ASN Report 2017

355 ASN report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2017 Chapter 12  - EDF Nuclear Power Plants available technologies in technically and economically acceptable conditions, taking into consideration the characteristics of the installation, its location and the local environmental conditions. ASN also sets the rules concerning the management of detrimental effects and the impact on health and the environment of the pressurised water reactor NPPs. These binding requirements are notably applicable to the management and monitoring of water intake and effluent discharge, to environmental monitoring and to information of the public and the authorities (see point 4.1 of chapter 4). In order to set these requirements, ASN bases its work on operating experience feedback from all the reactors, while taking account of operational changes (change in conditioning of systems, anti-scaling treatment, biocidal treatment, etc.) and changes to the general regulations. Finally, every year, the NPP licensees send ASN an annual environmental report which notably contains a summary of the intakes from and discharges into the environment, any impacts they may have, the significant events which have occurred and the future outlook. Oversight of waste management The management of the conventional and radioactive waste produced by the NPPs falls within the general framework of management of BNI waste. The legal framework for the management of waste applicable to French NPPs comprises Environmental protection deployment exercise, Bugey NPP, 2017. FOCUS Approval of ASN resolution 2017-DC-0588 of 6th April 2017 relative to the conditions for water intake and consumption, discharge of effluents and monitoring of the environment around PWR reactors Each ASN licensing decision setting the procedures for water intake and effluent discharge contains about a hundred generic requirements applicable to all French NPPs. These requirements concern procedures for intakes, gaseous, liquid and thermal discharges and environmental monitoring. ASN resolution 2017-DC-0588 of 6th April 2017, approved by the Order of 14th June 2017, enables these generic requirements to be grouped in a single text, improving the consistency of the requirements applicable to the French NPPs. It proposes no major change to the content of the requirements currently applicable. The content of certain requirements currently appearing in the licensing decisions may have changed, however, in particular in order to clarify what ASN requires or to add new provisions. This resolution, which has been applicable since 1st January 2018, constitutes a minimum regulatory platform that ASN will build on in each licensing decision, if additional requirements concerning management of intakes and discharges prove to be necessary in the light of the specific features of the site and its environment.