Nuclear Energy in Russia Sets Sail A nuclear power plant is churning through the dark cold waters of the Arctic. Bound for Russia’s Far East port city of Pevek, the Akademik Lomonosov is the first of its kind anywhere on planet Earth. Commissioned by Rosatom, the Russian State Nuclear Energy Corporation in 2007 and strapped… Read more »
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UK Nuclear Sees Business Leaders Rally
Business leaders rally around UK Nuclear. The tangled blight of nuclear energy and carbon emissions is not only an American inferno—the United Kingdom feels the flames as well, albeit with much less of the jejune political self-possession. Their citizens, their communities, and their ideologies seem much less blinded from scientific truth and common sense than… Read more »
Helping The Nuclear Industry PowerPoint
How to Modernize/Digitize Your Control Room A presentation by Dr. Otto Fest, President of OTEK Corporation. Cybersafe | NEI08-09 and Appendix B 10CFR50 and 10CFR21 Compliance 80% of Nuclear Power Plants are over 30 years old and are overwhelmed by obsolescence, inefficiency, and regulations. The meters in these facilities are inaccurate, short-lived, obsolete, and expensive… Read more »
The Cybersecurity of Riviera Beach
The Cybersecurity of Riviera Beach East of Miami, under the tropical liquid heat and along the smooth white sands nestled into the Atlantic, the small city of Riviera Beach waits idly inside a digital paralysis. The looming threat of cybersecurity attacks dropped through golden air and punctuated the city’s computer systems. In the stalled doldrums… Read more »
Instrumentation Global Market Released
Fior Markets has released a global market study report entitled Global Process Instrumentation Market 2018 by Manufacturers, Regions, Type, and Application, Forecast to 2023, which predicts exponential growth for the process instrumentation market over the next five years. Several key players that are expected to shape and drive this growth are… Read more »
Nuclear Energy Conference Addresses Global Concerns in London
Earlier this week delegates and industry leaders from around the world gathered in London to hold court on the current state of the nuclear industry. Billed as The Nuclear New Build 2019 Conference, the two-day event broached several key topics affecting today’s nuclear energy, as well as influencing its directional future. A brief overview: -Tim… Read more »
Obsolescence Hardened Bargraphs, Controllers, and More
Obsolete Meters Solution Video Highlights: History has always given us a choice: evolution or extinction. Will analog meters outlast your I&C room? Might we suggest that less is more? Our technology is simple and obsolescence hardened. Since 1974, OTEK has evolved it’s Loop-Powered technology and 45-years later, it still works! It has evolved through today…. Read more »
A Look into Security Threats Facing the Water Treatment Industry
In a recent article published in Water Technology magazine, Indegy Director of Industrial Security and cyber-defense strategies guru, Chris Grove draws attention to the types of cybersecurity threats currently facing industrial water facilities. What he extols is rather surprising—while nuclear power plants sit on a fevered pitch against cybersecurity hackers, Mr. Grove says that for… Read more »
Will the American Nuclear Industry Lose Footing?
The U.S. soil continues to be a sensational battleground for a rabidly politicized energy debate. Resting for decades on the laurels of being the planet’s leading nuclear authority, a new wave has cascaded from the shores of California to Rockport, Maine, embroiling the United States in murky questions over its nuclear future. Will the American… Read more »