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Create Living Nuclear Systems

Develop nuclear engineering systems that exhibit properties of living organisms including growth, adaptation, self-repair, and evolution. Living nuclear systems would monitor and adapt to their operating conditions like biological organisms, repair damage automatically, and evolve to optimize their performance and safety over time. The challenge involves creating nuclear systems that can modify themselves safely, developing biological-inspired nuclear control mechanisms, and ensuring that living nuclear systems maintain safety while adapting and evolving. Applications include nuclear reactors that adapt to changing conditions automatically, nuclear systems that repair themselves when damaged, and nuclear facilities that evolve to improve their safety and efficiency over time. Success would create nuclear systems with unprecedented adaptability and reliability, provide nuclear technology that improves itself over time, and enable nuclear systems that respond to changing conditions like living organisms.

Engineering, Core Engineering, Nuclear Engineering