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2026 Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
Standards Program
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What’s the most difficult question you’ve been asked as a maintenance instructor?
Blye Widmar
"Where are the prints?!"
This was the final question in an onslaught of verbal feedback, comments, and critiques I received from my students back in 2019. I had two years of instructor experience and was teaching a class that had been meticulously rehearsed in preparation for an accreditation visit. I knew the training material well and transferred that knowledge effectively enough for all the students to pass the class. As we wrapped up, I asked the students how they felt about my first big system-level class, and they did not hold back.
“Why was the exam from memory when we don’t work from memory in the plant?” “Why didn’t we refer to the vendor documents?” “Why didn’t we practice more on the mock-up?” And so on.
13th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control & Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2023)
Technical Session
Monday, July 17, 2023|3:15–5:00PM EDT|301E
Session Chair:
Fan Zhang
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Edward L. Quinn
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U.S. Regulatory Efforts for Cybersecurity of Advanced Reactors
3:15–3:40PM EDT
Ismael L. Garcia (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
Paper
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The Sliding Scale of Cybersecurity Applied to the Cybersecurity Analysis of Advanced Reactors
3:40–4:05PM EDT
Lee T. Maccarone (Sandia), Michael T. Rowland (Sandia)
Development of a New IEC Technical Report on Cybersecurity Risk Management for I&C and ES in Nuclear Power Plants
4:05–4:30PM EDT
Michael T. Rowland (Sandia), Edward L. Quinn (Paragon Energy Solutions), John Sladek (Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission)
Layered Attack Surface Model for Digital Assets of Nuclear Power Plants
4:30–4:55PM EDT
Michael T. Rowland (Sandia), Jenna deCastro (Sandia), Benjamin Karch (Sandia), Andrew Hahn (Sandia), Gregory White (LLNL), Shadya B. Maldonado Rosado (Sandia)
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