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Third ten-yearly periodic safety review of Fessenheim NPP reactor n°2

05/14/2013 11:23

Third ten-yearly periodic safety review of Fessenheim NPP reactor n°2 : ASN instructs EDF to carry out works.

ASN instructs EDF to comply with new requirements following the third periodic safety review of Fessenheim NPP reactor n°2, as it had already done for reactor n°1 in 2011.

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  • Accidental exposure of a worker from a contractor of the operator EDF 04/30/2013 6:19

    Accidental exposure of a worker exceeding annual regulatory limit to the skin during a planned outage at unit 4 of “Le Blayais” NPP in France

    On 24 April 2103, there has been an accidental exposure of a worker from a contractor of the operator EDF. At the radiological checkpoint before leaving the controlled zone, a worker has detected radioactive contamination in the neck area.He was previously performing some scrubbing operations on several materials. These operations are carried out before non destructive tests during the the reactor...

  • Supervision of the EPR reactor: Information notice No. 14 03/08/2013 1:44

    ASN monitoring of the EPR Flamanville reactor construction site: notable points

    In the second half of 2012, ASN conducted several inspections for continued monitoring of the construction of the Flamanville 3 EPR reactor and various other manufacturing operations for this reactor. The notable points observed over these last few months are detailed below. Filling with water and modification of the pumping station intake channelThe seawater intake channel for the pumping stations1...

  • Questions and comments from the public on ENSREG website 03/01/2013 12:30

    The European safety regulators are preparing a peer-review of their post-Fukushima action plans and are collecting questions and comments from the public

    In accordance with the action plan of 25 July 2012, ASN published a national action plan on 20 December 2012 for implementation of the recommendations resulting from the stress tests performed on Europe's nuclear reactors in the wake of the Fukushima disaster. All of the national action plans published by the European States are currently undergoing a process of “peer review”. This consists in...

  • Press Release on HERCA-DAP (Dose Area Product) display proposal 02/28/2013 12:04

    Press Release on HERCA-DAP (Dose Area Product) display proposal

    On the occasion of the 10th meeting of the Board of Heads of HERCA (Paris, 30-31 October 2012), a proposal for harmonization of DAP (Dose Area Product) units in general and in interventional radiology has been approved. The enhancement of the implementation of the radiation protection regulation on medical applications, focusing on justification and optimization, is part of the missions of HERCA.In...

  • Appointement of Dr. Jean-Christophe Niel 01/30/2013 10:30

    Appointement of Dr. Jean-Christophe Niel as Chair of the Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA)

    Jean-Christophe Niel, Director-General of the ASN, has been appointed Chair of the Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). This election took place during the 28th CNRA meeting which was held on 3-4 December 2012 at the NEA in the Paris area. Jean-Christophe Niel succeeds Mike Weightman, Chief Inspector of the British nuclear regulatory body (HSE/ONR)...

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