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Record W4403137322 · doi:10.1088/978-0-7503-6069-2ch4

The early history of nuclear fission energy

2024· book-chapter· en· W4403137322 on OpenAlex
R. A. Dunlap

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Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicNuclear Issues and Defense
Canadian institutionsDalhousie University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNuclear fissionFissionNuclear physicsNuclear engineeringPhysicsEngineeringNeutron

Abstract

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This chapter provides a review of the development of our understanding of nuclear fission and the history of the development of early nuclear reactors. This chapter begins with an overview of the development of nuclear physics, and particularly with the discovery of nuclear fission in the early half of the twentieth century. The utilization of nuclear fission for the construction of nuclear weapons during World War II is discussed. The history of the development of early nuclear reactors for power production in the 1950s and 1960s is presented. This discussion includes the Obninsk nuclear power plant, which was the first nuclear reactor to produce electrical power, as well as the first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, and early power reactors built in the United Kingdom and the United States.

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.635
Threshold uncertainty score0.995

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)0.0060.001

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 head0.021
GPT teacher head0.241
Teacher spread0.220 · 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

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Published2024
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