IRSN workforce As at 31 December 2024, the IRSN total workforce stood at 1,789 staff; IRSN’s technical support for ASN mobilised 422 fulltime equivalent personnel in 2024. IRSN budget The IRSN budget for 2024 is presented in point 3. A five-year agreement defined the principles and procedures for the technical support provided to ASN by the Institute. An annual protocol identified the actions to be performed by IRSN to support ASN. 2.5.2 Advisory Committees of Experts To prepare its resolutions, ASN relies on the opinions and recommendations of seven Advisory Committees of Experts (GPEs) and a cross-cutting Advisory Committee. A distinction is made between the expert assessment requested from IRSN (see point 2.5.1) and that requested from the GPEs. At ASN’s request, the GPEs issue an opinion on certain technical dossiers with particularly high potential consequences prior to decisions being taken. The GPEs consist of experts appointed individually for their competence and are open to civil society. Their members come from university and association backgrounds and from expert assessment and research organisations. They may also be licensees of nuclear facilities or come from other sectors (industrial, medical, etc.). Participation by foreign experts can help diversify the approach to problems and provide the benefit of experience acquired internationally. ASN renews the composition of the Advisory Committees every four years. All the GPEs were renewed on 1 January 2023, except for the GPRP which was created in January 2022. They will be renewed by ASNR following the same procedures. In 2024, they were broken down according to their areas of expertise: ∙the Advisory Committee of Experts for Nuclear Reactors (GPR), ∙the Advisory Committee of Experts for Laboratories and Plants (GPU), ∙the Advisory Committee of Experts for Waste (GPD), ∙the Advisory Committee of Experts for Transport (GPT), ∙the Advisory Committee of Experts for Nuclear Pressure Equipment (GPESPN). ∙the Advisory Committee of Experts for Decommissioning (GPDEM), ∙the Advisory Committee of Experts for Radiation Protection (GPRP), ∙the cross-cutting Advisory Committee for Innovative Reactors (GT-RI). For most of the subjects covered, the GPEs examine the reports produced by IRSN, by an expert working group or by one of the ASN departments. The representatives of the ASN departments or external structures which carried out the expert assessment prior to a GPE meeting, present their conclusions to the group. Following each consultation, the GPE consulted can send the ASN Director General a written opinion, plus recommendations where necessary. The contents of the dossier are made available to the members of the GPEs so that they can reach an informed and independent conclusion. This independent perspective is of use for the decision- making process. In addition to being consulted on the dossiers submitted by a licensee, the GPEs act as guarantor of nuclear safety and radiation protection doctrine and contribute to its development. They can be invited to take part in the debate on changes to regulations, or on a general nuclear safety or radiation protection topic. As an expert assessment body, the members of the GPEs are required to abide by the provisions of the external expert assessment charter in Appendix 2 to the ASN internal regulations. Each GPE member produces a declaration of interest. Those of the members of the GPRP and its working group on the radiation protection of patients (GTRPP) are made public. Internal rules of procedure common to all the GPEs are in force and notably provide a framework for identifying and managing links and conflicts of interest. Since 2009, as part of its commitment to transparency in nuclear safety and radiation protection, ASN has published the GPE letters of referral, the opinions of the GPEs and ASN’s position statements based on these opinions. IRSN for its part publishes the summaries of the technical investigation reports it presents to the GPEs. Advisory Committee of Experts for Nuclear Reactors (GPR) The GPR, chaired by Thierry Charles, comprises experts appointed for their competence in the field of nuclear reactors. It comprises 36 members. Advisory Committee of Experts for Laboratories and Plants (GPU) The GPU is chaired by Alain Dorison and comprises experts appointed for their competence in the field of laboratories and plants concerned by radioactive substances. It comprises 30 members. Advisory Committee of Experts for Waste (GPD) The GPD is chaired by Marie-Pierre Comets and comprises experts appointed for their competence in the nuclear, geological and mining fields. It comprises 35 members. Advisory Committee of Experts for Transport (GPT) The GPT is chaired by Pierre Maleysis and comprises experts appointed for their competence in the field of the transport of radioactive materials. It comprises 26 members. Advisory Committee of Experts for Nuclear Pressure Equipment (GPESPN) The GPESPN is chaired by Matthieu Schuler and comprises experts appointed for their competence in the field of NPE. It has 33 members. Advisory Committee of Experts for Decommissioning (GPDEM) The GPDEM comprises experts appointed for their competence in the field of BNI decommissioning. It comprises 31 members and the interim Chair is Dorothée Conte, vice-chair of the GPDEM. Advisory Committee of Experts for Radiation protection (GPRP) Chaired by Mr Jean-Luc Godet, the GPRP comprises 36 experts appointed for their competence in the fields of: ∙radiation protection of workers, the public and the environment, for the medical and forensic, veterinary, industrial and research applications of ionising radiation, as well as for naturally occurring ionising radiation (radon, cosmic or terrestrial radiation); ∙radiation protection of patients. Owing to the specific nature of the subjects regarding the radiation protection of patients, a working group dedicated to the radiation protection of patients (GTRPP) reports to the GPRP. The GTRPP is chaired by Thierry Sarrazin and comprises 25 experts, nine of whom are shared with the GPRP. Cross-cutting Advisory Committee for Innovative Reactors (GT-RI) The GT-RI, chaired by Thierry Charles, was created in June 2024 in order to shed light on technical subjects relating to the arrival of new and innovative industrial or experimental prototype SMR projects, using a technology other than that of the PWRs. It can be questioned on all the subjects examined, that is the nuclear safety of the reactors concerned, with regard to the technical, organisational and human, radiation protection, environmental protection, safety-security interfaces, or emergency situation management aspects. It comprises 16 members from the Advisory Committees (GPR, GPESPN, GPU, GPD and GPDEM). 2.5.3 Scientific Committee ASN calls on the expertise of a Scientific Committee reporting to the ASN Commission, in order to assist it with identifying research subjects to be conducted or taken further in the fields of nuclear safety and radiation protection, a mission entrusted to it by the Environment Code. The current members of the Scientific Committee were appointed by the Commission on the basis of their competence, notably in the fields of radiation protection and nuclear safety research. During the course of the year, its chairman Michel Schwarz and three of its members: Philippe Maingon, Jean-Claude Micaelli and Marc Vannerem, decided to leave ASN Report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2024 139 The principles of nuclear safety and radiation protection and the regulation and oversight stakeholders 02 01 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 AP
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