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Enhanced CANDU 6 Features

2006· article· en· W2206512516 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
S. Azeez, P Girouard

Bibliographic record

VenuePacific Basin Nuclear Conference 2006 · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMaterials Science
TopicNuclear Materials and Properties
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNuclear decommissioningNuclear powerScope (computer science)EngineeringOak Ridge National LaboratoryShutdownNuclear engineeringNuclear fuelNuclear fuel cycleWaste managementEnvironmental scienceFuel cycleComputer scienceNuclear physics
DOInot available

Abstract

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Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) is a crown corporation established in 1952 to develop peaceful applications of nuclear energy. It employs more than 4,000 people who are dedicated to delivering a full scope of leading edge nuclear technology and and services to nuclear utilities worldwide, including: engineering, project management and construction of CANada Deuterium Uranium (CANDU) nuclear power plants. research and development (R and D), reactor development and design. reactor services and technical support to operating reactors. fuel and fuel cycles, waste management and decommissioning. The Enhanced CANDU 6 (EC6) reactor offers a combination of proven and state-of-the-art technology. Building on the highly successful CANDU 6 reactor AECL's continued commitment to research and product development, and an ongoing program to incorporate proven modern technology has further evolved the CANDU 6 design. The 10 CANDU 6 reactors, operating in five countries around the world, are yielding excellent capacity factors. One more CANDU 6 reactor is under construction in Romania. The fleet average lifetime capacity factor of the operating CANDU 6's to the end of 2005 was 87.4%. The most recent six CANDU 6 reactors entering service had a fleet average lifetime capacity factor of 90.3%. Three of the Wolsong units in Korea were in the top 10 reactors in the world over the last decade. This performance has been achieved while maintaining an excellent safety record. The CANDU 6 design includes passive heat sinks through the moderator and shield tank inventory, which remove heat and limit core damage progression. The EC6 has set new objectives to further improve the CANDU 6 by raising its power output, simplifying operations and maintenance thereby reducing operator's workload, deal with obsolescence issues and streamline the design. The target operating life for the EC6 will be up to 60 years, which will be achieved with replacement of certain critical equipment around mid life. A two-unit EC6 station offers significant cost advantages, flexibility in operation and ability to be connected to any grid size. With a projected capacity factor of 90% and AECL's demonstrated ability to maximize localization and commitment to transfer technology, the EC6 is indeed well suited to meet the energy needs of the 21st century. This paper describes the key technical features of the Enhanced CANDU 6 design that provide the benefits listed above.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.385
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.004

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.199
Teacher spread0.188 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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