ASN inaugurates its Scientific Committee responsible for examining ASN's research orientations in the fields of nuclear safety and radiation protection

ASN's Scientific Committee held its first meeting on 8 July 2010.

On Thursday 8 July 2010 ASN published the Tritium White Paper, a review of current knowledge about tritium

The Tritium White Paper is the fruit of work by two broad-based working groups set up at ASN's initiative to review the behaviour of tritium in the environment and the evaluation of the biological impact of tritium on humans, in the wake of publications by British environmental and health agencies on the subject.

Statement of ASN Commission: "Which level of safety for new nuclear reactors built around the world? "

One of the major ASN concerns is to achieve harmonization based on the best nuclear safety and radiation protection levels worldwide. We do not want a “two-speed” safety and we continue to promote at European and international levels safety objectives that take into account the lessons learnt from Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and September 11, 2001 events. In the event of proposals to export nuclear reactors which do not meet these safety objectives, ASN will not hesitate to declare that such reactors could not be built in France.

Information Notice No. 8: ASN continues inspections on the EPR Flamanville reactor construction site

The French Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) continued its inspections on the EPR Flamanville reactor construction site during the first quarter of 2010, and found work to be progressing in good order. Several issues are noteworthy.

Full report on the assessment audit coordinated by the IAEA published by ASN at www.asn.fr

The full report on the international IRRS (Integrated Regulatory Review Service) audit, carried out at the request of the French Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) from 29 March to 3 April 2009, has just been submitted to the ASN. The hundred-page text provides supplementary details beyond the initial findings presented by the international experts at the end of the audit.