NEA\u00a0International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Nuclear Energy<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\nThe rise of\u00a0artificial intelligence (AI)\u00a0comes\u00a0as governments and industry pursue ambitious nuclear new build programmes to triple nuclear\u00a0capacity\u00a0by 2050.\u00a0AI is being explored\u00a0as a means to\u00a0improve decision making across all aspects\u00a0of nuclear power plants including in the management of construction risks,\u00a0one of\u00a0priorities\u00a0for the sector.\u00a0The\u00a0NEA\u00a0coding competition\u00a0provided\u00a0an opportunity\u00a0to engage with and connect an\u00a0exciting\u00a0wave of\u00a0young\u00a0AI\u00a0talent\u00a0to\u00a0the nuclear\u00a0energy\u00a0sector.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Competition\u00a0design\u00a0<\/p>\n
The\u00a0coding\u00a0competition was designed to provide hands-on experience to students with a real-world problem that had practical applications in\u00a0nuclear\u00a0energy\u00a0sector. The NEA\u00a0chose risk registers, a widely used tool for managing risk in construction projects, as the\u00a0focus\u00a0of the competition. In practice, risk registers come in many different formats, often\u00a0with unstructured information that is difficult for computers to read and understand. Participants were therefore tasked with automating the\u00a0conversion of these registers into structured, machine-readable data. The winning approach included\u00a0large language models (LLMs)\u00a0and prompt engineering along with strong coding implementation to produce outputs that closely matched an expert-developed gold standard.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Competition\u00a0outcomes\u00a0<\/p>\n
The NEA\u00a0received\u00a0high quality\u00a0project submissions across the board,\u00a0with participants developing a range of innovative approaches to the challenge.\u00a0Among the\u00a040\u00a0teams,\u00a0Syrra\u00a0Team 1, consisting of\u00a0students\u00a0from the University of Maryland and\u00a0Politecnico\u00a0di Milano, achieved the highest accuracy\u00a0across\u00a0all submissions.\u00a0As a reward for winning the competition,\u00a0the team was\u00a0invited to\u00a0attend\u00a0the NEA AI Innovation Workshop in Jeju, Korea, where they presented their methodology.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winners of the NEA coding competition,\u00a0Syrra\u00a0Team 1\u00a0 The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) organised a coding competition that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,46441,26900,46444,6108,6106,46445,46442,46443,134],"class_list":["post-86991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-codes-and-programs","tag-disruptive-technologies","tag-information-exchange","tag-news-and-events","tag-news-brief","tag-nuclear-economics","tag-nuclear-technology","tag-tags","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}