The Government has tabled two amendments to the bill for accelerating new reactors, which provide for the dismantling of the Institute of Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety.
By Perrine Mouterde
The first details and the main principles set out by the government were not enough to reassure the employees of the Institute of Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN). Tuesday, February 28, a large part of them responded to a new call to mobilization to protest against the project to reform nuclear governance, which provides for the absorption of their establishment by the nuclear security authority (ASN ). At least 700 people, according to the inter -union – out of approximately 1,700 employees – demonstrated in Paris while the bill to accelerate nuclear, by which this reform must be introduced, began its examination in the assembly in the Assembly .
“Usually we are not people who descend into the street, the IRSN is a very cozy establishment, recalls Delphine Pellegrini, Cheffe of research and expertise on radioactive waste. But there, we defend our values And our job. “” It is for the heart of our profession that we are worried, abounds Jean-François Barbier, engineer in the field of safety of facilities. We have struggled for decades to build this establishment at the service of protection of citizens and to establish confidence, and in four weeks, the government destroys everything. “