Year
1999
Abstract
Among the needs identified during initial surveys of nuclear facilities in Ukraine was accounting software for reporting material inventories to the regulatory body. AIMAS (Automated Inventory/Material Accounting System) is a PC-based application written in Microsoft access that was jointly designed by an U.S./Ukraine development team. The design is highly flexible and configurable, and supports a wide range of computing infrastructure needs and facility requirements including situations where networks are not available or reliable. AIMAS has both English and Russian-language option for displays an reports, and it operates under Windows 3.1, 95 or NT 4.0. AIMAS functions include basic physical inventory tracking, transaction histories, reporting, and system administration functions (system configuration, security, data backup and recovery). Security measures include multilevel password access control, all transactions logged with the user identification and system administration control. Interfaces to external modules provide nuclear fuel burn-up adjustment and barcode scanning capabilities for physical inventory taking. AIMAS has been installed at Kiev Institute of Nuclear Research (KINR), South Ukraine Power Plant (SUNPP), Kharkov Institute of physics and Technology (KIPT), and the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Nuclear Safety / Nuclear Regulatory Administration (MWPNA/NRA). Facility specialists are being trained to use the application to track material movement and report to the national regulatory authority.