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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.”
Richard R. Hobbins, David A. Petti, Donald L. Hagrman
Nuclear Technology | Volume 101 | Number 3 | March 1993 | Pages 270-281
Technical Paper | Severe Accident Technology / Nuclear Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT93-A34790
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Recent advances in the understanding of fission product release from fuel under severe accident conditions in light water reactors are reviewed. In addition to the effects of temperature and time at temperature, recent results from in-pile and out-of-pile tests and the accident at Three Mile Island Unit 2 suggest that the effects of fuel morphology such as restructuring of the UO2 microstructure, fuel liquefaction, molten pool formation, debris bed formation, and the effect of fuel chemistry have important influences on fission product release behavior under severe accident conditions. Consideration of these effects is required for complete models of fission product release during severe light water reactor accidents.
