National labs eye cybersecurity threats to smaller nuclear reactors

National labs eye cybersecurity threats to smaller nuclear reactors

Physical security systems exist for traditional, big, nuclear reactors. National laboratories are now discussing how to protect small modular reactors. (Illustration by Alex Cochran for Utah News Dispatch)As states like Utah make moves to be at the forefront of the “nuclear renaissance” race, a neighboring research lab is working on ways nuclear reactors, which are becoming smaller, can be shielded from cyberattacks with help from industry exper…