ENSI took part in the third IAEA International Conference on Occupational Radiation Protection from 5 to 9 September 2022.
On the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the Mont Terri Rock Laboratory in the town of St Ursanne, Marc Kenzelmann, Director General of the Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (ENSI), pointed out the great importance of independent research at Mont-Terri.
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.
In this year’s report, ENSI provides information on the overall status of implementation of the CNS in Switzerland, as well as other key issues that have gained in importance since the Fukushima accident.
The Federal Council’s energy strategy for 2050 is based on a gradual withdrawal from the nuclear energy programme. Under the new conditions, ENSI, as a specialised body of the Confederation that is politically and economically independent, also ensures the safety of nuclear installations.
ENSI does not only grant approvals in the case of upgrading. Modifications to constructions, parts of installations, systems, equipment and documents that are classified as relevant for safety or technical security have to be approved by law – even in the case of decommissioning.
The guideline ENSI-A05 defines the quality and scope requirements regarding the plantspecific level 1 and level 2 Probabilistic Safety Analysis (PSA) for both internal and external events and covering all operating modes of the nuclear power plants. In addition, this guideline establishes the PSA requirements for other nuclear installations. The quality and scope requirements in […]
This guideline formalizes the requirements for the application of Probabilistic Safety Analysis (PSA) for nuclear power plants. It presents the general principles, the requirements for maintenance and upgrade of the PSA, as well as the minimum required scope of PSA applications. The risk measure and evaluation criteria to be applied are defined for these PSA […]
The Fukushima action plans serve the purpose of ensuring transparency as regards processing of the identified points until they are implemented. They also provide an instrument for the planning of supervisory work and the assessment of new knowledge gained from the Fukushima accident.
