Ellie Dana
Two workshops arranged by CORTEX The first event took place on 22-25 April 2018, at UPM, Spain and was devoted to introducing basic techniques for signal analysis and their possible applications to nuclear power plants (14 participants registered to this event). …
In Work Package 4, actual plant data will be used to demonstrate the applicability as well as usefulness of the newly developed tools. Emphasis will be placed on the “detection” of abnormal fluctuations, on the understanding of their origin, and on…
This Work Package deals with the analysis of plant data and neutron current and flux modelling, through advanced signal processing and machine learning techniques. In particular, signal processing methods include Fourier and Hilbert transformations, multi-resolution wavelet analysis, while machine learning focuses on deep…
Work Package 2 targets the generation of high-quality neutron noise experimental data for the subsequent validation of computers methods and models developed in other work packages. The AKR-2 reactor at TU Dresden and th CROCUS reactor at EPFL are the facilities where…
Fuel assembly vibrations induced by the coolant flow are one of the most common reasons for neutron noise in nuclear reactors. During the first year of the CORTEX project, a significant part of the activities of Work Package 1 was related…
Last July, researchers at the University of Lincoln (UoL) attended the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), World Congress in Computational Intelligence (WCCI), held in Rio De Janeiro. Under the International Joined Conference in Neural Network (IJCNN) track, Stefanos…
On 18-21 June 2018, about 42 young researchers from Europe, the US and Asia took part in a summer course at Chalmers . The topic was reactor dynamics with a focus on nuclear safety. About half of the participants were on-site, at…
As part of the CORTEX project, The Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) has opened two Postdoc positions: The 1st one concerning Numerical Noise Modelling and Simulations ==> The tasks: – Further development of PSI methodologies for numerical modelling and simulations…