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El Salvador: Looking to nuclear
In 2022, El Salvador’s leadership decided to expand its modest, mostly hydro- and geothermal-based electricity system, which is supported by expensive imported natural gas and diesel generation. They chose to use advanced nuclear reactors, preferably fueled by thorium-based fuels, to power their civilian efforts. The choice of thorium was made to inform the world that the reactor program was for civilian purposes only, and so they chose a fuel that was plentiful, easy to source and work with, and not a proliferation risk.
12th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2021)
Technical Session
Wednesday, June 16, 2021|2:15–4:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Fan Zhang
Alternate Chair:
Jianghai Li
Session Organizer:
Jamie B. Coble
Staff Producer:
Mary Tong (ANS)
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Finding Cyber-Attack Path Considering the Impact of the Attack by Using Page Rank Algorithm
Young Ho Chae (KAIST), Chanyoung Lee (KAIST), Poong Hyun Seong (KAIST)
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A Framework for Describing Attacker Models
Christopher Deloglos (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Ashraf Tantawy (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Carl Elks (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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Response of Programmable Logic Controllers of the Pressurizer in a Representative PWR Plant Following a False Data Injection
Timothy Schriener (Univ. of New Mexico), Mohamed S. El-Genk (Univ. of New Mexico)
Automated Scenario Generation for Cyber Risk Assessments using CICAT
Jackson Wynn (The MITRE Corp.)
Exploring Quantum Key Distribution for Nuclear I&C Cybersecurity
Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue Univ.)
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