In terms of public information, the ASN has set itself an ambitious goal of enabling each and every person to make up his or her own opinion about nuclear safety and radiation protection.

The ASN’s public information and documentation centre, located in Paris premises of the Directorate General for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection, is a logical step in the process stated above: it makes available to everyone a permanent documentary base dealing with the scientic, technical and regulatory fields associated with nuclear safety and radiation protection.

It offers a wide range of publications of all types: periodic reviews, works in French and English, brochures, information sheets, regulatory and administrative documents, reports, proceedings, symposia, standards, press kits and audiovisual and multimedia documents.

A wide range of sources

The ASN makes its publications and those of other French nuclear and radiation protection stakeholders available to the public.

ASN publications

• annual report,
• thematic special reports in the
  Contrôle review,
• professional brochures,
• pedagogical packages.

The information released by other French nuclear stakeholders, in particular:

• the local information committees
  (CLI),
• the High Council for nuclear safety
  and information (CSSIN),
• the nuclear operators,
• The Institute of Radiation Protection
  and Nuclear Safety, and other
  technical experts,
• the health safety agencies,
• radiology and radiation protection
  learned societies,
• professional associations,
• environmental protection associations,
  etc.

An offering tailored to specific
audiences

To meet the specific needs of a more informed public (students, science teachers, specialist journalists) the centre offers a selection of works and science reviews in French, and English, available for consultation in situ.

Associations, elected representatives, researchers, historians and jurists wishing to examine archives or original administrative documents - for example public inquiry dossiers for an authorisation decree or for modification of a basic nuclear installation - can make an appointment with the centre to organise a consultation.

A personalised service

The centre can welcome eight visitors at any one time. It also offers Internet facilities for consulting the ASN website and the websites of all other players in the field of nuclear safety and radiation protection. A information officer help visitors find what they are looking for.

6 place du Colonel Bourgoin,
75012 Paris
FRANCE

Open:
From Monday to Friday,
from 10 a.m. to midday
and from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Phone: (+33) 1 40 19 87 23
Fax: (+33) 1 40 19 86 92
E-mail: asn.info-du-public@asn.fr