the re­quire­ments and prin­ciples laid down in Art­icles 7 to 12 must be met in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 22 para­graph 2 let­ter g of the Nuc­le­ar En­ergy Act.

EN­SI may on re­quest ex­tend the dead­line for sub­mis­sion of the PSR with proof of safety for long-term op­er­a­tions in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 34 para­graph 4 in con­junc­tion with Art­icle 34 para­graph 3 un­til the end of 2019 at the latest.

This Or­din­ance comes in­to force on 1 Feb­ru­ary 2005.