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NEA panel on AI hosted at World Governments Summit
A panel on the potential of artificial intelligence to accelerate small modular reactors was held at the World Governments Summit (WGS) in February in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency cohosted the event, which attracted leaders from developers, IT companies, regulators, and other experts.
F. S. Alsmiller, R. G. Alsmiller, Jr., T. A. Gabriel, R. A. Lillie, J. Barish
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 79 | Number 2 | October 1981 | Pages 147-161
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-A27403
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A fission channel has been added to the intranuclear-cascade-evaporation model of nuclear reactions so that this model can be used to obtain the differential particle production data that are needed to study the transport of medium-energy nucleons and pions through fissionable material. The earlier work of Hahn and Bertini on the incorporation of fission evaporation competition into the intranuclear-cascade-evaporation model has been retained and the statistical model of fission has been utilized to predict particle production from the fission process. Approximate empirically derived kinetic energies and deformation energies are used in the statistical model. The calculated number of emitted neutrons and residual nuclei distributions is in reasonable agreement with experimental data, but the number of emitted neutrons at the higher incident nucleon energies 500 MeV is sensitive to the level density parameter used.