Developments in the technical and legal basis of nuclear oversight. Within its program for regulatory safety research, the Inspectorate awards and coordinates research projects designed to identify and develop knowledge and expertise that can be made available to the regulatory process. This research is geared to current regulatory issues and those likely to be relevant…

This Surveillance Report is a part of a comprehensive system of reporting by the Inspectorate. In addition to this report, the Inspectorate publishes a separate Radiological Protection Report, a Research and Experience Report and a Management Report. These four reports appear each spring.

The Annual Report of the Swiss Nuclear Safety Inspectorate for 2005 provides an overview of the Inspectorate’s work in supervising radiological protection in nuclear installations.

The Inspectorate awards and coordinates research projects in the field of regulatory safety research, which are designed to identify and to develop knowledge and expertise which can be made available for regulatory purposes. This research is geared to regulatory issues of both current relevance and those likely to be relevant in the foreseeable future.

The new Nuclear Energy Act (KEG) and the new Nuclear Energy Ordinance (KEV) came into force on 1st February 2005 marking the culmination of decades of work to create a new legislative framework for nuclear energy.

The Annual Report of the Swiss Nuclear Safety Inspectorate for 2004 provides an overview of the Inspectorate’s work in supervising radiological protection in nuclear installations. In the past, the subjects covered by this Report formed part of the Dosimetry and Environmental Radioactivity reports compiled by the Inspectorate and supplied to the Swiss Federal Office of…

Switzerland’s new Nuclear Energy Act (KEG) requires the relevant authorities to provide the public with regular information on the state of nuclear facilities. Our previous reports already took account of this requirement.