4 Outlook In 2024, ASN continued its activities in the field of emergency management and took part in numerous national and international exercises, organising a large number of inspections to allow testing of the operational nature of emergency management at the licensees, by means of simulations. With regard to post-accident management, 2024 is the last year of Codirpa’s current mandate. In 2025, ASNR will be consolidating its emergency response by taking advantage of the creation of the ASNR Emergency Centre which brings together the decision-making bodies of the former ASN and the expert assessment skills of the former IRSN within the same organisation. This new Emergency Centre, which has been operational since 1 January 2025, is the fruit of preparatory work performed throughout 2024. ASNR will carry out specific inspections on the emergency management topic, will take part in national emergency exercises and will work on relations with its border counterparts in order to improve the consistency of emergency management with them. In the post-accident field, the reports on completion of the work done to take account of accidents other than those in the NPPs and on marine environment management in the post-accident phase will be published in early 2025. Finally, ASNR will submit proposals to the Prime Minister regarding the follow-up to Codirpa’s work, with a view to a new mandate. TABLE 2 National nuclear and radiological emergency exercises conducted in 2024 Nuclear site Dates of exercice Main characteristics EDF Civaux NPP (86) 24 and 25 January • Decision-making process and simulated media pressure • Test of bilateral information exchanges with Luxembourg and Germany INEX 6 exercise (NEA) 7 February • Tabletop exercise • Post-accident management regarding different aspects: foodstuffs, decontamination work and management of the corresponding waste Bugey NPP (01) 28 February • Decision-making process and simulated media pressure Transport of radioactive substances (88) 27 June • Feedback from the field to the national Emergency Centre • Decision-making process ConvEx-2b (IAEA) 3 et 4 September • Test of the mechanisms for offering assistance to a country affected by an accident ECUREX (European Commission) 25 September • Test of European mechanisms for information feedback in the event of an accident in a European country Cherbourg Naval Base (50) 14 and 15 November • Test of the new ASNR emergency organisation and coordination with ASND EDF Belleville-sur-Loire NPP (18) 21 and 22 November • Decision-making process • ASN inspectors dispatched to the affected site EDF Tricastin NPP (26) 28 November • Test of the new ASNR emergency organisation Transport of radioactive substances (60) 12 december • Feedback from the field to the national Emergency Centre • Test of the new ASNR emergency organisation ASN Report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2024 181 01 02 03 Radiological emergency and post-accident situations 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 AP
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