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Oklo continues plutonium fuel development with LANL and Nvidia partnership
Oklo announced a new partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory and Nvidia to perform AI-enabled research on nuclear infrastructure and fuel.
The partnership is focused on exploring plutonium-bearing fuels, including the development of science-based AI models to support fuel validation and materials science and fabrication research and development. The team will also be exploring the development of nuclear-powered AI computing centers at LANL.
Edgar F. Bennett, Robert L. Long
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 17 | Number 3 | November 1963 | Pages 425-432
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A17392
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Expected errors in reactivity measurements made with a servo control are discussed and compared with observation. The influence upon measurement statistics of a residual spurious reactivity drift, of variable detector efficiency, and of servo control parameters is examined and compared with results using a thermal reactor at 72 watts. Power limited precision is shown to be obtainable with a servo control over a broad range of operating configurations and with good discrimination against incoherent residual reactivity drift.