Developing New Radioactive Waste Management and Analysis System Using Extreme Programming

摘要

In Taiwan, Fuel Cycle and Materials Administration (FMCA) of the Atomic Energy Council is in charge of issuing the license for the safely treating, transporting, storing, and disposing radwaste construction, storage and disposal of low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) for the entire island. For the effective implementation of tight restraints and understanding of nuclear power plant LLRW radioactivity, Institute of Nuclear Energy Research (INER) with the cooperation of FMCA developed Radioactive Waste Management and Analysis System (RWMS) for updating original Microsoft EXCEL analysis file system. Besides original Microsoft EXCEL analysis file and statistical grid and graphic display functions, RWMS had a few new functions such as input data check mechanisms and estimate surface dose rate modeling were provided. Although most of requirements were clear before implementation, the development team allowed user added or changed requirements during coding phase via extreme programming development lifecycle. The paper concludes with a report on the development process of INER’s first experiences regarding the use of extreme development for the construction of advanced information system. Result indicated extreme programming is flexible and very suit for small project use. However, RWMS database also provided extensibility and compatibility easy to integrate with other radioactive waste database or digital file via computer network. The development team plans to use data mining with association rule to predict LLRW radioactivity and Web service technology for network communication in the next coming version.