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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.”
Hiroshi Sugai, Kenzo Munakata
Nuclear Technology | Volume 99 | Number 2 | August 1992 | Pages 235-241
Technical Paper | Enrichment and Reprocessing System | doi.org/10.13182/NT92-A34693
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In solvent extraction for nuclear fuel reprocessing, a stable emulsion called “crud” is formed at the interface between the organic and aqueous phases. Crud is an emulsion stabilized by finely dispersed solids. Process disturbances are often induced by crud. Accordingly, crud should be eliminated from the interface in the extractors. The eliminated crud is stable and highly radioactive; thus, the treatment of this crud may be difficult. Complexes of zirconium and tributyl phosphate (TBP) degradation products, such as phosphoric acid (H3PO4) and mono-n-butyl phosphate (H2MBP), are one source of the fine particles that stabilize emulsions in the extraction process. A chemical treatment method to demulsify crud stabilized by precipitates of Zr-H3PO4 and Zr-H2MBP is studied. Experimental results indicate that neutralization by an alkaline solution, particularly sodium carbonate, is very effective for the destruction of this crud.
