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1.1.3 Relations with the French National Education
Authority
In 2015, ASN continued to strengthen its interchanges
with the school environment with the aimof developing
the nuclear risk culture with teachers and pupils. Several
operations were deployed at both local and national level.
ASN renewed its support of the “Radiation protection
workshops”organised by theNuclear ProtectionEvaluation
Centre (CEPN) and the Franche-Comté département’s
“Pavillon des sciences” science centrewhich brings together
French andEuropean high schools towork on educational
projects relating to radiation protection. ASN’s Dijon
and Lille divisions accompanied two schools in their
project work on radiation protection in the hospital
environment. The Marseille division took part in the
international radiationprotectionmeetings inCadarache in
March 2015 on the theme “Decommissioning and radiation
protection issues”.
ASN also renewed its partnership with the French
Institute for Major Risks and Environmental Protection
Instructors (IFFO-RME), a network of risk specialists
with experience of working in the school environment.
Together they prepared actions relative to the next nuclear
risk awareness-raising and iodine tablet distribution
campaign which will take place in 2016.
1.1.4 The website -
The principal vector for informing the public is the
ASN website at which gives the various
audiences access to information. Links to oversight
documents (incident opinions, inspection follow-up
letters, position statement letters, reactor shutdown
notices) are available from the site homepage, alongside
the ASN opinions and resolutions, information notices
and publications, educational content (films, dossiers,
etc.), as well as public consultations on draft resolutions,
etc. The site has dedicated sections for the professionals
(see point 1.2).
Most of the content published on is
accompanied by computer graphics and videos,
accessible from the home page. In 2015 ASN inaugurated
a series of educational videos entitled “Let’s talk about
nuclear safety and radiation protection” designed to convey
information to a wide audience in simple terms using a
question-and-answer approach. Videos were produced
on five subjects in 2015, namely radon, the operating
life of the NPPs, emergency situation management,
decommissioning of nuclear installations and iodine
tablets.
A film explaining the implications of the ASN resolution
on legacy Waste Retrieval and Packaging (RCD) on
the La Hague site was broadcast in early 2015 on
and on the social networks.
In 2015, ASN supported the public meeting of
the Belleville-sur-Loire CLI on the theme of the
nuclear accident
The Belleville-sur-Loire CLI and the municipality of Boulleret
(Cher département) organised a public information and
discussion meeting on 22nd January 2015 on the theme:
“If an accident were to occur in the nuclear power plant”.
The 170 citizens who attended were thus able to ask their
questions to representatives of the State services – the Cher
Prefecture and the Regional Health Agency (ARS) –, of IRSN,
EDF and ASN who took part in the meeting.
The participants were also able to see the exhibition
“Nuclear safety? A key issue!”(see point 1.1.2) presented
in Boulleret on this occasion.
TO BE NOTED
Public meeting on the theme “Accident in the power plant, impacts and implications for the population and the environment”, Thursday 22nd January 2015 In Boulleret (Cher).
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ASN report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2015