French post-Fukushima audits to cover all nuclear facilities

摘要

The post-Fukushima nuclear safety checks ordered bynFrench nuclear safety authority ASN will cover not onlynnuclear power plants but also other types of nuclear facilities,nASN officials said May 9.nThe scope of the so-called “complementary safety assessments”nwill also extend past plant hardware to cover labor,norganizational and human factor issues, including how operatorsnmaintain safety while using contractors, they said.nASN Director General Jean-Christophe Niel, briefingnreporters in Paris, said the schedule is “extremely tight” fornwhat he said is a huge amount of work for both licenseesnand regulators. For the most “important” French nuclearninstallations, their proposed safety assessment methodologiesnto be submitted to ASN by June 1 and the reports bynSeptember 15, and ASN’s review is to be submitted to thengovernment by November 15