France’s nuclear safety authority has pointed to a “lack of systematic rigor” in maintenance at the Golfech nuclear power plant in Tarn-et-Garon
France’s nuclear safety authority has pointed to a “lack of systematic rigor” in maintenance at the Golfech nuclear power plant, in Tarn-et-Garonne.
The quality of work at the Golfech (Tarn-et-Garonne) nuclear power plant further “deteriorated” in 2019, the Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) announced on Monday, calling its assessment of the site’s general functioning “very poor”.
“ASN is closely monitoring what is currently happening at Golfech. It believes that the performance of nuclear safety must be a top priority for the operator, and in this capacity, it ensures close monitoring of the site until 2020,” Bertrand Frémaux, Bordeaux division of ASN, told press in a video conference -And.
“Lack of systematic rigor”
He pointed to the deterioration of the monitoring control room, and to the deficiencies in compliance with the rules in the control reactors. ASN also noted a “lack of systematic rigor” in terms of maintaining, particularly in traceability, “highly erroneous” information.
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“The year 2019 was also marked by the announcement of many safety-related events. Eight events occurred during the planned overhaul of reactor 2, including one classified as level 2” (on the 7th international disaster severity scale, atomic, Ines), emphasizes ASN. It is about the incident that happened in October 2019 during the “working” exit from the reactor.
Site recovery plan
In the field of radiation protection, “we found unacceptable situations, especially in the control of radiological cleanliness of potentially contaminated rooms”, added Bertrand Frémaux. In terms of environmental protection, efforts still need to be made, the DSC revealed “discharges of unwanted substances, non-radioactive”, including the one that flowed into the Garonne.
As a result of these numerous shortcomings, representatives of EDF management and the Golfech site were interviewed at ASN’s headquarters in Montrouge in January, as they presented their “adaptation plan” for the site, ASN said. The most recent incident, rated Level 1 at the central level, dates back to June 5. It affected the control circuit of the primary circuit of reactor 1, due to lack of maintenance.
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Located on the banks of the Garonne River between Agen and Toulouse, the plant consists of two 1,300 mw reactors that cover on average 50% of the energy consumption in the Occitania region. It was already the subject of a critical balance for 2018, ASN pointed to the “degraded” quality of the operation.
Date of update: June 15, 2020, 11:58 am
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