WOW! Nuclear Information Management Team

WOW! Maybe I'll ask this team to get INPO Significant Event Report SER 76-84 and put it into the open literature so that we may have it. Anyway, the following showed up in GOOGLE when I tried to find the mailing address for the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO). (Way back, our grade schools taught the discipline of diagramming sentences; I've tried that exercise on the following, and it is almost hopeless.)

Nuclear Information Management Strategic Leadership

The Nuclear Information Management Strategic Leadership (NIMSL) Community of Practice is the leadership team responsible for serving as a focal point for nuclear Information Management activities associated with the sub-process of Information Management as identified in the Standard Nuclear Performance Model. These sub-processes currently include: Records Management, Document Control, Procedures, and Office Services Activities. The Standard Nuclear Performance Model is a comprehensive model that includes Institute of Nuclear Power Organizations (INPO), Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) process descriptions and provides a consistent basis for describing how work is done at nuclear power plants for process areas. It also enables plants to compare their methods to those of other plants to determine efficiency and cost-effectiveness. The model was published in 1998 and is maintained and updated by the Electric Utility Cost Group (EUCG) and NEI; reference the Standard Nuclear Performance Model for a listing of process and sub-process areas. The Information Management Community of Practice (sub-process SS003) was formed in August 2002, reference Charter; this Community of Practice is supported by INPO.

An NEI Nuclear Records Benchmarking Report (SS003) was completed and issued in 2002. The NIMSL Committee was also formed in 2002 with a subsequent process modeling project resulting in the publication of July 2003 NEI report, AP-907 – Information Management Process Description. This report describes the processes and performance measures associated with the management of information at nuclear power plant facilities. NIMSL projects and subsequent white papers and published reports fall under the umbrella of AP-907; these documents can be viewed under Publications.

NIMSL focuses on information sharing, promoting common interests and issues, coordinates a consistent direction in industry-wide Information Management initiatives, and serves as a forum for communications with Special Issues Groups such as: Nuclear Information and Records Management Association (NIRMA), Utility Procedure Development Association (UPDA), Information Technology and Configuration Management Communities of Practice, as well as the following: EUCG, NEI, and INPO.