Art. 3

In this Act:

1. monitoring period means the period of time over which a deep geological repository is monitored before it is closed and during which radioactive waste can be retrieved without undue effort;
2. waste management means conditioning, interim storage and disposal of radioactive waste in a deep geological repository;
3. deep geological repository means a installation located deep underground, which may be closed, if the permanent protection of humans and the environment through passive barriers is ensured;
4. nuclear installation means any installation or installations intended for the use of nuclear energy, the extraction, production, use, processing or storage of nuclear materials, and the management of radioactive waste in accordance with Article 2, paragraph 1c;
5. nuclear energy means any form of energy that is released following the fission or fusion of atomic nuclei;
6. nuclear materials means substances that can be used for obtaining energy by means of nuclear fission processes;
7. conditioning means the entire range of operations by which radioactive waste is prepared for interim storage or final disposal, including mechanical reduction, decontamination, pressing, incineration, embedding in matrices, and packaging;
8. nuclear goods means:

1. nuclear materials,

2. materials and equipment intended for or required for the use of nuclear energy,

3. technology that is required for developing, manufacturing and using goods cited in numbers 1 and 2;

i. radioactive waste means radioactive substances or contaminated materials that are no longer used;

j. handling means research, development, production, storage, transport, import, export, transit and brokerage;

k. brokerage means*:*

1. providing the essential requirements for concluding agreements on the delivery, purchase or forwarding of nuclear goods and radioactive waste, regardless of where the nuclear goods and radioactive waste may be located,

2. concluding such agreements if performance is the duty of a third party or parties,

3. trading in nuclear goods and radioactive waste with foreign countries from Swiss sovereign territory;

l. closure means the backfilling and sealing of all underground excavations and the access shaft of a deep geological repository after termination of the monitoring period;

m. reprocessing means cutting up of spent fuel elements, chemical dissolution of oxide fuel and separation into uranium, plutonium and fission products.