Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) – NEA coding competition gives students hands-on experience for practical AI-nuclear applications
Publish Date: 2026-06-26 07:47:00
Source Domain: www.oecd-nea.org
- The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) organized a coding competition focused on transforming unstructured construction data into machine-readable formats.
- A total of 40 teams participated in the competition, and the winning team, Syrra Team 1, was invited to Jeju Island, Korea, to join the NEA International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Nuclear Energy.
- The competition highlighted the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance decision-making and manage construction risks in ambitious nuclear capacity expansion plans.
- The competition tasked teams with converting risk registers (often unstructured and difficult for computers to read) into structured data, using tools like large language models and prompt engineering.
- Syrra Team 1, consisting of students from the University of Maryland and Politecnico di Milano, emerged as the winner, achieving the highest accuracy and presenting their work at the NEA AI Innovation Workshop.
