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DOE says new software could be rolled out across all nation’s BWR units
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Friday, 29 March 2024
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/ai-tools-deployed-at-constellation-nuclear-plants-could-help-company-save-millions-3-4-2024
X-Energy Reactor Company is to build a digital twin-based support centre as the first step in its Commercial Operations Services business to support the initial deployment of its advanced modular reactors. Meanwhile, Energy Northwest is hopeful that X-energy's recent announcement that the first Xe-100 reactor will be installed at a Dow site on the US Gulf Coast will help further plans for its own project in Washington state.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 08 March 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/New-regional-centre-to-support-Xe-100-fleet-rollou
Researchers at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) recently performed their first digital twin test of a simulated microreactor, according to the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Nuclear Energy. The demonstration builds on advancements in remote monitoring, autonomous control, and predictive capabilities that can help lower operating costs of microreactor technologies and enhance their safety.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 20 July 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsidaho-national-laboratory-demonstrates-digital-twin-of-a-simulated-microreactor-9860995
Two newly announced North American initiatives aim to accelerate the deployment of fusion technologies for power generation. In Canada, Bruce Power, General Fusion, and the Nuclear Innovation Institute (NII) will work together to evaluate potential deployment of a fusion power plant in Ontario. Meanwhile, scientists at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) are teaming up with Renaissance Fusion America as part of a US programme to speed the development of fusion energy.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 04 February 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Initiatives-aim-to-speed-fusion-deployment
The US Department of Energy has announced $30 million in funding for new research on fusion energy.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 11 March 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfurther-us-funding-for-fusion-energy-7815460
The funding will provide $17m for research focused specifically on artificial intelligence and machine learning approaches for prediction of key plasma phenomena, management of facility operations, and accelerated discovery through data science, among other topics.
An additional $13m under a separate funding opportunity will be devoted to fundamental fusion theory research, including computer modelling and simulation, focused on factors affecting the behaviour of hot plasmas confined by magnetic fields in fusion reactors.
Applications for the artificial intelligence and machine learning funding are open to national laboratories, universities, non-profit organisations, and private sector companies.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Friday, 06 March 2020
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/us-doe-announces-plan-for-usd30-million-in-research-funding-3-4-2020
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has licensed the first entirely digital nuclear reactor instrumentation and control (I&C) system in the USA, at a university-based research reactor originally built in 1962. The NRC licence also for the first time covers parts certified under standards laid down by a non-US regulatory body.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 10 July 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-research-reactor-goes-digital-in-licensing-firs