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1.2 Some aspects of the safety approach
1.2.1 Safety culture
1.2.2 The “Defence in Depth” concept
1.2.3 Positioning of barriers
1.2.4 Deterministic and probabilistic approaches
1.2.5 Operating experience feedback
1.2.6 Social, organisational and human factors
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THE STAKEHOLDERS
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2.1 Parliament
2.2 The Government
2.2.1 Ministers responsible for Nuclear Safety
and Radiation Protection
2.2.2 The Prefects
2.3 ASN
2.3.1 Role and duties
2.3.2 Organisation
2.3.3 Operation
2.4 The consultative and discussion bodies
2.4.1 The High Committee for Transparency and Information
on Nuclear Security
2.4.2 The High Council for Public Health
2.4.3 The High Council for Prevention of Technological Risks
2.4.4 The Central Committee for Pressure Equipment
2.4.5 Local Information Committees for the Basic Nuclear
Installations
2.5 Technical support organisations
2.5.1 IRSN
2.5.2 Advisory Committees of Experts
2.5.3 The ASN’s other technical support organisations
2.6 The pluralistic working groups
2.6.1 The pluralistic working group on the National Radioactive
Materials and Waste Management Plan
2.6.2 The Steering Committee for Managing the Nuclear
Post-Accident Phase
2.6.3 The Steering Committee for Social, Organisational
and Human Factors
2.6.4 The other pluralistic groups
2.7 Other stakeholders
2.7.1 The National Agency for the Safety of Medication
and Health Products
2.7.2 French National Authority for Health
2.7.3 French National Cancer Institute
2.7.4 The French Health Monitoring Institute
3.
FINANCING THE REGULATION
OF NUCLEAR SAFETY AND RADIATION
PROTECTION
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4.
OUTLOOK
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1.
THE PRINCIPLES OF NUCLEAR SAFETY
AND RADIATION PROTECTION
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1.1 Fundamental principles
1.1.1 Principle of licensee responsibility
1.1.2 “Polluter-pays” principle
1.1.3 Precautionary principle
1.1.4 Public participation principle
1.1.5 The principle of justification
1.1.6 The principle of optimisation
1.1.7 The principle of limitation
1.1.8 The principle of prevention