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Radiation protection serves to protect personnel, the population and the surroundings of nuclear installations against ionising radiation.

ENSI deals with occupational radiological protection, dosimetry, radiation measurement systems, radioactive emissions and environmental monitoring, as well as with the radiological impact of accidents.

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    ENSI experts collaborate in the European harmonisation of emergency protection measures

    In future, there are to be no further contradictions between neighbouring countries with regard to emergency measures in the immediate aftermath of serious nuclear accidents. Europe’s two most important bodies for nuclear oversight and radiation protection have developed the so-called HERCA-WENRA Approach in order to bring about harmonisation.

    Emergency Preparedness, ENSI, International, International Affairs, Multilateral Cooperation, Radiation Protection
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    The ENSI Board is appointing Rosa Sardella as new Director of the Division for Radiation Protection

    Rosa Sardella is to be the new Director of the Division for Radiation Protection at the Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate ENSI. The ENSI Board has appointed the 47 year old, who holds a doctorate in nuclear engineering, as the successor to retiring Division Director Georges Piller, effective July 1st, 2016.

    ENSI as an employer, ENSI as regulatory body, ENSI Board, Radiation Protection
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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, International, International Affairs, Multilateral Cooperation, Radiation Protection
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