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Record W2321035311 · doi:10.1115/icone18-29470

Sealing Solutions for an Aging Reactor

2010· article· en· W2321035311 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

Venue18th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering: Volume 1 · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicNuclear and radioactivity studies
Canadian institutionsAtomic Energy (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSeal (emblem)Centrifugal pumpEngineeringOffset (computer science)Leakage (economics)Nuclear engineeringEnvironmental scienceMarine engineeringLeakPetroleum engineeringMechanical engineeringComputer scienceEnvironmental engineeringImpeller

Abstract

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There are an increasing number of nuclear reactors around the world operating well beyond their original design lives. Some pump seals supplied by original equipment manufacturers are either no longer available or their performance does not meet current requirements. This paper describes both the testing and operational experience of two nuclear pump seals that have been developed by AECL to replace the original equipment manufacturer’s seals in AECL’s National Research Universal reactor, which has been operating since 1957. The two seals described are the main heavy water pump seal and the heavy water degassing pump seal. The main heavy water pump seal is a tandem seal containing two identical, but 180° offset, eccentric seals of 95 mm balance diameter. The requirements were low pressure (0.3 MPa), low leakage (< 0.2 mL/min) and long, reliable lifetime (seven years). The seals were arranged to put full pressure across the outboard seal initially, with the inboard seal providing complete back up in the event of an outboard seal failure. Laboratory testing and operational performance, since initial installation in 1993, is described. The heavy water de-gassing pump seal design is based upon the main heavy water pump seal (a tandem seal containing two identical, but 180° offset, eccentric seals) but its balance diameter of 65 mm is much smaller than that of the main heavy water pump seal. Laboratory testing and operational performance, since initial installation in 2001, is also described.

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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 categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.779
Threshold uncertainty score0.904

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 communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.042
GPT teacher head0.264
Teacher spread0.222 · 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