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site facilities; Areva NC has submitted a draft of general
operating rules in this area to ASN.
1.5 Radiation protection of the public
and the environment
Contaminated sites and soils
In March 2013 work was undertaken jointly by Andra
as part of its public service remit (see chapter 16) and
the EPF (Public Land-management Corporation) of
Normandie to complete the decontamination and to
rehabilitate the industrial site of
Etablissements Bayard,
situated in Saint-Nicolas d’Aliermont in the Seine-Maritime
département
.
Etablissements Bayard
was specialised in
the production of pendulum clocks and alarm clocks
between 1867 and 1989. From1949 until the workshops
closed in 1989, the site produced and used luminescent
paint based first on radium-226, then on tritium. The
traces of contamination that remained after the initial
decontamination work carried out in the 1990’s do not
represent a risk for public health or the environment.
In2015, ASNcontinued to assist Dreal (Regional directorate
of the environment, planning and housing) of Haute-
Normandie with operations tracking. ASN considers that
the workwent satisfactorily, particular with regard to the
characterisation, sorting and interim storage of the waste
on the site. Demonstration of compliance with the clean-
out thresholds and the putting in place of institutional
controls are prerequisites before handing over the land
for rehabilitation as an open-air public space with car-
parking areas.
2. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
2.1 International action
Given that EPR reactors are being built on the sites of
Olkiluoto in Finland and Flamanville in France, the ASN
Caen division is participating in the close cooperation
between ASN and STUK
(Säteilyturvakeskus),
the Finnish
nuclear regulator. The ASN inspectors received their
Finnish counterparts inMarch2015 todiscuss construction
work progress and experience feedback. A joint tripwas
made to the Flamanville worksite.
The Caen division also attended ameeting in China with
the NNSA (National Nuclear Safety Administration), the
Chinese nuclear safety authority, devoted in particular to
cooperation on fuel cycle facilities and the construction
of reactors, as two EPR reactors are currently under
construction on the Taishan site in China. The Caen
division also received a delegation of inspectors from the
PAA
(Panstwowa Agencja Atomistyki),
the PolishNational
Atomic Energy Agency, for aweek of technical discussions
devoted to the oversight of nuclear power reactors, both
in operation and during construction.
2.2 Informing the public
Press conferences
In 2015, ASNheld three press conferences on the situation
of nuclear safety and radiation protection, inCaen, Rouen
and Rennes – the latter was organised jointly with the
Nantes division.
Work with the Local Information
Committees (CLIs)
ASN participated in the various general meetings of the
CLIs of Normandie and Bretagne, which were partly
renewed at the term of the electoral deadlines of 2015.
ASN was pleased to note that in September 2015,
representatives of associations which had decided in
2014 to no longer sit on the CLIs of La Hague, Flamanville
and the Manche repository, returned to these CLIs.
During the general meetings of the CLIs, ASNpresented,
among other things, is assessment of the state of safety of
the nuclear facilities concerned, the completed regulatory
framework applicable to thewaste recovery and packaging
operations on the La Hague site, and the process for taking
into account of the anomaly affecting the domes of the
Flamanville 3 EPR reactor vessel. ASN also presented
the files on which the CLIs had been asked to give their
opinions, and provided some answers to the questions
raised by the CLIs.
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REGIONAL OVERVIEW OF NUCLEAR SAFETY AND RADIATION PROTECTION
ASN report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2015