Nuclear Power
Activation of ASN Emergency Center following an incident in the nuclear power plant of Cattenom (Moselle)
The French Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) has been informed by EDF at 14:25 that an event occurred at the Cattenom...
Read moreASN preliminarily ranks the event at the nuclear power plant of Cattenom (Moselle) at level 1 on the international INES scale
According to preliminary information available to ASN, the origin of the event that occurred at the reactor n°1 of the...
Read moreEnd of the incident at nuclear power plant of Cattenom (Moselle)
The incident which affected reactor No. 1 at Cattenom nuclear power plant (Moselle) has been terminated. The reactor is shut...
Read moreInadvertent opening of a steam valve on Cattenom NPP reactor 1: ASN activated its emergency organisation and conducted a reactive inspection on the site
Enlarge the visualOn 28th May 2015, reactor 1 in the Cattenom NPP was kept at a nuclear power close...
Read moreEPR Information Letter No.17: ASN monitoring of the Flamanville EPR reactor construction site: notable points.
ASN continued its monitoring of the Flamanville 3 EPR reactor and the various manufacturing operations for this reactor. The notable...
Read moreYukiya Amano, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) met Pierre-Franck Chevet, Chairman of ASN
During his visit to France, Yukiya Amano, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), met the ASN...
Read moreASN considers that the Flamanville 3 EPR commissioning authorisation application file submitted by EDF needs to be supplemented
ASN received the commissioning authorisation application1 and the partial commissioning authorisation application for the Flamanville 3 reactor submitted by EDF....
Read moreASN has identified no generic elements liable to compromise EDF’s capability to satisfactorily control the safety of its 1300 MWe reactors up to their fourth periodic safety review
In a letter from its Chairman, Pierre-Franck Chevet, dated 20th March 2015, ASN informed EDF that it has not at...
Read moreHERCA Workshop Implementation of Radiation Protection Expert (RPE) & Radiation Protection Officers (RPO)
Heads of the European Radiological protection Competent AuthoritiesThe Heads of the European Radiation protection Competent Authorities (HERCA) have organised on...
Read moreBackground to the discovery of the anomaly affecting the Flamanville EPR reactor vessel (excessively high carbon content in the vessel closure head and vessel bottom head)
ASN made public the discovery of an anomaly in the composition of the steel in certain zones of the vessel...
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