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

Leading the digital twin and autonomous control research at Purdue

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 and then a reinforcement learning model, linking high-performance computers in Idaho, the reactor in Indiana, and a Microsoft Azure cloud in Virginia.

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