The ENSI Board has set out strategic objectives in the following areas for the regulatory activities of ENSI during the years 2020 to 2023: Operation of nuclear installations, shutting down and decommissioning of nuclear installations, radiation protection and emergency preparedness, disposal of radioactive waste, information and communication, personnel policy and financial policy.
Monica Duca Widmer has been a member of the ENSI Board since 1 January 2016 and Vice-Chairwoman since 1 January 2018. She resigned from the ENSI Board at the end of July 2019. After gaining experience in the international food industry, she specialised in process engineering and safety in the environmental protection field from 1990 […]
On 1 January 2019, Niklaus Mäder was appointed Technical Secretary of the ENSI Board. Prior to his appointment to the Technical Secretariat of the ENSI Board, he was employed by the Association of Swiss Electricity Companies (SEV), first as Editor-in-Chief of the journal ‘Bulletin SEV/VSE’ and then as Regulation Senior Expert. In the latter role, […]
Werner Bühlmann was appointed as a member of the ENSI Board on 1 January 2012. After his retirement at the end of May 2011, he worked as an expert consultant for the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) between June and December 2012. Between April 1980 and his retirement at the end of May 2012, […]
Jürg Schmid was appointed Vice-Chairman of the ENSI Board by the Federal Council on 1 January 2012. He was a board member for the previous term from 2008 to 2011. Between 2008 and 2014 he was CEO of Schmid & Ernst Safety-Coaching. In this role he advised a wide range of companies in the aviation […]
The independence of the Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (ENSI) is intact and should continue to be strengthened. An external investigation carried out on behalf of the ENSI Board found no indications that ENSI was subject to material influence from Nagra (the National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste). In response to this investigation, […]
L’indépendance de l’Inspection fédérale de la sécurité nucléaire (IFSN) est intacte et doit encore être renforcée. Une analyse externe réalisée sur mandat du conseil de l’IFSN n’a rendu compte d’aucune indication quant à une influence matérielle de la Nagra. Comme conséquence de l’enquête, l’IFSN a adapté les prescriptions relatives aux processus internes lors de l’élaboration […]
Hans-Jürgen Pfeiffer was born on 3 May 1943 in Rosenheim in Upper Bavaria. He studied physics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) specialising in nuclear physics from where he also obtained his doctorate with a work on particle physics. He then spent 2 years at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research in Geneva. […]
Pierre Steiner (1943). EUR ING and graduate electrical engineer: From 1967 – 1989, he worked in R&D and in the planning, construction and maintenance of national telecommunication networks in Switzerland, Africa, South America and Asia. From 1990–1996, he was Director of Pro Telecom, the Swiss telecom association. From 1997–2004, he was Deputy Secretary General of […]
