2024 Faculty Courses School of Environment and Society Department of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering Graduate major in Nuclear Engineering
Nuclear Plant Cyber Security Exercise
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Nuclear Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Hiroshi Sagara / Chi Young Han / Satoshi Matsuura / Toshiki Fukui / Ryosuke Doi
- Class Format
- Exercise (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Intensive
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- NCL.O608
- Number of credits
- 010
- Course offered
- 2024
- Offered quarter
- 2Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 17, 2025
- Language
- English
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
Cyber security and its measures important in nuclear power plant security, consequence of cyber incident and its response are taught by lectures, table top exercise, and hypothetical incident response exercise with plant simulator at Mitsubishi Heavy Industry on August 28th - 30th.
Course description and aims
Understanding the importance of cyber security in nulcear power plant, and also understanding the basis of practical ways of response to cyber insidenses.
Student learning outcomes
実務経験と講義内容との関連 (又は実践的教育内容)
Prof. Sagara, an expert and practical operator of nuclear non-proliferation and security at Tokyo Tech, Prof. Matsuura, an expert and practical work in center for cybersecurity research and education at Tokyo Tech, and Mr. Fukui, an expert in cyber security of noclear power plant at Mitsubishi Heavy Industry are the lecturers.
Keywords
Cyber security, Nuclear power plant, plant simulater exercise
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
It will be held as 3-day intensive exercise at Mitsubishi Heavy Industry, Kobe city in the latter half of August.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Current situation of cyber insident and the needs of measures of cyber security | Student can explain the current situation of cyber insident and the needs of measures of cyber security |
| Class 2 | Inoformation system security of nuclear facility and its regulation | Student can explain the inoformation system security of nuclear facility and its regulation |
| Class 3 | Information system and control system | Student can explain information system and control system |
| Class 4 | Control system security | Student can explain the control system security |
| Class 5 | Cyber insident detection, response and recovery exercise | Student can understand and explain Cyber insident detection, response and recovery through exercise. |
| Class 6 | Hypothetical exercise with nuclear power plant simulator (1) | Student can understand the cyber security response practically by the hypothetical exercise with nuclear power plant simulator (1) |
| Class 7 | Hypothetical exercise with nuclear power plant simulator (2) | Student can understand the cyber security response practically by the hypothetical exercise with nuclear power plant simulator (2) |
Study advice (preparation and review)
Textbook(s)
None.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
It will be announced during lectures.
Evaluation methods and criteria
The evalation is performed based on attitude during the exercise, performance of presentation, and report after the exercise.
Related courses
- NCL.N407 ： Nuclear System Safety Engineering
- NCL.O401 ： Nuclear Non-proliferation and Security
- NCL.O609 ： Nuclear Plant Physical Security Exercise
- NCL.N410 ： Nuclear Reactor Physics, Radiation Measurement and Nuclear Security Laboratory
- NCL.O610 ： Nuclear Disaster Response Exercise
Prerequisites
There is a limitation of the acceptable number of students due to the capacity limit. The selected students will be annouced after your enrollement during June.
Other
This exerise is under the program of Advanced Nuclear 3S Education and Training in Cyber-Physical Space(ANSET-CP)
http://www.zc.iir.titech.ac.jp/anset-cp