Electronic Data Collection for AECL NRU Research Reactor

Abstract

An Electronic Data Collection program has been implemented at AECL’s National Research Universal (NRU) Reactor to assists in the collection, trending and monitoring of system parameters.Prior to the implementation, daily surveillance was performed by Operators using hardcopy reading sheets. This was not conducive to proactive monitoring of equipment health as there was a significant delay from when the data was recorded to when it was accessible for trending.The electronically collected data allows for close to real-time monitoring of 971 unique instruments and approximately 7,200 data points per day. There are currently over 1,000,000 readings available in the database.