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TheMDEP’s2014-2015activityreportwaspublishedinJune
2015, providing information about theMDEP’swork to the
stakeholders, i.e. the regulatory authorities not participating
in theMDEP, the nuclear sector industry and the general
public. This report can be found at the following address:
report-2014.pdf.
TheMDEPmade sure tomaintain its interactionwith the
nuclear industry by organising specific meetings with
the designers and the CORDEL group – Cooperation in
Reactor Design Evaluation and Licensing – of theWorld
Nuclear Association (WNA).
3.4 International Nuclear
Regulators’ Association (INRA)
The International Nuclear Regulators’ Association (INRA)
comprises the regulatory bodies fromGermany, Canada,
South Korea, Spain, the United States, France, Japan, the
UnitedKingdomand Sweden. This association is a forum
for regular and informal discussions concerning nuclear
safety issues (each member presents its latest national
news and its positions on international issues). It meets
twice a year in the country holding the presidency, with
each country acting as president for one year in turn
(France in 2015 and Spain in 2016).
In 2015, the association’s workwas marked in particular
by a number of subjects:
• the use of international instruments (in particular the
IRRS and OSART audits) made available by IAEA;
• cooperation between theWorld Association of Nuclear
Operators (WANO) and IAEA;
• the manufacturing anomaly on the Flamanville EPR
reactor vessel.
3.5 The Association of nuclear
regulators of countries operating
French designed nuclear power plants
(FRAREG)
The FRAREG (Framatome Regulators) association was
created in May 2000 at the inaugural meeting held in
Cape Town at the invitation of the South African nuclear
regulator. It comprises the nuclear safety regulators of
South Africa, Belgium, China, South Korea and France.
Its goal is to facilitate the exchange of operating experience
feedback from regulation of the reactors designed or
built by the same supplier and to enable the nuclear
regulators to compare the methods they use to handle
generic problems and evaluate the level of safety of the
Framatome type reactors they regulate.
Visit by the CSN (Spanish nuclear safety regulatory) to the EPR construction site in Flamanville, 4th March 2015.
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ASN report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2015