Nuclear Energy Act
(NEA)

¹ An op­er­at­ing li­cence for a deep geo­lo­gic­al re­pos­it­ory is gran­ted if the fol­low­ing con­di­tions are met in ad­di­tion to those cited in Art­icle 20 para­graph 1:

a.

the find­ings ob­tained dur­ing con­struc­tion con­firm the suit­ab­il­ity of the site;

b.

it is pos­sible to re­trieve the ra­dio­act­ive waste without un­due ef­fort un­til clos­ure of the re­pos­it­ory.

² The op­er­at­ing li­cence shall spe­cify the defin­it­ive pro­tec­tion zone for the deep geo­lo­gic­al re­pos­it­ory.

³ It shall spe­cify cer­tain re­quire­ments, in par­tic­u­lar activ­ity lim­its for the waste to be stored. The em­place­ment of each type of waste re­quires a per­mit to be ob­tained be­fore­hand from the rel­ev­ant su­per­vis­ory au­thor­it­ies.