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#nuclearengineering — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. Vox: What happened when they installed ChatGPT on a nuclear supercomputer. “In recent weeks, in the wake of the feud between the Pentagon and Anthropic, as well as the reported use of AI software for targeting during the war in Iran, the partnership between the US military and leading AI companies has become a highly charged political topic. Less discussed has been the already extensive […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/03/vox-what-happened-when-they-installed-chatgpt-on-a-nuclear-supercomputer/
  2. NANO Nuclear Energy Extends Relationship with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to Construct and Operate the First KRONOS MMR™ Energy System on U.S. University Land

    NANO Nuclear Energy Inc. Figure 2 NANO Nuclear Energy Inc. and Grainger College of Engineering…
    #Nuclear #DepartmentofEnergy #illinois #KRONOS #KRONOSMMR™EnergySystem #microreactor #NANONuclear #nuclear #NUCLEARENERGY #nuclearengineering #NuclearRegulatoryCommission #UniversityofIllinois
    europesays.com/2668466/

  3. A project that I’ve been lucky enough to work on is OpenMC, an #OpenSource Monte Carlo code for #NuclearEngineering. It represents a huge paradigm shift for traditional #Nuclear design and analysis codes, in that it is
    - free and open source
    - not export controlled
    - built using modern #SoftwareDevelopment practices

    docs.openmc.org/en/stable/

    github.com/openmc-dev/openmc

  4. Scientists in China are now building on the same basic MSR technology developed at ORNL. The Chinese gov’t had a small, short-lived knowledge exchange program with ORNL. But most of the…intellectual property…is in the public domain.

    “The real data mine is the thousands of published reports in 1960s and '70s that are found in the open literature," Forsberg says.

    spectrum.ieee.org/china-closin

    #nuclearpower #energy #MSR #OakRidge #nuclearengineering #innovation #USA #intellectualproperty

  5. CW: War, Russia, casualty

    #Zambian officials say #student killed on #Russia-#Ukraine front line | Russia-Ukraine #war News | #AlJazeera

    "A Zambian student who was #imprisoned in Russia has been killed in Ukraine while fighting on the #Russian side, an official from the southern African country said.

    Lemekhani Nathan Nyirenda, 23, was studying #NuclearEngineering at the #Moscow #Engineering #Physics Institute (MEPhI)"

    aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/14/