image: Calculation flowchart of uncertainty quantification and sensitivity analysis for space reactor coupling parameters of neutronics, thermal-hydraulics and control system under motion conditions.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has licensed Purdue University Reactor Number One (PUR-1) as the first entirely digital nuclear reactor instrumentation and control system in the nation. The ...

A machine learning approach leverages nuclear microreactor symmetry to reduce training time when modeling power output ...

Researchers from Purdue and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory conducted this study using measurements from the Purdue University Reactor Number One (PUR-1), the first ...

DeepMind, the AI lab backed by Google parent company Alphabet, today announced that it used AI to successfully control superheated matter inside a nuclear fusion reactor.

Curtiss-Wright Corp. said it has been awarded two contracts from TerraPower to design and supply plant simulation and digital control solutions for the Natrium advanced nuclear reactor design.

The world's first land-based commercial small modular reactor (SMR) has started installation of its digital control system (DCS) in the country's southernmost island province of Hainan.

AREVA NP supplied Rosatom with its safety instrumentation and control (I&C) system for its installation within unit 1 of the Novovoronezh-2*Russian nuclear power plant, which has been connected to ...

Gianluca Sarri at Queen’s University Belfast, UK, says that AI is key to the future of control systems for fusion reactors, which have yet to sustain a reaction that produces more power than is ...