ASN Report 2017

223 ASN report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2017 Chapter 08  - Regional overview of nuclear safety and radiation protection CENTRE-VAL DE LOIRE 1.4 Nuclear safety and radiation protection in the transport of radioactive substances ASN performed 4 inspections in BNIs, one inspection of a nuclear medicine centre and one inspection of a road transport carrier in 2017. The inspections focused primarily on the quality management systems, the operational measures applied, compliance with the package approvals (particularly for spent fuel transport operations), and radiological verifications. Transport operations within BNI sites were also inspected. These inspections showed that the regulations applying to road transport are correctly applied. The main areas for improvement concern the management of deviations, radiological verification procedures, the auditing of subcontracted activities, training course tracking, operations traceability in compliance with the quality assurance provisions and the marking of packages. The significant events had no notable impacts. They primarily concerned labelling and placarding anomalies, package classification errors resulting from insufficient radiological verifications, incomplete shipping documents and noncompliance with organisational provisions. 1.5 Monitoring of approved organisations Radiation protection technical controls Two organisations approved for radiation protection controls have their head office in the Centre-Val de Loire region. ASN kept up its oversight action in 2017 by conducting one in-depth inspection of an agency and one unannounced supervisory check. The main findings concerned the conditions of performance of agency audits and the exhaustiveness of the points checked in the technical controls conducted with customers. 2. Additional information 2.1 Informing the public Press conference ASN held a press conference in Orléans on 14th September 2017 to present the situation of nuclear safety and radiation protection in the Centre-Val de Loire region. It included a presentation of the conditions of tightened surveillance of the Belleville-sur-Loire NPP. Work with the Local Information Committees (CLIs) The ASN Orléans division supported the work of the Centre- Val de Loire CLIs by participating in their plenary meetings. It also took part in the public meetings organised in 2017, which addressed more specifically the improvements in safety further to the Fukushima Daiichi accident, the management of radioactive waste and an overview of the emergency exercise carried out at Dampierre-en-Burly in December  2017. 2.2 International action 2017 saw a further meeting between ASN’s Orléans division and the Swedish Safety Authority (SSM, Sträl Säkerhets Myndigheten ) to discuss oversight practices. On this occasion, a team of inspectors from ASN participated in an SSM inspection of the Försmark NPP in Sweden.