IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency

Emergency Preparedness and

Response Information

Management System

(EPRIMS)

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What is EPRIMS?

• Web-based knowledge management tool for:

• Emergency preparedness and response self-assessment

• Nuclear reactor technical information

• A database of information about a country’s arrangements and systems for managing nuclear and

radiological emergencies

• EPRIMS replaces TSA5 of RASIMS

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What are the needs that EPRIMS

respond to?

• Self-assessment • EPRIMS allows a country to measure itself against the IAEA safety

standards

• Harmonization • Knowing about other countries’ EPR arrangements helps

harmonization

• Global understanding • Sharing information on issues and challenges promotes a global

understanding

• Enhance national capabilities • Sharing knowledge on solution helps enhance national capabilities

• Better prognosis and assessment • Sharing data on reactor designs helps the prognosis and

assessment during emergencies

• It reflects the updated requirements in GSR Part 7

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Key features

• Can have multiple users within the country for easy review and coordination of self-assessment (Country coordinator/

National User)

• Can designate partner countries for sharing information

• Information is confidential until it is published

• Country Coordinator can choose with whom wants to share information after publishing

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Access to EPRIMS

• A Note Verbale (NV) has been distributed to all countries requesting designation of National

Coordinators

• All responses to this NV were positively addressed

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Designated Coordinators:

1. Albania 2. Australia 3. Austria 4. Azerbaijan 5. Belgium 6. Brazil 7. Brunei 8. Bulgaria 9. Canada 10. Chile 11. China 12. Croatia 13. Cyprus 14. Czech Republic 15. Democratic Republic of Congo 16. Denmark 17. Ethiopia 18. Finland 19. Germany 20. Ghana

21. Hungary 22. Indonesia 23. Iran 24. Iraq 25. Ireland 26. Kenya 27. Latvia 28. Lebanon 29. Lithuania 30. Luxembourg 31. Macedonia 32. Malaysia 33. Mauritania 34. Mexico 35. Moldova 36. Myanmar 37. Netherlands 38. Norway 39. Oman 40. Paraguay

41. Peru 42. Portugal 43. Romania 44. Serbia 45. Sierra Leone 46. Slovakia 47. Slovenia 48. South Africa 49. Sudan 50. Switzerland 51. Syria 52. Tanzania 53. Thailand 54. Turkey 55. Ukraine 56. United Arab Emirates 57. United Kingdom 58. Uruguay 59. Yemen

Information valid at 2016-06-01

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Links

Some useful links

EPRIMS overview:

contains file that can

help understanding

basic functions of

EPRIMS

https://iec.iaea.org/eprims

https://iec.iaea.org/eprimshttps://iec.iaea.org/eprims

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News Feed

News Feed provides:

• Announcements

• Information on

published

Modules

• Allows you to

create new

announcement

Use filter to:

• Search through

the news

• Find a specific

announcement

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My Action

My Action menu shows:

• Pending Actions - any action needed on certain Module

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My Action (cont.)

• Action History – particular Module can be chosen for history

actions

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EPR Information

Use EPR Information to:

• view modules

• modify modules

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EPR Information (cont.)

Each Module has 6

tabs:

• General – for

common info

• EPC I-V for specific

info on each category

• EPC I-V are based on

GSR Part 7

Explanation of the Module Expand this button for more

details and examples of the

Module

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EPR Information (cont.)

Options in populating

EPC:

• Not Applicable – no

facilities in the

category

• Not Enough

Information – there are

facilities, but no

information

• Nothing Specific to

Add – all the info in

general

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Color of tabs

No content in this category

Partially filled content

Fully filled content/ Not applicable/ Not Enough

Information

Before submitting a Module all tabs have to be green

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Populating Modules

• By typing or pasting text

in the text box

• It is possible to upload

image

• Tables, images and

formats can be copied

and pasted into the text

box

• System allows to attach

documents

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Performance Indicators

• Each EPC should have a

Performance Indicator, which

is the most suitable for the

populated category

Performance Indicators

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Saving options

• Save: saves current version

as draft; this draft will only

be visible to the user who

made changes

• Save as Minor Version:

creates a new version; this

version will be visible to

other country coordinators

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Assigning for editing

Country coordinator can

assign categories for

editing to other users in the

country

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Submitting a module

Different options

for sharing

Modules – to be

chosen before

submitting

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EPR Information – shared modules

Checking this

button allows

you to see all

modules shared

with you

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Report

Generate:

• National or

• Partner Country

report

Choose preferred Category

and Module

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National report - example

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Partners report

• You can create a

report for a

partner country,

by choosing

country on a

Partners menu

• It is possible to

choose

Categories and

Modules

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User management

Manage users by

Administration

menu

Or add new users

by “Add User”

button

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Partners

• Add or remove partner countries using Administration menu

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Notification

• Options for subscription – if the box is ticked you will receive

notification email on this action

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Final remarks

Every Member State is encouraged to:

• Designate one or more national EPRIMS coordinator(s)

• Take advantage of EPRIMS benefits to have an updated self-assessment of EPR capabilities and available reactor technical

information

• Provide feedback to IAEA to continuously improve the system

• Submit modules to IAEA

• Publish modules

• Share as needed relevant information at national, regional and global level

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Thank you!

URL: https://iec.iaea.org/eprims

Email: EPRIMS.Contact-Point@iaea.org>

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