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Record W2481055915 · doi:10.1057/9780230290532_7

Fuelling the Future: The Nuclear Fuel Cycle

2010· book-chapter· en· W2481055915 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Xu Yi‐chong

Bibliographic record

VenuePalgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2010
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicNuclear and radioactivity studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNuclear fuel cycleNuclear fuelUraniumSpent nuclear fuelRadioactive wasteEnriched uraniumWaste managementProspectingPlutoniumFuel cycleNuclear powerEngineeringBusinessEnvironmental scienceNuclear engineeringMining engineeringNuclear chemistryMaterials scienceChemistry

Abstract

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Nuclear fuel supplies have two-dimensions: uranium resources — its exploration and prospecting — and the nuclear fuel production and services that allows uranium to be converted into fuel to feed reactors. Each of these two aspects raises different concerns and challenges. There is anxiety about whether the world’s uranium reserves can sustain the rapid expansion of nuclear energy programmes. The nuclear fuel cycle consists of the front-end and back-end. The front-end of the nuclear cycle consists of uranium exploration, mining and milling, conversion, enrichment and fuel fabrication. The back end consists of spent fuel disposal, reprocessing and storage of high uranium waste. Currently, only a few countries in the world have full nuclear cycle capability and only a very few run large commercial nuclear fuel services (Canada, France, Russia, the UK and the US for conversion; France, Germany, Netherlands, Russia, the UK and the US for enrichment; and France and the UK for reprocessing services).

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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 categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.992
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.001

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 head0.008
GPT teacher head0.187
Teacher spread0.179 · 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; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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Published2010
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