The Brazilian team will compete in the finals of the CASE-IN championship

Students of the Polytechnic University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) have qualified for the final of the BRICS League of Young Professionals of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship. The team was among the finalists of the competition, which brings together participants from the countries of the bloc to solve problems related to the energy sector.

The team consists of Vinicius Costa Silva, Joao Pedro Gualti Scalabrini, Jennifer Medeiros dos Santos and Victor Pereira da Silva dos Santos – two students from the Faculty of Nuclear Engineering, one from the Faculty of Naval Engineering and one from the Faculty of Computer Science. The team passed the qualifying stage, which included an online presentation of the developed project.

The team's project proposes the development of a nuclear power plant with uranium processing and water cogeneration, designed to meet the growing demand for energy from future hyperscale data centers in the field of artificial intelligence. The proposal aims to achieve a balance between efficiency, sustainability and profitability in the energy sector.

Students are currently preparing for the final stage, which will be held in Moscow from May 18 to 22. At this stage, the teams will have to finalize their projects, delving into aspects such as sustainability, economic feasibility and other technical parameters, before submitting them to the international evaluation commission.

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