ASN Report 2018

T he Bordeaux and Marseille divisions jointly regulate nuclear safety, radiation protection and the transport of radioactive substances in the 13 départements of the Occitanie region. Occitanie region In 2018, ASN carried out 124 inspections in the Occitanie region, comprising 40 inspections in BNIs, 68 inspections in small-scale nuclear activities, 8 in the transport of radioactive substances and 8 concerning organisations and laboratories approved by ASN. ASN also carried out 12 days of labour inspection at the Golfech NPP. During 2018, seven significant events rated level 1 on the INES scale were reported by nuclear installation licensees. In small-scale nuclear activities, 2 significant events rated level 1 on the INES scale were reported to ASN. Four events involving radiotherapy patients were rated level 4 on the ASN-SFRO scale. ASN also drew up one violation report against a medical centre. Golfech nuclear power plant The Golfech NPP operated by EDF is located in the Tarn‑et‑Garonne département , 40 km west of Montauban. This NPP comprises two 1,300 MWe pressurised water reactors. Reactor 1 constitutes BNI 135 and reactor 2 BNI 142. ASN considers that the environmental protection and radiation protection performance of the Golfech NPP are on the whole in line with its general assessment of EDF performance, but that its nuclear safety performance falls short of this general assessment. REGIONAL OVERVIEWOF NUCLEAR SAFETY AND RADIATION PROTECTION THE INSTALLATIONS AND ACTIVITIES TO REGULATE COMPRISE: ཛྷ ཛྷ BNIs: t ݸݸ he Golfech NPP comprising 2 pressurised water reactors of 1,300 MWe; t ݸݸ he Melox MOX nuclear fuel production facility; t ݸݸ he CEA Marcoule research centre, which includes the civil BNIs Atalante and Phénix and the Diadem waste storage facility construction site; t ݸݸ he Centraco facility for processing low-activity waste; t ݸݸ he Gammatec industrial ioniser; t ݸݸ he Ecrin facility for storing waste on the Malvési site; ཛྷ ཛྷ small-scale nuclear activities in the medical sector: ݸݸ 14 external-beam radiotherapy departments; ݸݸ 6 brachytherapy departments; ݸݸ 20 nuclear medicine departments; ݸݸ 101 centres performing fluoroscopy-guided interventional procedures; ݸݸ 118 computed tomography scanners; ݸݸ some 5,000 medical and dental radiology devices; ཛྷ ཛྷ small-scale nuclear activities in the veterinary, industrial and research sectors: ݸݸ about 500 industrial and research establishments, including 26 companies exercising an industrial radiography activity; ݸݸ 4 cyclotron particle accelerators; ݸݸ 79 laboratories situated mainly in the universities of the region; ݸݸ about 300 users of devices for detecting lead in paint; ݸݸ about 450 veterinary surgeries or clinics practising diagnostic radiology; ཛྷ ཛྷ activities linked to the transport of radioactive substances; ཛྷ ཛྷ activities linked to the transport of radioactive substances; 3 ݸݸ head offices of laboratories approved for taking environmental radioactivity measurements; 7 ݸݸ head offices of organisations approved for radiation protection controls. see p. 200 see p. 230 see p. 256 ASN report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2018  75