Interactive telecommunications access by computer to design characteristics of the nation's nuclear power stations

Abstract

Computer-aided information storage and retrieval systems have been pointed to, frequently, as a means for efficient handling of large masses of data so that users of such systems can rapidly find selected specific items with a minimum degree of effort. In engineering and scientific fields (except for certain rather specialized areas), major progress toward such an objective has been limited to bibliographic sorting of technical publications by keyword search of authors, titles, or abstract context. The development of a comprehensive system to provide varied users with access to factual technical data, on a broad basis, has awaited a need sufficiently important to warrant the substantial effort required for such an undertaking.