ASN Report 2018

T he Châlons-en-Champagne and Strasbourg divisions are jointly responsible for regulating nuclear safety, radiation protection and the transport of radioactive substances in the 10 départements of the Grand Est region. Grand Est region In 2018, ASN conducted 181 inspections, of which 71 were in the NPPs, 5 in radioactive waste disposal facilities, 87 in the small-scale nuclear activities sector, 11 in the transport of radioactive substances and 7 concerning approved organisations or approved laboratories. ASN also carried out 17 days of labour inspections in the NPPs. During 2018, 16 significant events reported by nuclear installation licensees in the Grand Est region were rated level 1 on the INES scale. In the small-scale nuclear activities sector, 4 significant events were rated level 1 on the ASN‑SFRO, and 5 were rated level 1 on the INES scale. Cattenom nuclear power plant The Cattenom NPP is situated on the left bank of the river Moselle, 5 km from the town of Thionville and 10 km from Luxembourg and Germany. The site comprises four pressurised water reactors each with a unit power of 1,300 MWe, commissioned between 1986 and 1991 and producing each year about 37 TWh, that is to say 7% of EDF’s national electricity production. Reactors 1, 2, 3 and 4 constitute BNIs 124, 125, 126 and 137 respectively. ASN considers that the performance of the Cattenom site with regard to nuclear safety, radiation protection and protection of the environment is in line with the general assessment of the EDF plants, with an improvement in REGIONAL OVERVIEWOF NUCLEAR SAFETY AND RADIATION PROTECTION THE INSTALLATIONS AND ACTIVITIES TO REGULATE COMPRISE: ཛྷ ཛྷ BNIs: t ݸݸ he Cattenom NPP (4 reactors of 1,300 MWe); t ݸݸ he Chooz B NPP (2 reactors of 1,450 MWe); t ݸݸ he Chooz A NPP (currently being decommissioned); t ݸݸ he Fessenheim NPP (2 reactors of 900 MWe); t ݸݸ he Nogent-sur-Seine NPP (2 reactors of 1,300 MWe); t ݸݸ he CSA storage centre for short-lived low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste located in Soulaines‑Dhuys in the Aube département ; ཛྷ ཛྷ the Cigéo geological disposal project for long-lived high- and intermediate-level radioactive waste; ཛྷ ཛྷ small-scale nuclear activities in the medical sector: ݸݸ 15 external-beam radiotherapy departments; ݸݸ 5 brachytherapy departments; ݸݸ 20 nuclear medicine departments; ݸݸ 83 computed tomography scanners; ݸݸ about 80 centres carrying out fluoroscopy- guided interventional procedures; ݸݸ some 2,100 medical and dental radiology devices; ཛྷ ཛྷ small-scale nuclear activities in the veterinary, industrial and research sectors: ݸݸ about 85 veterinary clinics; ݸݸ about 500 licensed industrial activities, with more than half of the licenses being for possession of devices to detect lead in paint; ݸݸ about 50 research laboratories situated mainly in the universities of the region; ཛྷ ཛྷ activities linked to the transport of radioactive substances; ཛྷ ཛྷ 5 head offices of organisations approved in radiation protection. see p. 200 see p. 230 see p. 256 ASN report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2018  49