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Paul Wilson

@gonuke.bsky.social

685 followers 398 following 75 posts

Nuclear engr prof @ UW-Madison, S/W developer, energy analyst (he/him/his). My postings here are my own & do not necessarily represent my employer.

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Paul Wilson @gonuke.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

This headline should simply be “Less than 1% of fentanyl is smuggled across the Canadian border, despite Trump lies.” And maybe don’t bury the lede… www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/w...

NYT headline that gives some credence to false Trump claims about fentanyl traffic from Canada, from linked article

Quote from linked article providing evidence about how insignificant the smuggling of fentanyl from Canada is

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Paul Wilson @gonuke.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Thirty-five years ago today, I was an 18 year old 2nd year engineering student 550 km away from École Polytechnique. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89c... 1/7

Memorial for the women victims of the 1989 Ecole Polytechnique massacre

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Paul Wilson @gonuke.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #686,472! It certainly felt pretty quiet back then... I hope we can go up by another 10x soon...

BlueSky-generated badge showing that I was user number 686,472, and in the first 10% of current users, joining in August 2023

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Paul Wilson @gonuke.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

Our paper "Shutdown Dose Rate with Cartesian Mesh for High-Energy Nuclear Systems" uses model-based reaction rates for activation on a mesh for systems like SNS. Thanks to Nancy Granda-Duarte for all the work to make this happen and to our ORNL collaborators. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A figure from the paper that shows the ratio of novel results to the reference results, in pseudocolor, over a complex domain for different mesh spacings.

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Paul Wilson @gonuke.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

Our paper "SNM Radiation Signature Classification Using Different Semi-Supervised Machine Learning Models" was chosen for the cover art of this special issue. Thanks to Jordan Stomps for his leadership on this work. www.mdpi.com/2373534 #mdpijne

Journal cover art showing a sample radiation spectrum and a map of the facility where data was collected.

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Paul Wilson @gonuke.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

Westmorland Park in Madison, WI, with live music and family fun as darkness descends

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Paul Wilson @gonuke.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

If you live on the west side of Madison, you may have long envied the festival culture of Madison’s east side… this year’s Westmorland Neighborhood’s Summer Nights series is delivering!!! Here’s to live music and community on the west side!!

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