Current Initiatives

USA Nuclear provides leadership and technical support to INL's Science and Technology Directorate for the Light Water Reactor Sustainability (LWRS) Program Physical Security Initiative. The ultimate deliverable for this effort is a validated method to update and optimize the physical security regime at U.S. nuclear power plants, evaluate the LWRS initiative and provide the technical basis for an optimized plant security posture that promises reduced conservatisms and potential cost savings across the commercial nuclear industry.

USA Nuclear supports the Cyber Division within INL’s National and Homeland Security Directorate with the development, integration and coordination of cyber security content to assist the DOE/NNSA and other national laboratories with nonproliferation initiatives.  Activities include evaluation of critical infrastructure cyber security, complex incident response scenarios to physical protection systems, cyber and physical threat assessment, and analysis of the impact of physical and cyber threats across critical infrastructure sectors on a grand scale.