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“Using Supercomputers
To Make Safer Nuclear Reactors”
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Rensselaer nuclear engineering and engineering physics professor Michael Podowski, a world-renowned nuclear engineering and multiphase science and technology expert, is project director and principal investigator of a three year project that will create highly detailed computer models of a new proposed type of nuclear reactor.

In this video, he discusses the research project that will pair two of the world’s most powerful supercomputers to boost the safety and reliability of next-generation nuclear power reactors.

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