Ribbon-cutting scheduled for Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative

August 4, 2025, 3:39PMNuclear News
The Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative at the University of South Carolina–Aiken. (PHOTO: SRNL)

Energy Secretary Chris Wright will attend the opening of the Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative in Aiken, S.C., on August 7. Wright will deliver remarks and join Savannah River National Laboratory leadership and partners for a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

NERS publishes report on machine learning and microreactors

July 9, 2025, 9:31AMANS Nuclear Cafe
The compact, transportable Holos-Quad microreactor, developed by HolosGen, is shown housed within a standard 40-foot ISO container. (Image: HolosGen)

The University of Michigan’s Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences (NERS) has published a summary of a study on nuclear microreactors and machine learning (ML) that was conducted by researchers from NERS and Idaho National Laboratory. The full paper, “Nuclear Microreactor Transient and Load-Following Control with Deep Reinforcement Learning,” was featured in the July issue of Energy Conversion and Management: X.