ASN Report 2017

110 ASN report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2017 Chapter 03  - Regulations ཛྷ ཛྷ Resolution 2015-DC-0508 of 21st April 2015 concerning the study of waste management and the inventory of waste produced in the BNIs. It specifies the rules applicable to the management of the wastes produced in BNIs, more particularly the content of the waste management study required by 3° of II of Article 20 of the Decree of 2nd November 2007 and Article 6.4 of the BNI Order of 7th February 2012, the procedures for the creation and management of the waste zoning plan mentioned in Article 6.3 of the BNI Order of 7th February 2012 and the content and procedures for drawing up the waste summary specified in Article 6.6 of the BNI Order of 7th February 2012. ཛྷ ཛྷ Resolution 2014-DC-0462 of 7th October 2014 concerning the control of the criticality risk in BNIs. It aims to set out the technical rules applicable within BNIs in order to meet the goal of controlling the criticality risk. This resolution applies to all BNIs containing fissile material, except for those in which criticality is physically impossible. A guide for implementation of this resolution is being prepared. ཛྷ ཛྷ Resolution 2014-DC-0444 of 15th July 2014 concerning PWR shutdowns and restarts stipulates that ASN approval is required to restart a reactor after a refuelling outage. It defines the information to be transmitted to ASN by the licensee before, during and after shutdown of the reactor. ཛྷ ཛྷ Resolution 2014-DC-0420 of 13th February 2014 concerning physical modifications to BNIs. This resolution is repealed by resolution 2017-DC-0616 of 30th November 2017, which incorporates some of its provisions. ཛྷ ཛྷ Resolution 2014-DC-0417 of 28th January 2014 concerning the rules applicable to BNIs with regard to the management of fire risks. In accordance with the defence in depth approach, the resolution defines requirements concerning measures to prevent the outbreak of fire, detection and fire-fighting measures and measures to prevent the propagation of a fire and mitigate its consequences. ཛྷ ཛྷ Resolution 2013-DC-0360 of 16th July 2013 concerning the control of detrimental effects and the health and environmental impact of BNIs. This resolution supplements the implementation conditions in Title IV of the BNI Order of 7th February 2012. Its main provisions concern methods for water intake and liquid or gaseous, chemical or radioactive discharges, the monitoring of water intake and discharges, environmental monitoring, prevention of detrimental effects and information of the regulatory authority and the public; it was modified by ASN resolution 2016-DC-0569 of 29th September 2016. ཛྷ ཛྷ Resolution 2013-DC-0352 of 18th June 2013 concerning public access to modification project files specified in Article L. 593-15 of the Environment Code. This resolution is repealed by resolution 2017-DC-0616 of 30th November 2017. It clarified the conditions for application of the provisions of the Environment Code regarding consultation of the public, which were repealed (see chapter  6, point 2.3). ཛྷ ཛྷ Resolution 2012-DC-0236 of 3rdMay 2012 supplementing certain conditions for application of Ministerial decision JV/VF DEP-SD5-0048-2006 of 31st January 2006 which defines the conditions for the use of spare parts in the main primary system and the main secondary systems of pressurized water nuclear reactors and specifies the documentation associated with each spare part. For the components, it defines the technical and manufacturing surveillance documentation in order to establish consistency between these provisions and those applicable to the manufacture of pressure equipment. 3.2.3 Basic Safety Rules and ASN guides With regard to various technical subjects concerning BNIs, ASN has drawn up Basic Safety Rules (RFS), recommendations that specify the safety objectives and describe the practices that ASN considers satisfactory. As part of the ongoing reorganisation of the general technical regulations applicable to BNIs, the BSR are gradually being replaced by ASN guides. Work is under way to identify the BSR which can be repealed and the guides needing to be updated. The ASN guides collection was created as an educational tool for professionals. In 2017, it comprised thirty non-binding guides designed to affirm ASN doctrine, detail the recommendations, propose methods for achieving the objectives set in the texts and present methods and best practices stemming from experience feedback from significant events. The ASN guides collection is presented in the appendix to this chapter. 3.2.4 French nuclear industry professional codes and standards The nuclear industry produces detailed rules dealing with the state of the art and industrial practices. It groups these rules in “Industrial Codes”. These rules allow concrete transposition of the requirements of the general technical regulations, while reflecting good industrial practice. They thus facilitate contractual relations between customers and suppliers. In the particular field of nuclear safety, the Industrial Codes are drafted by the French association for NSSS equipment design, construction and in-service monitoring rules (AFCEN) of which EDF and Areva are members. The RCC Codes of design and construction rules have been drafted for the Design, Manufacture and Commissioning of Electrical Equipment (RCC-E), Civil Engineering (RCC-G) and Mechanical Equipment (RCC-M). A collection of In-service Monitoring Rules for Mechanical Equipment (RSE-M) has also been drafted. These Codes do not take the place of the regulations but are industrial tools which can be usefully employed as a basis for meeting the requirements of the regulations. ASN’s actions in this field are to oversee the drafting and updating of the codes and their usage in activities subject to its regulation. ASN examines the codes drafting and utilisation processes, even if it does not carry out a complete analysis of their contents. It promotes the drafting and updating of codes in areas in which it considers that this would allow better implementation of the regulations. ASN submits its comments on the use of the codes and, if it so deems necessary, sends requests for changes to the organisations responsible.