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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Chernobyl at 40 years: Looking back at Nuclear News
Sunday, April 26, at 1:23 a.m. local time will mark 40 years since the most severe nuclear accident in history: the meltdown of Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union.
In the ensuing four decades, countless books, documentaries, articles, and conference sessions have examined Chernobyl’s history and impact from various angles. There is a similar abundance of outlooks in the archives of Nuclear News, where hundreds of scientists, advocates, critics, and politicians have shared their thoughts on Chernobyl over the years. Today, we will take a look at some highlights from the pages of NN to see how the story of Chernobyl evolved over the decades.
Technical Session|Panel|Sponsored by HFICD
Tuesday, June 18, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Jasmine H
Session Chair:
Lee Maccarone (Sandia)
Alternate Chair:
Edward L. Quinn
Session Organizer:
Jamie B. Coble
This panel will summarize an ongoing body of DOE' supported research and development efforts to provide the Nuclear Power industry with implementation and approaches to leverage advanced cybersecurity technologies for safety systems within nuclear power plants (NPPs). Digital technologies play a critical role in ensuring the reliable operation of safety systems in NPPs. Current cybersecurity regulations for operating NPPs, typically result a high reliance on hardened and secure boundaries to prevent adversary access to safety systems. The summarized research efforts detail approaches for leveraging commercial advanced cybersecurity technologies to provide sufficient inherent cybersecurity to reduce reliance on these hardened and secured boundaries. These research efforts consist of experiments that demonstrate novel approaches aimed at reducing functional (e.g., latency, reliability) and licensing impacts to safety systems through application of secure elements and other cybersecurity technologies (e.g, network monitoring, AI, ML) common in other industries. These efforts aim to support all reactor types, including domestic light water reactors, advanced reactors, small modular reactors, and microreactors. Specifically, innovation in the use of advanced cybersecurity technologies to enable several desired advances in safety systems (e.g., remote communications, monitoring, active defense), significant to advanced and small modular reactors. These reactor types will require advanced cybersecurity technologies to provide robust cryptographic mechanisms, intrusion detection and response, to defend the confidentiality and integrity necessary for remote multi-unit monitoring, reduction in sustaining costs, and enable scale-up of operations to meet domestic and international green energy and production goals, for the next generation of safety systems.
Forrest Shriver
Sentinel Devices
Trevor Taylor
Paragon Energy Solutions
Benjamin Karch
Sandia
Ismael Garcia
NRC
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