Idaho National Laboratory (INL)
Upcoming Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Events
INL is bringing together industry partners in building cybersecurity and resilience into advanced and small modular reactor (A/SMR) designs, operations, and supply chains—enabling faster deployment while strengthening trust and transparency.
Unite government, industry, national laboratories, and regulators around a coordinated strategy to accelerate the secure deployment of A/SMRs by embedding cybersecurity and resilience across reactor design, validation, licensing, and supply chain security.
Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) invite you to participate in the Grounded Reasoning and Artificial Intelligence for National Security (GRAINS) Workshop, taking place Sep. 15–17, 2026, in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
This workshop brings together experts from industry, academia, federally funded research laboratories and the U.S. Government to explore how rapidly evolving formal methods can be applied to modern AI-enabled systems. Discussions will focus on strengthening the security and resilience of U.S. critical infrastructure and national security domains.
The workshop aims to foster cross-disciplinary collaboration, inspire forward-looking dialogue and catalyze actionable solutions addressing emerging challenges and opportunities at the intersection of AI and formal methods.
The International Safeguards and Security by Design Workshop will provide insights on technical measures that can integrate and apply to advanced and small modular reactors in the planning and design stages to meet legal requirements of future customers and avoid costly retrofits.
During this workshop, participants will learn and engage with Department of Energy, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, International Atomic Energy Agency and laboratory subject matter experts on techniques and methods to:
- Accommodate international safeguards obligations to make exports more attractive to customers in non-nuclear weapons states
- Prepare vendors for international regulatory engagements and discussions with regulators on nuclear security and safeguards and how their designs can meet requirements
- Reduce security risks by increasing the efficacy of physical protection systems, accounting for unique cybersecurity risks posed by new deployment models.
- Reduce the need to make costly security and safeguard retrofits after the design is locked in
- Understand the interfaces between safety, security, and safeguards approaches and how they impact one another in the reactor design
- Reduce the reliance on engineered and capital-intensive approaches in favor of those that rely on intrinsic or inherent processes and safety features