High Committee for transparency and information on nuclear safety. Meeting of the High Committee on the 15 September 2011. Plenary meeting

After the opinion of the High Committee on public inquiries, several Power Point contributions are proposed. They respectively propose a presentation of the itinerant exhibition 'Radioactivity from Homer to Oppenheimer', an assessment of nuclear material stocks and flows for 2009 and 2010 (depleted uranium, recycled uranium, plutonium, uranium and plutonium exports, materials generated by the supply of the EDF fleet), a presentation of the Generation IV International Forum (with a presentation of the six concepts for fourth generation nuclear reactor: sodium fast neutrons, lead fast neutrons, gas fast neutrons, very high temperature and gas, super-critical water, molten salts), a discussion on the interest of fourth generation reactors and their associated fuel cycle (the example of ASTRID), several discussions (by EDF, by the ASN, by the IRSN) on an operation accident in the CENTRACO base nuclear installation in September 2011), and a description of the participation of the Gravelines Local Information Commission to the nuclear crisis exercise in January 2011