CLIC Curated Life cycle Inventory Collection

Nuclear electricity

Support primary EPR

Reference product Support primary EPR RER

Superseded Version 1.0.0

Stable dataset identity support-primary-epr

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Published
2026-07-15
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1.0.0
Technology maturity
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Published inventory

Overview

Process description and catalog context. View scientific metadata

Description

Simons A, Bauer C. Life cycle assessment of the Evolutionary Power Reactor (EPR) and the influence of different fuel cycle strategies. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy. 2012;226(3):427-444. doi:10.1177/0957650912440549

Dataset details

Classification, keywords, bookmarks and download counts.

Classification
Nuclear electricity (energy/electricity/nuclear)
Bookmarks
0
Raw file downloads
0
Generated export downloads
0

Classification path: Energy > Electricity > Nuclear electricity

Keywords

  • electricity
  • nuclear electricity

Bookmarking is available only on the latest published dataset record.

Metadata & sources Methods, scope, reference years, publications, contributors, projects and funding.

Source

Source documentation, background profiles and references.

Scientific journal publication

Simons, A., & Bauer, C. Life cycle assessment of the Evolutionary Power Reactor (EPR) and the influence of different fuel cycle strategies. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy. 2012;226(3):427-444. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957650912440549

Background database
ecoinvent / 3.8
Background system model
cut-off
Biosphere database
ecoinvent / 3.8

These are the stored source profiles for this version. Foreground methodology is recorded in Scientific metadata.

External references

Scientific metadata

Reference years, modelling and allocation methods, contributors, publications, projects and funding.

Declarations describe this version's foreground inventory. Missing information is not evidence of a particular allocation method or data origin.

Source publication year
2012
Inventory reference year
Not specified
Foreground modelling approach
Not specified
Allocated product inventory
Not specified
Allocation or multifunctionality treatment
Not specified
Inventory contributions
Not specified
Methodology notes
The source is a 2012 prospective assessment of Swiss/French EPRs in 2030, using mixed-vintage fuel-cycle and infrastructure data. Table 4 distinguishes CH 1500 MWe from FR 1530 MWe; the common 1500-MWe description is not valid for the French scenario. The regional RER copy is not a separately tabulated source scenario. The paper's normal-operation boundaries exclude nuclear accidents. Equipment membership is traced only through unambiguous declared foreground links; underlying bills of materials and supplier/biosphere adaptations remain incompletely verified.
Intended application
Foreground modelling of the declared EPR hardware, fuel-cycle or electricity-production configuration.
Data origins
Literature
Other fields not yet completed (9)

Data period start year, Data period end year, Valid until year, Multifunctionality applicable, Process type, System boundary, Included life cycle stages, Technology description, Use limitations

Publications (1)
Citation
Simons, A., Bauer, C. (2012). Life cycle assessment of the European pressurized reactor and the influence of different fuel cycle strategies. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy 226(3), 427–444. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957650912440549
Title
Life cycle assessment of the European pressurized reactor and the influence of different fuel cycle strategies
Doi
10.1177/0957650912440549
Url
https://doi.org/10.1177/0957650912440549
Source type
Scientific journal
Publication year
2012
Relation
Primary source
Authors
Andrew Simons; Christian Bauer · 0000-0002-1083-9200
Projects (1)
Name
Life cycle assessment of the European pressurized reactor and the influence of different fuel cycle strategies
Url
https://doi.org/10.1177/0957650912440549
Relation
Source study
Funding (1)
Organization
Axpo Holding AG
Project
Life cycle assessment of the European pressurized reactor and the influence of different fuel cycle strategies
Evidence and qualifications (7)
Target field
data_origins
Origin
Editor verification
Source reference
Existing published CLIC inventory documentation
Source location
source
Qualification
Exact documented origins; no claim that every flow is measured.
Target field
intended_application
Origin
Editor verification
Source reference
Existing published CLIC inventory documentation
Source location
source
Qualification
Source-linked modelling context; no 2030 component year or measured manufacturer inventory is inferred.
Target field
publications
Origin
Editor verification
Source reference
https://api.crossref.org/works/10.1177%2F0957650912440549
Source location
DOI registration: title, publication dates and byline
Qualification
Bibliographic details refer to this explicitly cited DOI. Existing citation text is retained, including any additional sources. Publication year does not establish the inventory reference year; publication authors are not assigned as inventory compilers.
Target field
publications
Origin
Editor verification
Source reference
https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/03eh3y714
Source location
Organization identity and registered names
Qualification
Canonical institutional identity only. Preserve historical declared spelling, departments, attribution and funding relationships; identity verification alone does not verify an award or its scope.
Target field
publications
Origin
Editor verification
Source reference
https://doi.org/10.1177/0957650912440549
Source location
Original paper/SI byline; pinned DOI registration and institutional identity evidence
Qualification
Canonical primary and legacy citations are aligned without changing freeform source, inventory source text or inventory contributors. Publication year is not a measurement/reference year. EPR underlying inventories are acknowledged to Roberto Dones and Roth et al. (2009); component quantities are not all printed in the 2012 article. Preserve each declared source role and historical affiliation.
Target field
methodology_notes
Origin
Editor verification
Source reference
https://doi.org/10.1177/0957650912440549
Source location
Table 4, source scope and acknowledgements; foreground equipment paths
Qualification
Distinguish electricity, dedicated plant equipment and fuel-cycle supply roles. Only CH/FR electricity nodes receive the explicit 2030 model year. No component measurement year, capacity factor, numeric TRL or accident-risk result is inferred.
Target field
funding
Origin
Editor verification
Source reference
https://doi.org/10.1177/0957650912440549
Source location
Source funding statement immediately before acknowledgements
Qualification
Axpo Holding AG funded the cited study. The project declaration is labelled by the paper title with relation source_study; no formal grant/acronym is invented and no funding of the CLIC adaptation is inferred.
Technology characterization Scale, utilization, production, lifetime, technology readiness and representativeness.
Commercial maturity stage
Early commercial
Design capacity
Not provided
Design capacity unit
Not provided
Capacity factor
Not provided
Annual production volume
Not provided
Annual production volume unit
Not provided
Annual production volume year
Not provided
Plant lifetime
Not provided
TRL scale Higher is more mature. 9: routine commercial deployment 8: commercial, but still niche or scaling 7: first-commercial or advanced demonstration 6: engineering-scale demonstration 5: pilot or large prototype 4: bench or lab validated 3: research-stage concept Technology readiness level
1 to 5 scale Lower is better. 1: strong market- or operating-data basis 2: commercially plausible, but still somewhat specific 3: partly representative, with modelling or adaptation bias 4: pilot, proxy-based, scaled-up, or prospective 5: weak representation of the real technology state Technological representativeness
1 to 5 scale Lower is better. 1: geography matches the claimed scope well 2: regionally credible, but broader or less exact 3: generic regional or global proxy 4: weak proxy or clear geographic mismatch 5: geography is effectively unsupported Geographical representativeness
1 to 5 scale Lower is better. 1: current for that technology class 2: slightly dated, but still good 3: dated enough to need caution 4: stale, pilot-era, or prospective relative to current practice 5: clearly not representative of the current state Temporal representativeness

Missing exchange uncertainty generation: Not requested

Representativeness scores use a 1–5 scale when provided. Lower scores indicate a closer fit to the modeled technology, geography, or time period.

Inventory & impacts 5 exchanges · exchange table, supply-chain graph and environmental screening.

Precalculated screening profile

Environmental impacts

Results per unit, using UVEK 2025 and the ecoinvent 3.10 biosphere. Exchange rows are shaded from green to red by relative contribution to the selected indicator.

Climate change 2.3295e+06 kg CO2-Eq / unit
Screening result

This screening result uses Brightpath mappings from the source background to UVEK 2025; mapped suppliers are not claims of scientific equivalence.

Show all 16 indicator totals
Acidification 6741.03 mol H+-Eq / unit
Climate change 2.3295e+06 kg CO2-Eq / unit
Freshwater ecotoxicity 5.8946e+06 CTUe / unit
Freshwater eutrophication 835.228 kg P-Eq / unit
Marine eutrophication 1691.91 kg N-Eq / unit
Terrestrial eutrophication 17899.1 mol N-Eq / unit
Human toxicity, cancer 0.00733455 CTUh / unit
Human toxicity, non-cancer 0.052531 CTUh / unit
Ionising radiation 509100 kBq U235-Eq / unit
Land use 6.6117e+06 dimensionless / unit
Ozone depletion 0.0411296 kg CFC-11-Eq / unit
Particulate matter 0.15049 disease incidence / unit
Photochemical ozone formation 7748.73 kg NMVOC-Eq / unit
Resource use, fossils 2.3288e+07 MJ, net calorific value / unit
Resource use, minerals and metals 18.4574 kg Sb-Eq / unit
Water use 621776 m3 world Eq deprived / unit
Calculation details

Profile uvek-2025-ef-v3-1-4e70d56a85b1 · artifact 4e70d56a85b1 · calculated 2026-09-30 14:01 UTC. These screening results do not replace a reviewed comparative LCA.

Dataset contents

Reference flows, emissions, technosphere inputs, and natural resources in this published snapshot.

Outputs

Reference flow 1 row Reference production exchanges extracted from the uploaded inventory.
Exchange Reference / categories Amount Unit Metadata Climate change contribution
Support primary EPR
RER
Support primary EPR
Axpo NH 5b / year technologies
1
unit
Metadata (1)
Allocation
100
 Reference flow

Inputs

Technosphere inputs 4 rows Linked foreground or background product inputs used by this dataset.
Exchange Reference / categories Amount Unit Metadata Climate change contribution
market for hot rolling, steel
GLO
hot rolling, steel
Materials/fuels
9.53e+05
kilogram
Metadata (4)
Loc
953000
Product
hot rolling, steel
Simapro name
Hot rolling, steel U
Uncertainty type
0
158318 kg CO2-Eq / unit 6.8% of total
BAFU:2025
market for steel, low-alloyed
GLO
steel, low-alloyed
Materials/fuels
9.53e+05
kilogram
Metadata (4)
Loc
953000
Product
steel, low-alloyed
Simapro name
Steel, low-alloyed, at plant U
Uncertainty type
0
2.0367e+06 kg CO2-Eq / unit 87.4% of total
BAFU:2025
market for transport, freight train
Europe without Switzerland
transport, freight train
Materials/fuels
2.10e+05
ton kilometer
Metadata (4)
Loc
210000
Product
transport, freight train
Simapro name
Transport, freight, rail U
Uncertainty type
0
3513.32 kg CO2-Eq / unit 0.2% of total
BAFU:2025
market for transport, freight, lorry, unspecified
RER
transport, freight, lorry, unspecified
Materials/fuels
1.05e+05
ton kilometer
Metadata (4)
Loc
105000
Product
transport, freight, lorry, unspecified
Simapro name
Transport, van <3.5t U
Uncertainty type
0
130931 kg CO2-Eq / unit 5.6% of total
BAFU:2025
Parameters 0 source definitions · values, formulas and uncertainty.

Read-only definitions preserved with this inventory version. Values are supplied by the source; CLIC does not evaluate formulas or recalculate exchange amounts and impact scores from them.

No parameter definitions were supplied with this inventory snapshot.

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  • Version 1.0.1 revises version 1.0.0.
  1. Version 1.0.0
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  2. Version 1.0.1
    Published

    Activity and product names for support primary EPR now use consistent catalogue spelling across the inventory and its supplier references. The physical recipe is…

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Version 1.0.1 2026-11-03 Activity and product names for support primary EPR now use consistent catalogue spelling across the inventory and its supplier references. The physical recipe is unchanged. Open version
Version 1.0.0 Superseded Published 2026-07-15 First published inventory; no earlier version is available for comparison. Current view
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