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ENSI publishes Research and Experience Report 2025: focus on robotics for radiation protection and human factors
Read Article: ENSI publishes Research and Experience Report 2025: focus on robotics for radiation protection and human factorsThe 2025 Research and Experience Report reveals a year marked by the expansion of regulatory safety research and important international developments. With more than 50 ongoing projects, ENSI’s research programme is bigger than ever and is specifically strengthening the scientific basis for nuclear oversight in Switzerland.
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IAEA Regulators’ Conference 2026: Perspectives on a resilient regulatory culture
From 27 to 30 April 2026, ENSI participated in the Regulators’ Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna. In the panel discussion on resilient regulatory culture, ENSI Director General Marc Kenzelmann presented ENSI’s perspective.
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CNS Review Meeting 2026: positive result for Switzerland and identified challenge concerning the availability of national expertise
Switzerland received a positive overall assessment at the tenth Review Meeting of the Convention on Nuclear Safety. Alongside several areas where its performance was assessed as particularly good, one key challenge was identified concerning the long-term availability of technical expertise.
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Typical Swiss characteristics and their influence on safety and oversight culture
Professionalism, precision, personal responsibility: such typical Swiss characteristics support a good safety culture. Other typical characteristics, such as a focus on consensus and complacency, on the other hand, could have a negative influence, writes the NEA/OECD in its recently published report on the Country-Specific Safety Culture Forum Switzerland held at the end of 2024.
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New Chief of Staff of the Directorate Division
On 25 March, the Board of the Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (ENSI) appointed Patrick Tschudin as the new Chief of Staff of the Directorate Division. He will take up his post on 1 August this year. The lawyer and current head of the Legal Section succeeds Andreas Schefer, who will continue to work for…