2025: THE YEAR ASNR WAS ESTABLISHED Ensuring the day-to-day running of ASNR On 2 January 2025, an initial set of resolutions was adopted to define roles and responsibilities within ASNR. The Commission thus approved the initial organisation of the departments as well as delegated powers, enabling the institution to begin operating and to integrate its first teams while ensuring continuity of service. These resolutions were supplemented by the adoption of ASNR’s internal rules of procedure in January. As far as budgetary and financial aspects are concerned, budget programme 235, “Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection”, now provides Parliament with a clear and unified view of the resources dedicated to this subject. The foundations have been laid for the proper functioning of the budgetary and accounting chain, and an initial framework for procurement management has been defined. A number of measures have been taken to bring the two pre-existing information systems closer together. ASNR’s single Emergency Response Centre has been set up. The arrangements for publishing expert opinions have been defined. A Scientific Director has been recruited. In terms of human resources and social dialogue, a joint ASNR body bringing together the employee representative bodies of ASN and IRSN was established in the first half of 2025. Initial steps have also been taken to define an attractive employment and skills framework for ASNR: a unified recruitment policy has been established, and a method agreement covering the timetable for renegotiating collective agreements has been signed. Finally, the Ethics and Professional Conduct Committee was set up in December. In particular, it is responsible for issuing an opinion on general matters relating to the application of the rules of professional conduct in ASNR’s departments and for answering questions relating to individual cases, in particular on the crucial issue of professional mobility. It is necessary to reconcile compliance with ethical rules, in particular the impartial exercise of the oversight mission entrusted to ASNR by the legislator, with the need to promote the attractiveness of ASNR. In a sector where specialised profiles are scarce, it is also essential to encourage mobility between ASNR and the organisations it oversees, in order to disseminate and enrich technical knowledge and safety culture across the nuclear sector as a whole. Establishing ASNR within its ecosystem ASNR has undertaken several actions to maintain and strengthen, in continuity with its two predecessor organisations, its relationships with stakeholders: licensees, government departments and public bodies, Parliament, research organisations, the academic community, civil society stakeholders, foreign counterparts and international organisations, among others. Numerous partnerships and agreements covering a wide range of areas have been signed. An initial strategy for dialogue with civil society has been established, and the associated roadmap is currently being drawn up. It will be presented to the HCTISN and then to the OPECST in spring 2026. Montrouge, 1 March 2026 The French Authority for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection (ASNR) was created on 1 January 2025, as part of the reform of the governance of nuclear safety and radiation protection oversight mandated by the Act of 21 May 2024. With just over a year’s hindsight, I can see how far we have already come in setting up this new institution, while carrying out our missions across all our areas of activity: research, expert assessment and review, and oversight. This was made possible by the commitment and dedication of ASNR staff, particularly those working in crossfunctional and support areas. I would like to thank them warmly. The work of setting up ASNR, initiated on a preparatory basis in 2024, was stepped up considerably in 2025 in the areas of finance, logistics, legal affairs, digital technology, human resources, management and communications. Continuity of operations between ASNR and the two entities that preceded it was thus ensured. The year 2025 also provided the opportunity to initiate transformations that will continue in 2026. Beyond the necessary organisational changes, the aim is to enable ASNR, guided by its strategic orientations, to fully play its role in the current context of nuclear renewal and innovation in the sector. ABSTRACTS – ASNR Report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2025 9
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