Expert system for generating fuel movement procedures

Conference · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1991 · Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (United States)

OSTI ID:7074730

Hendrickson, J P ^[1]

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1. Florida Power and Light Co., Juno Beach (United States)

Commercial nuclear power reactors are required by federal law and their operating license to track and control the movement of nuclear fuel. Planning nuclear fuel movements during a refueling outage by hand is a tedious process involving an initial state and final state separated by physical and administrative constraints. Since the initial and final states as well as all constraints are known, an expert computer system for planning this process is possible. Turkey Point station worked with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)-selected vendor to implement such a system. Over the course of a 2-yr period, the EPRI Fuel Shuffle Planning System evolved from a high-tech word processor to an expert system capable of planning all fuel movement sequences required to refuel a nuclear reactor core. Turkey Point site is composed to two pressurized water reactor units owned and operated by Florida Power and Light Company.

• OSTI ID: 7074730
• Report Number(s): CONF-911107-; CODEN: TANSA; TRN: 92-030882
• Journal Information: Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (United States), Vol. 63; Conference: 1991 Winter meeting of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) session on fundamentals of fusion reactor thermal hydraulics, San Francisco, CA (United States), 10-15 Nov 1991; ISSN 0003-018X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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NUCLEAR MATERIALS MANAGEMENT
EXPERT SYSTEMS
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TURKEY POINT-4 REACTOR
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES
ALGORITHMS
ECONOMICS
EPRI
ERRORS
FUEL ASSEMBLIES
IMPLEMENTATION
INVENTORIES
KNOWLEDGE BASE
PLANNING
REACTOR CORES
REACTOR FUELING
REACTOR LICENSING
REACTOR OPERATION
REACTOR OPERATORS
VERIFICATION
ANIMALS
ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS
LICENSING
MAMMALS
MAN
MANAGEMENT
MATHEMATICAL LOGIC
OPERATION
PERSONNEL
POWER REACTORS
PRIMATES
PWR TYPE REACTORS
REACTOR COMPONENTS
REACTORS
THERMAL REACTORS
VERTEBRATES
WATER COOLED REACTORS
WATER MODERATED REACTORS
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990200 - Mathematics & Computers