A CANADIAN PERSPECTIVE ON PROGRESS IN THORIA FUEL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Thorium is anticipated to play a potentially significant role in the world’s future energy supply as the international nuclear power industry moves towards the implementation of more sustainable nuclear technologies and advanced fuel cycles. Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL), formerly Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, has been investigating thorium-fuelled reactor concepts and developing thoria (thorium dioxide) fuel technology for more than 55 years, complimenting international experience in the development of thorium-based fuel cycles. Although there is a strong foundation based on past experience, gaps exist in the science and technology (S&T) required to implement the use of thorium-based fuels on an industrial scale. In this paper, progress in thoria fuel S&T is reviewed and research and development needs for the deployment of thorium-based fuel cycles (with the focus on the use of thoria, ThO2) are identified from a Canadian perspective. CNL plans to address known S&T gaps are also discussed.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| 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 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it