Nuclear Energy Act
(NEA)

¹ An op­er­at­ing li­cence is gran­ted if the fol­low­ing con­di­tions are met:

a.

the ap­plic­ant is the own­er of the nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tion in ques­tion;

b.

all pro­vi­sions per­tain­ing to the gen­er­al li­cence and con­struc­tion li­cence have been met;

c.

pro­tec­tion of hu­mans and the en­vir­on­ment is en­sured;

d.

the in­stall­a­tion and planned type of op­er­a­tion meet the rel­ev­ant nuc­le­ar safety and se­cur­ity re­quire­ments;

e.

the re­quire­ments on per­son­nel and or­gan­isa­tion can be met;

f.

ap­pro­pri­ate meas­ures have been pre­pared to se­cure qual­ity as­sur­ance for all activ­it­ies to be car­ried out with­in the in­stall­a­tion;

g.

ap­pro­pri­ate meas­ures for deal­ing with emer­gen­cies have been pre­pared;

h.

the pre­scribed in­sur­ance cov­er ex­ists in ac­cord­ance with the Nuc­le­ar En­ergy Li­ab­il­ity Act of 18 March 1983¹¹.

² The op­er­at­ing li­cence may be gran­ted at the same time as the con­struc­tion li­cence if the re­quire­ments for safe op­er­a­tion can be as­sessed con­clus­ively at the time of ap­plic­a­tion.

³ The own­er of a nuc­le­ar re­act­or may store nuc­le­ar ma­ter­i­als in its in­stall­a­tion be­fore an op­er­at­ing li­cence has been gran­ted, as long as it ob­tains a li­cence for this pur­pose from the De­part­ment. Art­icles 20 to 24 ap­ply ana­log­ously to this li­cence.