Georgia Tech Researchers Awarded $1M for Nuclear Energy Project
Congratulations! Dr. Fan Zhang has been awarded $1 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for a nuclear energy research project through the Nuclear Engineering University Program (NEUP) as a co-PI. With the lead PI, Dr. Shaheen Dewji, the lab will start working on the project “Risk-Informed Consequence-Driven Hybrid Cyber-Physical Protection System Security Optimization for Advanced Reactor Sites.” The project aims to develop an expanded methodology for designing a novel risk-informed cybersecurity-integrated physical protection system (PPS) framework for advanced reactor (AR) concepts that serve to reduce the operational costs for the life of a reactor against that of a traditional light water reactor PPS design, promoting efforts to credit safety features of advanced reactors through proposed amendments to current security regulations while integrating health and economic consequence analyses.