Fuel loading and control rod patterns optimization in a BWR using tabu search

Castillo, Alejandro; Ortiz, Juan José; Montes, José Francisco Aldana; Perusquía, Raúl

doi:10.1016/j.anucene.2006.12.006

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“…These both considered the problem of minimizing the power peaking factor, identifying small improvements in performance compared to a GA implementation. TS implementations have also been applied to various BWR applications: fuel lattice design (François et al, 2003), reload core design (Castillo et al, 2004), control rod design (Castillo et al, 2005) and a combination of fuel loading and control rod pattern optimization (Castillo et al, 2007). This paper investigates the performance of a TS implementation on representative PWR reload core design problems, seeking optimal values for the parameters that control the algorithm for a range of different objective functions, and then comparing the performance of the resulting TS implementation with that of established SA and GA implementations.…”

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Pressurized water reactor in-core nuclear fuel management by tabu search

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Parks

2015

Annals of Nuclear Energy

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Optimization of the arrangement of fuel assemblies and burnable poisons when reloading pressurized water reactors has, in the past, been performed with many different algorithms in an attempt to make reactors more economic and fuel efficient. The use of the tabu search algorithm in tackling reload core design problems is investigated further here after limited, but promising, previous investigations. The performance of the tabu search implementation developed was compared with established genetic algorithm and simulated annealing optimization routines. Tabu search outperformed these existing programs for a number of different objective functions on two different representative core geometries.

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