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Institution-Specific Classes of Records

General Projects
Description: Information regarding general project management, administrative, and engineering activities including records associated with the management of an engineering project, program or pre-project. Includes information about general engineering, supply chain documentation, engineering science and technology, inspections, tests, examinations, heavy water inventories, administration, implementation studies.
Document Types: contracts, statements of work, proposals, evaluation criteria, memoranda, procedures, policies, schematics, studies, and reports.
Record Number: AECL 001

Sites and Improvements
Description: Information regarding nuclear power plant site or general site information for other facilities including layout, security, maintenance, geology, climatology and sewage systems. Includes information about: property acquisition, site preparation and reclamation, site access systems, site security, site improvements and maintenance, on-site transportation, facilities, existing services: protection, relocation and maintenance.
Document Types: contracts, statements of work, proposals, evaluation criteria, memoranda, procedures, policies, schematics, studies, and reports.
Record Number: AECL 002

Buildings and Structures
Description: Information regarding buildings, other structural work associated with the physical nuclear power plant, station facilities and other facilities. This includes building arrangement, equipment arrangement, construction materials, structural concrete, steelwork, special equipment and architectural features. Includes information about: reactor building, turbine building, cooling water structures, reactor auxiliary building, control buildings, service buildings, project structures, auxiliary structures, ancillary structures.
Document Types: contracts, statements of work, proposals, evaluation criteria, memoranda, procedures, policies, schematics, studies, and reports.
Record Number: AECL 003

Reactor, Reactor Systems and Auxiliary Systems
Description: Information regarding nuclear systems, equipment, materials and system design activities for a reactor or for nuclear steam supply systems in a nuclear power plant or nuclear facilities. Includes information about: reactor, moderator and auxiliary systems, heat transport and auxiliary systems, auxiliary systems, fuel handling and storage, steam generator systems, fuel, water management.
Document Types: contracts, statements of work, proposals, evaluation criteria, memoranda, procedures, policies, schematics, studies, and reports.
Record Number: AECL 004

Turbine - Generator and Auxiliaries
Description: Information regarding systems and equipment for power generation particularly those related to the conveyance of steam, and the return of the steam condensate to the power plant. Includes information about: turbine-generators and auxiliaries, turbine-generator, condenser and extraction air systems, feedwater and auxiliary steam systems, auxiliary systems.
Document Types: contracts, statements of work, proposals, evaluation criteria, memoranda, procedures, policies, schematics, studies, and reports.
Record Number: AECL 005

Electric Power Systems
Description: Information regarding systems, equipment and activities related to electric power supply and distribution systems. For nuclear power plant, this refers to systems within the confines of the plant site. Includes information about: main station connections, standby generators, distribution systems, group 2 distribution systems, lighting and building service systems, cabling system, grounding and cathodic protection.
Document Types: contracts, statements of work, proposals, evaluation criteria, memoranda, procedures, policies, schematics, studies, and reports.
Record Number: AECL 006

Instrumentation and Control
Description: Information regarding Instrumentation and Control systems, equipment and activities which are used to monitor, record, enunciate and control of nuclear power plant or facilities. Includes information about: site instrument systems, buildings and structures, instrumentation, reactors, reactor systems and auxiliary systems, turbine generators and auxiliaries, controls for electric power systems, control centre, common processes and services, safety systems.
Document Types: contracts, statements of work, proposals, evaluation criteria, memoranda, procedures, policies, schematics, studies, and reports.
Record Number: AECL 007

Common Processes and Services, Non-Nuclear
Description: Information regarding all common or non-nuclear processes and services required for the operation of a nuclear power plant and facilities. This includes water systems, heating, cooling and ventilation systems, material handling and radioactive waste management. Includes information about: water systems, group 2 water systems, heating, cooling and ventilation systems, miscellaneous common services, compressed gases, material handling, maintenance facilities, miscellaneous systems and equipment, and radioactive waste management.
Document Types: contracts, statements of work, proposals, evaluation criteria, memoranda, procedures, policies, schematics, studies, and reports.
Record Number: AECL 008

Construction
Description: Information regarding temporary and semi-permanent facilities and services as well as modularization design. Includes information about: first costs, operation and maintenance, equipment rental, site management and engineering, miscellaneous accounts, modules/pre-fabricated assemblies and inventories.
Document Types: contracts, statements of work, proposals, evaluation criteria, memoranda, procedures, policies, schematics, studies, and reports.
Record Number: AECL 009

Operations and Commissioning
Description: Information regarding activities related to the commissioning and operation of nuclear systems and equipment including that for a nuclear power plant. This includes operation, maintenance, fuel handling and safety. Includes information about: operating, maintenance, chemistry, fuel handling, health and safety, nuclear safety and licensing, technical/commissioning/engineering and planning.
Document Types: contracts, statements of work, proposals, evaluation criteria, memoranda, procedures, policies, schematics, studies, and reports.
Record Number: AECL 010

Equipment in Nuclear Facilities & R&D Labs
Description: Information regarding non CANDU NPP equipment in nuclear facilities and processes in a nuclear site, including safeguards, handling of radioactive materials, shielded facilities, environmental protection, radiation protection, waste management and decommissioning. Includes information about: equipment for management and transportation of radioactive and nuclear materials, heavy water and tritium production and management, facilities and equipment, isotope production facilities and equipment, hot cells, shielded facilities (includes isolation rooms), fume hoods and glove boxes, fuel fabrication equipment and facilities, waste management systems and equipment, decontamination and decommissioning facilities, systems and equipment, R&D facilities and equipment, other equipment and facilities.
Document Types: contracts, statements of work, proposals, evaluation criteria, memoranda, procedures, policies, schematics, studies, and reports.
Record Number: AECL 011

Computer Programs
Description: Information pertaining to all scientific, design, analysis and engineering codes. Includes information about general Computer Programs, AECL code management panel (CMP), AECL code centre, AECL computer program change control board (CPCCB), configuration management (general), software quality assurance (general), thermodynamic calculation code suite.
Document Types: contracts, statements of work, proposals, evaluation criteria, memoranda, procedures, policies, schematics, studies, and reports.
Record Number: AECL 012

Research & Development Programs
Description: Information regarding R&D subjects such as heavy water production and management, reactor and radiation physics, fuel, fuel channels, thermal hydraulics, reactor components and systems, and reactor safety. Includes information about: radiological and environmental sciences, emissions and waste management, heavy water production and management, reactor and radiation physics, fuels, thermal-hydraulics, reactor safety, reactor components and systems, and fuel channels.
Document Types: contracts, statements of work, proposals, evaluation criteria, memoranda, procedures, policies, schematics, studies, and reports.
Record Number: AECL 013

Decommissioning
Description: Information associated with the Decommissioning of all components of a nuclear site. Includes information about: Decommissioning power plant, Decommissioning facilities, Decommissioning buildings, Decommissioning areas, decommission equipment and decommission structures.
Document Types: contracts, statements of work, proposals, evaluation criteria, memoranda, procedures, policies, schematics, studies, and reports.
Record Number: AECL 014

Products and Services
Description: Information pertaining to products groups and individual Products and Services provided to external customers. Includes information about: control and instrumentation, fuel products, fuelling machines, retubing, fuel storage and disposal.
Document Types: contracts, statements of work, proposals, evaluation criteria, memoranda, procedures, policies, schematics, studies, and reports.
Record Number: AECL 015

NRU Research Reactor
Description: This class of records includes documents and records pertaining to the NRU Research Reactor. Includes information about basic reactor design, shell, thermal shields, concrete steel supports, thermal columns, experimental and instrumental, fuel rods, control rods, physics, j-rods, special irradiation facilities, rod handling facilities, rod assembly and storage, heavy water system, helium system, cooling water system, ventilation, control and instrumentation electrical, movable equipment for experimental facilities (flasks), test equipment for inspection, start-up and mock-up, start-up experiments, fuel rod transportation facilities, reactor models, communications, radiation monitoring, chemical cleaning systems, vertical heavy water pumps oil system, carbon dioxide system, tritium hazard vacuum system, water supply and drainage (excluding process water), compressed air, service vacuum, steam, outside services and buildings, fast neutron facilities, corrosion test loop, irradiated fuel tomographic scanner (IFTS), new emergency core cooling (NECC), NRU water purification skid.
Document Types: contracts, statements of work, proposals, evaluation criteria, memoranda, procedures, policies, schematics, studies, and reports.
Record Number: AECL 016

AECL Business Processes, Procedures & Management Documents
Description: This area includes documents associated with the Company's business processes such as program manuals and procedural documents as well as other documents and general correspondence associated with business processes. Includes information about: markets and customers, vision, strategy and corporate plans, the development and design of products or services, marketing, production and delivery of products or services, after sales-customer support, development and maintenance of nuclear technology, facility management, nuclear laboratories, materials and associated liabilities, environmental protection, human resources, external relationships, operational performance, improvements and change management.
Document Types: contracts, statements of work, proposals, evaluation criteria, memoranda, procedures, policies, schematics, studies, and reports.
Record Number: AECL 017