The ASN aims to ensure greater involvement by the heads of the Regional Directorates for Industry, Research and the Environment (DRIREs) - which are the ASN's regional spokespersons - and their Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection Departments (DSNRs).

Every year, the heads of the DRIREs organise a press conference on nuclear safety and radiation protection to present a review of their activities and of the safety of the nuclear installations and transports of radioactive materials under their supervision. This initiative has been favourably received by the local media, anxious to provide the populations living in the vicinity of nuclear installations with a clear idea of their safety level, often more detailed than that to be derived from national media accounts.

The heads of the various DSNRs also grant numerous interviews with local and regional media. Some DSNRs also take part in training seminars designed to familiarise journalists with industrial risks. Their comments more specifically deal with nuclear safety and radiation protection.

Similarly, the DSNRs attend CLI meetings to help improve local media understanding of issues linked to nuclear safety and radiation protection.

In 2005, to improve awareness of DNSR actions in the regions, the ASN sent out a brochure to about 500,000 homes in the vicinity of the 19 nuclear power plants, presenting the supervision procedures in the plant concerned.

For more than 6 years now, the ASN and IRSN have been organising an exhibition travelling around the regions, more particularly aimed at schoolchildren and the general public. The purpose of the exhibition is to provide simple, attractive and direct information on the assessment and management of nuclear energy related risks and the corresponding means of surveillance. Every year, local authorities and schools, scientific, technical or industrial culture centres and museums in 2 or 3 towns host this 250 square metre exhibition for periods of from 3 to 8 weeks.

In 2005, after a presentation at the Val d’Essonne University in Evry (Ile-de-France region), the exhibition moved on to the General Council of the Cher département in Bourges. Nearly 3000 people were thus able to visit it. At each stop, the DSNR helps with the inaugural events, the conferences and dissemination of information to elected officials, the local press and the general public. All ASN publications are also proposed, in particular to science teachers visiting the exhibition.

In 2005, a joint study was launched by the ASN and the IRSN with a view to updating the content of this exhibition and its support documents.

In 2005, the ASN aimed to ensure a higher profile for itself at symposia, meetings with professionals and international seminars.

On 22, 23 and 24 June 2005, it held the first edition of the NuPEER (Nuclear Pressure Equipment Expertise & Regulation) international symposium in Dijon. This symposium dealt with the subject of ageing of pressure vessels in nuclear power plants and had a two-fold objective: on the one hand to exchange views on practices and share experience of ageing issues in nuclear power plants, and on the other to create an international network of experts in the field of nuclear pressure vessels. It brought together nearly 120 participants from nuclear regulators and expert organisations in 13 countries: Belgium, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Norway, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, United Kingdom and United States. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the OECD's Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and the European Commission also took part in the debates.

In 2005, the ASN also took part in a large number of scientific conferences, in particular organised by medical learned societies: Société française de radioprotection, Société française de radiologie, Société française de médecine nucléaire et d’imagerie moléculaire, Société française de physique médicale. Together with the professionals concerned, it was thus able to look at the new methods of radiation protection supervision and the new regulatory framework, as well as answering specific questions, for example concerning their facilities.

On 14 December, the ASN also organised the 17th national conference of Local Information Committees (CLIs) on the subject of local emergency management (see point 2.2).