On behalf of the State, the ASN regulates nuclear safety and radiation protection, in order to protect workers, patients, the public and the environment from the risks related to nuclear activities. ASN contributes to informing the public.
Our goal is to ensure efficient, impartial, legitimate and credible regulation, recognised by the public and regarded internationally as a benchmark for good practice. The commission The Commission defines ASN general policy regarding nuclear safety and radiation protection. It takes the most important decisions. The commission publishes opinions on the major subjects within ASN's field of competence. The commission opens an inquiry following an incident or accident and reports to the French Parliament. The Commission consists of five commissioners of whom the ASN president. The commissioners perform their duties on a full-time basis. They are appointed for a six-year term. Three of them are designated by the President of the Republic and one by the President of every parliamentary assembly. The commissioners are irrevocable, except exceptional situation, and liable to a duty of impartiality. LEFT-HAND PAGE Commissioners Philippe Chaumet-Riffaud Jean-Jacques Dumont Philippe Jamet Margot Tirmarche ABOVE Chairman Pierre-Franck Chevet 1
Missions Regulating ASN helps draft regulations, by submitting its opinion to the Government on draft decrees and ministerial orders, or issuing regulatory decisions of a technical nature. ASN ensures that the regulations are clear, accessible and proportionate to the safety issues. Authorising ASN reviews the whole individual authorisation files concerning facilities and activities. ASN may deliver all authorisations, except the major authorisations related to basic nuclear installations, such as those dealing with their creation or their decommissionning. Monitoring ASN checks compliance with the rules and specifications to which the facilities or activities within its scope of competence are subject. Inspection represents ASN's main regulatory activity. About 2 000 nuclear safety and radiation protection inspections are thus carried out every year. ASN has appropriate enforcement powers. Informing ASN informs the public and other stakeholders (environmental protection associations, local information committees, media etc.) of its activities and of the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France. Its website www.asn.fr and its Contrôle magazine are ASN preferential ways of information. In emergency situations ASN monitors the steps taken by the licensee to make the facility safe. It informs the public of the situation. ASN assists the Government. It in particular sends the competent Authorities its recommendations concerning the civil security measures to be taken. 2
Regulation of a wide diversity of activities and facilities On behalf of the State, ASN regulates all civilian nuclear activities on French territory: nuclear power plants; radioactive waste management; nuclear fuel transport; consignments of radioactive materials; medical installations; research laboratories, industrial activities etc. Its regulation covers a range of activities and facilities which are among the largest and most diverse anywhere in the world: 58 nuclear reactors in operation producing most of the electricity consumed in France and one EPR-type reactor under construction; all French facilities involved in the fuel cycle, from enrichment to reprocessing; several thousand facilities or activities using sources of ionising radiation for medical, industrial and research purposes (smallscale nuclear activities); several hundred thousand consignments of radioactive materials nationwide, every year. An integrated view of nuclear safety and radiation protection ASN has developped an integrated view of nuclear safety and radiation protection: it considers not only the technical and physical aspects of the areas and activities it regulates, but also the human and organisational factors. This approach means that ASN also carries out extensive regulation to protect human life and the environment against the hazards and detrimental effects linked to ionising radiation, whatever type of facilities is concerned. 3
The organisation CAEN PARIS LILLE CHÂLONS- EN-CHAMPAGNE STRASBOURG GUADELOUPE MARTINIQUE NANTES ORLÉANS DIJON SAINT-PIERRE- ET-MIQUELON ASN comprises head office departments and eleven regional divisions with competence for one or more administrative regions. This organisation enables ASN to carry out its regulation and monitoring duties over the entire country and in the overseas territories of France. In emergency situations, the divisions assist the Prefect of the departement, who is in charge of protection of the populations, and monitor operations to safeguard the installation on the site. BORDEAUX LYON MARSEILLE LA RÉUNION MAYOTTE GUYANE The head office departments are organised thematically and are responsible at a national level for their fields of activity. The ASN regional divisions operate under the authority of the regional representatives, appointed by the ASN Chairman. They are ASN's representatives in the regions and contribute locally to the ASN's public information role. The divisions carry out most of the direct inspections on nuclear facilities, radioactive substances transport operations and small-scale nuclear activities. Commission CHAIRMAN Pierre-Franck Chevet, COMMISSIONERS Philippe Chaumet-Riffaud, Jean-Jacques Dumont, Philippe Jamet, Margot Tirmarche HEAD OF PRIVATE OFFICE Laurent Felber Director-General Office DIRECTOR REPORTING TO THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL Anne-Cécile Rigail MANAGEMENT AND EXPERTISE OFFICE N... ADVISER Henri Legrand DIRECTOR-GENERAL Jean-Christophe Niel DEPUTY DIRECTOR-GENERAL Julien Collet, Alain Delmestre, Jean-Luc Lachaume HEAD OF STAFF Ambroise Pascal OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION Luc Chanial NUCLEAR POWER PLANT WASTE, RESEARCH FACILITIES AND FUEL CYCLE FACILITIES ENVIRONMENT AND EMERGENCY NUCLEAR PRESSURE EQUIPMENT TRANSPORT AND SOURCES IONISING RADIATION AND HEALTH COMMUNICATION AND PUBLIC INFORMATION INTERNATIONAL RELATION Thomas Houdré Fabien Schilz Bénédicte Genthon Rémy Catteau Vivien Tran-Thien Jean-Luc Godet Alain Delmestre Stéphane Pailler BORDEAUX DIVISION Emmanuelle Baudoin Paul Bougon CAEN DIVISION Caroline Guillaume Guillaume Bouyt CHÂLONS-EN-CHAMPAGNE DIVISION J.-C. Villemaud Jean-Michel Ferat DIJON DIVISION Corinne Etaix Alain Rivière LILLE DIVISION N... François Godin LYON DIVISION Françoise Noars Matthieu Mangion MARSEILLE DIVISION Anne-France Didier Laurent Déproit NANTES DIVISION N... Pierre Siefridt ORLÉANS DIVISION Christophe Chassande Pierre Boquel PARIS DIVISION Alain Vallet Delphine Ruel STRASBOURG DIVISION Marc Hoeltzel Sophie Letournel 4 5
The human and financial resources 474 273 82 % staff, including more than 200 in the 11 regional ASN offices, inspectors, professional staff, With various backgrounds and skills: engineers, physicians, pharmacists, lawyers, administrative personnel etc. Over million euros of annual budget, including 40 million for personnel costs, 84 75 million euros annually devoted to technical expertises. Wide-ranging technical expertise In taking its decisions, ASN relies on external technical expertise, in particular that of the Institute for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN). ASN also requests opinions and recommendations from seven Advisory Committees of experts working in a variety of scientific and technical fields. 6
A strong international presence ASN's work on the international stage is important in that it offers an opportunity to share its skills, compare its practices and working methods with its peers and make a contribution to harmonising nuclear safety and radiation protection principles and standards. Permanent exchanges with its counterparts and international organisations are an effective means of advancing nuclear safety and radiation protection, both in France and abroad. Willing to report on its activities ASN informs the public, the medias, the institutional stakeholders and the professionnals of its activities primarily by means of its website www.asn.fr, also available in English at: www.french-nuclear-safety.fr. The annual report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection enables ASN to inform Parliament, in particular, of its activities, its objectives and the state of facilities and activities it regulates. ASN issues a quarterly magazine Contrôle and a monthly newsletter La lettre de l Autorité de sûreté nucléaire for the information of stakeholders. ASN submits its activities to international peer reviews. 7
The 2013-2015 multi-annual strategic plan The multi-annual strategic plan develops ASN's strategic lines for a period of three years. It is drawn up through a participative approach involving all ASN employees. Take up the challenges of nuclear safety and radiation protection: oversight, independence and transparency. Line 1 Enhance the legitimacy of ASN's resolutions, decisions and position statements. Line 2 Develop an efficient working environment and promote skills. Line 3 Develop our forward-looking approach. Line 4 Make the European framework a driving force for nuclear safety and radiation protection in the world. Line 5 Raise and fuel exchanges and discussions on the subject of nuclear safety and radiation protection. 8
Our values Competence ASN relies on qualified teams with competence in the technical, legal, management and communication fields. ASN ensures that it has adequate numbers of competent staff to deal proportionately with the activities and issues it regulates. ASN spends 8% of its payroll on staff-training activities. Independence The status of independent administrative authority, granted to ASN by Act no. 2006-686 of 13 June 2006 on Transparency and Security in the Nuclear Field, confirms and guarantees ASN's freedom of judgement, action and expression. Under the commission s leadership, ASN is able to work on its own terms, independently and in complete impartiality. Rigour ASN demands of its staff a degree of professional rigour comparable to that which it requires of all those it regulates. This level of professionalism contributes both to its credibility and its legitimacy. Transparency To ensure efficient, impartial, legitimate and credible regulation, recognised by the public and regarded internationally as a benchmark for good practice, the provision of information, involvement of stakeholders and accountability are essential. To this end, ASN is developing a range of tools and information media and aims to involve the stakeholders as extensively as possible in its decisions.
All the latest news on nuclear safety and radiation protection in France Inspection follow-up letters, opinions and recommendations from Advisory Committees of experts, press releases, incident notifications, the report on the state of the nuclear safety and radiation protection, the Contrôle magazine etc. are available on: www.asn.fr. ASN is also present on the social networks: Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Dailymotion. Public information centre Since 2004, the Information Centre has been providing the general public and students, professionals and associations alike, with modern tools and comprehensive documentation covering the areas of ASN oversight in order to provide information on nuclear safety and radiation protection and to promote a nuclear risk culture. The services the Centre provides include organising exhibitions and conferences, access to its specialised library and administrative documents, and responding to queries from the public. From Monday to Friday, 10 am to Midday and 2 pm to 5 pm, Open to the public, free access, 15, rue Louis Lejeune - 92120 Montrouge, Telephone + 33 1 46 16 40 16. 15, rue Louis Lejeune 92120 Montrouge Téléphone + 33 1 46 16 40 00 Photographs by ASN, ASN/C. Dupont, ASN/M. Dessenne, ASN/N. Gouhier/Abaca, ASN/N. Robin, ASN/P.Beuf, ASN/S. Calvet/Abaca, ASN/Studio Chlorophylle/S. Nied, ASN/V. Bourdon, CEA Cadarache, CEA/P. Stroppa, EDF/Alexis Morin, EDF Flamanville 3, MIPE Design and production Transylvanie February 2015.