CEPN is a non-profit organisation created in 1976 to establish a research and development centre in the fields of optimisation of radiological protection and comparison of health and environmental risks associated with energy systems.

The studies are undertaken by a group of a dozen of engineers and economists. The research programme is evaluated by a Scientific Council.

The association currently has three members: the French public electricity generating utility (EDF), the Institute of Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN) and the French Alternatives Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA).

CEPN is a a non-profit organisation created in 1976 to establish a research and development centre in the fields of optimisation of radiological protection and comparison of health and environmental risks associated with energy systems.

Recent publications

ISOE EG-SAM Interim Report - Chapter 7. Key Lessons learned from Past Accidents

SCHIEBER C., HAYASHIDA Y., DOTY R.

Oral Presentation at the International ISOE/NEA/IAEA/NEI Workshop on ‘Occupational Radiation Protection in Severe Accident Management: Sharing Practices and Experiences',Washington DC, USA, 17-18 June 2014.

 

Abstract

The Expert Group on Occupational Radiation Protection in Severe Accident Management and Post-Accident Recovery (EG-SAM) was established by the Information System on Occupational Exposure (ISOE) in May 2011. The overarching objective of the group is to address the experience of ISOE utilities with various occupational radiation protection management approaches in severe accidents. The final product of the group will be a report on best occupational radiation protection management procedures for proper radiation protection job overage during severe accident, initial response and recovery efforts and radiation protection lessons learned from previous reactor accidents. The interim report of the EG-SAM, which was accomplished during meetings through 2012 - 2013 and approved in the 23th Annual Session of ISOE Management Board, includes perspectives of the group and discussions on:

  • Radiation Protection Management and Organisation,
  • Radiation Protection Training and Exercises related to Severe Accident Management,
  • Facility Configuration and Readiness,
  • Overall Approach on the Protection of Workers,
  • Radioactive Materials, Contamination Controls and Logistics, and
  • Lessons Learned from the past accidents.

This presentation is a synthesis of the chapter dealing with lessons learned from past accidents. It summarizes the key lessons learned from the nuclear power plant accidents of TMI-2 (USA, 1979), Chernobyl (USSR, 1986) and Fukushima Daichi (Japan, 2011) from the point of view of occupational exposures and radiation protection.

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Exhibitions / Projects

Vous avez dit Radioprotection ?

Vous avez dit Radioprotection ?

Did you Say Radiation Protection? Stories of X-Rays, Radioactivity, etc …” is a traveling exhibition devoted to radiation protection, that is to say all the means to protect workers, the public and the environment from potentially harmful effects of X-rays and of radioactivity.

La robe et le nuage

Robe et Nuage

La robe et le nuage propose au lecteur une plongée dans le monde de la radioactivité qui n'a rien d'un pensum pour physiciens avertis. Bien au contraire, l'ouvrage, destiné au grand public, s'attache à retracer l'histoire des rayons X et de la radioactivité, ainsi que celle de son nécessaire pendant : la radioprotection. Rédigé par un spécialiste français du sujet et une journaliste scientifique, il aide à mieux comprendre la radioactivité, de La robe de Marie Curie au nuage de Tchernobyl.

ETHOS in Belarus

ETHOS en Biélorussie

Le projet européen ETHOS avait pour but d’améliorer durablement les conditions de vie des habitants des villages dont la vie quotidienne a été fortement affectée par la présence à long terme de contamination radioactive à la suite de l’accident de Tchernobyl. Il s’agissait d’une nouvelle démarche pluridisciplinaire basée sur une implication forte de la population dans l’évaluation et la gestion du risque radiologique en concertation avec les autorités locales, régionales et nationales et des experts biélorusses.