Nuclear Energy Act
(NEA)

¹ Any per­son who op­er­ates or de­com­mis­sions a nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tion is ob­liged to safely man­age all ra­dio­act­ive waste arising from that in­stall­a­tion at their own cost. The ob­lig­a­tion to man­age and dis­pose of ra­dio­act­ive waste shall en­com­pass the ne­ces­sary pre­lim­in­ary activ­it­ies such as re­search and geo­lo­gic­al in­vest­ig­a­tions, as well as the timely pro­vi­sion of a deep geo­lo­gic­al re­pos­it­ory.

² The ob­lig­a­tion to man­age and dis­pose of ra­dio­act­ive waste is met if:

a.

the ra­dio­act­ive waste has been trans­ferred to a deep geo­lo­gic­al re­pos­it­ory and the funds re­quired for the mon­it­or­ing peri­od and the even­tu­al clos­ure have been se­cured;

b.

the ra­dio­act­ive waste has been trans­ferred to a waste man­age­ment in­stall­a­tion abroad.

³ If a gen­er­al li­cence for a nuc­le­ar power plant has been trans­ferred to an­oth­er li­cence hold­er (Art­icle 66 para­graph 2), the pre­vi­ous and the new li­cence hold­er shall be re­spons­ible for the man­age­ment of all ra­dio­act­ive waste and spent fuel pro­duced up to the time of trans­fer of the li­cence.

⁴ The com­pany re­spons­ible for the man­age­ment of ra­dio­act­ive waste may only be li­quid­ated with the pri­or con­sent of the De­part­ment.