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AREVA Views on Infrastructure Assessment

Andrew Teller

Senior Reactor Marketing Advisor

AREVA

andrew.teller@areva.com

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General Statement

AREVA welcomes this initiative aiming to facilitate the orderly access to peaceful nuclear energy by countries with no or little previous experience in this area

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Some Additional Comments

Milestones Document NG-G-3.1 proceeds in the IAEA’s typical way: very thorough and systematic

AREVA remains at the disposal of prospective customers to provide information enabling them to progress to the status of knowledgeable customer

Many actions referred to in NG-G-3.1 are to be documented in a report

These report chart the roadmap leading to the status of

knowledgeable nuclear operator (milestone 3)

Especially for phase 1, stating the problem in terms of

deliverables can help the journey towards reaching phase3

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Proposed deliverables of phase 1

Policy document explaining reasons for choosing nuclear energy as part of the country’s energy mix

Document(s)

identifying all the necessary actions to be undertaken by

the candidate country to reach phase 3

quantifying the efforts required by these actions

confirming the country’s commitment to undertake the

said actions and providing details on route to be followed

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Desired status prior to answering an Invitation to Tender (phase 2)

Signature of the International legal instruments governing nuclear activities (see list of Conventions in §5.1 of document NG-T-3.2)

Evidence of phase 1 having been achieved (see above-mentioned deliverables), including

Presence of a national, independent, Nuclear Safety

Organization

Human resources development under way

Financial background to potential contract such that credit insurance can be obtained

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The Particular Case of Export Control

AREVA would expect the government of the importing country to institute a legislative framework requiring its companies to implement an Internal Compliance Programme (ICP)

This ICP implies for each company concerned:

Compiling a comprehensive set of policies and procedures for the staff in charge of international procurement

Nominating an Export Control Officer supervising the import operations of the company

Implementing a suitable education programme for its staff

Instituting internal audits (to be performed by a body independent from international procurement) to verify actual compliance with the policies and procedures adopted

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Note on Human Resources Development

Although the problem might be more acute for new entrants, having skilled staff in sufficient numbers is a concern for every country in the current context of the Nuclear Renaissance

New entrants must bear in mind that they will not need only Ph Ds in nuclear engineering:

workers skilled in mechanics, electricity, welding, etc. are

also important and likely to be in short supply

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Concluding remarks

AREVA is happy to take the IAEA Milestones methodology as the basis for assessing the “nuclear-worthiness” of potential customers

AREVA would appreciate some form of confirmation by the IAEA, as a neutral organization mustering the necessary expertise, that a given country has made sufficient progress on the road to nuclear-worthiness

In this respect, self-assessment is considered as a tool for

speeding up the acquisition of expertise by the candidate

countries, not as evidence of expertise having been acquired

Self-assessment exercises and/or IAEA evaluations can highlight areas where faster progress is desirable

The concerned country can expedite the process through

hiring the services of experts in the areas to be addressed