Year
2023
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Abstract
A proper accounting system is among the pillars that structure the Euratom safeguards
implementation. Accounting declarations from nuclear operators are also crucial for the
preparation of the many reports required under France's nuclear non-proliferation
commitments, to the European Commission, AIEA safeguards agreement or national
regulation. Among its missions, IRSN (Institute for Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety), as
technical support for CTE (Euratom Technical Committee, the French authorities‘
representative for Euratom) is responsible for managing and processing accounting data
from operators for national and international declarations. In order to optimize the process
of preparing these declarations and ensure long-term data storage, IRSN is currently
developing a new informatic platform called ICEBERG (Intégration de la Comptabilité
Euratom en Base pour l’Etablissement des Rapports sur les Garanties). Partially funded by
the French recovery plan, ICEBERG firstly consists of a module which integrates
accounting declarations, both from national and international regulations, with syntactic
and semantic controls. ICEBERG will also build numerous reports by aggregating data
from both regulations, with respect to each report formalism and requirements. In order to
simplify the analysis, the tool will automatically highlight discrepancies and major changes
in each final report. Besides, a request module will allow the user to extract information
from the databases. Overall, ICEBERG contributes to the reliability and durability of
accounting declarations from French nuclear operators. The tool also allows for more
efficient and secure reporting.
This paper presents the framework and objectives of the new ICEBERG tool. Then, its
structure and the reflection around the management rules will be discussed.