ASN Report 2017

60 1. The principles of nuclear safety and radiation protection 62 1.1 Fundamental principles 1.1.1 Principle of licensee responsibility 1.1.2 “Polluter-pays” principle 1.1.3 Precautionary principle 1.1.4 Public participation principle 1.1.5 The principle of justification 1.1.6 The principle of optimisation 1.1.7 The principle of limitation 1.1.8 The principle of prevention 1.2 Some aspects of the safety approach 1.2.1 Safety culture 1.2.2 The “Defence in Depth” concept 1.2.3 Positioning of barriers 1.2.4 Deterministic and probabilistic approaches 1.2.5 Operating Experience Feedback 1.2.6 Social, Organisational and Human Factors (SOHF) 2. The stakeholders 67 2.1 Parliament 2.2 The Government 2.2.1 Ministers responsible for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection 2.2.2 The decentralised State services 2.3 ASN 2.3.1 Role and duties 2.3.2 Organisation 2.3.3 Operation 2.4 The consultative and discussion bodies 2.4.1 The High Committee for Transparency and Information on Nuclear Security 2.4.2 The High Council for Public Health 2.4.3 The High Council for Prevention of Technological Risks 2.4.4 Local Information Committees 2.5 ASN Technical support organisations 2.5.1 IRSN 2.5.2 Advisory Committees of Experts 2.5.3 The ASN’s other technical support organisations 2.6 The pluralistic working groups 2.6.1 The working group on the National Radioactive Materials and Waste Management Plan (PNGMDR) 2.6.2 The Steering Committee for Managing the Nuclear Post-Accident Phase 2.6.3 The other pluralistic working groups 2.7 Other stakeholders 2.7.1 The National Agency for the Safety of Medication and Health Products 2.7.2 French National Authority for Health 2.7.3 French National Cancer Institute 3. Financing the regulation of nuclear safety and radiation protection 81 4. Outlook 83