The purpose of this paper is to present an approach to optimization in which every target is considered as a separate objective to be optimized. For an efficient search through the solution space we use a multiobjective genetic algorithm which allows us to identify a set of Pareto optimal solutions providing the decision maker with the complete spectrum of optimal solutions with respect to the ...

The RELAP5/MOD3.2 R/T engineering quality plant simulation code has been developed based on the system thermal-hydraulics code RELAP5 and the nodal spatial kinetics code NESTLE. Preliminary validation of the code as an engineering simulator was performed using a series of NEA PWR control rod ejection and withdrawal problems. Real time performance for simulator applications was demonstrated for ...

This article begins to consider the factors that promote the formation of a positive working relationships (PWR) between practitioner and probationer. The results from a pilot study are used to review the importance of “assist, advice and befriend” and “confront, challenge and change” within current practitioneroffender relationships. Through collaborative design, five probationers completed vi...

Nuclear power plants in the United States are increasingly challenged to compete wholesale electricity markets due low costs and dynamic grid conditions from competing generation sources. An alternative market for nuclear is industrial facilities that can use thermal and/or electrical generated by a plant offset economic losses incurred challenges. A generic pressurized water reactor (PWR) simu...