ASN Report 2017

175 ASN report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2017 Chapter 06  - Informing the public and other audiences ASN publishes the twice-yearly bulletin “Healthcare safety – Building momentum for progress” , co-signed by the SFRO (French Society for Radiation Oncology), the SFPM (French Society for Medical Physics), the AFPPE (the French Association of Radiographers), and the AFQSR (French Association for Quality and Safety in Radiotherapy). Sent to 180 radiotherapy centres in France, the bulletin highlights the progress and experience-sharing approach initiated by the radiotherapy centres to enhance healthcare safety. Two new issues were published in 2017, addressing the protraction and fractionation of the delivered dose, and the place of the patient in treatment safety. 1.2.3 Professional symposia and seminars ASN participates very regularly in the congresses of the French Association of Radiographers (AFPPE), the French Radiology Days and the days of the French Society for Radiation Protection (SFRP) devoted to Radiation Protection Officers-Experts. These events provide the opportunity to interchange with specialised audiences, to enhance knowledge of the regulations (regulatory sheets and guide to the regulatory provisions relative to medical and dental radiology), to present the inspection results ( in vivo nuclear medicine, computed tomography) and to share the analysis of significant radiation protection events. In 2017, ASNorganised in Paris the first meeting of occupational physicians on account of their role in radiation protection and control of radiation doses in medical imaging. The other medical seminars focused on interventional radiology. On the initiative of ASN, a first meeting of holders of high- activity sealed sources (HASS) was held in Dijon to share experience feedback and take stock of the regulatory changes associated with integration of the security of sources. 1.3 ASN and the media ASN maintains regular relations with the regional, national and foreign media throughout the year. ASN spokespersons responded to more than 600 press queries in 2017 and gave some twenty local and national press conferences. The main subjects relating to specific facilities addressed in the press in 2017 were: ཛྷ ཛྷ the follow-ups to the detection of irregularities at the Creusot Forge plant; ཛྷ ཛྷ the EPR and the outage of Fessenheim reactor 2; ཛྷ ཛྷ the Fessenheim nuclear power plant; ཛྷ ཛྷ the safety situation of the Bugey NPP; ཛྷ ཛྷ the outbreak of fire that led to detonation on a turbine at Flamanville; ཛྷ ཛྷ the follow-ups to the fall of a steam generator at the Paluel NPP; ཛྷ ཛྷ the earthquake resistance of the facilities; ཛྷ ཛྷ the provisional shutdown of the Tricastin NPP. And for the more recurrent or general subjects: ཛྷ ཛྷ the position of ASN on the extension of operation of the NPPs ; ཛྷ ཛྷ decommissioning; ཛྷ ཛྷ the security of the NPPs following the intrusions by Greenpeace. The www.asn.fr website receives more than 50,000 individual visitors per month on average. FOCUS The ASN barometer In 2017, ASN conducted the 14th wave of its annual “barometer”. This opinion survey was carried out from late October until early December 2017 on representative samples of the general public and of the informed and professional audiences. Moreover, a sample of people living in the Off-site Emergency Plan (PPI) zone near a BNI was constituted in order to get a better grasp of the issues associated with the risk awareness culture. The results of this survey will be issued in spring 2018.