IAEAInternational Atomic Energy Agency

iNFCIS-MADB Minor Actinide Property Database

Harikrishnan TulsidasNuclear Fuel Cycle and Materials Section

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Outline

• iNFCIS• NFCIS

• UDEPO

• PIE

• MADB

• NFCSS

• MADB

• Future plans

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• Member States(Contact Points)

• Consultants• IAEA Meetings• Reliable

Publications

Information

• Easy navigation

• Search capabilities

• Summary reports

• Country nuclear fuel cycle profiles

• Long term nuclear fuel cycle requirements for different scenarios

Internet

• Nuclear power projections

• Nuclear fuel cycle options

• Reactor physics calculations

Inputs

NFCIS : Nuclear Fuel Cycle Information System

UDEPO : World Distribution of Uranium Deposits

PIE : Post Irradiation Examination Facilities

NFCSS : Nuclear Fuel Cycle Simulation System

MADB : Minor Actinide Property Database

Integrated Nuclear Fuel Cycle Information System

http://www-nfcis.iaea.org

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One stop data access for nuclear fuel cycle related databases

Integrated Nuclear Fuel Cycle Information System

http://www-nfcis.iaea.org

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iNFCIS Useage

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MADB Usage

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iNFCIS Usage Reasons (2004-2008)

29%

20%14%

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Academic/Educational

Having general information about nuclear fuel cycle and materials

Evaluation of nuclear fuel cycle activities in the world

Industry analysis/statistics

Preparation of technical documents/reports

Other

10, 042 registered users

iNFCIS users

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• Directory of Civilian Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities

• Milling, conversion, enrichment, fuel fabrication, spent fuel storage, heavy water production, zircaloy facilities

• Annual update through questionnaire to officially nominated contact points

• Access on the internet with search and filter capabilities

• Tecdoc publishedin 2009

Nuclear Fuel Cycle Information System (NFCIS)

677 facilities from 55 countries

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World distribution of uranium resources

    Australia 1,243,000 22.7%

    Kazakhstan 817,000 14.9%

    Russia 546,000 10.0%

    South Africa 435,000 8.0%

    Canada 423,000 7.7%

    United States 342,000 6.3%

    Brazil 278,000 5.1%

    Namibia 275,000 5.0%

    Niger 274,000 5.0%

IAEA /OECD NEA Uranium 2007: Resources, Production and Demand

Others 941,000 17%

Total 5,469,000 100%

iNFCIS - UDEPO

Data of 1217 uranium deposits from 72

countries

http://www-nfcis.iaea.org

Total 19,740,600 tU

tURed Book

Undiscovered Resources: 7,771,100 tU

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• Database on uranium deposits

• General, technical and geological descriptions

• Data update through consultants

• 1217 deposits in 72 countries

• Access on the internet with search and filter capabilities

• IAEA-TECDOC-1629 published 2009

World Distribution of Uranium Deposits

UDEPO

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• Catalogue of PIE Facilities

• Created in 1990s, published as a working material in 1996

• Transformed into an electronic database in 2003

• Merged with EC HotLab Database in 2008.

• Casks information was added from EC HotLab database

Post Irradiation Examination Facilities Database (PIE)

39 facilities from 20 countries and 19 casks

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• Bibliographic database on thermodynamic and thermomechanical properties of selected compounds and alloys of minor actinides

• 10 materials groups covered: Alloys, Carbides, Elements, Halides, Molybdates, Nitrides, Oxides, Phosphates, Tungstates

• Minor Actinides covered: Np, Am, Cm

982 data sets

Minor Actinide Database (MADB)

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• Scenario based simulation system for the estimation of long-term fuel cycle material and service requirements

• Capable of calculating actinide accumulations

• Database for the historical data

• Tecdoc published in 2007

Nuclear Fuel Cycle Simulation System

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Nuclear Fuel Cycle Simulation System

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Background

MAs remain in spent fuel

Highly radioactive and very long half-life

P&T systems decrease the radioactivity of the spent fuel as well as produce energy

Physico-chemical properties of MAs

for scientific understanding of partitioning of MAs and transmuter fuels / targets

strenuous experiments due to decay products

and remote measurements

Minor Actinide Property Database

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Working group established in 2003

Electronic database and web site created in 2004

Initial data collection performed in 2004

Data reviewed by working group in 2005

Expansion and correction done in the database in 2006

Publication Committee approval in 2006

Review and test 2007 - 2008

Went public in April 2009

Background

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• Filters by

• property

• material group

• element

• author

Data list

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• Published data

• Publication information

Data Record Details

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• List of material groups

• # of data records for each material group

Material Group List

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• List of data records for selected material group

Material Group Report

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• List of publications

• Main author

• # of data records for each publication

Publications List

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• Data published in the selected publication

Publication Report

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• List of authors

• # of publications of each author

Author List

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• Publication and data published by the selected author

Author Report

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• List of properties

• # of data records for each property

Property List

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• Data published for the selected property

Property Report

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Future improvements

• Data update and expansion

• Functionality improvements – • PDF export

• New modules – • Updates of newly published data,

• RSS feeds

• Forum

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You can reach me at …

Harikrishnan Tulsidas

Nuclear Technology SpecialistNuclear Fuel Cycle and Materials SectionInternational Atomic Energy AgencyTel: (+431) 2600 22758 Fax: (+431) 26007 22758Room A26 19

Email: T.Harikrishnan@iaea.org