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Nicholas Tsoulfanidis—ANS member since 1969
We welcome ANS members who have careered in the community to submit their own Nuclear Legacy stories, so that the personal history of nuclear power can be captured. For information on submitting your stories, contact nucnews@ans.org.
As an undergraduate I studied physics at the University of Athens. I entered the university in 1955 after successfully passing a national exam (came up fourth in a field of about 700 candidates). Upon graduation and finishing my mandatory two-year military service, the plan was to teach physics either in a public high school or as a tutor for a private for-profit institution, preparing high school students for the national exam.
Yunfeng Zhang, Xiangshun Li, Lin Cai
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 194 | Number 7 | July 2020 | Pages 541-553
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2020.1751526
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Based on the angle and Euclidean distance similarity of the loading matrix, this paper reports on an improved principal component analysis (PCA) modeling method that is successfully applied to identify three different working conditions in the secondary loop of a nuclear power plant (NPP). First, a simulation platform of the secondary loop of the NPP is built in which three kinds of working conditions are set. Second, the multiple-PCA modeling method is used to construct the offline models. Finally, the effectiveness and superiority of the improved method is verified in the simulation platform.