BME development wins EURATOM Nuclear Innovation Prize

A research team of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) has been awarded the Nuclear Innovation Prize from the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) for a reactor simulation programme developed for high-end graphics cards, the university said on Wednesday. An international panel of independent experts had assessed the submissions for the innovation price and BME's project fetched a third prize equally split between BME and the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, BME said in a statement.