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Country Nuclear Power Profiles (CNPP)

Custodian: Sung-Kuk Cho

The CNPP covers background information on the status and development of nuclear power programmes in countries with nuclear plants in operation and/or plants under construction, and in countries actively engaged in planning such programmes. It reviews the organizational and industrial aspects of nuclear power programmes in participating countries, and provides information about the relevant legislative, regulatory and international frameworks in each country. The CNPP list current issues in the new environment in which the electricity and nuclear sector operates, i.e. energy policy, privatization and deregulation in these sectors, the role of government, nuclear energy and climate change, and safety and waste management, which differ from country to country.

Electronic Catalogue on Training Services in the Nuclear Field (ENTRAC)

Custodian: Alexey Kazennov

ENTRAC, the Electronic Nuclear Training Catalogue is maintained by the IAEA Division of Nuclear Power to provide nuclear industry specialists with information that will help them and their organizations to continually improve and learn from others. ENTRAC contains information collected by both the IAEA and nuclear industry organizations in many areas of the nuclear sector such as training, human resource management, human performance, management systems, various phases of a nuclear facility life cycle, and engineering/technology. The ENTRAC library, information on training courses, workshops, meetings and conferences, actual needs of the nuclear industry organizations, useful web links, data on training organization, and an effective search mechanism provide a framework for networking and sharing experiences. Unique knowledge from various workshops, meetings and projects is being preserved and used by nuclear industry managers and specialists from nuclear power plants and other nuclear facilities, regulatory bodies, technical support and training organizations, suppliers, governmental agencies and international organizations. ENTRAC supports the efficient preparation and organization of various IAEA meetings and training events to meet the needs of IAEA Member States.

Nuclear Economic Performance Information System (NEPIS)

Custodian: Xiaoping Li

NEPIS includes detailed annual operation, maintenance and capital cost data. The database, developed on a functional basis, comprises four parts: information on stations and plants, and detailed information on functional cost accounts for non-outages and outages. The detailed functional cost accounts are divided into operations, maintenance, support services, plant administration, total direct costs, total indirect costs and capital costs. Each cost account is further broken down into resource categories that include labour, materials and outside services. Additional data on nuclear power plant performance indicators such as capability factors, energy availability factors, energy production, refuelling outage durations and cost information (e.g. capital, insurance and decommissioning) are included; some of this information is imported from the IAEA Power Reactor Information System (PRIS).

NEPIS is open for participation to all nuclear power plant operators and utilities in the world, committed to providing relevant data. NEPIS contains annual data of more than 90 nuclear power plants as of 1990. The data were provided by NEPIS participants and EUCG members. The actual size of the NEPIS database contributes to the level of statistical confidence with which users can do analysis and benchmarking. Efforts are made to develop a web-based database for data collection, which will be more effective and convenient to use.

Power Reactor Information System (PRIS)

Custodian: Jiri Mandula

PRIS is a comprehensive data source of nuclear power reactors in the world. It includes specification and performance history data of operating reactors as well as reactors under construction and those being decommissioned.

The reactor specification data consist of basic information, such as location, operator, owner, suppliers, and milestone dates, and technical characteristics of design. The performance data include energy production and loss data as well as outage and operational event information.

Since 1970, the monthly data on production and power losses have been recorded in PRIS. Recently the electricity production data were complemented by information on energy provided by nuclear power plants to non-electrical applications, such as district heating, process heat supply or desalination. Information about the decommissioning process of shutdown units has been also incorporated into PRIS.

Due to detailed classification of energy losses and comprehensive outage coding system, a set of internationally accepted performance indicators are calculated from the PRIS performance data. The indicators can be used for benchmarking, international comparison or analyses of nuclear power availability and reliability from reactor specific, national or worldwide perspectives. These analyses can be utilized in evaluating the competitive advantages of nuclear power compared with other power sources.

PRIS outputs are available in annual publications, on the public PRIS website, and to registered users through on-line applications.

“Nuclear Power Reactors in the World”, published since 1981, is one of the most popular annual publication of the IAEA. The publication “Operating Experience with Nuclear Power Stations in Member States” has been published since 1971; it includes comprehensive information about operational experience of each individual reactor unit. A regularly updated CD enables the local installation of a PRIS database snapshot. Registered users have on-line access to PRIS through the query system PRIS-PC or through web-based applications supporting data collection and performance indicator reporting.

Accelerator Driven Systems Database (ADSDB)

Custodian: Alexander Stanculescu

The database includes information about accelerators, research and development of accelerator driven systems, particularly applications in the partitioning and transmutation of nuclear waste. The database contains information on existing and planned experimental facilities that can be used for accelerator driven systems related R&D, as well as the R&D programmes themselves, and the methodologies used (codes and data).

Desalination Economic Evaluation Program (DEEP)

Custodian: Ibrahim Khamis

The DEEP software was developed by the IAEA to assess economic aspects of nuclear desalination plants. It includes several power and heat production technologies that can each be coupled to different desalination technologies. Based on input such as desired water production capacity and basic cost parameters including water transport and carbon tax costs, DEEP then calculates plant performance and gives cost estimates for both electricity and water.

Fast Reactor Database (FRDB)

Custodian: Alexander Stanculescu

The database contains plant design and structural data and plant parameters (reactor physics, thermohydraulics, etc.) of about 30 liquid metal fast reactors (LMFRs). The focus is on practical issues that are useful to engineers, scientists, managers and university students and professors with information on the following topics: general information; core and blanket: layout, geometry and characteristics; fuel design and performance; control rods and control drive mechanisms; main and auxiliary heat transport systems and components; shielding, containment and safety features; control systems; fuel handling systems including refuelling operations and in-service inspection provisions.

Nuclear Power Plant Simulators for Education

Custodian: John Cleveland

To assist Member States in nuclear education and training, the IAEA sponsors the development of nuclear reactor simulators for education which operate on personal computers and simulate responses of a number of reactor types to various conditions.

The simulators are designed to provide insight and understanding of the general design and operational characteristics of various power reactor systems. They are neither full scope simulators for operator training, nor are they for detailed design or safety analyses. However, they do provide the general response characteristics of HWRs and LWRs, and have very illustrative screens to provide the plant response information in an interesting way; this helps motivate students to learn about nuclear power plants. Six different NPP Simulators are available for distribution covering different types of reactors, including pressurized water reactors, boiling water reactors and heavy water reactors.

Thermo-physical Properties Data Base of LWRs and HWRs (THERPRO)

Custodian: Seong Gyun Moon

The THERPRO database is a web-based online database on materials for light and heavy water reactors, providing material properties to the registered/authorized users in IAEA Member States. The THERPRO database is owned by the IAEA and managed by the IAEA's Designated Centre for Nuclear Materials Properties Database Management, located at Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.