Optimizing nuclear power plant refueling with mixed-integer programming

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 269-280

  Fourcade, Fabrice ^b   Johnson, Ellis ^a   Bara, Mourad ^b   Cortey Dumont, Philippe ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MAINTENANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; REACTOR REFUELING; REACTOR SHUTDOWNS; SCHEDULING;

MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT REFUELING;

INTEGER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0031102964     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(96)00197-X     Document Type: Article

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