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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.”
G. Anand, R. N. Christense
Nuclear Technology | Volume 100 | Number 3 | December 1992 | Pages 287-294
Technical Paper | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT92-A34725
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An emergency core cooling system incorporating a bistable convection loop (BCL) for current passive liquid-metal-cooled reactors is proposed. The system has two stable operating modes. During the off mode, the system is in a pure conduction mode and transfers very little heat. In the on mode, the system switches to the low-resistance configuration of a closed natural convection loop and transfers significant amounts of heat. The switching occurs passively because of changes in the reactor temperature. Theoretical and experimental analysis shows that a BCL designed to remove 7% of peak reactor power in the on mode loses only 0.0007% in the off mode, yielding a ratio of 10 000:1.
