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- 44 - The sites annually schedule regular and varied exercises: radiological and conventional safety, evacuation, etc. The staff are required to take part in at least one PUI SR exercise every year. On the majority of the sites, the PUI engineer monitors this participation by means of an operational and easily usable table. When staff participation anomalies are detected, they are generally remedied on the occasion of the following exercises. For the Cruas and Golfech sites, these anomalies are not always in fact corrected by the first exercises of the following year and monitoring of the processing of these anomalies needs to be further optimised. Each exercise is written up in a detailed report used for the operating experience feedback analysis by the PUI commissions. REX measures are then defined and formally stipulated in action plans. This monitoring and the traceability of the actions need to be improved on certain sites. However, for the Golfech site, only one exercise in 2010 was written up in a report and monitoring and follow-up of the corrective measures is not rigorous enough. The performance of exercises and the formal structuring of the operating experience feedback by the sites are satisfactory. The sites must however focus on the traceability and systematic follow-up and monitoring of REX measures. Material resources The requirements concerning the telecommunication resources necessary for emergency management are given in the RMTC. The sites have implemented this frame of reference, which in particular sets out the requirements concerning redundancy and the tests to be performed on the telecommunication resources of use in an emergency. The tests relating to the PPI sirens were in particular reviewed. During the inspections, the availability and operability of the material resources in the event of off-site hazards were checked. Finally, the sites have PUI vehicles. These vehicles are used in an emergency situation to take measurements and samples around the site. Their contents must be regularly checked and tests on the equipment in these vehicles must be scheduled and performed. The requirements of the telecommunication resources frame of reference (RMTC) in the event of an emergency are applied on all the sites, but not always in full. Therefore, the sites must focus on identifying any remaining discrepancies. The requirements concerning redundancy and the periodic testing of telecommunication resources are met, apart from a few isolated cases. Some sites need to verify the availability of telecommunication and PUI material resources in the event of flooding. The PUI and PPI sirens are tested once a month. However, the PPI sirens audibility test was only carried out once, at commissioning of the power plants. The RMTC requires that preventive maintenance be conducted annually on the PPI sirens. During the spot-checks carried out, the inspectors found that this preventive maintenance was not carried out at Golfech and Cruas. The operating tests on the population address system in the reflex response phase (SAPPRE) are run during the national crisis exercises. Exercises to deploy and implement off-site resources on the site are regularly held, in particular with the SDIS emergency services. However, exercises involving the resources of the GIE INTRA are not held on all the sites. In the case of an event affecting several facilities, the sites still have to demonstrate that they have sufficient equipment. All the sites have two PUI vehicles, many of which were recently renewed. The inventory checks and periodic tests performed on the contents and working of the PUI vehicles is satisfactory, with the exception of a few isolated remarks. Management of the material resources could be improved with regard to a certain number of points. The sites will in particular need to focus on exhaustive implementation of the requirements set out in the RMTC and on adequacy of the material resources in the case of an event affecting several facilities. Crisis management premises: assembly points Each site defines the personnel assembly points. These points are distributed around the sites and access to them is clearly marked. They are located outside the controlled areas and are easily accessible. These premises are designed to temporarily accommodate the persons present on the site at the moment an alert is triggered. Their goal is to protect the site personnel during the first few hours of the crisis and enable them to be counted and informed of the situation.

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