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Purdue and federal lab remotely control nuclear reactor power in real time for first time in U.S.

Research partner in the PUR-1 remote control demonstration

Engineers at Purdue University and Idaho National Laboratory remotely adjusted the power of a working research reactor in real time, without anyone touching a control rod on site. The demonstration used an automatic digital control loop, then a reinforcement learning model, linking high-performance computers in Idaho, the reactor in Indiana, and a Microsoft Azure cloud in Virginia.

Updated Sep 24

Study finds rising CO2 helped sustain global rice harvests

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Home institution of the study authors

Global rice harvests have nearly doubled since the 1960s. A new study finds that rising carbon dioxide in the air did part of the work, adding about 30% to the gains that came from environmental factors.

Updated Jun 18