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New consortium to address industry need for nuclear heat and power
Hoping to tackle a growing global demand for energy, The Open Group, a vendor-neutral technology and standards membership organization, has announced the formation of the Industrial Advanced Nuclear Consortium (IANC) to collaborate on finding advanced nuclear energy solutions to serve industrial customers.
ames L. Macdonald, Billy V. Koen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 56 | Number 2 | February 1975 | Pages 142-151
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE75-A26653
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This paper investigates the application of two artificial intelligence techniques, heuristic programming and learning theory, to the problem of digital computer control of nuclear reactors. The purpose of using an artificial intelligence approach is to alleviate the requirement for a detailed mathematical model of the nuclear reactor system. A control system is developed ivhich demonstrates the primary features of such an approach. Results are shown for several reactor and control problem variations using a computer simulated reactor.
