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The International Atomic Energy Agency presented its 2025 Global ISOP Innovation Award for AI to Blue Wave AI Labs, Constellation, and the Southern Company subsidiary Southern Nuclear for the companies’ collaborative work on Blue Wave's ThermalLimits.ai. The technology is an AI application that provides accuracy in online thermal limit forecasting for boiling water reactors.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 41 | Number 2 | August 1970 | Pages 155-163
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE70-A20703
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Information from the Evaluated Nuclear Data File (ENDF/B) has been used to construct energy-exchange kernels describing the energy transfer probabilities between neutrons and material lattice atoms. The kernels correctly incorporate all the available information on elastic scattering and inelastic scattering contained in ENDF/B. Their use removes much of the uncertainty in the calculation of primary-recoil spectra. Primary-recoil atom spectra for several elements in different reactor spectra have been generated. The influence of inelastic scattering on the recoil spectra is discussed. Results obtained with the ENDF/B data are compared with previously published information.