2024/06/27 by Aidan Furlong, Farah Alsafadi, Furlong, Aidan +7
Engineering · #Artificial intelligence #Computer science #Convolutional neural network #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #Fault Detection and Control Systems #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Nuclear Engineering Thermal-Hydraulics #Nuclear reactor physics and engineering #Physics #Power (physics) #Signal Processing (eess.SP) #Thermodynamics #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2407.04726
openalex publication_date 2024/06/27 · openalex created_date 2024/07/11 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The development of Crud-Induced Power Shift (CIPS) is an operational challenge in Pressurized Water Reactors that is due to the development of crud on the fuel rod cladding. The available predictive tools developed previously, usually based on fundamental physics, are computationally expensive and have shown differing degrees of accuracy. This work proposes a completely top-down approach to predict CIPS instances on an assembly level with reactor-specific calibration built-in. Built using artificial neural networks, this work uses a three-dimensional convolutional approach to leverage the image-like layout of the input data. As a classifier, the convolutional neural network model predicts whether a given assembly will experience CIPS as well as the time of occurrence during a given cycle. This surrogate model is both trained and tested using a combination of calculated core model parameters and measured plant data from Unit 1 of the Catawba Nuclear Station. After the evaluation of its performance using various metrics, Monte Carlo dropout is employed for extensive uncertainty quantification of the model predictions. The results indicate that this methodology could be a viable approach in predicting CIPS with an assembly-level resolution across both clean and afflicted cycles, while using limited computational resources.