NOMIS: trading information in the trenches

Since the fall of 1977, NUS Corporation has been quietly bringing together nuclear power plant operations and maintenance personnel through a program called NOMIS - the Nuclear Operations and Maintenance Information Service. As the nae indicates, the program is a source of information on the day-to-day operating, maintenance, and technical problems that occur at the plant level. Typical questions that circulate through NOMIS involve problems with specific components or systems, spare-part usage experience, differences in procedures or methods of operation or maintenance, plant staffing structure, data to justify management decisions, responses to inspection and enforcement bulletins or circulars, scheduling recommendations, and person-hour forecasting for specific work