World's First Interactive AI-Enabled Fusion Reactor Digital Twin

Fusion Energy Research - Fusion energy is a safe, clean, and virtually unlimited source of power, representing one of science's greatest opportunities [1] - Controlling plasma hotter than the sun's core requires solving complex physics, posing a significant challenge [1] AI and Digital Twin Technology in Fusion - General Atomics and international partners are using AI to advance fusion research at the D3D National Fusion Facility [2] - The team is building a fully interactive digital twin of the D3D tokamak inside Nvidia Omniverse [2] - The digital twin integrates sensor data, physics simulations, engineering, and AI models to create a virtual reactor [2] - Surrogate models, trained on decades of real-world data and running on NVIDIA GPUs, deliver accurate predictions at unprecedented speed [3] Applications and Goals - The digital twin allows for exploring key controls to refine the science before conducting real experiments [3] - The platform aims to optimize reactor designs and accelerate commercial fusion [3] - The ultimate goal is to make the sun's power programmable [3]