This "summons", made public, is not customary for the Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN), responsible for monitoring French power plants. However, it was by press release that it announced Friday that it had summoned the director of the Golfech nuclear power plant in Tarn-et-Garonne to explain the malfunctions noted on the site.
The interview with the ASN director general took place on January 27. The head of Golfech was criticized for "deficiencies in the implementation of reactor operating operations and a lack of systemic rigor in the recording and traceability of activities relating to the maintenance of installations".
This rise of suspenders follows the control visit carried out on the site in October 2019, a few days after a classified incident of level 2 (on a scale which counts 7).
Too superficial incident analysis
ASN also points out that "the risk analyzes prior to the activities presenting safety issues may be insufficient, even non-existent, and that the analyzes of the causes of significant events occurring in the facilities are often too superficial".
In summary, the director of the plant is requested to "better identify, in order to remedy, the organizational causes of the malfunctions".
The next ten-year inspection of a reactor at this power station, which supplies about half of the electricity consumption in the Occitanie region, is scheduled for 2022.
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