Nuclear Energy Act
(NEA)

¹ When design­ing, con­struct­ing and op­er­at­ing nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tions, pre­vent­ive and pro­tect­ive meas­ures must be taken in ac­cord­ance with in­ter­na­tion­ally ac­cep­ted prin­ciples. These meas­ures shall in­clude the use of high-qual­ity com­pon­ents, safety bar­ri­ers, mul­tiple and auto­mated safety sys­tems, the form­a­tion of a suit­able or­gan­isa­tion with qual­i­fied per­son­nel, and the fos­ter­ing of a strong safety aware­ness.

² Pre­par­a­tion must be made for the im­ple­ment­a­tion of emer­gency pro­tec­tion meas­ures to lim­it the ex­tent of dam­age in the event that dan­ger­ous quant­it­ies of ra­dio­act­ive sub­stances should be re­leased in­to the en­vir­on­ment.

³ Se­cur­ity meas­ures must be taken in or­der to pre­vent any in­ter­fer­ence with the safety of nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tions and nuc­le­ar ma­ter­i­als through un­au­thor­ised acts or the theft of nuc­le­ar ma­ter­i­als.⁴

^3bis The clas­si­fic­a­tion and pro­cessing of in­form­a­tion are gov­erned by the pro­vi­sions of the le­gis­la­tion on in­form­a­tion se­cur­ity in the Con­fed­er­a­tion.⁵

⁴ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall stip­u­late which pre­vent­ive and pro­tect­ive meas­ures are re­quired.