Characterisation of Laboratory-produced CANDU-like Workplace Neutron Fields
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Abstract
Two neutron fields were produced in the Neutron Irradiation Facility (NIF) at the Chalk River Laboratories of the Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. by directing (d,D) neutrons from a 150 kV neutron generator through a specially designed moderator assembly. Bonner sphere and proton recoil spectrometry systems were used to characterise these fields to determine whether they were CANDU-like*, i.e. whether they resembled neutron fields found in workplaces around pressurised heavy-water moderated power reactors such as CANDU reactors. Similarities were found between the distributions in energy of neutron fluence and ambient dose equivalent of the neutron fields produced in the NIF and those measured previously in power plants. In addition, there was agreement between theoretical (Monte Carlo) data and measured data, thereby validating continued use of Monte Carlo modelling for field characterisations in the NIF. The CANDU-like fields add to the repertoire of neutron fields available in the NIF and are expected to be useful for evaluating neutron dosemeters.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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.
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