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2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
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Don’t get boxed in: Entergy CNO Kimberly Cook-Nelson shares her journey
Kimberly Cook-Nelson
For Kimberly Cook-Nelson, the path to the nuclear industry started with a couple of refrigerator boxes and cellophane paper. Her sixth-grade science project was inspired by her father, who worked at Seabrook power station in New Hampshire as a nuclear operator.
“I had two big refrigerator boxes I taped together. I cut the ‘primary operating system’ and the ‘secondary system’ out of them. Then I used different colored cellophane paper to show the pressurized water system versus the steam versus the cold cooling water,” Cook-Nelson said. “My dad got me those little replica pellets that I could pass out to people as they were going by at my science fair.”
13th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control & Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2023)
Technical Session
Monday, July 17, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EDT|301D
Session Chair:
Andrew Hahn (Sandia National Laboratory)
Alternate Chair:
Jamie B. Coble
Session Organizer:
Fan Zhang
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Lessons Learned from Performing Applied Cyber Exercises in Halden
1:00–1:25PM EDT
Bjørn Axel Gran (Institute for Energy Technology), John Eidar Simensen (Institute for Energy Technology), Per-Arne Jørgensen (Institute for Energy Technology), Espen Nystad (Institute for Energy Technology)
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Application of Zero Trust Architectures for Nuclear Power Plants: Benefits and Challenges to Implementation
1:25–1:50PM EDT
Benjamin Karch (Sandia), Andrew Hahn (Sandia), Alexandria Haddad (Sandia), Christopher C. Lamb (Sandia)
Development of Procedure for Setting Cybersecurity Exercise Scenarios in Korean NPPs
1:50–2:15PM EDT
Seungmin Kim (Korea Institute of Nuclear Nonproliferation and Control), Kibeom Son (Kyung Hee Univ.), Sejin Baek (Kyung Hee Univ.), Dohun Kwon (Kyung Hee Univ.), Gyunyoung Heo (Kyung Hee Univ.)
The IEC Standard Series on Cybersecurity for I&C and Electrical Systems in Nuclear Power Plants
2:15–2:40PM EDT
Tighe Smith (Paragon Energy Solutions), Edward L. Quinn (Paragon Energy Solutions), Ludovic Pietre-Cambacedes (EDF), Thomas Walter (Preussen Elektra), Juergen Bochtler (Siemens Energy Global)
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