Nuclear Energy Act
(NEA)

¹ The own­er of a deep geo­lo­gic­al re­pos­it­ory is ob­liged to sub­mit an up­dated pro­ject for the mon­it­or­ing peri­od and a pro­ject for the even­tu­al clos­ure if:

a.

the em­place­ment of ra­dio­act­ive waste has been com­pleted;

b.

the op­er­at­ing li­cence has been with­drawn or has ex­pired in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 68 para­graph 1 let­ters a or b, and the De­part­ment has ruled that a pro­ject must be sub­mit­ted.

² Upon ex­piry of the mon­it­or­ing peri­od, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall or­der the clos­ure of the re­pos­it­ory, if the per­man­ent pro­tec­tion of hu­mans and the en­vir­on­ment is en­sured.

³ After the re­pos­it­ory has been closed in ac­cord­ance with the ap­plic­able reg­u­la­tions, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil may stip­u­late that it must be mon­itored for a fur­ther lim­ited peri­od of time.

⁴ After the re­pos­it­ory has been closed in ac­cord­ance with the ap­plic­able reg­u­la­tions, or upon ex­piry of the ad­di­tion­al mon­it­or­ing peri­od, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall de­clare that the dis­pos­al in­stall­a­tion is no longer sub­ject to the pro­vi­sions of nuc­le­ar en­ergy le­gis­la­tion. The Con­fed­er­a­tion may im­ple­ment fur­ther-reach­ing meas­ures, in par­tic­u­lar en­vir­on­ment­al mon­it­or­ing.