Still reeling from the wake of last week’s shooting incident at a nearby naval base, the city of Pensacola, Florida now appears to be the victim of a coordinated cybersecurity attack. Speaking for the first time since the attack began over the weekend, Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson said Monday that hackers successfully breached city hall’s… Read more »
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Blue Energy for the Nuclear Idea
Blue may very well be the new green in energy. A team of Ph.D. students working in the lab of mechanical engineer Jerry Wei-Jen Shan at Rutgers University has unlocked a startling new potential for the energy sector, and nuclear power plants in particular. Colloquially known as “Blue Energy”, this idea focuses on the energy… Read more »
Cyber Security Attacks on the U.S. Electric Grid
Everything has a price. The digital age has brought all corners of the Earth within the human grasp of connection—our price, the one that we seem to be paying with increasing frequency, may well be our security: our information, intellectual property, data, etc. And this is strictly from an individual level. On an industrial and… Read more »
Technical Innovations to the Rescue of Aging I&C Rooms
Technical Innovations to the Rescue of Aging I&C Rooms Dr. Otto P. Fest Digitization of main control rooms is no longer an option for the rich and affluent nuclear power plants. The world Nuclear Power Plant fleet consists of about 350 NPP’s 35 years or older, with about 93 of them in the USA. The… Read more »
Regulatory Policies Hampering Valuable Climate Change Technology
In the ever-escalating fight for climate change policy in the United States, it may be the policies themselves that are preventing valuable technology from being sewn into progress. Racked with climate lawsuits, protests, and befuddling bills languishing in bureaucratic red tape, the clean energy debate in this country consistently overlooks a major asset in lowering… Read more »
A malicious cybersecurity threat
A malicious cybersecurity threat infiltrated one of India’s top nuclear power plants in recent days and leading security researchers have identified the Lazarus Group, a North Korean hacking team, as the culprit. Reports began surfacing Monday that the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) had been attacked by malware that… Read more »
Can a Meter/Controller Be Exempt From Cyber Security Regulation?
Tucson, AZ – Opening a new avenue for cybersecurity applications within Nuclear I&C rooms, OTEK Corporation unveils its Solid State Analog Meter (SSAM) for streamlined plug and play replacement of ANSI 4” analog meters with technology that renders this new digital panel meter exempt from cybersecurity threats. Designed without any digital assets such as microprocessors… Read more »
Universal Panel Meter – Possibilities
Tucson, AZ – Continuing to push the technological limits of metering technology, OTEK Corporation introduces its latest product line: The Universal Panel Meter (UPM) series. This unique technology has the ability to function as both a DPM as well as a Counter/Timer for a wide variety of applications across a host of industries. As strictly… Read more »
The Nuclear Energy Leadership Act & America’s Nuclear Outlook
The Nuclear Energy Leadership Act (NELA) a bipartisan proposal that currently has 13 sponsors in the House and 17 in the Senate, aims to reinvigorate the U.S. nuclear industry through investment in research, development, fuel security, workforce development, and public education. On September 20th of this year, the Three Mile Island nuclear generating station closed… Read more »
U.S. Energy Department Pushing for Nuclear Waste Storage in Idaho
As nuclear energy makes further headway into the clean energy obsession throttling planet Earth, a darker question seems to run beneath it all: what do we do with the ugly byproduct of a nuclear reaction? Where do we place of strontium-91, barium-139, barium-140, and lanthanum-140 after they’ve become enthusiastically radioactive and will continue to be… Read more »