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Microsoft and Nvidia have formed an “AI for nuclear” partnership intended to streamline the permitting, design, and operations of nuclear power plant facilities, and highlighted the collaboration at CERAWeek 2026 in Houston earlier this week.
Microsoft said in an announcement that the collaboration will build a “connected, AI-powered foundation” of AI tools that energy developers will be able to use to make work “repeatable, traceable, secure, and predictable,” all the while reducing work timelines and maintaining safety.
J. D. Sater, B. J. Kozioziemski, J. Pipes, R. Jones, J. J. Sanchez, J. D. Moody, T. P. Bernat, D. N. Bittner, J. Burmann, N. Alexander
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 45 | Number 2 | March 2004 | Pages 271-275
Technical Paper | Target Fabrication | doi.org/10.13182/FST04-A460
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A newly operational facility known as the Deuterium Test System (D2TS) has become available at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The D2TS provides the capability to perform integrated tests with many of the technologies necessary to deliver and shoot a cryogenic target on the National Ignition Facility (NIF). Procedures used to successfully fill and cool NIF ignition scale targets to cryogenic temperatures are reported. The first attempts at making cryogenic layers in these targets will also be discussed. These experiments are the first without fill tubes at LLNL. The primary technique used to create symmetrical layers of deuterium ice is infrared enhancement.