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    Hans-Jürgen Pfeiffer will not be standing for another period in office on the ENSI Board

    The Swiss Federal Council will select a new member of the ENSI Board by the end of this year for the next term of office. Following his two terms in office, Hans-Jürgen Pfeiffer will no longer be serving on the Board. For reasons of age he is ending his work in the strategic and internal…

    ENSI, ENSI Board, Organisation, The ENSI Board
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    Participation in the Swiss Sectoral Plan for Deep Geological Repositories is internationally recognised as exemplary

    International experts at the IAEA conference in Vienna have singled out Switzerland’s approach to the search for a location for a deep geological repository as exemplary. In their assessment of the Swiss National Report in connection with the Joint Convention, they also identified several challenges: the review of the 2×2 proposal, the waste management programme…

    ENSI, Multilateral Cooperation, Waste Management
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    “Japan wants to learn from Switzerland”

    A high-ranking representative of Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has visited the Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (ENSI) in Brugg to obtain information about the legal provisions on maintaining and continuously improving the safety of nuclear power plants in Switzerland. The focus was on Periodic Safety Reviews (PSR) and on the backfitting obligation.

    Bilateral Cooperation, ENSI, ENSI as regulatory body
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    EU Stress Tests: implementation of the Swiss national action plan is assessed as positive

    Four years after the reactor accident at Fukushima, the European countries have carried out a second joint review of their EU Stress Tests national action plans. As was already the case in 2013, the EU experts gave a positive assessment of the Swiss national action plan.

    ENSI, EU Stress Test, Multilateral Cooperation
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    ENSI Board approves strategy for ENSI’s regulatory framework

    The regulatory framework of the Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (ENSI) is harmonised with the relevant international requirements. ENSI only issues its own guidelines when it is necessary to do so, and it involves all the stakeholders when it drafts them. These principles are stated in a new strategy for the regulatory framework which the…

    ENSI, ENSI Board, Guidelines, Organisation, The ENSI Board
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    More power and competences should be given to ENSI, IAEA experts say

    The Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (ENSI) should be the only authority to make the final decision on issues related to the safety of nuclear installations. In the course of a follow-up mission by the Integrated Regulatory Review Service (IRRS), experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) re-emphasised this recommendation, which dates back to…

    ENSI, IRRS Mis­si­on 2011/2015, Multilateral Cooperation
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    ENSI reports to the IAEA on radioactive waste and spent fuel elements

    The Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (ENSI) today submitted the fifth Swiss National Report in connection with the international Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management (the “Joint Convention”) to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

    ENSI, Waste Management
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    International Meeting at ENSI on Harmonisation of Emergency Preparedness in Europe

    The Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (ENSI) welcomed the international experts of a working group of the Heads of European Radiological Protection Competent Authorities (HERCA). At the meeting in Brugg, almost 30 specialists discussed subjects including the implementation of the European radiation protection directive. For a number of years now, this working group has focused…

    Emergency Preparedness, ENSI, Multilateral Cooperation, Radiation Protection
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    International community adopts Swiss idea for improving nuclear power plant safety

    The international community has committed to continuously improving the safety of nuclear power plants around the world. The Contracting Parties participating in the Diplomatic Conference to the Convention on Nuclear Safety CNS in Vienna reached a consensus on the Vienna Declaration on Nuclear Safety. The Declaration includes safety principles derived from the original Swiss proposal…

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