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1.1.2 Management of nuclear safety
and radiation protection at CEA
ASN monitors management of safety at CEA at several
levels:
•
together with the Chairman, ASN checks CEA’s “major
commitments” concerning the upgrading of old facilities,
the final shutdown and decommissioning of facilities
which cannot be upgraded and the management of
waste, in particular with regard to compliance with the
scheduled deadlines and consideration of the safety
and radiation protection issues;
•
with respect to the general and nuclear Inspectorate,
ASN asks CEA to increase exchanges and transparency
with regard to the authority, so that it can better evaluate
the internal monitoring measures;
•
concerning the Protection and Nuclear Safety Division
(DPSN), ASN examines how CEA’s nuclear safety and
radiation protection policy is drafted and to what
extent it is developing an overall approach to generic
subjects;
•
with regard to the centres, ASN reviews the files
specific to each BNI, paying particular attention to
their consistency with CEA’s policy; in this respect, it
in particular reviews the conditions in which safety
management measures are carried out.
In 2009, CEA also submitted a report on themanagement
of nuclear safety and radiationprotection, supplemented in
2010, whichwas the subject of anASN review, followed by
additional requests in 2011. This reviewmore particularly
focused on the organisation of decision-making and
internal oversight, the integration of safety issues into
project management, the consideration given to social,
organisational and human factors, skills management,
subcontracting, operating experience feedback and
safety in routine operations. The progress made in CEA’s
commitments and its answers to ASN’s requests are the
subject of three-yearly reports. In 2015, ASN asked CEA
to supplement these reports and specified the framework
for the forthcoming review on this subject planned for
2020 or 2021. In addition, ASN intends to inspect two
centres in 2016 to verify the effective implementation
of the CEA measures it has approved.
1.1.3 Monitoring of CEA’s “major commitments”
with its main nuclear safety and radiation protection
commitments
In 2006, ASN stated that it wanted to see rigorous
monitoring of the CEA safety issues with the highest
potential consequences, bymeans of a high-level oversight
tool, in particular for the decision-making process. In
2007, CEA therefore presented ASNwith a list of “major
commitments”.
Despite the delays inmeeting certain commitments, the
results of this arrangement are on the whole positive. It
allows targeted tracking of priority actions, which have
a clearly set deadline. Any extension must therefore be
duly justified and discussed with ASN. In 2015, the
commitments relating to the use of the new Tirade
packaging were met and the issue was closed out..
In 2015, at ASN’s request, CEA defined nine new “major
commitments” staggered between 2016 and 2022.
To date, 22 of the 35 “major commitments” defined since
2007 have been met.
TABLE 1:
New CEA “major commitments”
SITE
BNI
ACTION
DEADLINE
Cadarache
42-95
Remove radioactive materials from ÉOLE-Minerve
to achieve a 95% reduction in the radiological impact
1st half 2016
55
Deploy the resources linked to the STAR STEP project
1st half 2016
37
Transmit the file defining structural reinforcements
of the renovated STD
2nd half 2017
35
Removal all radioactive materials from the MCMF,
subject to consolidation of the inventory
2nd half 2017
56
Complete recovery of waste from trench T2, excluding earth
2nd half 2017
Marcoule
72
Transmit the NOAH commissioning file
for decommissioning of Phenix
2nd half 2021
Transmit the Diadem commissioning file
1st half 2019
Saclay
35
Recovery of effluents from tank MA500
2nd half 2018
Fontenay-aux-Roses
165-166
Decommissioning of the facilities
To be defined in connection with the BNI
decommissioning decrees modification application files
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ASN report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2015