Automatic pressurized water reactor loading pattern design using ant colony algorithms

Annals of Nuclear Energy

Volumn 43, Issue , 2012, Pages 91-98

  Lin, Chaung ^a   Lin, Bo Feng ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Ant colony algorithm; Loading pattern design; Pressurized water reactor

Indexed keywords

ANT COLONY ALGORITHMS; ANT SYSTEMS; COMPUTATION TIME; CYCLE LENGTH; DESIGN TOOL; FUEL ASSEMBLY; FUEL CYCLE; FULL-CORE; HEURISTIC INFORMATION; LOADING PATTERN DESIGN; LOADING PATTERNS; MAX-MIN ANT SYSTEM; MIRROR SYMMETRY; MODERATOR TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENTS; PENALTY TERM; PRESSURIZED WATER; ROTATIONAL SYMMETRIES; SAFETY REQUIREMENTS; SEARCH PROCEDURES; SEARCH SPACES; SIMULATE-3;

ALGORITHMS; DESIGN; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; LOADING; SECURITY SYSTEMS;

PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS;

EID: 84862792923     PISSN: 03064549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2011.12.002     Document Type: Article

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