In this paper a new system, called ohtli-PR, is presented. This system was developed for fuel
lattice design optimization in Boiling Water Reactors (BWR) using the Path Relinking and …

The focus of this paper is to present a concurrent optimization scheme for the radial pin
enrichment and burnable poison location in PWR fuel assemblies. The methodology is …

Radial and axial optimization of the fuel assembly in a boiling water reactor are usually
solved as independent problems, despite they are highly related. In this work we propose …

This paper presents the training of an artificial neural network (ANN) to accurately predict, in
very short time, a physical parameter used in nuclear fuel reactor optimization: the local …

RENO-CC, a system to optimize nuclear fuel lattices for boiling water reactors using a
multistate recurrent neural network, is shown. This kind of neural network is formed by only …

In the present study a comparison of the performance of five heuristic techniques for
optimization of combinatorial problems is shown. The techniques are: Ant Colony System …

A method and arrangement of determining pin enrichments for a fuel bundle of a nuclear
reactor, where a plurality of input parameters and target conditions may be input and …

One of the limiting contributors to the heat load constraint for a long term spent fuel
repository is the decay of americium-241. A possible option to reduce the heat load …

Abstract A Heuristic-Knowledge Method was developed to determine the enrichment and
gadolinia distribution in a fuel lattice of boiling water reactors. The method was called S15 …

An optimization method has been developed to determine the optimal fresh fuel rod
configurations, fresh streams, and fresh bundle design placements given a known exposed …