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The Nuclear Safety Authority in France: A Dogma of “Independence” and Institutional Fragility

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  • Saliha Hadna

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The fragility of the independence of the Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) is underlined by demonstrating the inadequacy of the parameters which are intended to protect it. Secondly, the focus is placed on transparency, presented by the safety authority as an acquired value. This transparency is in fact very limited. But, in particular, the ?provision of information? is not a sufficient condition of transparency. Finally, by using the illustrative case of the mine tailings census (Borloo circular, 2009), it is assumed that the economic logic strongly limits the conditions of production of technical knowledge for information purposes. JEL Codes: O30, K32, L16

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  • Saliha Hadna, 2017. "The Nuclear Safety Authority in France: A Dogma of “Independence” and Institutional Fragility," Journal of Innovation Economics, De Boeck Université, vol. 0(1), pages 119-144.
    • Handle: RePEc:cai:jiedbu:jie_022_0119
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    1. Julie Schweitzer & Tamara L Mix, 2022. "‘It Is a Tradition in the Nuclear Industry . . . Secrecy’: Political Opportunity Structures and Nuclear Knowledge Production in France," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 27(2), pages 504-524, June.

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    Keywords

    Nuclear Safety Authority; independence; transparency; technical ignorance; strategic ignorance;
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    JEL classification:

    • O30 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - General
    • K32 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - Energy, Environmental, Health, and Safety Law
    • L16 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics; Macroeconomic Industrial Structure

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