- 11 - Finally, ASN published several information notes and held three press conferences on 9th May, 14th September and 17th November 2011. This ASN report will also be made public and presented to the press. On 8th December 2011, the HCTISN issued an opinion on the complementary safety assessment process. This opinion underlines the fact that the information concerning the Fukushima accident was made known to the public in a satisfactory manner. 7. The targeted inspections ASN initiated a campaign of targeted inspections on topics related to the Fukushima accident. The purpose of these inspections was to run field checks on the conformity of the licensee's equipment and organisation with the existing baseline safety requirements. The topics dealt with during these inspections were as follows: protection against off-site hazards, in particular the ability to withstand earthquakes and protection against flooding; the loss of electrical power; the loss of heat sinks; operational management of radiological emergencies. 7.1 Organisation of the targeted inspections Thirty-eight inspections were scheduled and performed by teams comprising several ASN inspectors accompanied by IRSN representatives. This campaign of inspections involved 110 days of inspection in the field. These targeted inspections were scheduled between June and October 2011. For any given site, they took the form of in-depth inspections lasting several days, involving spot-checks on all the topics mentioned above. They were based on baseline requirements common to the NPPs on the one hand and to civil nuclear facilities on the other. They placed emphasis on field visits rather than documentary checks. A summary of the targeted inspections is presented in chapter 1 of the report. This summary, based on the inspection follow-up letters, contains the most representative observations for each category of facilities. It is not therefore exhaustive and does not represent ASN's judgement of the safety of these nuclear facilities. All the requests made by the ASN inspectors are available in the follow-up letters sent out to the licensees, posted on the ASNs website (www.asn.fr). 7.2 Transparency and public information In the same way as all the other ASN inspection follow-up letters, those concerning the post-Fukushima targeted inspections were posted on the ASN website (www.asn.fr). ASN also wished to involve the representatives of civil society in its inspections. ASN thus proposed that the local information committees (CLIs) of the nuclear facilities and the French High Committee for Transparency and Information on Nuclear Security (HCTISN) could take part in the targeted inspections as observers, subject to the approval of the licensee. ASN also invited the inspectors of the German, Swiss, Belgian and Luxembourg Regulatory Bodies to attend a few targeted inspections in France. More than 100 outside observers thus took part in the targeted inspections carried out by ASN, primarily in the NPPs. 8. A long-term approach
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