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[dih-zahyn] / dɪˈzaɪn /








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Just last week, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved the Principal Design Criteria for Aurora—essentially, a foundational rulebook for the plant’s safety and performance standards.

From Barron's • May 12, 2026

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved the Principal Design Criteria for Oklo’s Aurora powerhouse, with commercial operations targeted by 2028.

From Barron's • May 12, 2026

Chief Design Officer, and design pioneer Peter Arnell described their work with the National Design Studio, a newly formed federal effort to modernize the U.S. government’s digital infrastructure.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

“I think he was about 24 and I had never met anyone that talked about beauty the way he did,” said Caitlin Chambers, now an English professor at Pasadena’s ArtCenter College of Design.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

Design an appropriate program which models the supermarket situation with its various constraints and instruct the computer to run through the program a few million times to see how often different outcomes result.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos




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