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PARIS DIVISION
THE STATE OF NUCLEAR SAFETY AND RADIATION PROTECTION IN 2015
IN THE ILE-DE-FRANCE REGION AND FRENCH OVERSEAS
DÉPARTEMENTS
AND COLLECTIVITIES REGULATED BY
THE PARIS DIVISION
The Paris division regulates radiation protection and the transport
of radioactive substances in the 8
départements
of the Ile-de-France
region and the 5 overseas
(Outre-Mer)
départements
(Guadeloupe,
Martinique, Guyane, La Réunion, Mayotte).
It also fulfils duties as expert to the competent authorities of
French Polynesia and New Caledonia
(Nouvelle-Calédonie)
.
As at 31 December 2015, the workforce of the Paris division
stood at 22 officers: 1 regional division head, 2 deputies,
16 radiation protection inspectors and 3 administrative officers,
under the authority of an ASN regional representative.
The small-scale nuclear facilities to be regulated
in the Ile-de-France region and in the overseas
départements
represent about 20% of the French
total. The two particularities are the diversity and the
number of facilities to be regulated. It comprises:
•
31external-beam radiotherapy departments
(nearly 90 accelerators);
•
16 brachytherapy departments;
•
67 nuclear medicine departments;
•
more than 250 interventional imaging departments;
•
more than 250 computed tomography devices;
•
about 900 medical diagnostic radiology centres;
•
about 8,000 dental diagnostic radiology devices;
•
about 700 users of veterinary
diagnostic radiology devices;
•
12 industrial radiography companies
using gamma radiography devices;
•
about 200 authorisations relative to research activities;
•
14 approved organisations.
The BNIs in Ile-de-France are regulated
by the Orléans division of ASN.
I
n 2015,
ASN’s Paris division carried out 203 inspections in small-scale nuclear activities and
5 inspections in the transport of radioactive substances. Among these inspections, 182 were
carried out in Ile-de-France and 26 in the overseas
départements
and regions.
The Paris division was notified of 150 significant events, of which 7 occurring in the transport
of radioactive substances and 143 were significant Radiation Protection Events (ESR) in small-
scale nuclear activities.
Among the events notified in small-scale nuclear activities, 4 were rated level 1 on the INES
scale. Added to this are 46 events concerning radiotherapy patients, among which 34 were
rated level 1 on the ASN-SFRO scale and 4 were rated level 2. Two transport events were rated
level 1 on the INES scale
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ASN report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2015