NuclearNOTAM

Automated NOTAM lifecycle management + NRC reporting integration for licensed nuclear facility operators

v2.4.1 — last touched 2026-06-24 (yes again, Brennan, I know)

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What this is

NuclearNOTAM handles the full pipeline from airspace restriction drafting through FAA submission, contractor credential validation, and NRC window reporting. If you're looking for the old PHP thing Marcus built in 2019, it's in the legacy/ branch and I'd strongly recommend not touching it.

Originally scoped for a single site. Now somehow running at 14 facilities. Cool.

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Getting Started

git clone https://github.com/fastauctionaccess/nuclear-notam
cd nuclear-notam
cp .env.example .env   # fill this in, see below
npm install
npm run migrate
npm run dev

You'll need a valid NRC API credential and at minimum read-access to your facility's FSIMS endpoint. Ask Priya if you don't have the sandbox creds, she knows where they are.

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Contractor Portal Integration

As of v2.4, NuclearNOTAM connects to 47 certified vendor systems via the unified contractor portal adapter layer. Up from 31 in v2.2. Up from 12 when we started. We didn't plan for this many. It shows.

Supported integration modes:

• Push (webhook): vendor system calls us on credential events
• Pull (polling): we call them, god help us, every 90 seconds
• File-drop (SFTP legacy): three vendors still do this. you know who you are.

Certification status per vendor is tracked in vendor-registry/certified.json. Do not edit that file manually, there's a script, see scripts/recertify.sh.

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Dashboard: Airlock Queue Visualization

New in v2.4 — the real-time airlock queue visualization dashboard is live.

Accessible at /dashboard/airlock-queue once you've authenticated. Shows pending personnel queue states across all registered airlocks at your facility, with live WebSocket updates (falls back to 3s polling if WS drops, which happens more than it should — tracked in #2201, Brennan is looking at it).

Features:

• Per-airlock occupancy timeline (rolling 4h window)
• NOTAM correlation overlay — highlights queue spikes during active airspace restrictions
• Export to PDF for shift handover reports (⚠️ PDF export is slow for sites with >8 airlocks, known issue, #2217)
• Color-coded alert states per NRC guidance document REG-2024-11

The dashboard was the thing the Vogtle folks asked for back in February. Took longer than I said it would. It works now.

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NRC Reporting Window Automation

Status: stable beta

The automated NRC reporting window module handles:

• Pre-window NOTAM readiness checks (T-72h, T-24h, T-4h)
• Submission packet assembly from facility FSIMS data
• Window open/close notifications to registered facility contacts
• Post-submission acknowledgment polling + retry (max 5 attempts, exponential backoff)

Configuration lives in config/nrc-reporting.yaml. The submission_mode field accepts manual, assisted, or auto. Most sites run assisted. Auto is... available. We tested it. It works. I'd still recommend assisted until you trust your data pipeline. Actually talk to Yevgenia before switching anything to auto, she has opinions.

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⚠️ Outage Planning Migration: Microsoft Project

If your facility uses Microsoft Project for 18-month outage planning (and a lot of you do, we checked), you need to read this before upgrading past v2.3.

The migration path is not automatic.

NuclearNOTAM v2.4 introduces the native outage calendar module, which directly replaces the MSP sync adapter we shipped in v1.8. The sync adapter still works in v2.4 but is deprecated and will be removed in v3.0.

What you need to do:

1. Export your current MSP outage schedule using scripts/export-msp-legacy.py (requires pywin32, Windows only, sorry)
2. Run npm run migrate:outage-calendar -- --source=msp --file=<your export>
3. Validate the import in the UI before disabling the sync adapter
4. Set MSP_SYNC_ENABLED=false in your .env once you're satisfied

This is an 18-month planning horizon. Mistakes here are bad. Do not rush it. Do not do it at 2am. (I'm writing this at 2am and even I know that.)

Facilities still on the old sync adapter: we have 9 of you in telemetry. You know who you are. Sasha will be reaching out before the v3.0 release cycle. Don't wait for that email.

Related: if you're using the MPP binary format (pre-2016 MSP), the export script will complain. That's expected. Open the file in a modern MSP version first and re-save. Not ideal. This is what it is.

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Environment Variables

NRC_API_KEY=...
NRC_API_ENV=production
FACILITY_CODE=...
FSIMS_ENDPOINT=https://...
NOTAM_SUBMIT_URL=https://notams.aim.faa.gov/...
DB_URL=...
REDIS_URL=...
MSP_SYNC_ENABLED=false
AIRLOCK_WS_HEARTBEAT_MS=15000

There's a .env.example with sensible defaults. The AIRLOCK_WS_HEARTBEAT_MS default is 30000 but we've had better results at 15000 in high-traffic sites. YMMV.

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Deployment

We use Docker. docker-compose.yml is in the repo root. The worker service handles async jobs (NRC polling, vendor sync, PDF generation). Don't skip it.

docker compose up -d
docker compose logs -f worker   # watch for credential sync errors on first boot

For bare-metal or VM deployment, see docs/deployment-baremetal.md. It's out of date past the nginx config section but the rest is still accurate. TODO: update that doc, it's been on the list since septembre.

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Known Issues

• #2201 — WebSocket reconnect flapping on airlock dashboard under high load
• #2217 — PDF export slow for large airlock configs
• #2231 — MSP export script fails silently on files >200MB (workaround: split by outage phase)
• Vendor #38 (you know who) sends malformed ISO 8601 timestamps. We handle it but it's ugly.

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License

Internal use only. Not open source. Don't put this on a public repo. I shouldn't have to say that.

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NuclearNOTAM is maintained by the facilities integration team. For urgent issues contact the on-call rotation. For non-urgent issues, file a ticket and wait like everyone else.