The provisions of this sub-section apply to the nuclear activities defined in Article L. 1333-1 covered by one of the regimes mentioned in Articles L. 1333-8 or L. 1333-9, subject to specific provisions to the contrary in one of these regimes. Activities exempted under the regimes mentioned in Articles L. 1333-8 or L. 1333-9 are not subject to the provisions of this sub-section.
I. – The deliberate dilution of radioactive substances, including waste, materials and effluents contaminated by such substances, in order to comply with a requirement, a threshold or a limit is prohibited. II. – A specific authorisation for dilution may be issued, by way of derogation, by the competent authority for the purposes of reuse or recycling.
I.-The person responsible for a nuclear activity shall demonstrate that his activity complies with the principle of justification set out in 1° of Article L. 1333-2 , taking into account : 1° The protection of the interests mentioned in Article L. 1333-7 ; 2° The effectiveness or potential consequences of the nuclear activity, process, device or substance, as well as its effectiveness in relation to the information available concerning other…
In order to implement the principle of optimisation defined in 2° of Article L. 1333-2, the person responsible for the nuclear activity or the competent authority may set dose constraints for the exposure of the general public to ionising radiation expressed in terms of individual effective or equivalent dose. These constraints may not exceed the dose limits laid down in Article R. 1333-11. The person responsible for the nuclear activity…
I.-For the application of the limitation principle defined in 3° of Article L. 1333-2, the effective dose limit for exposure of the general public to ionising radiation resulting from all nuclear activities is set at 1 mSv per year, with the exception of the specific cases mentioned in Article R. 1333-12. II – The equivalent dose limit is set for : 1° The crystalline lens: 15 mSv per year ;…
The dose limits defined in Article R. 1333-11 do not apply to persons subject to the following exposures: 1° Exposure of patients as part of a diagnosis or therapeutic treatment based on ionising radiation from which they are benefiting, as provided for in I of article L. 1333-18 ; 2° Exposure of persons who, having been informed of the risk of exposure, voluntarily and privately participate in the support and…
Nuclear activities are subject to authorisation: 1° In which radioactive substances are deliberately administered to persons as part of medical practices or to animals as part of veterinary practices, as well as in the context of research in these two fields; 2° operation and dismantling of any basic nuclear facility or secret basic nuclear facility referred to in II and IV of Article L. 1333-9; 3° the operation and closure…
I.-Ionising radiation sources and batches of radioactive sources are classified in category A, B, C or D as defined in Annexes 13-7 and 13-8. The person responsible for a nuclear activity shall inform the competent authority responsible for protection against malicious acts of the classification of the sources or batches of sources that he holds or uses. II – The person responsible for a nuclear activity may request that his…
I.-The person responsible for a nuclear activity shall implement all the means within his competence and reasonably possible, taking into account the current state of technical knowledge and economic and societal factors, to achieve and maintain an optimum level of protection of the interests mentioned in Article L. 1333-7 and, in particular, those relating to the protection of the general public against ionising radiation arising from the performance of his…
I.-The operator of a nuclear activity discharging significant quantities of radionuclides into the environment in its effluents shall propose discharge limit values to the competent authority, taking into account : 1° the use of the best available techniques under technically and economically acceptable conditions ; 2° the characteristics of the installation 3° its geographical location 4° Local environmental conditions; 5° the estimated doses received by the potentially exposed population. The…
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