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510 APPENDIX A: LIST OF BASIC NUCLEAR INSTALLATIONS AS AT 31ST DECEMBER 2015
ASN report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2015
ABasicNuclear Installation (BNI) is onewhich, by its very
nature or owing to the quantity or activity of the radioactive
substances it contains, is subject to specific regulatory
arrangements as definedby the TSNAct of 13th June 2006
(codified in Books I and V of the Environment Code by
Order 2012-6 of 5th January 2012). These installations
must be authorised by decree issued following a public
inquiry and anASNopinion. Their design, construction,
operation and decommissioning are all regulated.
The following are BNIs:
1. Nuclear reactors;
2. Large installations for the preparation, enrichment,
fabrication, treatment or storage of nuclear fuels or the
treatment, storage or disposal of radioactive waste;
3. Large installations containing radioactive or fissile
substances;
4. Large particle accelerators;
5. The deep geological repositories for radioactive waste.
With the exception of nuclear reactors and the possible
future deep geological repositories for radioactive waste,
which are all BNIs, Decree 2007-830 of 11th May 2007
relative to the nomenclature of basic nuclear installations
sets the threshold for entry into the BNI system for each
category.
For technical or legal reasons, the concept of a basic nuclear
installation can cover a number of different physical
situations: for example in a nuclear power plant, each
reactor may be considered as a separate BNI, or a given
BNI might in fact consist of two reactors. Similarly, a fuel
cycle plant or a CEA centre can comprise several BNIs.
These different configurations do not alter the regulatory
conditions in any way.
The following are subject to the BNI system:
• facilities under construction, provided that they are the
subject of a creation authorisation decree;
• facilities in operation;
• facilities shut down or undergoing decommissioning,
until they are delicensed by ASN.
As at 31st December 2015, there were 125 BNIs (legal
entities).
The declared BNIs are those which existed prior to
publicationof Decree n° 63-1228 of 11thDecember 1963
concerning nuclear installations and forwhich saiddecree
did not require authorisation but simply notification to
the Minister in charge of Atomic Energy.
The notified BNIs are those which existed prior to the
publication of Decree 63-1228 of 11th December 1963
concerning nuclear facilities and for which neither said
decree nor theTSNAct of 13th June required authorisation
but simply notification on the basis of the acquired rights
(see Articles 33 and 62 of the TSNAct, codified inArticles
L. 593-35 and L. 593-36 of the Environment Code).
The missing BNI numbers correspond to facilities that
figured in previous issues of the list, but which no longer
constitute BNIs further to their delicensing (see chapter 15)
or their licensing as new basic nuclear installations.
T o regulate all civil nuclear activities and installations in France, ASN has set up a regional
organization comprising 11 regional divisions based inBordeaux, Caen, Châlons-en-Champagne,
Dijon, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Orléans, Paris and Strasbourg.
TheParisdivisionalsocoverstheFrenchoverseas départementsandcollectivities.TheCaenandOrléans
divisions are responsible for BNI regulation in the Brittany and Ile-de-France regions respectively.
Appendix A
List of Basic Nuclear Installations
as at 31st December 2015