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With regard to civil security aspects:
• on the occasionof the exercises, develop the ties between
the authorities of the Prefect and the local authorities;
• promote greater anticipationof civil protectionmeasures
to ensure protection of the population;
• implement andcoordinate thematicworkshops separated
from the technical scenario.
ASN is also heavily involved in the preparation and
performance of other emergency exercises that have a
nuclear safety component and are organised by other
players such as:
• its counterparts for nuclear security (HFDS – Defence
and Security High Official reporting to the Minister for
theEnvironment) or for defence-related facilities (ASND);
• internationalbodies(IAEA,EuropeanCommission,NEA);
• the Ministries (Health, Interior, etc.).
With regard to defence-related facilities, two exercises
run by the ASND were organised during the course of
2015, in accordance with the Interministerial Circular
on nuclear and radiological emergency exercises. One of
them was carried out jointly with ASN, as it concerned
several installations, both civil and defence-related, on
the same site.
Pursuant to the ASN/ASND protocol of 26th October
2009, ASN takes part in some of these exercises:
• at the ASND national emergency centre: an ASN
representative goes to the ASND’s emergency centre to
act as the interface betweenASNand theASND, to advise
theASNDonaspects relating to the environmental impact
of releases, and toprepare for post-accidentmanagement
of the emergency by ASN;
• at the office of the Prefect: a representative of the ASN
division concerned goes to the office of the Prefect to
advise the Prefect pending the arrival of the ASND’s
representative.
The ASN personnel draw on the experience acquired
during these numerous exercises in order to respond
more effectively in real-life emergency situations. Thus,
during the real situations in 2015 concerning the NPPs
of Flamanville and Cattenom, the organisation set up
among all the stakeholders, who had become used to
cooperating with each other during the exercises, was
found to be efficient and effective.
3.2 Assessing with a view
to improvement
Evaluation meetings are organised immediately after
each exercise in each emergency centre and at ASN a
few weeks after the exercise. ASN, along with the other
players, endeavours to identify best practices and the
areas for improvement brought to light during these
exercises. Feedbackmeetings are also organised in order
to learn the lessons fromany real-life situations that have
occurred. On a six-monthly basis, ASN also brings all
the players together to review best practices to improve
the response organisation as a whole. These meetings
enable the players to share their experience through a
participative approach. Theymore specifically revealed
the importance of having scenarios that were as realistic
as possible, in real meteorological conditions and that
were technically complex enough to be able to provide
useful experience feedback.
Of the objectives identified, some will be mentioned
in the 2016 interministerial instruction on exercises:
• test the regional implementation of the national plan for
response to amajor nuclear or radiological accident, in
particular in all the départementswhich do not contain
a nuclear facility (half-day “transport” exercises);
NUCLEAR SITE DATE OF EXERCISE MAIN CHARACTERISTICS
Gravelines NPP 10th February
Health aspect, post-accident aspect
Involvement of Seveso industrial firms
Inter- départementand inter-region aspect (exchanges with Belgium, etc.)
Chinon NPP 28th May Alert aspect
Protection of populations aspect
Cadarache site 23rd June
Events simultaneously affecting several BNIs and SBNIs on the same site
Deployment of means from another CEA site
Definition of an environment measurements strategy and output of results
Civaux NPP 22th September
Tests to check understanding of instructions by the public
Activation of the general public information unit
Communication aspect
Transport of radioactive substances
(Doubs département) 1st October Organisation of radiological emergency management in a départementwithout a nuclear facility
Communication aspect
Penly NPP 13th October Activation of the PPI reflex phase
Inter-communes dimension
TABLE 2: National civil nuclear and radiological emergency exercises conducted in 2015
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ASN report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2015