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REGULATION OF NUCLEAR ACTIVITIES AND EXPOSURE TO IONISING RADIATION

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Chapter 04

  1. VERIFYING THAT THE LICENSEE ASSUMES ITS RESPONSIBILITIES
    1. The principles underpinning the regulatory role
    2. Regulating nuclear activities: a vast area
      1. Regulating safety
      2. Regulating activities entailing a risk of exposure to ionising radiation
      3. Regulating the enforcement of labour law in nuclear power plants (NPPs)
  2. REGULATION THAT IS PROPORTIONATE TO THE ISSUES INVOLVED IN THE ACTIVITIES
    1. Defining the issues
    2. Applying the principle of licensee prime responsibility
      1. Operations subject to a licensee internal authorisations procedure
      2. Internal monitoring of radiation protection by the users of ionising radiation sources
      3. Packages not requiring approval
    3. Increasing ASN regulation resources by approving organisations and laboratories
  3. DEPLOYING THE MOST EFFICIENT REGULATION AND INSPECTION MEANS
    1. Assessing the supporting documents submitted by the licensee
      1. Analysing the information supplied by basic nuclear installation (BNI) licensees
      2. Reviewing the procedures laid down by the Public Health Code
    2. Inspection of installations and activities
      1. Inspection objectives and principles
      2. Inspection resources
      3. Inspection of basic nuclear installations (BNIs) and pressure equipment in 2011
      4. Inspection of radioactive material transport (RMT) in 2011
      5. Inspection of small-scale nuclear activities in 2011
      6. Inspection of ASN approved organisations and laboratories in 2011
      7. Checks on exposure to radon and Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (NORM) in 2011
    3. Regulating the impact of nuclear activities on the environment
      1. Regulating basic nuclear installation (BNI) discharges
      2. Assessing the radiological impact of nuclear activities
    4. Learning the lessons from significant events
      1. Anomaly detection and analysis
      2. Implementation of the approach
      3. Conducting a technical inquiry in the event of an incident or accident concerning a nuclear activity
      4. Public information
      5. Statistical summary of events in 2011
    5. Raising awareness
  4. MONITORING ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY
    1. European context
      1. The purpose of environmental monitoring
      2. Content of monitoring
    2. Environmental monitoring nationwide
    3. Guaranteeing measurement quality
      1. Laboratory approval procedure
      2. The approval commission
      3. Approval conditions
  5. IDENTIFYING AND PENALISING INFRINGEMENTS
    1. Ensuring that licensee penalty decisions are proportionate, fair and consistent
    2. Implementing a policy of penalties
      1. For the BNI and RMT licensees
      2. For persons in charge of small-scale nuclear activities, approved organisations and laboratories
      3. For noncompliance with labour law
      4. 2011 results concerning enforcement and penalties
    3. Information about ASN’s inspections
  6. OUTLOOK

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In 2012, ASN scheduled 1,846 inspections on BNIs, radioactive material transport, activities using ionising radiation, organisations and laboratories it has approved and activities involving pressure equipment. As in 2011, ASN will give priority to the inspection of activities with significant implications, as defined in point 2|1.

Other activities, such as services in BNIs, the supply of electrical generators of ionising radiation and computer tomography will also receive particular attention.

ASN is currently revising the conditions for notification of significant events, which will take into account the experimentation of the events notification guide in small-scale nuclear activities and the changes in regulations in the BNIs sector. The notification criteria and conditions shall be detailed and harmonised between the different sectors.

In the environmental field, ASN will continue to implement its tritium action plan, for example with the assistance of the pluralistic committee responsible for monitoring the action plan. With regard to monitoring of environmental radioactivity, ASN will finalise the work initiated on the monitoring strategy, both nationwide and around the nuclear sites. Together with the ministry responsible for the environment, ASN will also be reinforcing monitoring and inspection of the arrangements made for environmental protection around the BNIs.

Lastly, ASN is preparing to inspect a new field, namely the security of radioactive sources (see chapter 10). While broadening its area of competence, ASN will call on the experience feedback from previous years in order to improve the organisation and accounting of its inspection activities.

 

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