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Article considers incorporation of AI into nuclear power plant operations
The potential application of artificial intelligence to the operation of nuclear power plants is explored in an article published in late December in the Washington Examiner. The article, written by energy and environment reporter Callie Patteson, presents the views of a number of experts, including Yavuz Arik, a strategic energy consultant.
V. K. Gupta, Sunil Sunny
Nuclear Technology | Volume 114 | Number 3 | June 1996 | Pages 404-412
Technical Note | Radiation Protection | doi.org/10.13182/NT96-A35243
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A large variety and amount of data of safety significance are routinely collected during the operation of a nuclear power plant (NPP). The data collected in the area of radiological protection have been analyzed to understand the behavior of activated corrosion products and fission products in the primary heat transport system of a pressurized heavy water reactor (PHWR). A correlation between the fuel integrity and the normalized external collective dose to maintenance work groups is clearly established. These studies should help in optimal work planning to keep the radiation exposure of work forces as low as reasonably achievable. The performance indicators introduced by the World Association of Nuclear Operators have been in use for the assessment of the operation and safety of NPPs in the member countries. This, however, helps only in the intercomparison of the operating and safety parameters of the operating NPPs. It was, therefore, felt necessary to work out a scheme that utilizes the data routinely collected at the NPP during the operating phase and also uses the safety analysis performed during design. With this in view, a new concept of safety indices (SIs), for overall assessment of the safety of the operating NPP has been evolved, including SIs in the areas of occupational collective dose, public dose, and fuel reliability, with a view to obtain a direct assessment of the safety of the plant operations, in comparison to a well-defined safety regime and/or regulatory constraints. The SIs in the aforementioned areas are discussed for the Rajasthan Atomic Power Station, an early Canada deuterium uranium PHWR, for the period from 1992 through 1993. The SIs could form a basis for communication among the utilities, the regulatory bodies, and the public, since the concept is direct and simple.