Reliability Optimization of New Generation Nuclear Power Plants Using Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

The objective of the project was to develop an Artificial Intelligence module so that the exploration and exploitation that is incorporated into an evolutionary algorithm, would allow to face the optimization of the reliability of the conceptual design of New Generation Nuclear Power Plants. As particular objectives, it was expected to develop an adaptive evolutionary algorithm with efficient Artificial Intelligence for the proposed problem, to develop a tool for optimizing the reliability design in projects of new generation Nuclear Power Plants and to provide human resources in Artificial Intelligence. To evaluate the results of the new algorithm, the percentages of improvement in the time of obtaining the same quasi-optimal solution with respect to obtaining through the Evolutionary Algorithm without Artificial Intelligence have been measured. The times improved compared to the previous ones by 32%, which clearly demonstrates the improvement incorporated by the development carried out.