2. Selection criteria

2.1 Nuclear safety criteria

The most important phase in the site selection process is the verification of full compliance with safety criteria, whether these criteria are laid down by law or regulation, or whether the project owner has chosen to impose them on himself in order to maximize the safety of his facilities.

The aim of the safety approach is to ensure the containment of radioactive materials in such a way as not to expose workers and the public to radiation, in all normal or accidental situations that the operator may encounter.

In this respect, the siting of a nuclear power plant takes two types of criteria into account:

• on the one hand, the influence of the environment on the...