Nuclear Fuel Cycle Information System

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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) - started early in the 1970s to collect information on nuclear fuel cycle facilities around the world. When Ron Shani joined the IAEA in 1996, the system was transformed to be a major information system. The idea was to create a computerized system to collect and disseminate trustable information on nuclear fuel cycle facilities around the world. A new system was astablished and is available on the internet to the public since 2000 - http://www-nfcis.iaea.org. The system was named The International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Information System (NFCIS). Main effort was to collect information from as many as possible data sources, including country submissions, as well as open source information. As of 2001, NFCIS contains information on all major nuclear fuel cycle facilities around the world, as well as selected important laboratories. Areas of interest: uranium mining, conversion facilities, enrichment facilities, fuel fabrication facilities, spent fuel storage facilities (wet and dry) and reprocessing facilities.

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