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• the required level, particularly with regard to the
reference accidents that the package must withstand,
depends on the degree of risk presented by the package.
The statistical data presented in this chapter come froma
study conductedbyASNin2012. It is basedon information
collected in 2011 from all the consignors of radioactive
substances (BNIs, laboratories, hospitals, source suppliers
and users, etc.), as well as on reports from the transport
safety advisers. Asummary is available on theASNwebsite1.
1.
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TRANSPORT operations relating to the fuel cycle in France
TABLE 1: Breakdown per mode of transport
APPROXIMATE NUMBER OF PACKAGES
AND SHIPMENTS ROAD ROAD AND AIR ROAD AND RAIL ROAD AND SEA ROAD, SEAAND RAIL
ROAD, SEA
AND AIR
Packages approved
by ASN
Number of packages 17,875 1,315 455 1,916 0 0
Number of shipments 12,356 1,249 382 385 0 0
Packages not requiring
approval by ASN
Number of packages 866,052 46,942 2,894 6,803 34,364 5,316
Number of shipments 735,492 21,008 533 905 81 5,316
Reprocessing
Surface repository
Sea
Fabrication
Enrichment
Transformation
Road
Rail
Le Havre
CSA : Aube Disposal Centre
Romans-sur-Isère
Pierrelatte
Marcoule
Sète
Malvési
NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
Natural uranium
concentrate
Natural uranium
concentrate
Waste
Waste
PuO2
Natural uranium
concentrate
UF4
UF6
UO2
MOX
Spent fuel
Uranyl
nitrate
Natural uranium
concentrate
La Hague
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ASN report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2015