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On behalf of the State, the ASN regulates nuclear safety and radiation protection, in order toprotect workers, patients, the publicand the environment from the risks related to nuclear activities. ASN contributes to informing the public.
LEFT-HAND PAGE
CommissionersPhilippe Chaumet-RiffaudJean-Jacques DumontPhilippe JametMargot Tirmarche
ABOVE
ChairmanPierre-Franck Chevet
The Commission defines ASN general policy
regarding nuclear safety and radiation protec-
tion. 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.
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
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ASN helps draft regulations, by submitting its opinion to the Government on draft decreesand ministerial orders, or issuing regulatory decisions of a technical nature. ASN ensures thatthe regulations are clear, accessible and proportionate to the safety issues.
ASN reviews the whole individual authorisation files concerning facilities and activities. ASN maydeliver all authorisations, except the major authorisations related to basic nuclear installations,such as those dealing with their creation or their decommissionning.
Authorising
ASN checks compliance with the rules and specifications to which the facilities or activitieswithin 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 everyyear. ASN has appropriate enforcement powers.
Monitoring
ASN informs the public and other stakeholders (environmental protection associations, localinformation committees, media etc.) of its activities and of the state of nuclear safety andradiation protection in France. Its website www.asn.fr and its Contrôle magazine are ASNpreferential ways of information.
Informing
ASN monitors the steps taken by the licensee to make the facility safe. It informs the public ofthe situation. ASN assists the Government. It in particular sends the competent Authorities itsrecommendations concerning the civil security measures to be taken.
In emergency situations
Regulating
Missions
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ASN has developped an integrated view of nuclearsafety and radiation protection: it considers notonly the technical and physical aspects of theareas and activities it regulates, but also thehuman and organisational factors.
This approach means that ASN also carriesout extensive regulation to protect human lifeand the environment against the hazards anddetrimental effects linked to ionising radiation,whatever type of facilities is concerned.
On behalf of the State, ASN regulates all civiliannuclear activities on French territory: nuclearpower plants; radioactive waste management;nuclear fuel transport; consignments of radio-active materials; medical installations; researchlaboratories, industrial activities etc.
Its regulation covers a range of activities andfacilities which are among the largest and mostdiverse anywhere in the world:
• 58 nuclear reactors in operation producingmost of the electricity consumed in France andone EPR-type reactor under construction;
• all French facilities involved in the fuelcycle, from enrichment to reprocessing;
• several thousand facilities or activities usingsources of ionising radiation for medical,industrial and research purposes (small-scale nuclear activities);
• several hundred thousand consignmentsof radioactive materials nationwide, everyyear.
Regulation of a wide diversity of activities and facilities
An integrated view of nuclear safety and radiation protection
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The organisation
ASN comprises head office departments andeleven regional divisions with competence forone or more administrative regions. This orga-nisation enables ASN to carry out its regulationand monitoring duties over the entire countryand in the overseas territories of France.
The head office departments are organisedthematically and are responsible at a nationallevel for their fields of activity.
The ASN regional divisions operate under the authority of the regional representatives,appointed by the ASN Chairman. They areASN's representatives in the regions and contri-bute locally to the ASN's public informationrole. The divisions carry out most of the directinspections on nuclear facilities, radioactivesubstances transport operations and small-scalenuclear activities.
In emergency situations, the divisions assist thePrefect of the departement, who is in charge of protection of the populations, and monitor ope-rations to safeguard the installation on the site.
Commis s ion
CHAIRMANPierre-Franck Chevet,
COMMISSIONERSPhilippe Chaumet-Riffaud, Jean-Jacques Dumont, Philippe Jamet, Margot Tirmarche
HEAD OF PRIVATE OFFICELaurent Felber
BORDEAUX DIVISION Regional representativeEmmanuelle Baudoin
Regional HeadPaul Bougon
CAEN DIVISION Regional representativeCaroline Guillaume
Regional HeadGuillaume Bouyt
CHÂLONS-EN-CHAMPAGNEDIVISION
Regional representativeJ.-C. Villemaud
Regional HeadJean-Michel Ferat
DIJON DIVISION Regional representative
Corinne Etaix
Regional HeadAlain Rivière
LILLE DIVISION Regional representative
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Regional HeadFrançois Godin
LYON DIVISION Regional representative
Françoise Noars
Regional HeadMatthieu Mangion
MARSEILLE DIVISIONRegional representativeAnne-France Didier
Regional HeadLaurent Déproit
ORLÉANS DIVISION Regional representative
ChristopheChassande
Regional HeadPierre Boquel
PARIS DIVISIONRegional representative
Alain Vallet
Regional HeadDelphine Ruel
STRASBOURG DIVISIONRegional representative
Marc Hoeltzel
Regional HeadSophie Letournel
PARIS
CHÂLONS-EN-CHAMPAGNE
CAEN
NANTES
STRASBOURG
LILLE
DIJONORLÉANS
LYON
BORDEAUX
MARSEILLE
NANTES DIVISIONRegional representative
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Regional HeadPierre Siefridt
NUCLEAR POWER PLANT DEPARTMENT
Thomas Houdré
WASTE, RESEARCH FACILITIES AND
FUEL CYCLE FACILITIES DEPARTMENT
Fabien Schilz
ENVIRONMENT AND EMERGENCY
DEPARTMENT
Bénédicte Genthon
NUCLEAR PRESSURE
EQUIPMENT DEPARTMENT
Rémy Catteau
TRANSPORT AND
SOURCES DEPARTMENT
Vivien Tran-Thien
COMMUNICATION AND PUBLIC
INFORMATION DEPARTMENT
Alain Delmestre
INTERNATIONAL RELATION
DEPARTMENT
Stéphane Pailler
IONISING RADIATION
AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT
Jean-Luc Godet
GUADELOUPE
GUYANE
MARTINIQUE
SAINT-PIERRE-ET-MIQUELON
LA RÉUNION
MAYOTTE
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MANAGEMENT AND EXPERTISE
OFFICEN...
DIRECTOR REPORTING TO THEDIRECTOR-GENERAL
Anne-CécileRigail
OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATIONLuc Chanial
Di rec to r-Genera l Of f i ce
DIRECTOR-GENERALJean-Christophe NielDEPUTY DIRECTOR-GENERAL
Julien Collet, Alain Delmestre, Jean-Luc LachaumeADVISER HEAD OF STAFF
Henri Legrand Ambroise Pascal
In taking its decisions, ASN relies on externaltechnical expertise, in particular that of theInstitute for Radiation Protection and NuclearSafety (IRSN).
ASN also requests opinions and recommen-dations from seven Advisory Committees ofexperts working in a variety of scientific andtechnical fields.
The human and financial resources
Wide-ranging technical expertise
• 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,
• million euros annually devoted to technical expertises.
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ASN informs the public, the medias, the insti-tutional stakeholders and the professionnals ofits activities primarily by means of its websitewww.asn.fr, also available in English at:www.french-nuclear-safety.fr.
The annual report on the state of nuclear safetyand radiation protection enables ASN to informParliament, in particular, of its activities, itsobjectives and the state of facilities and activitiesit regulates.
ASN issues a quarterly magazine Contrôle anda monthly newsletter La lettre de l’Autorité desûreté nucléaire for the information of stake-holders.
ASN submits its activities to international peerreviews.
A strong international presence
Willing to report on its activities
ASN's work on the international stage is impor-tant in that it offers an opportunity to share itsskills, compare its practices and working methodswith its peers and make a contribution to harmo-nising nuclear safety and radiation protectionprinciples and standards.
Permanent exchanges with its counterparts andinternational organisations are an effectivemeans of advancing nuclear safety and radiationprotection, both in France and abroad.
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The 2013-2015 multi-annual strategic plan
Take up the challenges of nuclear safety and radiation protection: oversight, independence and transparency.Line 1Enhance the legitimacy of ASN's resolutions, decisions and position statements.
Line 2Develop an efficient working environment and promote skills.
Line 3Develop our forward-looking approach.
Line 4Make the European framework a driving force for nuclear safety and radiation protection in the world.
Line 5Raise and fuel exchanges and discussions on the subject of nuclear safety and radiation protection.
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.
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Our values
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.
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.
Independence
Competence
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.
Rigour
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.
Transparency
All the latest news on nuclear safetyand radiation protection in France
Inspection follow-up letters, opinions and recommendations from Advisory Committees ofexperts, press releases, incident notifications, the report on the state of the nuclear safety andradiation protection, the Contrôle magazine etc. are available on:
www.asn.fr.ASN is also present on the social networks:
Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Dailymotion.
Since 2004, the Information Centre has been providing the general public and students, professionals and associations alike, with modern tools and comprehensive documentationcovering the areas of ASN oversight in order to provide information on nuclear safety andradiation protection and to promote a “nuclear risk culture”. The services the Centre providesinclude organising exhibitions and conferences, access to its specialised library and adminis-trative documents, and responding to queries from the public.
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