IAEA Competition: Innovative Data Visualization of Operating Nuclear Power Plants

PRIS, developed and maintained by the IAEA for over five decades, is a comprehensive database focusing on nuclear power plants worldwide. PRIS contains information on power reactors in operation, under construction, and those being decommissioned. All information and data items are collected by the IAEA via data providers nominated by national governments. That makes PRIS the only publicly available, comprehensive and official nuclear power database in the world.

The database includes reactor specification data such as status, location, operator, owner, suppliers, milestone dates and technical design characteristics; and performance data including energy production and energy loss data, outage and operational event information.

Monthly production and power loss data have been recorded in PRIS since 1970 and are complemented by information on nuclear-power generated energy provided to non-electrical plications, such as district heating, process heat supply or desalination. PRIS also provides information relating to the decommissioning process of shutdown units.

A set of internationally accepted performance indicators has been developed for calculations with PRIS data. The indicators can be used for benchmarking, international comparison or for analyzes of nuclear power availability and reliability according to reactor type, country or worldwide. The analyzes can, in turn, be plied to evaluations of nuclear power’s competitiveness compared to other power sources.

For full access to the PRIS database, contact PrisAdmin.

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