Nuclear engineer / Founder / CEO @ Rather Labs
Field notes on
systems that
must not fail.
Nuclear engineering taught me how systems behave when failure is not an option. These are the notes I keep while applying that to companies, products, and AI.
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I built a nuclear power plant simulator that runs in your browser
Xenon-135 peaks about nine hours after you shut a reactor down, and until it decays a restart is physically impossible. Criticality is a full 4-loop PWR running at 60 fps in your browser, so you can watch that happen instead of reading it off a whiteboard.
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