Instrumentation and control systems applied to high-risk operating technologies: Paving the way to the Industry 4.0 at Nuclear Power Plants

Nuclear power, despite being a high capacity alternative energy source, is usually treated with apprehension, since their development occurred linked to catastrophic events with a record of at least three major accidents in the last fifty years. The purpose of this study is to seek to understand these accidents that occurred in the past, commonly used as an argument to discontinue the investment of resources in this technology and, based on what has alternatives today for the development of plants with safer operation, to insert this technology in the Industry 4.0 scenario, with intelligent control and supervision systems.