Finding optimal nuclear reactor core reload patterns using nonlinear optimization and search heuristics

Finding optimal nuclear reactor core reload patterns using nonlinear optimization and search heuristics

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Article ID: iaor20011370
Country: United Kingdom
Volume: 32
Issue: 2
Start Page Number: 143
End Page Number: 176
Publication Date: Jan 1999
Journal: Engineering Optimization
Authors: , , , , , ,
Keywords: energy, programming: integer
Abstract:

A simplified but still quite realistic model of the nuclear reactor fuel management problem is used to search for optimal fuel loading schemes. Several adaptations and model adjustments are described that make the model tractable for a general nonlinear mixed-integer solver. Results are compared with results from pairwise interchange optimization. Use of solutions from nonlinear mixed-integer optimization as starting values for local search heuristics leads to powerful optimization methods.

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