TY - GEN
T1 - Nicsim
T2 - 2020 International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, ICONE 2020, collocated with the ASME 2020 Power Conference
AU - El Genk, Mohamed S.
AU - Schriener, Timothy
AU - Altamimi, Ragai
AU - Hahn, Andrew
AU - Lamb, Christopher
AU - Fasano, Raymond
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2020 Sandia National Laboratories (SNL)
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Digital Instrumentation and Control (I&C) systems in critical energy infrastructure, including nuclear power plants, raise cybersecurity concerns. Cyber-attack campaigns have targeted digital Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) used for monitoring and autonomous control. This paper describes the Nuclear Instrumentation and Control Simulation (NICSim) platform for emulating PLCs and investigating potential vulnerabilities of the I&C systems in nuclear power plants. It is being developed at the University of New Mexico's Institute for Space and Nuclear Power Studies (UNM-ISNPS), in collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), with high fidelity emulytics and modeling capabilities of a physics-based, dynamic model of a PWR nuclear power plant. The NICSim platform would be linked to the SCEPTRE framework at SNL to emulate the response of the plant digital I&C systems during nominal operation and while under cyber-attack.
AB - Digital Instrumentation and Control (I&C) systems in critical energy infrastructure, including nuclear power plants, raise cybersecurity concerns. Cyber-attack campaigns have targeted digital Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) used for monitoring and autonomous control. This paper describes the Nuclear Instrumentation and Control Simulation (NICSim) platform for emulating PLCs and investigating potential vulnerabilities of the I&C systems in nuclear power plants. It is being developed at the University of New Mexico's Institute for Space and Nuclear Power Studies (UNM-ISNPS), in collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), with high fidelity emulytics and modeling capabilities of a physics-based, dynamic model of a PWR nuclear power plant. The NICSim platform would be linked to the SCEPTRE framework at SNL to emulate the response of the plant digital I&C systems during nominal operation and while under cyber-attack.
KW - Digital instrumentation and control
KW - Modeling and simulation
KW - Nuclear plant cybersecurity
KW - PWR nuclear plant
KW - Programmable logic controllers
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85095453682&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1115/ICONE2020-16756
DO - 10.1115/ICONE2020-16756
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85095453682
SN - 9784888982566
T3 - International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, Proceedings, ICONE
BT - Nuclear Policy; Nuclear Safety, Security, and Cyber Security; Operating Plant Experience; Probabilistic Risk Assessments; SMR and Advanced Reactors
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Y2 - 4 April 2020 through 5 April 2020
ER -