Integrating Blockchain in Safety-Critical Systems: An Application to the Nuclear Industry
Safety-Critical Systems (SCSs) often manage sensible data that must be trustworthy, especially in many cases in which different actors participate whose interests may not coincide. Blockchain is a disruptive technology that has emerged to ensure the trustfulness of data. The nuclear industry incorpo...
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| description | Safety-Critical Systems (SCSs) often manage sensible data that must be trustworthy, especially in many cases in which different actors participate whose interests may not coincide. Blockchain is a disruptive technology that has emerged to ensure the trustfulness of data. The nuclear industry incorporates many SCSs where blockchain can be applied. This paper focuses on the use of blockchain for the inspection of steam generators of a nuclear power plant. This is a critical process where different actors participate: plant property, external companies in charge of the inspection itself and different administrations. It typically consists of a number of processes that explore the state of different components of the plant in order to find any kind of failure or defect and it generates a great amount of data that must be verifiable and trustworthy. A distributed blockchain-based system is presented where all the nodes share the information and it cannot be altered. As a novelty, automatic inspection algorithms are stored in the blockchain itself by means of smart contracts. The benefits of blockchain are studied for the nuclear industry in general and for the inspection process in particular. In order to explore the possible drawbacks of a blockchain-based system for data management, a simulator has been implemented to recreate the scenario of an inspection. The results obtained show that blockchain architectures are a good alternative to traditional information repositories for nuclear power plant inspections. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-81efd25c90e849dc9ccb4dd05c1bfc492022-12-21T19:54:57ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362020-01-01819060519061910.1109/ACCESS.2020.30323229229377Integrating Blockchain in Safety-Critical Systems: An Application to the Nuclear IndustryManuel Diaz0Enrique Soler1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0339-6752Luis Llopis2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9186-5357Joaquin Trillo3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3108-6332ITIS Software Institute, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, SpainITIS Software Institute, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, SpainITIS Software Institute, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, SpainITIS Software Institute, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, SpainSafety-Critical Systems (SCSs) often manage sensible data that must be trustworthy, especially in many cases in which different actors participate whose interests may not coincide. Blockchain is a disruptive technology that has emerged to ensure the trustfulness of data. The nuclear industry incorporates many SCSs where blockchain can be applied. This paper focuses on the use of blockchain for the inspection of steam generators of a nuclear power plant. This is a critical process where different actors participate: plant property, external companies in charge of the inspection itself and different administrations. It typically consists of a number of processes that explore the state of different components of the plant in order to find any kind of failure or defect and it generates a great amount of data that must be verifiable and trustworthy. A distributed blockchain-based system is presented where all the nodes share the information and it cannot be altered. As a novelty, automatic inspection algorithms are stored in the blockchain itself by means of smart contracts. The benefits of blockchain are studied for the nuclear industry in general and for the inspection process in particular. In order to explore the possible drawbacks of a blockchain-based system for data management, a simulator has been implemented to recreate the scenario of an inspection. The results obtained show that blockchain architectures are a good alternative to traditional information repositories for nuclear power plant inspections.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9229377/Blockchaindistributed applicationsinspectionnon destructive testingnuclear power plant |
| spellingShingle | Manuel Diaz Enrique Soler Luis Llopis Joaquin Trillo Integrating Blockchain in Safety-Critical Systems: An Application to the Nuclear Industry IEEE Access Blockchain distributed applications inspection non destructive testing nuclear power plant |
| title | Integrating Blockchain in Safety-Critical Systems: An Application to the Nuclear Industry |
| title_full | Integrating Blockchain in Safety-Critical Systems: An Application to the Nuclear Industry |
| title_fullStr | Integrating Blockchain in Safety-Critical Systems: An Application to the Nuclear Industry |
| title_full_unstemmed | Integrating Blockchain in Safety-Critical Systems: An Application to the Nuclear Industry |
| title_short | Integrating Blockchain in Safety-Critical Systems: An Application to the Nuclear Industry |
| title_sort | integrating blockchain in safety critical systems an application to the nuclear industry |
| topic | Blockchain distributed applications inspection non destructive testing nuclear power plant |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9229377/ |
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