Nuclear engineer uses machine learning on weapons testing images to understand fallout
pearcejw@ornl.gov Tue, 08/15/2023 - 08:57
Cody Lloyd became a nuclear engineer because of his interest in the Manhattan Project, the United States’ mission to advance nuclear science to end World War II. As a research associate in nuclear forensics at ORNL, Lloyd now teaches computers to interpret data from imagery of nuclear weapons tests from the 1950s and early 1960s, bringing his childhood fascination into his career