U.S. Nuclear Plant Licensee Event Reports from NRC

Licensee Event Reports (LERs) document operational incidents at U.S. nuclear power plants, collected by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The reports cover events like transients and plant trips, searchable by plant name, event dates, characteristics, and keywords.

Use Cases

• Analyze event characteristics and plant trip frequencies across different nuclear facilities.
• Search document keywords and abstracts to identify trends in reported accident types or safety concerns.
• Study temporal patterns of LER submissions by filtering on event dates and plant names.

Strengths

• Data is provided by the authoritative Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
• Reports are searchable by multiple criteria including plant characteristics and event dates.
• Covers a specific, regulated domain of nuclear plant operational events.

Limitations

• Primary data format is PDF, requiring text extraction for structured analysis.
• Sample size, row count, and specific data fields are not provided in the input.
• Lack of structured column definitions limits immediate machine-readability.

Provenance

Source

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Collection Method

Submitted Licensee Event Reports from nuclear plant operators.

Freshness

Last updated in November 2024.

Geography

United States