Intelligent soft computing in nuclear engineering in Brazil

Abstract Nuclear reactor design and operation often involve important human cognition and decisions. Design optimization, transient diagnosis and core reload optimization, are examples of complex tasks faced during a nuclear reactor design or operation. In order to handle such kind of tasks expert knowledge is required. Due to the complexity involved in the cognition and decisions to be taken, computerized systems have been intensely explored in order to aid design and operation. Following hardware advances, soft computing has been improved and, nowadays, intelligent technologies, such as evolutionary programming, neural networks, expert systems and fuzzy systems are being used to support design and operation. This work presents applications of intelligent Soft Computing (ISC) to three important cognition problems which are: the nuclear reactor design, the core reload optimization and transient diagnosis.

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