EPR Information Letter No.17: ASN monitoring of the Flamanville EPR reactor construction site: notable points.
ASN continued its monitoring of the Flamanville 3 EPR reactor and the various manufacturing operations for this reactor. The notable points observed over these...
Yukiya Amano, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) met Pierre-Franck Chevet, Chairman of ASN
During his visit to France, Yukiya Amano, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), met the ASN Chairman, Pierre-Franck Chevet, on...
ASN has identified no generic elements liable to compromise EDF’s capability to satisfactorily control the safety of its 1300 MWe reactors up to their...
In a letter from its Chairman, Pierre-Franck Chevet, dated 20th March 2015, ASN informed EDF that it has not at this stage identified any...
HERCA Workshop Implementation of Radiation Protection Expert (RPE) & Radiation Protection Officers (RPO)
Heads of the European Radiological protection Competent AuthoritiesThe Heads of the European Radiation protection Competent Authorities (HERCA) have organised on 6-8 July 2015, a...
Background to the discovery of the anomaly affecting the Flamanville EPR reactor vessel (excessively high carbon content in the vessel closure head and vessel...
ASN made public the discovery of an anomaly in the composition of the steel in certain zones of the vessel closure head and the...
Over-exposure of a female operator of an industrial radiography contractor in Colomiers (Haute-Garonne département)
A female operator of the Colomiers agency of the company Apave Sudeurope was accidentally exposed in the agency's bunker to radiation emitted by an...
Flamanville reactor 2 incident: the ASN has activated its national emergency center
EDF activated its emergency plan at the Flamanville nuclear power plant as consequence of smoke emission from the nuclear auxiliary building of the reactor...
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