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Meeting a deadline set in President Trump’s May 23 executive order “Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the Department of Energy,” the DOE on June 30 updated information on its National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) rulemaking and implementation procedures and published on its website an interim final rule that rescinds existing regulations alongside new implementing procedures.
Bok Ki Min, Soon Heung Chang
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 100 | Number 4 | December 1988 | Pages 426-434
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-A23575
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An expert system is developed for design synthesis and reliability analysis. Design synthesis uses a rule-based production system called KOPS, and reliability analysis is composed of the computer codes CAT, FTAP, and IMPORTANCE. These two system parts are linked in the LISP interpreter. This expert system is applied to the design of an auxiliary feedwater system that generates various design alternatives and performs a successful reliability analysis.
