Nuclear Safety Policy 2013-2016

Nuclear Safety Policy 2013-2016

T he organisational principles and actionsdefined in the Nuclear Safety Charterand applied within the group have

achieved significant improvements in terms ofnuclear safety.

In accordance with the Charter, thisPolicy sets out the group’s priorities inthe area of nuclear safety for the period2013 to 2016; this aligns with the timetablewithin the Strategic Action Plan.

The Policy covers all of the activitiesundertaken by entities of the group in itsresponsibilities as a nuclear operator, anindustrial operator and as a provider ofnuclear services in France and worldwide. Itapplies to all phases of the facility life cyclefrom design to decommissioning. It applies toboth operational activities and to all functionswhich support these activities.

The Policy incorporates recent regulatorydevelopments in France and internationally.It also takes account of the initialrecommendations following the postFukushima accident evaluation studies andreview and the recommendations of thePermanent Group of Experts to the Frenchnuclear safety regulatory body (ASN) inrelation to the group’s management of safetyand radiological protection.

The objectives envisaged are to provideassurance of a high level of nuclear safetyacross all our facilities, products and servicesand to promote a strong safety culture whichis shared by all our subcontractors so that

nuclear safety is integrated in all processes.

These objectives are founded on theprinciples of transparency and high qualitydialogue with internal and externalstakeholders together with a commitment tocontinuous improvement where ongoingreview and the sharing of experiences andlessons learnt are key drivers.

The current Policy is incorporated within theObjectives Charter of all operational units andis subject to regular monitoring at group level.It aims at ensuring that the actions taken toachieve the objectives are both appropriateand effective and that they comply with theregulations applicable to all licensed nuclearinstallations in France, referred to as INBs.

The Policy is applicable to externalcontractors and is included in all contractscovering AREVA activities defined in thisPolicy.

The group Nuclear Safety Policy and thegroup HSE Policies cover all the interestsprotected by the Law.

Luc Oursel,

AREVA Chief ExecutiveOfficer

The objectives of this

Nuclear Safety Policycover three areas:

01 SAFETY OFFACILITIES

02 OPERATIONALSAFETY

03 SAFETYMANAGEMENT

EPR construction site, Olkiluoto, Finland. August 2012.

SAFETY OF FACILITIES

Establish a group wide process to maintain the regulatorycompliance of facilities and to ensure the execution ofimprovements required by periodic reviews of safety.

Put in place proactive measures to reduce source termspresent in facilities, and in particular with regard to fire, operationalwaste and legacy waste on AREVA sites.

Ensure the performance of arrangements and activities centralto risk prevention, in particular in the areas of containment,criticality safety and radiological protectionthrough compliance with the associated safety requirements.

Strengthen the emergency planning arrangements to beimplemented in case of accidents and test these throughregular exercises.

01

IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THIS

OPERATIONALSAFETY

Develop and verify the level of safety culture of our staff andsubcontractors and increase the presence of operational managers onthe ground.

Improve the requirements and responsibilities within documentationassociated with operations and interventions on the basis of a significantinvolvement of our staff and subcontractors.

Implement robust and formal risk prevention processesto manage temporary or transitional situations, uncommon situations, orspecific risks, including but not limited to parallel activities, administrativelockout/tag-out, working with naked flames, gamma radiation, work in aradioactive environment.

Integrate human and organizational factors (HOF) inthe analysis of safety-related modifications of facilities; undertake detailedreviews of the causes of all significant events inside the group andimprove the communication and implementation of operatingexperience within all group entities.

02

POLICY, AREVA IS COMMITTED

SAFETY MANAGEMENT

Maintain an organization based on clear principles of sharedresponsibility and delegation of authority, and have in place arobust process to assess the impact on safety of any organizationalchange.

Strengthen the quality of internal audits and inspections andthe traceability of the corresponding follow up actions.

Develop the safety competencies within operational positionsand recognize the safety, health, occupational safety, and sustainabledevelopment positions through the promotion of pathways leading toqualifications and through the reinforcement of specific training.

Define the commercial policy of the group, and ensure thatconsiderations of safety requirements are fully integrated with theprocurement process including but not limited to specifications, choiceof external provider, monitoring and evaluation of the service provided.

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To assess the achievement of these objectives,AREVA has defined 7 group key performanceindicators covering each of the 3 areas of thePolicy, against which performance will bereviewed twice yearly for the General Directorate:

1 Number of significant events involving the safetyfunction of criticality;

2 Number of significant events involving loss ofcontainment1;

3 Number of people who have received an effectivewhole body dose higher than 14 mSv per year;

4 No significant events of Level 2 on the INES scale;

5 Ratio of the number of reclassifications2 by ASNto the number of significant events involving safetyand protection systems (France perimeter);

6 Ratio of the number of significant events at Level 1to the number of significant events at Level 0(incident prevention rate);

7 Proportion of new managers of facilities (with nuclearsafety, health, occupational safety and environmentrisks) who have undergone a course of formalqualification.

Three additional indicators will be monitored bythe operational units and reported once a year:

8 Rate of implementation of programs of compliance ofengineered safety and protection systems (SSCs);

8 Rate of implementation of programs of internalreviews and audits;

10 Rate of implementation of processes to monitorthe activities of external contractors according tothe group’s directive.

1 Including events leading to a stress/demand on a secondaryconfinement system.

2 Including ASN requests following an inspection.

GROUP KEYPERFORMANCEINDICATORS

GLOSSARY

Criticality safety: This is the study andcontrol of conditions to protect in normal, inci-dent or accident conditions against the occur-rence of an accident of criticality due to anuncontrolled nuclear fissions reaction.

Effective dose: This is the sum of internaland external exposure of an individual toradiation (the energy received and the effectsrelated to the type of radiation). It sums theeffects on the whole body of an individual bytaking into account differences of sensivitybetween different organs. It is expressed inmillisieverts (mSv), a subunit of the sievert (1Sv = 1,000 mSv).

Equipment important for the protection(EIP) of the people and environmentunder the legal framework: Concept intro-duced by the INB Order (France) or the natio-nal licensing regulation, which followed theconcept of Safety-related Equipment. The EIPand the associated defined requirementsmust be identified and their list must be upda-ted by the operator; the latter must put inplace an adequate organization to ensure thequalification of the EIP and the compliancewith the defined requirements.

External contractor: Physical or legal entity,other than the operator and its employees,implementing operations or supplying goodsor services which contribute to an activity oran EIP or a planned action required by the INBOrder in connection with such an activity. Thecontractors and subcontractors, the researchstaffs and the users are concerned in particu-lar according to the INB Order (France).

Facility with Safety Health OccupationalSafety Environmental aspects: these are inparticular nuclear sites, sites with facilitiesrepresenting major manmade risk per Sevesoregulations, operating mine sites, plant siteswith facilities subject to public inquiry.

Nuclear safety: Encompasses all of thetechnical provisions and organizational mea-sures pertinent to the design, construction,operation, shut-down and decommissioningof regulated nuclear facilities, as well as thetransportation of radioactive materials, inorder to prevent accidents and limit theirconsequences.

Significant event: Event having a real orpotential impact on nuclear safety or occupa-tional safety of the facility or on the environ-ment (natural or human), being subject to adeclaration to the competent regulatoryAuthorities.

AREVA supplies solutions forpower generation with less carbon. Itsexpertise and unwavering insistence onsafety, security, transparency and ethics aresetting the standard, and its responsibledevelopment is anchored in a process of continuousimprovement.

Ranked first in the global nuclear power industry,AREVA’s unique integrated offering to utilities coversevery stage of the fuel cycle, nuclear reactor design andconstruction, and related services. The group is alsoexpanding its operations to renewable energies – wind,solar, bioenergy, energy storage – to be one of theleaders in this sector worldwide.

With these two major offers, AREVA’s 47,000employees are helping to supply ever safer, cleaner

and more economical energy to the greatestnumber of people.

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