Adopt new technology deliberately, with eyes open.
AI, private wireless, robotics, drones, and digital OT are reshaping how nuclear facilities operate. NS-ISAC's role is to help members capture the operational upside without inheriting security debt the sector cannot afford.
Where the sector is paying attention
Each track is monitored by a member working group that produces shared guidance, risk tradeoff analyses, and adoption patterns rooted in plant operating experience.
Artificial Intelligence
AI for anomaly detection and operator assistance, with a clear-eyed view of the model integrity, data exposure, and explainability risks AI brings into the plant.
Wireless Networking
Private 5G, industrial Wi-Fi, and plant LPWAN: practical tradeoff guidance for licensed spectrum, vendor lock-in, and authentication models.
Robotics & Autonomy
Inspection robots, autonomous mobile platforms, and remote-handled tooling, and the access control, tele-operation, and failover patterns they require.
Drones & Counter-UAS
UAS for inspection and surveillance, and the counter-UAS posture needed at protected-area perimeters as commercial drones proliferate.
Digital OT
Digital twins, simulation environments, and virtualized engineering workstations: the new substrate of plant engineering, and the new attack surface.
Operator assistance, anomaly detection, and the risks that come with them
AI is finding real footholds in plant operations: helping operators triage alarms, surfacing anomalies in process data, and assisting with procedure execution. The sector needs shared guardrails before adoption outruns oversight.
Where AI helps today
Pattern detection across process historian data, alarm rationalization, and procedure-assistant tooling that reduces cognitive load on operators.
Where caution is warranted
Model integrity, training-data exposure, hallucination in operator-facing assistants, and the temptation to let AI assert authority it has not earned in the safety case.
NS-ISAC's AI governance work
Shared governance patterns covering use-case classification, human-in-the-loop requirements, model evaluation, and audit trails, informed by NIST AI RMF and adapted to nuclear operating realities.
What members are deciding right now
Private 5G vs. industrial Wi-Fi
Spectrum strategy, identity and authentication models, vendor consolidation risk, and segmentation between wireless infrastructure and plant control networks.
Robotics & autonomous systems
Tele-operation security, failsafe behaviors, supervisory access patterns, and how to keep autonomous platforms out of zones where they don't belong.
Drones & counter-UAS
Adopting UAS for inspection and surveillance while standing up detection and response for the drones the sector did not authorize.
Digital twins & simulation
Securing engineering simulation environments, including the live data feeds that make them useful and the IP that makes them valuable.
Join the community.
Membership is open to commercial nuclear operators, reactor vendors, national laboratories, and critical suppliers.