Alex Birmingham and Txai Sibley Advance Nuclear Materials Modeling and Analysis
Two new publications from NOME researchers address complementary challenges in understanding nuclear materials.
Alex Birmingham developed a computational tool to examine uncertainties in helium-generation predictions. His work shows how chemical impurities and calculation choices can affect predicted helium production, informing how these estimates should be calculated and reported.
Txai Sibley investigated the transferability of Meta’s Segment Anything Model to nuclear materials microscopy. By introducing domain-informed filters, the study improves the use of zero-shot segmentation for microstructural images when task-specific training data are limited. Congratulations to Alex and Txai!
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NERS subsequently highlighted the helium-reporting research on May 20, 2026, identifying Alexander Birmingham, Justin Hamil, Stephen Taller, and Kevin Field as the research team.
