About the Book
Small modular reactor (SMR) projects in the United States, Canada, and Europe are rapidly evolving into high-tech critical energy infrastructure designed to boost generation capacity while lowering construction costs and strengthening energy resilience. As SMRs adopt highly integrated digital technologies, they introduce new safety and cybersecurity challenges across their digital ecosystems. These interconnected systems form a complex digital infrastructure that must manage emerging risks tied to big data flows, autonomous monitoring, and the growing use of intelligent devices. Ensuring dependable operation requires robust architecture, secure data environments, and predictive capabilities that support continuous diagnostics, maintenance, and lifecycle management. Together, these elements define the digital backbone necessary for safe, secure, and resilient SMR deployment. Small Modular Reactor Digital Infrastructures for Safety and Security: Assessment and Provision is a critical emerging resource concerning the development of methodological foundations, models, methods and information technology (IT) to support the development of requirements, assessment and assurance of cyber security and functional safety of the SMR digital infrastructure that is presented and analyzed as an integrated system of systems. This book explores the challenges related to SMR digital infrastructure and provides the methodological foundation for SMR safety and security assessment and assurance. Covering topics such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), next-gen nuclear science, and integrated radiation safety, this book is an excellent academic resource for graduate and doctoral students, engineers, researchers, industry specialists, policymakers, and more.
About the Author :
Vyacheslav Kharchenko is a Corresponding member of National Academy of Science of Ukraine (2025), PhD (1981), Professor (1991), Doctor of Science (1995). Honor Inventor of Ukraine (1991). Leading researcher of the Department “NPP Control and Information Systems Safety Analysis” (1997-2008), Head of Computer Systems, Networks and Cyber security, National Aerospace University “KhAI”, Kharkiv, Ukraine (2001- at the present time). Head of Centre for Safety Infrastructure-Oriented Research and Analysis, RPC Radiy (2007- at the present time). President of Ukrainian Scientific and Educational IT-Society (2018- 2023). Supervisor of 63 PhD and DrS dissertations (defended). Invited researcher and professor (UK, 2004, 2016, 2017; USA, 2011; Germany, 2006; Slovakia, 2010, 2019; Greece, 2021). National coordinator and leading developer of 12 EU projects on dependable computing, infrastructure safety and green IT-engineering. General Chair of Dependable Systems, Services and Technologies (DESSERT) Conferences (2006-at present time). Author of 41 books and chapters (Springer, IGI-Global, River Publishers), 390 papers in Journals and Proceedings indexed by Web of Science and Scopus, 800+ patents,15 national and branch standards on NPP I&C and aerospace systems reliability and safety. Editor-in-Chief of International Journal “Radioelectronic and Computer Systems” (2014- at the present time). Eugene Brezhniev is Professor (2021), Doctor of Science (2017). Professor of Department of Computer Systems, Networks and Cyber security, National Aerospace University “KhAI”, Kharkiv, Ukraine (2010 - at the present time), Senior Researcher of Centre for Safety Infrastructure-Oriented Research and Analysis, RPC Radiy (2011-2015), Ukraine. QA director of RPC Radics LLC (2015-2022), Ukraine. National expert of TC 99 in the international standardization organization IEC TC SC-45A IEC TC SC-45A (working group No. 7, Functional and safety fundamentals of instrumentation, control and electrical power systems). Member of the program committee of the International Conference DEpendable System, SERvices and Technologies (DESSERT), member of the program committee of the annual International Conferences Dependability and Complex Systems (DepCoS-RELCOMEX). Have participated in more than 7 EU projects on dependable computing, infrastructure safety and green IT-engineering. Author of over 100 scientific and educational publications, including indexed by Web of Science and Scopus.
