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ANS announces 2025 Presidential Citations
One of the privileges of being president of the American Nuclear Society is awarding Presidential Citations to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding effort in some manner for the benefit of ANS or the nuclear community at large. Citations are conferred twice each year, at the Annual and Winter Meetings.
ANS President Lisa Marshall has named this season’s recipients, who will receive recognition at the upcoming Annual Conference in Chicago during the Special Session on Tuesday, June 17.
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.