World Nuclear Association Blog

New redesigned WNA website

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WNA has relaunched its public website, with a new design, new content and new features. 

Central to the new design is WNA's Information Library, containing comprehensive coverage of all aspects of nuclear energy, country policy and the broader uses of nuclear power.

A new categorisation and menu system allows easier access to related papers. For example, all the country profiles can be viewed on one page. Another example is our page showing all our Nuclear Fuel Cycle info papers.

Country profiles are also among those pages that benefit from greater links with WNN. Pages show the latest related WNN news articles, updated live.

A new section Nuclear Basics answers some of the key questions on nuclear energy in succinct documents designed to provide some of the main facts in an accessible form.

The WNA section brings together content covering the wide range of activities carried out by the association. There is information about WNA itself, news about our ranged of conferences, details on our many publications and links to the network of other nuclear associations and some of the broader energy organizations.

 

Improvements to the WNA reactor database

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The WNA reactor database has been upgraded to improve the display of information for multi-reactor sites. Before this update the icons for reactors on the same site overlapped unless the map was zoomed in close enough to separate them. This meant that when, for example, searching for all the reactors in one country only the details for the one reactor at each site would be shown when clicking on the icons.

The new update now shows one icon for each site at wider zoom levels. Clicking on these icons brings up a pop-up list of all reactors at that site relevant to your search. You can click on the name of any of the reactors in the list to be taken to the individual page for that reactor.

 

Site map

 

The list of reactors shown will match the search criteria used. If your search was for operating reactors in the UK then the list for Sizewell would only show Sizewell B.

When zoomed in the icons for each reactor now reflects its operating status. Clicking on each icon will show brief details for that reactor, again, clicking on the reactor's name in the pop-up will link to a page with full reactor details.

 

Reactor icons map

The different icons used are:

 

 Planned Planned
 Suspended Suspended indefinitely/Cancelled
 Under Construction Under Construction
 Construction Suspended Construction suspended
 Operating Operating
 Not operating Not operating
 Shut down Shut down

 

The icons are placed near to their respective reactors, rather than directly on top, in part to avoid obscuring the reactors.

More upgrades to the database are being developed and should be released over the coming months.

Responding to the Fukushima Accident

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Since 11 March 2011 the World Nuclear Assocation has been actively involved in dealing with press enquiries and requests for interviews, as well as providing our own news service through WNN. We have also produced a new Fukushima Accident information paper, as well as updating our existing information papers on relevant topics, such as the safety of nuclear power plants.

We have collected our news articles and links to relevant pages of the WNA Public Information Service on this Fukushima Portal page.