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4. OUTLOOK
A wide variety of research and other facilities are
monitored by ASN. ASN will continue to oversee the
safety and radiation protection of these installations as
a whole and compare practices per type of installation
in order to choose the best ones and thus encourage
operating experience feedback. ASNwill also continue
to develop a proportionate approach when considering
the risks and drawbacks of the facilities, as classified
by the resolution of 29th September 2015.
Concerning CEA
ASN considers that the “major commitments” approach,
implemented by CEA since 2006, is on the whole
satisfactory. It will be attentive to the implementation
of the new “major commitments” made in 2015.
Generally speaking, ASNwill remain vigilant to ensuring
compliance with the commitments made by CEA, both for
its facilities in service and those being decommissioned.
Should it prove necessary, ASNwill issue prescriptions for
removal from storage, as was the case on the EOLE and
Minerve facilities. Similarly, ASNwill remain vigilant to
ensuring that CEA performs exhaustive periodic safety
reviews of its facilities so that examination can be carried
out in satisfactory conditions and so that the safety of
the facilities benefits from the necessary improvements.
As necessary, it will request additional information for
those CEA files it considers to be unacceptable, as was
the case for Masurca in 2015.
ASN will be particularly attentive to compliance with
the deadlines for transmission of the decommissioning
authorisation application files for CEA’s old facilities which
have been or will shortly be shut down (more specifically
Phébus, Osiris, MCMF, Pégase). The Rapsodie reactor,
the situation of which is described in chapter 15, is also
concerned as are the following waste processing facilities
(chapter 16): the storage BNI (BNI 56) in Cadarache,
the effluent treatment station (BNI 37) in Cadarache,
the solid radioactive waste management zone (BNI 72)
in Saclay. The drafting of all these decommissioning
files and then performance of these decommissioning
operations represent a major challenge for CEA, for
which it must make preparations as early as possible.
Finally, ASN will oversee the operations to prepare for
the decommissioning of the Osiris reactor, which was
shut down in 2015.
In 2016, ASN intends to:
•
continue with surveillance of the operations on the RJH
reactor construction site and prepare for examination
of the future commissioning authorisation application
by means of advance examinations;
•
begin the examination of the significant modification
authorisation application for Masurca and examine
the safety review file completed by CEA;
•
complete its examination of the periodic safety
review files for the LECI, Poséidon, LEFCA and LECA
facilities and decide on the conditions for their possible
continued operation.
Concerning the other licensees
ASN will continue to pay particularly close attention
to ongoing projects, that is ITER and commissioning
of the Ganil extension.
ASNwill continue to examine the periodic safety review
files for Ionisos.
ASN will finalise the examination of complete
commissioning of the “hardened safety core” on the
RHF operated by the ILL, several years ahead of the
other licensees.
Finally, in 2016, ASNwill maintain its close surveillance
of the radio-pharmaceuticals production plant operated
by CIS bio international, with regard to the following
points:
•
increased operational rigour and safety culture;
•
performance of the prescribed work, completed in
2015, for continued operation of the plant following
its last periodic safety review;
•
post-operational clean-out operations on the very
high-level activity units of the facility that have been
shut down.
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ASN report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2015