UPGRADING INFRASTRUCTURE AND EXPANDING CAPACITY Stern Laboratories’ focus extends beyond research and testing to encompass significant upgrades to its technological and physical infrastructure.“Everything ties into computers,” Hadaller states, emphasizing technology’s critical role in the lab’s operations. One significant investment area is computational fluid dynamics (CFD), a vital tool for simulating and analyzing flow fields within nuclear fuel assemblies. “We’re trying to develop that technology because of some of the experiments we do,” he explains. The extensive data Stern Labs collects from various experiments is a valuable resource for verifying CFD models, ensuring they are accurate and reliable when applied to nuclear fuel assemblies. Stern Labs is adopting machine learning to analyze extensive data on fuel assembly behavior. “We’re applying machine learning... to help do better correlations and also predict improvements in fuel design,” Hadaller states, aiming to refine predictions and advance fuel designs. Alongside technological upgrades, their administrative systems are being 47 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 11, ISSUE 10 STERN LABORATORIES INC.
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