A quick glance at some nuclear news showed this:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-12/dnl-ama121808.php
Basically, the Blue Gene/P system at ANL allows for extremely large simulations to be run. For nuclear engineering, this is a valuable tool for investigating the coupled physics in reactors without actually doing an experiment.
I've seen talks by Dr. Siegel--one of the investigators--and he puts it best, saying essentially that large scale simulations will never replace experiments; however, they will help to us use the analytic tools available to zero in on those designs, parameters, etc. that would be most valuable to investigate experimentally.
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Jeremy! You are no longer at the bottom of my list for updates! It's been 4 months. :)
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