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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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Norway’s Halden reactor takes first step toward decommissioning
The government of Norway has granted the transfer of the Halden research reactor from the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) to the state agency Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning (NND). The 25-MWt Halden boiling water reactor operated from 1958 to 2018 and was used in the research of nuclear fuel, reactor internals, plant procedures and monitoring, and human factors.
13th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control & Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2023)
Technical Session
Tuesday, July 18, 2023|3:15–5:00PM EDT|301C
Session Chair:
Fan Zhang
Alternate Chair:
Shannon L. Eggers
Session Organizer:
Vivek Agarwal
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Security Informed Safety Guidance: "If it's not Secure, it's not Safe"
3:15–3:40PM EDT
Robin Bloomfield (Adelard), Robert Stroud (Adelard), Kate Netkachova (Adelard)
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Resilience Strategy for False Data Injection Attacks Targeting Nuclear I&C Systems
3:40–4:05PM EDT
Stephen Yoo (Georgia Tech), Fan Zhang (Georgia Tech)
Wavy-Attention Network for Real-Time Cyber-Attack Detection in a Pressurised Water Reactor Digital Control System
4:05–4:30PM EDT
Abiodun Ayodeji (Bangor Univ.), Antonio Di Buono (National Nuclear Laboratory), Mokhtar Mohamed (Bangor Univ.), Iestyn Pierce (Bangor Univ.), Hafiz Ahmed (Bangor Univ.)
Assessment and Experience Using Open-Source NPP Environments for Cyber-Security Training
4:30–4:55PM EDT
Andrew Hahn (Sandia), Michael Rowland (Sandia), Shannon Eggers (INL), Christopher C. Lamb (Sandia), Romuald Valme (Sandia)
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