Nuclear Energy Act
(NEA)

¹ The li­cence hold­er is re­spons­ible for the safety of the in­stall­a­tion and its op­er­a­tion.

² In this con­nec­tion it shall:

a.

al­ways give the ne­ces­sary pri­or­ity to nuc­le­ar safety dur­ing op­er­a­tion of the in­stall­a­tion, i.e. com­ply with all spe­cified op­er­at­ing lim­its and con­di­tions;

b.

es­tab­lish a suit­able or­gan­isa­tion and em­ploy an ad­equate num­ber of ap­pro­pri­ately qual­i­fied per­son­nel; the Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall spe­cify min­im­um re­quire­ments and reg­u­late the train­ing of spe­cial­ised staff;

c.

take meas­ures to en­sure that the in­stall­a­tion is kept in good con­di­tion;

d.

carry out fol­low-up in­spec­tions and sys­tem­at­ic safety and se­cur­ity eval­u­ations throughout the en­tire ser­vice life of the in­stall­a­tion;

e.

in the case of nuc­le­ar power plants, carry out a com­pre­hens­ive peri­od­ic safety re­view;

f.

peri­od­ic­ally re­port to the rel­ev­ant su­per­vis­ory au­thor­it­ies about the con­di­tion and op­er­a­tion of the in­stall­a­tion, and no­ti­fy them without delay about any events that may oc­cur;

g.

back­fit the in­stall­a­tion to the ne­ces­sary ex­tent that it is in keep­ing with op­er­a­tion­al ex­per­i­ence and the cur­rent state of back­fit­ting tech­no­logy, and bey­ond in­so­far as fur­ther up­grad­ing is ap­pro­pri­ate and res­ults in a fur­ther re­duc­tion of risk to hu­mans and the en­vir­on­ment;

h.

mon­it­or sci­entif­ic and tech­no­lo­gic­al de­vel­op­ments, and com­pare op­er­at­ing ex­per­i­ence and find­ings with those of oth­er in­stall­a­tions of a sim­il­ar nature;

i.

keep com­plete doc­u­ment­a­tion on the tech­nic­al in­stall­a­tions and on the op­er­a­tion of the in­stall­a­tion, and amend the safety ana­lys­is re­port and the se­cur­ity as ne­ces­sary;

j.

carry out ap­pro­pri­ate meas­ures to se­cure qual­ity as­sur­ance for all activ­it­ies con­duc­ted with­in the in­stall­a­tion;

k.

keep the de­com­mis­sion­ing plan or the pro­ject for the mon­it­or­ing peri­od and the plan for the clos­ure of the in­stall­a­tion up to date.

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall spe­cify the cri­ter­ia ac­cord­ing to which the li­cence hold­er must tem­por­ar­ily shut down and up­grade the in­stall­a­tion.