ASN Report 2018

GRAND EST REGIONAL OVERVIEWOF NUCLEAR SAFETY AND RADIATION PROTECTION In 2018, ASN authorised the partial commissioning of the package inspection facility which gives the CSA more effective means of checking the quality of the received packages. Complete commissioning of this facility, planned for early 2019, will require another authorisation. The technical analysis of the CSA’s periodic safety review report, intended in particular to assess the safety of the facility according to the planned development of its activities over the next ten years, continued in 2018. Deep geological waste repository project After examining the safety options file for the Cigéo deep geological waste repository (see chapter 14), ASN issued its opinion on 11 January 2018. Alongside this, ASN considers that the scientific experiments and work conducted by Andra in the underground laboratory at Bure continued in 2018 with a good standard of quality, comparable with that of the preceding years. ASN inspectors at the Aube waste repository (CSA) – December 2018 ASN report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2018  53