Tag: ASN
Green light (finally) for the commissioning of the Flamanville EPR
You do not dream ! Twelve years after the planned date, electricity production should be gradually launched this summer. The Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) gave the green light this Tuesday…
ASN authorizes the commissioning of the Flamanville EPR reactor – 05/07/2024
This authorization concludes the investigation carried out by ASN, with the support of theIRSN, of EDF’s authorization request. ASN also monitored the construction of the reactor and carried out nearly…
Woman with cancer treated eight times for wrong breast
A patient was the victim of a laterality error (right-left inversion) in the treatment of her breast cancer. The facts were revealed by the nuclear safety authority (ASN), which explains…
What does the much-maligned merger of ASN and IRSN consist of?
Nuclear safety reform has passed the final hurdle. The executive’s controversial project was definitively adopted on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday by a final favorable vote from the Senate.…
the public consultation on the commissioning of the plant opened for three weeks on the ASN website
The Nuclear Safety Authority plans to authorize the commissioning of the new French reactor, after a final public consultation. Published on 03/27/2024 4:26 p.m. Update on 03/27/2024 22:46 Reading time:…
ASN asks EDF to “anticipate” the droughts “of the next summers” in its power plants
There is a “need to anticipate” from these “coming summers” the way in which heat waves and droughts will be managed in EDF’s nuclear power plants, estimates the Nuclear Safety…