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  • News, Posts

    ENSI Board names Felix Altorfer as Director of the Waste Management Division

    Felix Altorfer, Director of the Staff of the Directorate, will be switching to the Waste Management Division and taking over as its Director at the beginning of 2017. This decision was made by the ENSI Board in today’s meeting. Urs Ellenberger, who was chosen at the beginning of November 2016, will not be assuming his…

    Deep Geological Repository Storage, ENSI as an employer, Waste Management
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  • Background articles, Posts

    Strict requirements for deep geological repositories

    «I, together with other experts, oversee Nagra’s search for sites for deep geological repositories for radioactive waste. When making its proposals for sites Nagra has to adhere to the legal framework and our technical safety requirements. In order to ascertain whether these can be implemented and whether the proposals are in line with the state…

    Deep geological repositories, Deep Geological Repository Storage, ENSI, Waste Management
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  • News, Posts

    ENSI is seeking a new Director for its Waste Management Division

    The existing Director of the Waste Management Division, Michael Wieser, is leaving the Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (ENSI) in search of a new professional challenge. The ENSI Board has therefore appointed a selection committee to find his successor.

    Deep Geological Repository Storage, ENSI as an employer
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  • News

    Expert Group on Nuclear Waste Disposal: Fritz Schlunegger re-enters the EGT as ordinary member

    Once again the Expert Group on Nuclear Waste Disposal EGT is complete. The Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate ENSI was able to win Fritz Schlunegger as the successor to Annette Johnson. Fritz Schlunegger has already been a member of the EGT.

    Deep geological repositories, Deep Geological Repository Storage
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  • Technical Safety Forum

    A Technical Safety Forum has been set up and is chaired by ENSI under the auspices of the sectoral plan. Its main purposes are to receive, discuss and answer questions from the public about technical safety aspects. These questions may be submitted by members of the public, communes, regions containing sites, organisations, cantons and communities…

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  • Transport

    Radioactive substances are transported infrequently – but on a regular basis – in Switzerland. This is because nuclear power plants are supplied with fresh fuel assemblies once per year.

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  • The history of waste management

    When nuclear energy was first used for peaceful purposes in Switzerland, the construction of deep geological repositories required to manage the radioactive waste was still a distant prospect.

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  • Specialist issues

    Storage in deep geological repositories is internationally recognised as the safest way to manage radioactive waste. Switzerland too will follow this path. The search for a suitable site for a deep geological repository that is currently under way is prompting many questions from the general public.

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  • Stellung und Abhängigkeiten des Sachplans geologische Tiefenlager (Quelle: Sachplan Geologische Tiefenlager – Konzeptteil BFE, 2008, Abb. 3)

    Sectoral Plan for Deep Geological Repositories (SGT)

    The “Sectoral Plan for Deep Geological Repositories” specifies how sites for deep geological radwaste repositories are to be selected in Switzerland. Sectoral plans are used as tools in spatial and regional planning in order to organise cooperation between the Federal government and the cantons. The concept for the sectoral plan for deep geological repositories was…

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