Controlling the power output of a nuclear reactor with fuzzy logic

Information Sciences

Volumn 110, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 151-177

  Ruan, Da ^a   Van Der Wal, Arien J ^b  

^a BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

BR1 reactor; Fuzzy logic control; Nuclear reactor control; PLC based fuzzy control; Rule base control

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SETS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; POWER CONTROL; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

NUCLEAR REACTOR CONTROL;

FUZZY CONTROL;

EID: 0032188243     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-0255(98)10027-0     Document Type: Article

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