Launching the new French regulatory agency

摘要

France's quasi-autonomous nuclear safety authority published its annual review for 2001 on 20 March, reflecting a restructuring of its nuclear regulatory unit completed only days before. The long-awaited reorganisation of the French national nuclear safety and radiation protection system was completed earlier this year. The Direction Generale de la Surete Nucleaire et de la Radioprotection (DGSNR) replaces the Direction de la Surete des Installations Nucleaires (DSIN), and incorporates the radiation office of the Direction Generale de la Sante (DGS), part of the radiation inspection wing of the Office de Protection contre les Rayonnements lonisants (OPRI), and part of the Permanent Secretariat of the Commission Interministerielle des Radioelements Artifeciels (CIREA). The Autorite de Surete Nucleaire (ASN) is made up of the DGSNR and its regional divisions. The ASN receives technical support from the Institut de Radioprotection et de Surete Nucleaire (IRSN, see panel on next page).