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Two new partnerships forged in AI and nuclear sectors
The nuclear space is full of companies eager to power new AI development. At the same time, many AI companies want to provide services to the nuclear industry. It should come as no surprise, then, that two new partnerships have recently been announced that further bridge the AI and nuclear sectors.
AtkinsRéalis has announced a partnership with Nvidia that aims to leverage Nvidia’s technologies to deploy “nuclear-powered, large-scale AI factories.” Centrus Energy has announced a partnership with Palantir Technologies to use Palantir’s software in support of Centrus’s plans to expand enrichment capacity.
T. J. Dolan, G. R. Longhurst
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 1392-1397
Safety | Proceedings of the Ninth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Oak Brook, Illinois, October 7-11, 1990) | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29537
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The HYLIFE-II inertial confinement fusion reactor uses a Flibe spray for blast chamber protection and tritium breeding. HYLIFE-II is passively safe, having no large sources of energy available to disperse radioactive materials. The dominant activation product is 18F (half-life 110 minutes). Only a small fraction (<10−5) of the Flibe activation products would be mobilized. The offsite dose from a severe accident involving simultaneous failure of the blast chamber and containment building would be < 0.2 mSv (20 mrem), and N-stamp requirements could be avoided in the blast chamber and coolant systems. The required tritium removal efficiencies are quantified.