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Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate ENSI
ENSI has included two new research projects of the Nuclear Energy Agency in its programme: one on irradiation experiments under reactor conditions, the other on long-term operational safety. In addition, ENSI has been supporting a research project on the behaviour of reinforced concrete in earthquakes since 2021, as well as two projects on nuclear waste…
The 2021 IRRS mission took place in Switzerland from 18 to 29 October with the aim of reviewing nuclear oversight.
The guideline ENSI-G03 applies to deep geological repositories and the associated surface facilities and near-surface access structures. Pursuant to Article 3 letter c of the Nuclear Energy Act of 21 March 2003 (NEA; SR 732.1), a deep geological repository is a nuclear facility for the disposal of radiological waste in a deep geological formation, which…
Implications for Regulatory Oversight of Human and Organisational Factors.
Together with the FOPH and Suva, ENSI has developed templates for the Swiss personal dose document and for the temporary Swiss personal dose document. Both dose documents are available in two versions; one in German, French and Italian and one in English. This is intended to facilitate the preparation of dose documents for licence holders…
All nuclear power plants were in good condition in terms of safety: this is ENSI’s assessment in its 2020 Oversight report. The number of incidents was in line with previous years. Thanks to the operators’ early precautions, the COVID-19 pandemic had no impact on the safety of the plants. Download document is in German.
The newly published Radiation Protection report 2020 shows that in the year under review there were no incidents at Swiss nuclear facilities that would have exposed their personnel or the general public to unacceptable levels of radiation. All limits for personal doses, emissions and immissions were complied with. The year 2020 was also marked by…
While some of the projects of the ENSI research programme in 2020 delivered important results and new research projects were launched, the Corona pandemic made international cooperation within the framework of committees and agreements more difficult. This is how the ENSI Research and Experience Report, which has now been published, summarises the year 2020.
