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1.2 Radiation protection
in the industrial and research sectors
Industrial radiography
ASN continued its oversight of industrial radiography
activities, and users of gamma radiography in particular, in
Ile-de-France and the overseas
départements
, performing
18 inspections in 2015.
The inspections and the license renewals were specifically
monitored with regard to the regularisation of the old
pool of exposure bunkers, particularly as concerns
their conformity with the applicable standards. Seven
unannounced inspections were carried out in worksite
conditions.
Three significant radiation protection events were
notified to ASN.
Universities and laboratories or research centres
ASN carried out 21 inspections of research facilities in
2015. The most frequent deviations concerned the waste
storage facilities, themanagement of this waste, the lack of
prevention plans for situations where outside contractors
have to work in controlled areas, and poor knowledge
of the methods of managing radiation protection events.
In the major research institutions, joint inspections
of all the authorised departments on a given site were
favoured. This type of inspection allowed cessations of
activity to be regularised, among other things.
Six Significant Radiation protection Events (ESR) were
notified in this area in 2015, according to different
criteria: loss/discovery of sources, loss of source integrity,
dispersion of radionuclides, or unauthorised discharge
of radioactivity into the environment.
Inspection of Installations Classified on
Environmental Protection grounds (ICPE) under
the Public Health Code
Further to the modification of the ICPE nomenclature
introduced by Decree 2014-996 of 2nd September 2014,
about one hundred ICPEs in Ile-de-France and overseas,
formerly notified or licensed under section 1715, are
likely to switch to a licensing system on account of the
Public Health Code for holding and using sealed and
unsealed radioactive sources.
ASNhas started to list and inspect these installations with
the aimof assessing the situation of radiation protection
implementation and to assist the licensees in this change
of regulations. Six inspections were carried out in Ile-
de-France and two in La Réunion, which enabled ASN
to observe that the level of integration of radiation
protection was generally satisfactory on the majority of
the inspected sites.
1.3 Nuclear safety and
radiation protection in the transport
of radioactive substances
Twenty-five inspections were carried out on the transport
of radioactive substances in small-scale nuclear activities.
The inspections relative to the transport of
radiopharmaceutical products reveal that the regulatory
obligations concerning the training of the personnel
performing the transport operations, the receiving
inspections and the shipping of the packages are still
insufficiently well known in the nuclear medicine centres.
In 2015, ASN continued the partnership initiated in
2014 with the Department of Public Order and Traffic
of the Prefecture of Police of Paris and the Transport
Safety Service of the Regional and Interdepartmental
Directorate of Infrastructure and Regional Planning in
order to carry out unannounced roadside inspections.
The inspections took place in the municipality of
Saint-Cloud.
Seven significant events in radioactive substance transport
were notified to ASN. Two of these events were rated
level 1 on the INES scale.
1.4 Radiation protection
of the public and the environment
Contaminated sites and soils
In 2015, as part of its public information and radiation
protection oversight duties with regard to themanagement
of contaminated sites and soils, ASN oversight of sites
contaminated by radioactive substances, such as the site
of the company 2M Process in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés,
the Curie Institute (Paris 5th district), the CEA Fontenay-
aux-Roses site, the CEA Saclay site, the Coudraies and
Clos-Rose quarters inGif-sur-Yvette, and the former CEA
site of Fort de Vaujours.
The former CEA site of Fort de Vaujours, on which
experiments involving natural and depleted uranium
were carried out, was purchased by the
Placoplâtre
company with the aim of operating an open pit gypsum
quarry. On 20th March 2015, ASN issued an opinion
on the radiological monitoring protocol for the Fort de
Vaujours buildings demolition operations. This opinion
was presented at the meeting of the Fort de Vaujours
Site Monitoring Committee (CSS) on 5th May 2015. In
addition, at the request of the Prefects of Seine-et-Marne
and Seine-Saint-Denis, ASN inspectors accompanied
by officers from the Regional Health Agency (ARS) and
labour inspection went to the Fort de Vaujours site
to verify compliance with the radiological monitoring
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ASN report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2015