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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.”
William R. Bohl, Dirk Wilhelm
Nuclear Technology | Volume 99 | Number 3 | September 1992 | Pages 366-373
Technical Paper | Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT92-A34720
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The origins and goals of the advanced fluid dynamics model (AFDM) program are described, and the models, algorithm, and coding used in the resulting AFDM computer program are summarized. Two boiling pool calculations are presented, the first of an experiment with volume-heated water, the second of a sample fuel/steel pool that is compared with a similar SIMMER-II calculation. A subjective assessment of the AFDM developments is given. It is concluded that a future severe accident code development program might be more oriented toward identification of generic or typical accident sequences rather than attempting to address all uncertainties.
