licensee suppliers and their subcontractors can find informative documents, follow-up letters to the inspections conducted by ASN on suppliers’ premises and the ASN position statement letters. The guide entitled Main regulatory radiation protection provisions applicable in medical and dental radiology was entirely updated in October 2024. ASN met the radiology professionals at the French radiology days (JFR) in Paris in October, and the radiation protection professionals at the congress of the French Society for Radiation Protection (SFRP) in Lyon in November. Focusing this year on the theme of “Sharing know-how”, the event provided the opportunity to widen and update knowledge in the area of radiation protection: regulatory changes, technical progress, experience feedback and practical cases. 1.2.2 A platform to facilitate on-line procedures The regulatory procedures are gradually undergoing their digital transformation on the on-line services portal at asn.fr. ASN thus aims to facilitate the procedures for professionals, which helps to promote safety culture. Eleven declaration forms (including forms for declaring the possession of radioactive devices and sources and reporting dangerous goods transport events) and seven registration application forms (proposed to those responsible for nuclear activities in the industrial, medical, veterinary and research domains) are available. 1.2.3 Media for sharing good practices The Patient safety – Paving the way for progress bulletin was created in March 2011 to disseminate the lessons learned from significant radiation protection events to medical professionals. Since July 2019, it alternates between subjects devoted to radiotherapy, diagnostic medical imaging (conventional, computed tomography scanning and nuclear medicine) and Fluoroscopy-guided Interventional Practices (FGIPs). Produced by multidisciplinary working groups coordinated by ASN, the bulletin offers a thematic presentation, good practices and 1. According to Article L. 592-32 of the Environment Code. recommendations developed by the professional organisations of the discipline concerned and the health and radiation protection institutions. A “Learning from experience” sheet for the medical sector was published in April 2024. It alerts medical imaging centres to the risk of accidental changing of the exposure settings when restarting a mobile radiology device, a problem that caused additional exposures in children. These publications are available on asnr.fr. 1.3 The media ASN maintains regular relations with the regional, national and foreign media throughout the year. Each year, the ASN spokespersons respond to more than 500 press requests and give some twenty local and national press conferences. The news in 2024 was largely dominated by the debates concerning the reorganisation of the oversight of nuclear safety and radiation protection, the commissioning of the Flamanville EPR, the new nuclear programme with the announcement of several reactor construction projects and the development of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), as well as the continued operation of the existing reactors beyond 50 years. The regional conferences provided local information for the media on the latest news of the oversight of the facilities, the risk culture and how it is integrated by the population. ASN also maintains relations with the medical press on the subjects of patient and medical personnel radiation protection. Each year at the time of the publication of its annual Report on the situation of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France, ASN meets regional press journalists. Ten regional conferences were held in 2024 from 10 to 24 September, bringing together 70 media representatives. At these meetings, the ASN regional divisions report on ASN’s assessment of the safety of the facilities in the regions. The current regional news in the area of radiation protection is addressed, whether it concerns the medical and industrial sectors, sites contaminated by radioactive substances, population exposure to radon, or former mining sites, etc. Lastly, ASN has a duty to inform the public in the event of an emergency situation(1). In order to prepare for this, ASN staff receive specific training and take part in exercises. Emergency exercises are held each year, with simulated media pressure from journalists designed to test ASN’s responsiveness to the media, as well as the consistency and quality of the messages put across by the various players, both nationally and locally (see chapter 4). The social networks have been integrated in these simulations since 2011. 1.4 Elected officials and institutional bodies Each year, ASN presents its annual Report on the situation of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France to the Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Choices (OPECST). This report, which constitutes the reference document on the state of the activities regulated by ASN, is also submitted to the President of the Republic, to the Government and to Parliament. It is sent out to more than 2,000 addressees: heads of administrative authorities, elected officials, licensees and persons/entities in charge of regulated activities or installations, associations, professional unions and organisations, etc. Each year ASN is given about ten hearings before Parliament on its activity, on subjects relating to nuclear safety and radiation protection and in the context of the budget bill. ASN also maintains regular relations with national and local elected officials on the subjects of nuclear safety and radiation protection 1.5 International cooperation ASN invests itself at international level to foster the sharing of best practices with regard to informing the public. It takes part in the transparency working group of the European Nuclear Safety Regulators Group (ENSREG); it participates in the work of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Working Group on Public Communication of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). ASN Report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2024 189 01 Informing and involving the various audiences 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 AP 02 03 04
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