Radioactive material transport risk management initiative: AREVA’s extensive approach to operations safety

Since 2006, when AREVA mandated its Logistics Business Unit to handle ‘Transport Risk Management’, the Unit has executed or has, at least, ensured the proper management of shipments of radioactive material, which involve particular risks. This mission is fully complementary to the strict implementation of national and international regulations regarding the safety of radioactive material transport. Taking these regulations as a starting point, the AREVA Transport Risk Management Initiative develops general principles of risk management appropriate to operations that are sensitive by nature. By applying the Transport Risk Management Initiative to the shipment of radioactive materials, AREVA has widened the precautionary principle beyond the field of safety and radioprotection: accomplishing safe transport necessarily implies the identification and management of all risks inherent in these operations (safety, physical protection, media pressure, geopolitics, etc.). The guiding principles currently i...