Published on 05/08/2019 • 03:13 pm
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Planned centralised spent fuel storage pool
The nuclear power reactors, which produce more than 70% of France's electricity, need to be able to send their spent fuels to a storage location.
Published on 29/07/2019 • 11:50 am
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CEA’s decommissioning and materials and waste management strategy
Thirty-nine CEA nuclear facilities have been finally shut down or are being decommissioned. This number has been constantly rising for the past few years. Since the 2000s, ASN and ASND – the Defence Nuclear Safety Authority – have observed significant delays in the decommissioning and waste retrieval and conditioning (RCD) projects.
Published on 11/06/2019 • 02:35 pm
Press release
Overexposure of the hands of personnel in a nuclear medicine department
On 6 May 2019, the Réunion Island University Hospital in Saint-Denis notified ASN of a significant event that occurred in its nuclear medicine department. Further to malfunctions affecting an automated injector for radiopharmaceutical, several workers suffered radiation exposure to the hands in an unusual manner.
Published on 27/05/2019 • 01:30 pm
Press release
A worker exceeds the regulatory annual radiation exposure limit
On 24 April 2019, ASN, the French nuclear regulator, was informed by the company Eiffage Énergie Système – Clevia Ouest, located in Saint-Grégoire (Ille-et-Vilaine département), of a significant radiation protection event involving a worker who exceeded the regulatory annual ionising radiation exposure limit.
Published on 21/05/2019 • 11:30 am
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Information Letter #.21
ASN continued its monitoring of the Flamanville 3 EPR reactor construction site and the various manufactured items intended for it. The significant points in 2018 and early 2019 are detailed below; ASN was particularly vigilant with regard to the processing of the deviations detected on the main secondary system welds and the continuation of the reactor start-up tests.
Published on 17/05/2019 • 03:45 pm
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Progress report on the ASN action plan against the risk of fraud
On 21 November 2018, ASN opened a portal to the public so that anyone wishing to do so can inform it of any irregularities regarding nuclear safety, radiation protection of persons and protection of the environment. This portal offers whistleblowers direct access to ASN, while guaranteeing that their identity will remain confidential.
Published on 12/04/2019 • 09:00 am
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Flamanville EPR reactor
On 9 and 10 April 2019, ASN convened its Advisory Committee for Nuclear Pressure Equipment (GP ESPN) concerning the approach proposed by EDF to deal with the deviations detected in welds on the main steam transfer pipes of the Flamanville EPR reactor. Representatives from the Flamanville CLI, the HCTISN, the ANCCLI and foreign safety regulators concerned by the construction of an EPR reactor attended this session as observers.
Published on 28/03/2019 • 11:03 am
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Decommissioning of the first generation gas-cooled reactors
On 12 February 2019, the ASN Commission gave EDF a hearing so that the licensee could make its observations on the draft resolutions to regulate the decommissioning of six gas-cooled reactors, which have been shut down for about thirty years.
Published on 19/03/2019 • 04:50 pm
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Angers University Hospital nuclear medicine department personnel suffers overexposure of the hands
On 31st January 2019, the Angers University Hospital informed ASN (the French nuclear safety authority) of a significant radiation protection event in which a member of personnel exceeded the regulatory annual limit for exposure to the hands, which is set at 500 millisieverts. The person concerned by this event works in the hospital's nuclear medicine department.
