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Record W4406443462 · doi:10.3327/taesj.j24.005

Research and Development of Lead Block Cutting Technique for Decommissioning Nuclear Power Plants

2025· article· en· W4406443462 on OpenAlex
Takeyoshi Sunagawa, Glenn Harvel

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Bibliographic record

VenueTransactions of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMaterials Science
TopicGraphite, nuclear technology, radiation studies
Canadian institutionsOntario Tech University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNuclear decommissioningLead (geology)Nuclear powerNuclear engineeringBlock (permutation group theory)Environmental scienceEngineeringGeologyWaste managementNuclear physicsPhysicsMathematics

Abstract

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Nuclear power plants and research facilities that use radioactive materials employ lead to shield against radiation. Lead must be cut to an appropriate size before being removed from the facility as waste. Because lead is soft, it is difficult to cut using mechanical cutting methods such as reciprocating saws. In this study, we attempted to make lead into a low-melting-point alloy of bismuth and tin (eutectic point 95 °C) and devised a new cutting method that combines mechanical cutting and low-melting-point alloying. For the cutting experiment, we used a Bi-Sn alloy (eutectic point 139 °C) that we prepared and a lead block (50 mm thick). To react the Bi-Sn alloy with the lead block, it was necessary to heat the lead block to 139 °C or higher. Therefore, we conducted a temperature increase experiment on the lead block using a heating wire with thermal conduction and an infrared heater with radiation. The results showed that heating with an infrared heater was superior. The molten Bi-Sn alloy was brought into contact with the heated lead block to make a low-melting-point alloy. Here, a reciprocating saw was used to successfully cut the lead block and remove the low-melting-point alloy that had formed.

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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)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.033
Threshold uncertainty score0.371

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.027
GPT teacher head0.302
Teacher spread0.274 · 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