New Approach Towards Cyber Security for Nuclear Power Control System

Abstract

Digital control system of nuclear power necessitated highest safeties, whereas this safety faces challenges of untraditionally threats from network cybersecurity, Network attacks made by monstrous human intelligence are insecure, unknowable and changeable, which are serious challenges to nuclear power safety operations. Currently the network cybersecurity solutions of the digital control system in a nuclear power plant are not well advanced as according to the requirements. Based on our technology of the virtual control system and previous work, new research and development experiences, we added a new solution for network cybersecurity of digital control systems in a nuclear power plant, it run on virtual control system with the heterogeneous Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), this unique algorithm adds that if the network attacks happen, the control system can be switched to the operator manual state correctly on time. Which is the ultimate cybersecurity of the nuclear power control system and showing it’ feasibility with current state of researcher.