Nuclear Power Plants: Innovative Technologies for Instrumentation and Control Systems, 1st ed. 2019 The Third International Symposium on Software Reliability, Industrial Safety, Cyber Security and Physical Protection of Nuclear Power Plant (ISNPP) Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering Series, Vol. 507

This book is a compilation of selected papers from the 3rd International Symposium on Software Reliability, Industrial Safety, Cyber Security and Physical Protection of Nuclear Power Plants, held in Harbin, China on 15th?17th August 2018. The symposium discussed the status quo, technical advances and development direction of digital instrument control technology, software reliability, information security and physical protection in the process of nuclear power development. Offering technical insights and know from leading experts, this book is a valuable resource for both practitioners and academics working in the field of nuclear instrumentation, control systems and other safety-critical systems, as well as nuclear power plant managers, public officials, and regulatory authorities.

1. Prof. Yang Xu is currently an Associate Professor and a Ph.D. Advisor at the Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He received his Bachelor’s, Master’s and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University in 1998, 2000 and 2003, respectively. Dr. Xu worked for the Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology (INET) of Tsinghua University from 2003 to 2014 before returning to the Department of Engineering. Since December 2010, he served as an Associate Professor and a National Registered Consulting Engineer. His research focuses on the nuclear fuel cycle and instrument control direction. He has directed, participated in and completed several projects in this area, such as “Study on Common Cause Failure of Digital Instrument”, “Standards and Literature’s Research of Digital Control Room Modernization Program”, “Seismic Stability Design, Identification and Verification for Large LCD screen for Nuclear Power Plant”, and “Expert System for Numerical Operation of Nuclear Power Plant”. His research work has won the National Defense Science and Technology third-grade prize.

2. Prof. Hong Xia received her Ph.D. degree from the College of Power and Energy Engineering, Harbin Engineering University (HEU), Harbin, China, in 2000. She is currently the Dean of the College of Nuclear Science and Technology, HEU, and the Director of Heilongjiang Nuclear Society. Prof. Xia’s research interests include nuclear power plant safety and reliability, condition monitoring and fault diagnosis, operation simulation, system modeling methodology and signal processing. She has been awarded the national defense pre-research, national natural science fund, state key laboratory fund and many other research projects. She has received several national research awards, including the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Awards and the Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award six times.