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prepare the offices of the Prefects for implementing
public protection measures or post-accident actions,
by following up slow-development accident exercises
with a phase focusing on civil security;
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test the capacity of the entities involved to provide
the interministerial level with information linked to
the national plan for response to a major nuclear or
radiological accident, on the occasion of the Secnuc
(Nuclear Security) major exercise;
•
involve the Prefects of the defence and security zones
in certain exercises.
The exercises, as well as the real situations that occurred,
demonstrated the importance of communication in an
emergency situation, in particular to inform the public
and the foreign regulators sufficiently early and avoid
the spread of rumours that could lead to panic among
the population, whether in France or abroad.
Finally, for several years, IRSN has been using a system
giving a geographical representation of the environmental
radioactivitymeasurements during exercises and actual
situations. This tool, called CRITER, gives a rapid
display summarising all the environmental radiological
measurements taken, providing decision-makers with a
clear view of any radiological impacts. Work is currently
under way to improve the cartographic representations
and to facilitate the decision-making process.
4. OUTLOOK
Inaccordancewith the important nuclear emergencyduties
entrusted to it by the Environment Code, ASN makes
an active contribution to the review process currently
being carried out by the public authorities following the
Fukushima Daiichi accident, with the aim of improving
the national radiological emergency organisation.
ASN thus participates in thework to implement themajor
nuclear or radiological accident national response plan
and in particular calls on the assistance of the Ministry
of the Interior and the offices of the Prefects following
the publication of the regional implementation guide.
This regional implementation will be tested in 2016 and
2017, more particularly in the
départements
in which
there are no BNIs, during half-day exercises based on
a radioactive substances transport accident scenario. In
2016, ASNwill also take part in amajor exercise involving
the Government level.
Exchanges with the Ministry for the Environment,
Energy and the Sea will continue in 2016 to set up the
legal framework enabling an on-call duty system to be
created at ASN.
The nuclear safety regulators confirmed the need
for continued work internationally to improve the
coordination of the respective approaches of each
country in an emergency situation. In 2016, ASN will
thus continue with the European initiatives taken with
a view to transboundary harmonisation of actions to
protect populations in an emergency situation and to
develop a coordinated response by the safety and radiation
protection authorities in the event of a near or remote
accident, more specifically as part of the follow-up to the
HERCA/WENRA approach. In 2016, ASNwill take part
in organising a seminar on this approach, involving the
European Authorities responsible for civil protection.
The Fukushima Daiichi accident also showed that it is
important for the emergency exercises to be able to test
the organisation specified in the emergency plans, notably
the interfacing between the ORSEC and PPI systems,
to ensure that the skills of the stakeholders required in
an emergency remain current and showed that it was
necessary to improve transboundary coordination. ASN
will ensure that these exercises also have an educational
and informative dimension by extensively involving the
populations in their preparation and by implementing
the post-accident aspect, bymeans of specific workshops,
along with international relations aspects.
In 2016, in order to prepare the offices of the Prefects for
the performance of public protectionmeasures or post-
accident actions, certain exercises will be followed up by
a phase focusing on civil security objectives.
Finally, in 2016, ASN will continue its work to draft a
resolution concerning the obligations of the BNI licensees
with respect to preparedness for and management of
emergency situations and the content of the on-site
emergency plan, in order to clarify the provisions of
Title VII of the Order of 7th February 2012 setting the
general rules applicable to Basic Nuclear Installations.
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ASN report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2015