Monday, August 16, 2021

Can AI Make a Better Nuclear Fusion Reactor?

Very recommendable!

You bet and you better pray that AI could perhaps finally make the decisive contribution to bring down to earth the energy power of the sun! Research by scientists and engineers has been ongoing since the 1940s in the peaceful use of nuclear fusion power!

The realization of nuclear fusion would immediately relegate the nonsense and superstition of the Global Warming hoax a.k.a. Climate Change religion onto rubbish heap of history, where it long belongs!

"... Meanwhile, AI and machine learning (ML) have, across many industries and applications, proved themselves quite capable at detecting subtle patterns in data that humans can't recognize. So could neural nets and the GPUs that power them help in nuclear fusion? The challenge, and it's a big one, would be to accelerate the worldwide quest to tame instabilities in hot plasmas and ultimately provide a source of sustainable, and carbon-free power. ...
the Joint European Torus (JET) in the UK in a study that detailed three different uses for AI, machine learning, and deep learning models for fusion research. [Researchers] trained ... models using diagnostic data from 48 sensors connected to the JET reactor, called bolometers, which collect power and radiation data.

One of ... [the] models predicts disruptions in a super-hot plasma. In the study ... the model can either predict the likelihood of disruption—which can result in a plasma escaping confinement, jolting equipment, drastically reducing the plasma's temperature, and ending the reaction— or estimate the time at which that disruption will occur.

A second model detects anomalies in the plasma. Trained only on reactions where disruptions did not occur, the model can reproduce these "good" experiments. If the data originates in an experiment that ended in a disruption, the model can identify when and how the data diverges from that of a successful reaction. ..."
 
Can AI Make a Better Fusion Reactor? - IEEE Spectrum Nuclear physics may be one of machine learning's newest frontiers

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