FORMOSA-B: a boiling water reactor in-core fuel management optimization package II

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 48-68

  Karve, Atul A ^a,b,c   Turinsky, Paul J ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^c University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; REACTOR CORES; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SIMULATED ANNEALING;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHM; BOILING WATER REACTOR IN CORE FUEL MANAGEMENT OPTIMIZATION CODE; CONTROL ROD PATTERN; THERMAL MARGIN;

BOILING WATER REACTORS;

EID: 0033688997     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NT00-A3104     Document Type: Article

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