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Welcome to the EPRI Fuel Reliability Database (FRED). FRED is a vehicle to collect, store and report relevant fuel performance information with the specific objective to support event-free nuclear fuel performance through timely industry-wide sharing of ongoing and historical fuel performance data and events.

FRED reporting requirements are as follows:

1. Data for the cycle just completed must be entered within 60 days of concluding the refueling outage.

2. Should a fuel performance issue arise during the operating cycle; information regarding the issue shall be entered into FRED within 50 days of discovering the event.

  • If a fuel leak is detected, enter the information on the first three lines of the Fuel Inspection entry page.
  • If some other performance issue is encountered (i.e. incomplete control rod or control blade insertion), enter the information on the Other Performance Issues entry page.

To access FRED, you must first have an EPRIWeb User Name and Password. To request an EPRIWeb User Name and Password, click here. Additionally, you must contact the EPRI FRED Support by e-mail to obtain the appropriate user level classification at: FRED@epri.com. Please send messages to this address if you need help using FRED.

Registered FRED users can click the Accept button to accept the terms of this release and login:  Accept   Reject

Fuel Reliability Database (FRED) Version 8.0
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Palo Alto, CA 94304

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