ASN Report 2020

Overseas départements and regions The regulation of radiation protection and the transport of radioactive substances in the 6 overseas départements and regions (Guadeloupe, Guyane, La Réunion, Martinique, Mayotte, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon) is ensured by the Paris division. The Paris division also acts as expert to the competent authorities of Nouvelle‑Calédonie and French Polynesia. Six inspections were carried out in the small-scale nuclear activities sector on the île de la Réunion in the French Overseas départements and regions in 2020. In 2020, one event concerning patients was rated level 2 on the ASN-SFRO scale. THE INSTALLATIONS AND ACTIVITIES TO REGULATE COMPRISES: small-scale nuclear activities in the medical sector: • 4 external-beam radiotherapy departments, • 2 brachytherapy departments, • 3 nuclear medicine departments, • 24 centres performing interventional fluoroscopy-guided procedures, • about 30 centres in possession of at least one computed tomography scanner, • about 100 medical radiology practices, • about 1,000 dental radiology devices; small-scale nuclear activities in the veterinary, industrial and research sectors: more than 70 users of veterinary radiology devices, • 3 industrial radiography companies using gamma radiography devices, • 1 cyclotron; activities associated with the transport of radioactive substances. p. 206 p. 238 p. 266 58 ASN Report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2020 REGIONAL OVERVIEWOF NUCLEAR SAFETY AND RADIATION PROTECTION