Main licences issued in 2005

Nuclear maintenance shop (SOMANU, Maubeuge – Nord)
16 February 2005
Modification of the liquid radioactive effluent discharge licence for the nuclear maintenance shop
Nuclear site
(Tricastin – Drôme)
16 August 2005
Order authorising EURODIF Production to continue with water intake and discharge of liquid and gaseous effluent for operation of a uranium isotope separating plant using gaseous diffusion on the Tricastin site
Nuclear site
(Tricastin – Drôme)
16 August 2005
Order authorising SOCATRI to carry-out water intake and make liquid and gaseous effluent discharges for operation of a purification and uranium recovery installation on the Tricastin site
Nuclear site
(Tricastin – Drôme)
17 August 2005
Order authorising COMURHEX to continue with liquid and gaseous effluent discharges for operation of a uranium hexafluoride preparation plant on the Tricastin site
Nuclear site
(Chinon – Indre-et-Loire)
17 August 2005
Modification of the order authorising water intake and liquid and gaseous effluent discharge on the Chinon nuclear site
  2.2 General technical regulations

The general technical regulations comprise all texts of a general nature establishing the technical rules applicable to nuclear safety, whether regulatory (orders) or related (circulars, basic safety rules, guides). However, texts defining the administrative and procedural rules applicable to BNIs and individual letters to the operators are not considered to be a part of the general technical regulations.

In 2005, the ASN began to look at ways of clarifying the structure of the general technical regulations as applicable to BNI safety. With a view to harmonising and simplifying access by professionals and the public to the stipulations and recommendations issued concerning nuclear safety, the ASN proposed that the general technical regulations henceforth comprise only two categories of texts:
– ministerial or interministerial orders, containing legally binding requirements specifying long-term safety objectives;
– guides, containing non-legally binding provisions on how to apply a regulatory text by stipulating recommended resources or procedures considered to be acceptable for achieving the safety objectives.

On this basis, the current body of general technical regulations will need to evolve and the ASN aims to broaden the scope of application.

All the texts making up the general technical regulations for the safety of basic nuclear installations are available in the Texts part of the ASN's website (asn.gouv.fr).
2.2.1 Ministerial and interministerial orders
These orders, based on article 10 bis of the above-mentioned decree of 11 December 1963, currently deal with four important subjects: pressure vessels, quality organisation, BNI water intake and effluent discharges, off-site detrimental effects and hazards resulting from BNI operation.
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