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NERS publishes report on machine learning and microreactors
The University of Michigan’s Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences (NERS) has published a summary of a study on nuclear microreactors and machine learning (ML) that was conducted by researchers from NERS and Idaho National Laboratory. The full paper, “Nuclear Microreactor Transient and Load-Following Control with Deep Reinforcement Learning,” was featured in the July issue of Energy Conversion and Management: X.
Kosuke Tsujita, Tomohiro Endo, Akio Yamamoto, Yohei Kamiyama, Kazuki Kirimura
Transactions | Volume 107 | Number 1 | November 2012 | Pages 1101-1104
