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In 2015, ASN had contacts with the following safety
regulators:
Poland
A bilateral meetingwas held in Paris between ASN and its
Polish counterpart, the PAA
(PanstwowaAgencjaAtomistyki
or National Atomic Energy Agency) in July 2014. On
the occasion of this meeting, various safety topics were
discussed: the steps in the power reactor operations
licensing process, cooperation policy with the safety
regulator technical support organisations, the policy of
public communication and transparency.
One of themain concrete decisions of this first ASN-PAA
bilateral meeting was the proposed training of PAA staff
by ASN teams, in particular concerning the process to
issue operating licenses for power reactors as mentioned
above. Four trainees thus spent a month at ASN in June
2015, firstly at the headquarters inMontrouge and then
in the Caen, Dijon and Marseille divisions.
Tomaintain themomentumof these exchanges between
France and Poland, a seminar – once again on the process
for the issue of operating licenses for power reactors –
was organised in December 2015 in Warsaw. ASN and
IRSN gave presentations, as did the PAA.
Turkey
Pierre-Franck Chevet met his counterpart during the
IAEA General Conference on 15th September 2015, in
order to continue with the exchanges between the two
authorities and establish a cooperation programme for
2016.
Vietnam
In 2015, ASN ran an assistance programme in Vietnam
through the Instrument for Nuclear Safety Cooperation
(INSC), in order to develop its safety, safety culture and
monitoring capacity. This assistance project, which started
in 2012, was scheduled to last for three years and ended
in May 2015.
ASN is also involved in assistance to Vietnam via the
RCF, the forum for exchanges between safety regulators,
created under the aegis of IAEA. In this context, ameeting
was held on 20th and 21st May 2015 in Brussels, with
a view to facilitating the sharing of experience between
regulators and rationalising the assistance given to those
countries looking to develop nuclear energy.
RCF-INSC meeting at the European Commission, Brussels,19th-20th May 2015.
Left to right Jean-Luc Lachaume, ASN Deputy Director General, Adriana Nicic, head of Regulatory activities section, IAEA.
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ASN report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2015