Transcript Citizen Vigilance on Radioactivity A.C.R.O. a French Non Governmental

Association
pour le Contrôle
Citizen Vigilance on
Radioactivity
de la Radioactivité
dans l'Ouest
Association
pour le Contrôle
de la Radioactivité
Laboratoire Indépendant
dans l'Ouest
d‘Analyse de la
Radioactivité
138 rue de l’Eglise
14200 HEROUVILLE ST CLAIR
a French Non Governmental
Organization
A.C.R.O.
tél. : 02.31.94.35.34
fax : 02.31.94.85.31
www.acro.eu.org
[email protected]
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ACRO : presentation
Created just after the Chernobyl disaster,
 a citizen approach,
 a non governmental organization practice,
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 an independent laboratory.
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ACRO : its aims
ACRO 's missions :
 To inform the population, their representatives, and
authorities,
 Particularly for people who worry about problems of
environment, health, radioactive waste and emissions,
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 To provide reliable information.
For these reasons, ACRO is really :
 a citizen structure for alarm and vigilance
But ACRO has not for objective :
 to substitute itself for the action of the authorities of control
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the structure
ACRO : Its tools
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Communication
tools
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Active participation of about 25 volonteers :
- Monitoring of environment
(samples collection),
- Scientific support
(measurement, radiological studies
…),
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- Providing information (public
meeting, school intervention,
magazine, internet),
- Structure administration, day
by day organisation (accounting,
secretary …).
5 salaries carry out the day
by day functioning of the
laboratory
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The measurement activity
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- Beta-gamma emission by gamma
spectrometry (environment and
foodstuffs contamination …),
- Tritium in water by liquid scintillation,
- Mean concentration of radon in the air,
- Ambient dose rate.
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ACRO : which actions ?
Various form of monitoring :
 Particulars investigations to answer individual or
families worries,
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 Alternative assessment when an independant
laboratory is needed,
 Regular monitoring of the environment around nuclear
facilities,
 Specific assessments, Radio-ecological studies,
 Operational checking in abnormal situation (incident)
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ACRO : which practices ?
Indeed associative practices :
 Active participation : Citizens are involved as volonteers.
The investigations and monitoring actions are
carried out "with" civil society and not "for".
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But it needs a quality-assurance approach :
 Internal Quality procedures (tracability, controls..),
 Participation to inter-comparison tests,
 Official accreditation of the laboratory.
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In the beginning : Independent laboratory
were not accepted
"Nuclear : the laboratories war "
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137Cs concentrations in Ste Helène sediments
Inter-comparison protocol
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"ACRO's Laboratory was right"
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1997, beginning of a participative process
For instance, ACRO took part (or still takes part) among
others :
 in the GRNC (North Cotentin Radio-ecological Group) : risks of
leukomonia in north Cotentin,
in the work of the higher Concil on Nuclear Safety and Information
(CSSIN) especially in the setting up of a seriousness scale about
radioactive matter transport,
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 in the expert group from the "Societé Française de Radioprotection"
(SFRP), commissioned by the international Radioprotection committee,
 in the rating of admissibility of public survey dossiers on COGEMA's
reprocessing plant and Andra within the group of experts
commissioned by the French Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN),
 in Local Information committees on nuclear plants (CLI),
 in the European SAGE project
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Stakeholder involvement : our point of view
 It’s not a problem of information [ through what operators accept to
give their (selective) information ],
 It’s not a problem of communication [looking for the best mean to
present a project as acceptable],
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 It’s clearly a question of democracy in an actual context where we
observe the limits of the elective democracy [the “NIMBY” syndrome is
partly a consequence of the absence of participative democracy],
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 So, we are really in the field of a pluralistic expertise which is
one of the conditions essential for public credibility
 In any case it mustn’t be presented as a social process for
public acceptance.
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Participative
approach ..
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.. an ACRObatic
position
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Exemple of regular monitoring by ACRO
Program « RIVIERE » : Citizen vigilance
and independant monitoring of the
environment
Baie d’Ecalgrain
La Hague
Anse des Moulinets
Fermanville
St-Valéry-en-Caux
Fécamp
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St VaastLe Havre
La Hougue
Carteret
Port-en-Bessin
Granville
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exemple of citizen vigilance : Post incident checking
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Incident du 18 mai 2001 à l’établissement COGEMA-La Hague …
Incident du 18 mai 2001 à l’établissement COGEMA La Hague …
Transfert
Transfert dans l’alimentation - 1
4000 à 30000
Bq/jour
60
kg/jour
8 à 60
Ft = 2.10-3
Bq/kg/jour
viande
< 0,03
Ft = 1.10-6
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70 à 500
Bq/kg frais
May 2001
Ruthenium incident
at Cogema La Hague
Bq/L/jour
lait
de la Radioactivité
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Ft : Facteur de transfert à l’équilibre entre la nourriture (herbe) et le
produit animal (données de l’enquête publique Cogéma–La Hague, 1998).
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… Répercussions sur l’environnement & Évaluation du terme source
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Since 2004 participation at the CORE Programme
In the contaminated
territories of Belarus
On the 2 topical projects :
- Radiological Quality,
- Education and memory
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to contact us :
ACRO
138 rue de l’Eglise
F-14200 Herouville Saint Clair
Association
Tel : +33 2 31 94 35 34
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de la Radioactivité
dans l'Ouest
WWW.acro.eu.org
e-mail : [email protected]
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