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SAFE DECOMMISSIONING OF BASIC NUCLEAR INSTALLATIONS (BNIs)

Chapter 15

TECHNICAL AND LEGAL REQUIREMENTS APPLICABLE TO DECOMMISSIONING
1. Decommissioning strategies
2. Legal requirements
3. The financing of decommissioning and radioactive waste management
  1. Reminder of regulatory provisions
  2. Review of the reports forwarded by the licensees
4. Decommissioning risks
5. Complete clean-out
SITUATION OF NUCLEAR INSTALLATIONS UNDERGOING DECOMMISSIONING IN 2011
1. EDF nuclear power plants (NPPs)
  1. The Brennilis NPP
  2. Natural Uranium Graphite Gas Reactors (UNGG)
  3. CHOOZ A reactor (Ardennes NPP)
  4. SUPERPHÉNIX reactor
2. CEA installations
  1. Fontenay-aux-Roses centre
  2. The Grenoble centre
  3. The Cadarache centre installations undergoing decommissioning
  4. The Saclay centre installations undergoing decommissioning
3. AREVA installations
  1. UP2 400 spent fuel reprocessing plant and associated facilities
  2. SICN plant in Veurey-Voroize
4. Others installations
  1. The Strasbourg University reactor
  2. The Electromagnetic radiation laboratory
OUTLOOK

APPENDIX 1 LIST OF BASIC NUCLEAR INSTALLATIONS DELICENSED AS AT 31.12.2011

APPENDIX 2 LIST OF BASIC NUCLEAR INSTALLATIONS UNDERGOING DECOMMISSIONING AS AT 31.12.2011

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The main actions ASN will carry out in 2012 will be firstly the continuing development of the regulatory framework for decommissioning, and secondly closer monitoring of certain installations. ASN will thus endeavour to finalise the guide to the clean-out of polluted soils on sites undergoing decommissioning, and, after publication of the BNI order, to finalise the revision of the guide relating to complete clean-out methodologies.

In 2012, ASN will continue its inspections of installations undergoing decommissioning. It will focus in particular on:

examining the complete decommissioning authorisation application for the Brennilis NPP;
continue examining the decommissioning applications and finalise its opinion concerning the draft final shutdown and decommissioning (MAD DEM) decrees for the nuclear facilities of the UP2 400 plant at La Hague;
reviewing the preparatory operations for final shutdown of the installations that will soon be shut down and decommissioned (PHÉNIX, COMURHEX, EURODIF).

The announcement of the pushing back of several decommissioning deadlines has led ASN to ask the CEA for an interim report on the updating of its decommissioning strategy (see point 2|2). ASN will endeavour to examine the information communicated by the CEA as part of this update.

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