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Nuclear power plants are facilities for the commercial generation of electrical power from controlled nuclear fission. The four Swiss nuclear power plants have a total output of 3.2 GW. Their annual availability is around 90%. The Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) plays an essential role in enforcing the legislation on nuclear power. The Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (ENSI), an independent body constituted under public law, is responsible for supervising the safety and security of Swiss nuclear power plants. Operating licences for nuclear power plants in Switzerland are awarded for an unlimited period. The plants can be operated for as long as their safety is guaranteed. If the requirements for the safe operation of a nuclear power plant can no longer be met, the operating licence can be withdrawn at any time. If the decommissioning criteria specified in the Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (DETEC) Ordinance on the Methodology and Standards for the Verification of the Criteria for the Provisional Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Plants are fulfilled, the licence holder must decommission the plant immediately.

Data and Resources

Additional information

Identifier
74e0e4a7-165a-414d-b1a5-1921162f04ab@bundesamt-fur-energie-bfe
Title for URL of the dataset
kernkraftwerke
Schedule the publication of the dataset
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Issued date
September 9, 2012
Modification date
December 20, 2019
Conforms to
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Update interval
Irregular
Temporal coverage
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Publisher Information
Bundesamt für Energie
Contact points
geoinformation@bfe.admin.ch
Languages
  • English
  • German
  • French
  • Italian
Url
https://www.bfe.admin.ch/kernkraftwerke
Relations
geocat.ch permalink
Spatial
Schweiz
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Documentation
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Keywords
Terms of use
NonCommercialAllowed-CommercialAllowed-ReferenceRequired
Metadata Access
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