Summary Monitoring the safety and security of nuclear installations Mr. Claude Birraux, M.P. (2nd report) (1991) This report dealing with nuclear safety, while in no way seeking to take the place of the operators or of the authorities responsible for drawing up and implementing the safety rules, examines the safety of CEA installations, from COGEMA to The Hague, as well as the maintenance problems of EDF installations. The recommendations made by OPECST cover the organisation of the government departments responsible for monitoring, the actions the operators might take, and the improvement of public participation. Some of these have already been translated into fact, for example the raising of the safety authority to the rank of a Directorate. A draft parliamentary Bill has been prepared with a view to setting up local information and surveillance committees around civilian nuclear sites. The second part of this report includes remarks on future nuclear reactors, at a time when the project of a French-German nuclear reactor is under way.