ASN Report 2017

191 ASN report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2017 Chapter 07  - International relations operation. The actual implementation of the recommendations and suggestions put forward by the team of experts is verified during a follow-up mission, 18 months after the visit by the experts. The 30th OSART mission carried out in France (in other words one OSART mission per year) was held at the Bugey NPP in October 2017. As for the previous missions, the report drafted afterwards is published on www.asn.fr after validation by the parties. Moreover, an OSART follow-up mission to Dampierre-en-Burly was organised in February  2017. The next OSART mission will take place on October 2018 and will concern the Flamanville EPR reactor. This mission is being intentionally carried out prior to commissioning of the reactor. It will take place after those carried out on the EPR reactors in Taishan (China) and Olkiluoto (Finland). Regional training and assistance missions ASN responds to other requests from the IAEA secretariat, in particular to take part in regional radiation protection training and in assistance missions. The beneficiaries are generally countries of the French-speaking community. Thus, in 2016, ASN representatives went to Algeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar and Morocco in turn. ASN also welcomed trainees from Romania and Montenegro. Harmonisation of communication tools ASN remains closely involved in the work on the INES (International Nuclear and radiological Event Scale). In 2006, at France’s request, a working group on the rating of radiation protection events involving patients was set up. In July  2012, a draft technical document was produced and the consolidated methodology was presented in October  2014 to all the countries using the INES scale and then sent out to all the INES national correspondents at the end of 2015. The implementation of this new scale in France is scheduled for 2018. Generally speaking, ASN is closely involved in the various actions carried out by the IAEA, providing significant support for certain initiatives, notably those which were developed following the Fukushima Daiichi accident, including the complete report on the accident. For information, this report was presented to the Board of Governors in September 2015 and was published at the end of 2015. Finally and still under the supervision of the IAEA, ASN also participated in the RCF (Regulatory Cooperation Forum) chaired by a deputy Director General of ASN. This forum, created in 2010, aims to bring those safety regulators in countries adopting nuclear energy for the first time into contact with the safety regulators of the major nuclear countries, so that their needs can be identified and the required support can be coordinated, while ensuring that the fundamental nuclear safety objectives can be met (independence of the regulator, appropriate legal and regulatory framework, etc.). This year, in addition to a close examination of the situation of the regulatory authorities in Belarus, Jordan, Poland and Vietnam, the RCF reinforced its cooperation with the European Union (INSC) and with “regional” forums such as ANNuR (Arab Network of Nuclear Regulators), FNRBA (Forum of Nuclear Regulatory Bodies in Africa) and ANSN (Asian Nuclear Safety Network). Finally, the RCF examined the request from Bangladesh for active assistance, which should be effective in 2017. 3.2 The OECD’s Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) The NEA, created in 1958, now comprises 33 members from Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific region, with the inclusion of Argentina and Romania in 2017. Its main role is to assist the member countries in maintaining and developing the scientific, technological and legal bases IRRS mission: conclusions of the follow-up mission, Montrouge, 1st to 9th October 2017.

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