{"id":25705,"date":"2022-12-23T22:39:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T22:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/23\/us-pours-millions-into-ai-research-to-advance-fusion-power-the-register\/"},"modified":"2022-12-23T22:39:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T22:39:08","slug":"us-pours-millions-into-ai-research-to-advance-fusion-power-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/23\/us-pours-millions-into-ai-research-to-advance-fusion-power-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"US pours millions into AI research to advance fusion power \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hot off the heels of the US Department of Energy’s (DoE) sort-of nuclear fusion breakthrough, the agency is offering up $33 million for researchers that can wrangle artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other data resources to the cause.<\/p>\n

The aim is to get machine intelligence to speed the analysis and simulation of fusion energy and plasma sciences used on several DoE experiments. The agency is seeking proposals<\/a> [PDF] for the application of AI\/ML on existing public data, with an emphasis on approaches likely to support the development of a fusion pilot plant within the next few decades.<\/p>\n

The funding round comes just a week after scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) announced<\/a> they’d achieved fusion ignition. The experiment, conducted at LLNL’s National Ignition facility, generated 3.15 megajoules of energy by firing 2.05 megajoules from 192 lasers onto a fuel pellet – but there’s a massive catch.<\/p>\n

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