QACO-Alpha applied to the nuclear reactor core fuel reload optimization

Progress in Nuclear Energy

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 80-85

  Da Silva, Márcio Henrique ^a   Schirru, Roberto ^a   De Lima, Alan Miranda Monteiro ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Nuclear core fuel reload; Quantum computing

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE LEARNING; FUEL ASSEMBLY; NUCLEAR CORE FUEL RELOAD; OPERATION CYCLES; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; OPTIMIZATION TOOLS; PREMATURE CONVERGENCE; QUANTUM COMPUTING; QUANTUM INSPIRED EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; FUELS; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; NUCLEAR PROPULSION; POWER PLANTS; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM THEORY; REACTOR CORES;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 78249264142     PISSN: 01491970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnucene.2010.08.005     Document Type: Article

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