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Norway’s Halden reactor takes first step toward decommissioning
The government of Norway has granted the transfer of the Halden research reactor from the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) to the state agency Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning (NND). The 25-MWt Halden boiling water reactor operated from 1958 to 2018 and was used in the research of nuclear fuel, reactor internals, plant procedures and monitoring, and human factors.
Miltiadis Alamaniotis (Univ of Texas at San Antonio)
Proceedings | Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technolgies (NPIC&HMIT 2019) | Orlando, FL, February 9-14, 2019 | Pages 1691-1697
In this work a new methodology for monitoring reactor systems is introduced and its application on pressurized water reactor (PWR) data is presented. The methodology implements a synergistic framework of various relevance vector machines and fuzzy inference. The goal of the framework is to fuse the sensor readings and provide them in a solid form to the operator: this solid form is identified as the state of the reactor. Initially, each of the relevance vector machines fuses the data taken from a specific set of sensors, which have been assigned to it. In the next step, the fused data in the form of a nominal value are forwarded to a fuzzy inference system that takes the values of all the relevance vector machines and further fuses the data by providing a single value that matches the state of the reactor. This proposed methodology is applied on a set of real-world data taken from the LOFT Facility, which is a setup to simulate a pressurized water reactor. Results demonstrate the efficiency of the method in identifying the correct reactor state, while reducing the volume of processing data.