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Tirupati to open 12,000 tpa Madagascan graphite mine in 2015

2015· article· en· W2761257271 on OpenAlex
Laura Syrett

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueIndustrial Minerals · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMaterials Science
TopicGraphite, nuclear technology, radiation studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGraphiteMaterials sciencePelletsPebbleCarbon fibersWaste managementCeramicMetallurgyMineralogyEngineeringGeologyComposite material
DOInot available

Abstract

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[Jon Hykawy] explained how the pebble bed modular reactor (PBMR) design, which uses fuel 'pebbles' composed of a highly pure, nuclear grade graphite matrix hosting ceramic-coated fuel pellets as well as a graphite-lined reactor core, has been pursued for decades as a safer and more efficient alternative to conventional models. Hykawy pointed to calculations by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which suggest that an 110 MWe PBMR, based on MIT's own design, requires 80 tonnes of graphite in the form of uranium-flecked pebbles; 28 tonnes of graphite as pure pebbles for the core neutron reflector; and 426 tonnes of solid graphite in the reactor's outer reflector shield. So the overall winner for PBMR is probably going to be synthetic graphite, he said, but added that two Canadian natural graphite companies - Zenyatta Ventures, which owns the Albany graphite deposit in Ontario and Canada Carbon, which owns the Miller property in Quebec - have demonstrated the ability to produce the required purity, using a caustic bake process on the hydrothermal lump/vein-type ores yielded by the two deposits.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.138
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.001

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 head0.158
GPT teacher head0.340
Teacher spread0.183 · 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