Nuclear Energy Act
(NEA)

¹ Nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tions that re­quire a gen­er­al li­cence in ac­cord­ance with the pro­vi­sions of this Act, and which are already in op­er­a­tion, may con­tin­ue to be op­er­ated without the cor­res­pond­ing li­cence as long as no changes are made that re­quire an amend­ment of the gen­er­al li­cence in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 65 para­graph 1.

^1bis The grant­ing of gen­er­al li­cences for modi­fic­a­tions to ex­ist­ing nuc­le­ar power plants is pro­hib­ited.⁷⁶

² Own­ers of ex­ist­ing nuc­le­ar power plants are re­quired to demon­strate with­in a peri­od of ten years that ar­range­ments for the man­age­ment of ra­dio­act­ive waste arising from these plants is as­sured, if the Fed­er­al Coun­cil does not already deem this as­sur­ance to have been provided. The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may ex­tend this dead­line by five years in jus­ti­fied cir­cum­stances.

³ An op­er­at­ing li­cence for an ex­ist­ing nuc­le­ar power plant may be trans­ferred to a new own­er without a gen­er­al li­cence. Art­icle 13 para­graph 2, Art­icle 31 para­graph 3 and Art­icle 66 para­graph 2 ap­ply ana­log­ously.

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