Durability and Radiation Shielding Performance of Mineral-Admixture Concrete Exposed to Sulfate and Thermal Degradation
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The expansion of nuclear energy into dry regions requires concrete structures to endure multiple stress factors, including chemical reactions, thermal conditions, and radiological impacts.This research contributes to a larger study about developing resilient concrete solutions for the Barakah NPPs located in the UAE.The study tested silica fume and GGBS (SG) mortars against ordinary mortars after exposing them to sulfate and chloride-rich solutions at 50C for four months.The testing results showed that SG mortars maintained good durability and mechanical performance while providing superior radiation shielding compared to standard control mixes.The research demonstrates that mineral admixtures provide both durability benefits and radiation protection, essential for maintaining long-term nuclear infrastructure performance under harsh arid conditions.The current research continues to investigate longer exposure times while developing nano-based additives for performance enhancement.
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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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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