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Spent fuel transfer project completed at INL
Work crews at Idaho National Laboratory have transferred 40 spent nuclear fuel canisters into long-term storage vaults, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has reported.
Alex Galperin, Jean-Michel Evrard
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 107 | Number 2 | February 1991 | Pages 131-141
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A15727
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Development of a knowledge-based system for supervision of a continuous process requires, on the one hand, efficient and flexible knowledge structuring and, on the other hand, overall system control, which provides coherence between the diagnosis task (deduction) and the prediction task (simulation). The development of a reasoning method that combines qualitative and quantitative analysis approaches is described. This method is integrated into an overall computational system for a knowledge-based supervisor. The prototype was tested by simulating the transient behavior of the auxiliary feedwater system of a pressurized water reactor. The preliminary results indicate the feasibility of the methods and their potential for industrial applications.