Researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have reported the first ...

Chemical engineering professor Matthew Memmott and his colleagues have developed an AI algorithm that can significantly reduce time in the nuclear reactor design process. A BYU professor has figured ...

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This past semester, Kansas State University relaunched the nuclear engineering major that it discontinued in 1996. It has already attracted more than 50 students. College students at Kansas State ...

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A Brigham Young University professor has figured out a way to shave critical years off the complicated design and licensing processes for modern nuclear reactors: artificial intelligence. You heard ...