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  • News, Posts

    New international research projects

    ENSI is participating in two large-scale international research projects providing data on the ageing phenomena of reactors and on the operating and accident behaviour of fuel rods. The findings are being incorporated into ENSI’s safety assessments.

    Ageing, Research
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  • News, Posts

    Research and Experience Report: new calculation method for independent assessment of transport and storage containers

    In future, the Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate, ENSI, will be able to calculate the amount of heat dissipated from transport and storage containers by means of a new independent calculation tool. This has emerged from ENSI’s 2016 Research and Experience Report.

    Research, Waste Management
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  • Background articles, Posts

    Research means: taking a close look

    «Our current research projects, around 35 in number, deal with safety issues with a fascinating range of topics. They specifically support the independent oversight of ENSI. I see research as a catalyst. We want to answer open questions, including unpleasant ones. To do this we need to be alert for initiatives from all sides.»

    Domains/Sections, ENSI, Organisation, Research
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  • News

    5000th Visitor at the Mont Terri Rock Laboratory

    Last saturday, the 5000th visitor of 2014 has been welcomed at the Visitor Center of the Mont Terri Rock Laboratory. ENSI participates in the Rock Laboratory with its own research projects. As a project partner, ENSI offers guided tours of the Mont Terri Rock Laboratory to interested groups.

    Deep geological repositories, Mont Terri Rock Laboratory, Radiation Exposure of Humans and the Environment, Research
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  • Research

    Research on the management of radioactive waste Regulatory safety research is geared to current problems in supervision and those that can be foreseen over time. For the purposes of its regulatory safety research, ENSI awards and coordinates research mandates in order to determine and expand the current level of scientific and technical knowledge, and to…

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  • Felslabor Mont Terri
    Background articles

    Guided Tours of the Mont Terri Rock Laboratory

    The International Mont Terri Rock Laboratory is situated near the small town of St-Ursanne in the canton of Jura. At the Rock Laboratory, a total of 22 partners from Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, France, Japan, Canada, Spain and the US carry out research into the properties of Opalinus clay, which is a potential host rock for…

    Mont Terri, Mont Terri Rock Laboratory, Radiation Exposure of Humans and the Environment, Research
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  • Background articles

    HRA

    HRA, Human Reliability Analysis: the HRA project examines the reliability of human actions, taking account of various boundary conditions. The state of the art is the determination of failure probabilities for actions that are required during an incident, but are not performed. On the other hand, there is no efficient method for the systematic identification…

    Research, Security
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  • Background articles

    People, Organisation and Safety Culture

    People, organisation and safety culture have a major influence on the safety of a nuclear plant. The research projects supported by ENSI in this area deal with the influence of human actions in incident situations, as well as requirements profiles for staff at nuclear power plants.

    Research
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  • Background articles

    Mont Terri Rock Laboratory

    The objective of the international Mont Terri Rock Laboratory Research Project is to study the geological, hydrogeological, geochemical and geomechanical properties of Opalinus clay. These properties are critically important for the assessment of the safety and technical feasibility of a deep geological repository for radioactive waste in this type of rock.

    Mont Terri, Mont Terri Rock Laboratory, Radiation Exposure of Humans and the Environment, Research
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