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Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Atomic Canyon partners with INL on AI benchmarks
As interest and investment grows around AI applications in nuclear power plants, there remains a gap in standardized benchmarks that can quantitatively compare and measure the quality and reliability of new products.
Nuclear-tailored AI developer Atomic Canyon is moving to fill that gap by entering into a new strategic partnership with Idaho National Laboratory to develop and release the “first comprehensive benchmark suite for evaluating retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and large language models (LLMs) in nuclear applications.”
Pin-Wu Kao, Jing-Tong Yang, Chian-Yeh Ho, Cheng-Hsien Chou, Ruey-Chang Huang, and, Ta-Chieh Sun
Nuclear Technology | Volume 99 | Number 2 | August 1992 | Pages 222-234
Technical Paper | Nuclear Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/NT92-A34692
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Power reactor benchmark calculations using the advanced code package CASMO-3 /SIMULATE-3 with new models have been performed for nine cycles of Chinshan Unit 1 and six cycles of Kuosheng Unit 1. The fuel reload designs include gadolinia as a burnable absorber, natural uranium axial blankets, and fuel from different vendors. The calculated results for cold critical tests and traversing in-core probe (TIP) responses are compared with measured data. These comparisons show that the new modeling accurately predicts important physics parameters for power reactors, and it is more accurate than the conventional model. However, more studies of the TIP adaption model are needed in order to gain more experience for its application.
