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September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Startup looks to commercialize inertial fusion energy
Another startup hoping to capitalize on progress the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has made in realizing inertial fusion energy has been launched. On August 27, San Francisco–based Inertia Enterprises, a private fusion power start-up, announced the formation of the company with the goal of commercializing fusion energy.
12th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2021)
Technical Session
Thursday, June 17, 2021|10:00–11:45AM EDT
Session Chair:
Katya Le Blanc (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Jamie B. Coble
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Mich Leana (ANS)
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Integration of the Asherah NPP Simulator into a Closed-Loop Digital Twin Environment for Cybersecurity Assessment
R. Busquim e Silva (IAEA), J.R.C. Piqueira (Univ. of Sao Paulo), R. P. Marques (Univ. of Sao Paulo)
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Development of a Hardware-in-the-Loop Fancy Testbed to Support Cybersecurity Research, Training, and Education for Nuclear Power Plants
Fan Zhang (Univ. of Tennessee), Christopher Spirito (INL), Ronald Boring (INL), Stacy Baskin (Southern Nuclear Operating Co.), Jamie Coble (Univ. of Tennessee), Scott Ruoti (Univ. of Tennessee)
Developing a Compact Cybersecurity Testbed Using Raspberry Pi Emulated PLC
Fan Zhang (Univ. of Tennessee), Trent Payne (Univ. of Tennessee), Blake Childress (Univ. of Tennessee)
Automated Cyber Security Testing Platform for Industrial Control Systems
Andrew Hahn (Sandia National Laboratories), Daniel R. Sandoval (Sandia National Laboratories), Raymond E. Fasano (Sandia National Laboratories), Christopher Lamb (Sandia National Laboratories)
Creation of a Condenser Testbed for Hardware in the Loop Testing Using the Asherah Simulator
Joel Strandburg (Univ. of Massachusetts Lowell), Collin Duffley (Univ. of Massachusetts Lowell), Sukesh Aghara (Univ. of Massachusetts Lowell)
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