ASN Report 2017

174 ASN report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2017 Chapter 06  - Informing the public and other audiences 1.2 ASN and the professionals ASN produces specific publications, organises and takes part in numerous symposia and seminars to raise the professionals’ awareness of the responsibilities and the implications of nuclear safety and radiation protection, to make known the regulations and to encourage the notification of significant events. 1.2.1 Making the regulations known and enhancing the safety culture ASN considers that having clear regulations based on the best safety standards is an important factor in improving the safety of BNIs. Over the last few years it has thus undertaken a major overhaul of the technical and general regulations applicable to BNIs, while always being attentive to the clarity and completeness of the information delivered to the public concerning these regulations. The public is moreover increasingly involved in the rules development process. ASN guides for concrete application of resolutions The ASN guides give recommendations, present the means ASN considers appropriate for achieving the objectives set by the regulations, and share methods and good practices resulting from experience feedback from significant events. Five ASN guides were created or updated in 2017, then published on the ASN website: ཛྷ ཛྷ In the medical field, ASN published a guide entitled The minimum technical design, operating and maintenance rules applicable to in vivo nuclear medicine facilities . ཛྷ ཛྷ Two guides concerning the transport of radioactive substances were published in 2017, one entitled “The new procedures for notifying events relating to the transport of radioactive substances” , the other “Implementation of the regulatory requirements applicable to on-site transport operations” . ཛྷ ཛྷ Two guides produced jointly with IRSN in 2017 provide recommendations for the design of BNIs. One is entitled “Design of pressurized water reactors” , the other “Qualification of scientific computing tools used in the nuclear safety case - 1st barrier” (the first barrier being the nuclear fuel). A section for the professionals on www.asn.fr The professionals can find all the regulatory texts and forms concerning their area of activity in a specific section, and they can create a personalised account. It also contains the data sheets, results by sector, presentations of regional seminars, letters on the regulations, etc. Contrôle magazine Following publication of issue No. 201(end of 2016), Contrôle magazine has been temporarily suspended pending a decision on the new form it should take (publication frequency, format). Distributed until then in several thousand copies, each issue provided an in-depth review of one of the major subjects relating to nuclear safety and radiation protection. The last one hundred issues of Contrôle magazine can still be consulted on www.asn.fr. 1.2.2 Radiation protection: a portal to notify significant events and a bulletin for sharing experience feedback The notification of significant events is a key factor in reinforcing the safety and radiation protection culture. Since May 2017, all significant events concerning radiation protection have to be notified via ASN’s new on-line services portal: teleservices.asn.fr . The possibility of notifying incidents on line, which has been operational since 2015 for radiotherapy, is now available for all medical applications that use ionising radiation: nuclear medicine, interventional and fluoroscopy- guided practices, computed tomography and conventional and dental radiology. The www.mesure-radioactivite.fr website gives the public access to the 300,000 radioactivity measurements taken each year in France in the various compartments of the environment (air, water, soils, fauna and flora) and in food products.