![]() The concept of Grid resilience is next introduced. The scope of natural hazards and malevolent human threats to the Grid are summarized. This paper examines the potential for nuclear power (and particularly the development of a new generation of resilient Nuclear Power Plants, or “rNPPS”) to transform Grid, CI, and SASC resilience via deployment of rNPPs in resilient Critical Infrastructure Islands, or “rCIIs.” The nature of society’s dependence on electricity and the Grid that generates and delivers electricity to consumers is briefly examined. Grid resilience the Grid’s ability to anticipate, absorb, adapt to, and recover from major disruptions, and to rapidly restore electric service in the wake of them-is a matter of paramount importance. No element of a nation’s Critical Infrastructure (CI) is more essential than the electric Grid-the system that generates and delivers electricity to power homes, businesses, industry, other Critical Infrastructure, and a nation’s Strategic Asset Supply Chains (SASCs).
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