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EUROPE IN FAVOR OF GLOBAL NUCLEAR SAFTEY: a promising first step

ISSUES

Nuclear civil energy is currently being developed everywhere in Europe and in the world. Projects of new nuclear power plants are launched, however their construction and operation in nuclear “emerging” countries cannot occur in any conditions. Implementation of a worldwide nuclear safety framework started after the events in Chernobyl (various conventions since then) but it is not yet sufficient, especially with nuclear emerging countries.

With Les Entretiens européens, Confrontations Europeand ASN (French Nuclear Safety Authority)have the aim gather players from the sector, local councillors and institutional representatives from many European and non-European countries for a debate on issues raised by development of nuclear civil energy and conditions to be applied so that nuclear safety becomes a world public good.

1st round table: What are the conditions required to implement nuclear energy in emerging countries?
Is it possible to sub-contract safety? How can we guarantee the independence of safety Authorities? What kind of public supervision should be implemented?

2nd ronde table: What international framework?
What is the situation in Europe? Should we have a European safety offer? Should the Euratom’s example inspire regional safety structures? Bilateral and voluntary agreements: what kind of international supervision? How to build and develop relationship between Europe and the rest of world on safety issues? How to reinforce coordination of safety authorities in the world?

PROGRAMME

Programme, Slides and photos

INTRODUCTIONS

Claude Fischer, Director of the Entretiens européens
André-Claude Lacoste, Chairman of French nuclear safety Authority, Founding Member of INRA & WENRA

AC LACOSTE & C FISCHER

Slides AC LACOSTE

AC LACOSTE & C FISCHER

FIRST ROUND TABLE

What are the conditions required to “implement” nuclear energy in emerging countries?

CHAIRED BY:
David Stellfox, Senior Editor, Platts Nuclear Publications
WITH:
Abdellaziz Hajjani, Director Nuclear Safety and Applications Department, Ministry of Energy, Mines, Water and Environment, Morocco
Philippe Jamet, Director of the IAEA´s Nuclear Installation Safety Division
Yves Kaluzny, International Affairs and Cooperations Director, Nuclear Energy Direction, CEA
Michel Lallier, Trade unionist, CGT (to the Haut Comité pour la Transparence et l’Information sur la Sûreté Nucléaire), France
Bruno Lescoeur, Senior executive Vice-President, EDF
Fernando Naredo, Vice-President Europe Government Affairs, Westinghouse
Martina Palm, International Director, General Direction for Safety at the federal Ministry of the Environment, Germany
Cyrille Vincent, Deputy Director of Nuclear Industry, DEGC, Ministry of Ecology and Energy, France

David STELLFOX	Abdellaziz HAJJANI	Philippe JAMET
		Slides P JAMET

Yves KALUZNY	Michel LALLIER
Slides Y KALUZNY

Fernando NAREDO	Martina PALM	Cyrille VINCENT
Slides F NAREDO	Slides M PALM

HEARINGS

What European policy for nuclear safety?

Peter Faross, Director, Direction H - Nuclear Energy, DG TREN, European Commission
Guillaume Gillet, France’s Permanent Representative to the European Union

Peter FAROSS

Guillaume GILLET

SECOND ROUND TABLE

What international framework?

CHAIRED BY:
Philippe Lemaître, Journalist GPlus
WITH:
Julio Barcelo, Commissaire, Consejo de Seguridad Nuclear, Espagne
Véronique Decobert, Safety Healthcare Security, AREVA
Pierre Doumont, Director Nuclear Safety, GDF Suez
Jean-Rémi Gouze, Commissioner to the French Nuclear Safety Authority
Walter Hohlefelder, Chairman of ENEF Risk Working Group, President German Atomic Forum
Edit Herczog, Member of the European Parliament, Hungary
Yvan Pouleur, Head Department RIAD, Federal Agency for Nuclear Control, Belgium
Rianne Teule, Nuclear energy specialist, Greenpeace International, Amsterdam
Latifa Zidi, Expert for Nuclear Energy, Member of the Cabinet, Ministry of Energy, Mines, Water and Environment, Morocco

Julio BARCELO	Valérie DECOBERT	Pierre DOUMONT
Slides J BARCELO
Jean-Remi GOUZE	Walter HOHLEFELDER	Edit HERCZOG
Philippe LEMAITRE	Yvan POULEUR	Rianne TEULE
	Slides Y POULEUR
	Latifa ZIDI	Intervention L ZIDI

CONCLUSIONS

Philippe Herzog, Chairman of Confrontations Europe

MINUTES

The Minutes of the conference will lead to an issue of "L’Option n°26".
This Option, to be published in March 2009, will gather the minutes of the March 2008 conference on "Revival of Nuclear Energy" and of the November 2008 Conference on "Nuclear safety : a worldwide Public Good".

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