​Our report "International panorama of research on alternatives to geological disposal of high-level waste and long-lived intermediate-level waste" is now available in English !

​An earthquake occurred on November 11, 2019 in the Ardèche region in Le Teil municipality at approximately 10 km to the west of the city Montelimar. The ground motion lasted several seconds in the vicinity of the epicenter and was felt by the population in the south-east of France, particularly up in Saint-Etienne, Grenoble, Lyon, Montpellier and Marseille.

IRSN and CEA presented their research activities in radiobiology, radiopathology, epidemiology and dosimetry in a tripartite seminar organized on 28-29 October 2019 by the QST-NIRS in Chiba, Japan.

Synthesis of all radiological environmental characterization data collected by the members of the National Measurement Network (RNM), the 2015-2017 report is available

​The European Commission (EC) has just published the results of its call for projects of the Horizon 2020 programme for 2018-2019. IRSN is participating in eight of the thirteen new European projects which will be launched during the year.

​Following this incident, some Selenium 75 has been released in the atmosphere and has been detected at low concentrations on aerosol filters from several air monitoring stations belonging to IRSN in the Lille area and in the northwestern part of France.

​​Jean-Christophe Niel, Director General of IRSN, was this week at the headquarters of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in Rockville, near Washington, where the annual RIC 2019 nuclear safety conference was taking place. He met with his counterparts and co-chaired the annual bilateral cooperation meeting between IRSN and the NRC.

​​​Result of the French-Japanese research project Shinrai, the report "The 3/11 accident and its social consequences - Case studies in Fukushima prefecture" analyses post accidental policy in Fukushima prefecture, particularly the questions linked to return or non-return to evacuated towns and villages.

​In March 2018, the Chair of the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee on the Safety and Security of Nuclear Facilities, set up by the French National Assembly, requested the analysis of IRSN on the nuclear safety issues associated with a strategy for managing irradiated nuclear fuel based on the storage of that fuel only in a pool or also in dry storage facilities.