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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.”
Gunji Nishio, Noboru Yamazaki
Nuclear Technology | Volume 102 | Number 2 | May 1993 | Pages 232-251
Technical Paper | Enrichment and Reprocessing System | doi.org/10.13182/NT93-A34819
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The FACE computer code was developed to calculate postulated solvent fire behavior in the extraction process of a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant. The FACE code calculates temperature, pressure, and off-gasflow rate by one- and two-dimensional thermofluid analyses. The code uses this information to evaluate the safety of the associated air ventilation system as demonstrated by its ability to confine the fire-generated radioactive particles by transport, deposition, and filtration of smoke. The mathematical models in FACE were verified by comparison of FACE calculations with the results of Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute fire demonstration tests simulating a hypothetical solvent fire accident in the extraction process.
