How drones, scanners could help build next-generation nuclear reactors

Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is using drones, 3-D scanning and artificial intelligence to gauge construction process on a new building — components of digital engineering technology that could eventually help build nuclear reactors. “65% of mega projects” — anything over $1 billion — fail,” said Christopher Ritter, director of the Digital Innovation Center of Excellence (DICE), in Idaho Falls. That means they either don’t meet their costs, ...

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How drones, scanners could help build next-generation nuclear reactors