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

Science and Values in ICRP Publication 111: Experience from Fukushima

LOCHARD J.

The system of radiological protection progressively developed over the past decades is a combination of scientific knowledge, ethical and social values and experience with the daily implementation of protection actions in all relevant domains. The guidance for the protection of people living in long term contaminated areas resulting from a nuclear

Oral presentation at the International Academic Conference on Radiation Health Risk Management in Fukushima, Fukushima, Japan, 25-27 February 2013.

Abstract

The system of radiological protection progressively developed over the past decades is a combination of scientific knowledge, ethical and social values and experience with the daily implementation of protection actions in all relevant domains. The guidance for the protection of people living in long term contaminated areas resulting from a nuclear accident published in 2009 by the Commission (ICRP Publication 111), are no exception to this approach. Based on the consolidated dose criteria recommended by the Commission in Publication 103 they largely take into account the Chernobyl experience and particularly its human dimension. The central role given to the involvement of stakeholders in all phases of the rehabilitation process is a key feature of the protection strategies recommended in Publication 111 to restore respectable lifestyles and livelihoods in the affected areas.

Following a review of the general framework of the ICRP Recommendations for controlling exposures during the emergency and the recovery phases of a nuclear accident, the presentation examines in greater details the advice of Publication 111 concerning :

- the criteria involved in the decision of public authorities concerning the transition from the emergency exposure situation to the existing exposure situation,

- the involvement and empowerment of the local professionals and affected population to respond to the challenges of living in a contaminated territory,

- the implementation of self help protection actions and practical radiation protection culture to complement the protection strategy of the authorities,

- the cooperation and solidarity between producers, distributers and consumers to manage contaminated foodstuffs and commodities.

This examination is made in the light of the first elements of feedback experience of the Fukushima Daiichi accident as they can be interpreted two years after.

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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.