The National Assembly rejected the controversial nuclear safety reform at first reading.
This text aimed to eliminate the IRSN to melt it in part in the Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN), the police station.
However, since the 2000s the French system has separated expertise, at IRSN, from regulation, at ASN, with the idea that experts are freer in their opinions if they themselves do not have to make potentially costly decisions based on this advice, such as plant shutdowns or repair plans.
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The staff representatives of IRSN, the expert institute in France for nuclear safety, promised to be dismantled by this government reform, had called on the deputies to reject this project on Wednesday evening, which according to them threatens "the robustness of risk
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