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Record W4403137370 · doi:10.1088/978-0-7503-6069-2ch11

Sodium-cooled fast reactors (SFRs)

2024· book-chapter· en· W4403137370 on OpenAlexaff
R. A. Dunlap

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicNuclear reactor physics and engineering
Canadian institutionsDalhousie University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSodium-cooled fast reactorNuclear engineeringSodiumEnvironmental scienceMaterials scienceMetallurgyEngineering

Abstract

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Generation IV sodium-cooled fast reactors (SFRs) will be discussed in this chapter. SFRs have a long history of development, dating back to the late-1950s. In fact, nearly 20 operational reactors have been constructed, which makes SFRs one of the most mature Generation IV technologies. This chapter reviews the general design of an SFR. This is followed by an overview of some of the more notable reactors of this type that have been operational in the past. The operation of these reactors is analyzed to understand the challenges that face the construction of a viable Generation IV reactor. Specifically, the reactivity of liquid sodium and the positive void coefficient that is characteristic of these reactors are difficulties that must be considered. This chapter reviews some current Generation IV SFR projects and discusses the ways in which these reactors form an integral part of India’s nuclear energy program.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.024
Threshold uncertainty score0.079

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0240.014

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 head0.007
GPT teacher head0.168
Teacher spread0.161 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
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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Published2024
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