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MIT graduate student Amelia Trainer’s work in modeling and simulating complicated neutron behavior in reactors is fundamental to understanding how nuclear reactors operate and helps forecast the behavior of reactors.
MIT students Zoë Marschner and Charlotte Wickert have been selected to receive a Barry Goldwater Scholarship for the 2022-23 academic year.
Les changements climatiques ont un impact sur les champs. Alors que certaines récoltes mûrissent trop vite, d'autres risquent d'être perdues.
Want cheaper nuclear energy? Turn the design process into a game December 21, 2020ScienceBlog.com Researchers show that deep reinforcement learning can be used to design more efficient nuclear reactors. Nuclear energy provides more carbon-free electricity in the United States than solar and wind combined, making it a key player in the fight against climate change. But the U.S. nuclear fleet is aging, and operators are under pressure to streamline their operations to compete with coal- and gas-fired plants. One of the key places to cut costs is deep in the reactor core, where energy is produce...
Caption: In this AI-designed layout for a boiling water reactor, fuel rods are ideally positioned around two fixed water rods to burn more efficiently. MIT researchers ran the equivalent of 36,000 simulations to find the optimal configurations, which could extend the life of the rods in an assembly by about 5 percent, generating $3 million in savings per year if scaled to the full reactor. Colors correspond to varying amounts of uranium and gadolinium oxide in each rod. Credits: Image: Majdi Radaideh/MIT Previous image Next i...