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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Powering the future: How the DOE is fueling nuclear fuel cycle research and development
As global interest in nuclear energy surges, the United States must remain at the forefront of research and development to ensure national energy security, advance nuclear technologies, and promote international cooperation on safety and nonproliferation. A crucial step in achieving this is analyzing how funding and resources are allocated to better understand how to direct future research and development. The Department of Energy has spearheaded this effort by funding hundreds of research projects across the country through the Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP). This initiative has empowered dozens of universities to collaborate toward a nuclear-friendly future.
Shannon Eggers, Andreas Enqvist (Univ of Florida)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 1105-1114
The modernization of industrial control systems (ICS) in critical infrastructures has created new vulnerabilities associated with coordinated cyber and physical attacks. Current modeling techniques for identifying these attacks at Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs) are either oversimplified or focused on cyber-only or physical-only attacks. The goal of this paper is to provide insights on simultaneous cyber and physical attacks at NPPs. An attack in which adversaries create a Small Break Loss of Coolant Accident (SBLOCA) while at the same time launching a false data injection attack to mimic normal data and prevent NPP shutdown is discussed. False data injection attack scenarios using NPP real-time process data are also provided.