Bibliographic record
Abstract
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 machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.093 | 0.027 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".