By Christina Lords | Editor-in-Chief
“We want to build it in such a way that if somebody does attack them, the physics involved actually prevent something bad from happening. So no matter what you do via cyber, at worst the plant gets shut off without any external harm.” - Mason Rice, director of the Cyber Resilience and Intelligence Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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)
ENERGY
National labs eye cybersecurity threats to smaller nuclear reactors
By Alixel Cabrera
The Idaho National Laboratory hosted a nuclear cybersecurity summit in Park City looking to spur developers to start incorporating security frameworks into their reactors’ designs.
The researchers aren’t expecting the effort to take cybersecurity risks down to zero, said J’Tia Hart, Idaho National Lab nuclear nonproliferation director, but to create a methodology that aims to cause as little disruption as possible.
House Bill 93 didn’t require the Idaho State Tax Commission to compile income data beyond the number of recipients who qualified for priority access by earning 300% or below the federal poverty level. (Photo illustration by Getty Images)
EDUCATION
Idaho Tax Commission won’t release private school tax-credit data despite public records requests
By Ryan Suppe
This month, taxpayers in Texas found out how many students receiving $1 billion in private education subsidies were already homeschooled or enrolled in a private school: 70%.
Taxpayers in Idaho are still waiting to get that number from a similar private school choice program that serves nearly nine and a half times fewer students, costs $950 million less and was enacted two months earlier.
And it’s not for lack of trying.
Located in Eastern Idaho, Idaho National Laboratory is one of 17 U.S. Department of Energy labs. It is known for its work on nuclear energy, cybersecurity, AI, homeland security and defense. (Photo courtesy of Idaho National Laboratory)
COMMENTARY
With lifecycle campus plan, is Idaho getting ready to buy a nuclear waste pig in a poke?
By Jim Jones
All three finalist states will become the de facto final repositories for existing waste, as well as the 2,000 metric tons per year that the Department of Energy expects to be generated in the future, writes guest columnist Jim Jones.
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