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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.
R. D. Jain
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 17 | Number 4 | December 1963 | Pages 551-556
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A18447
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The asymptotic energy spectrum of thermal neutrons in an infinite medium of beryllium has been calculated for three temperatures: 300°K, 200°K, 100°K, for a constant plane source of neutrons at the midplane. The techniques of multigroup diffusion theory were applied, using Nelkin's first order scattering kernel for Be, and the energy-dependent transport mean free path, λtr(E), calculated by Bhandari. Because of the violent variation of λtr in the vicinity of the Bragg cutoff energy, for the lower moderator temperatures the calculated flux spectrum is quite different from the Maxwellian. At 300°K the deviation from the Maxwellian is small.