The NUGENIA Forum 2019 will be held from 13 to 15 March 2019 at La Cité Universitaire in Paris, France. The theme of this year Forum is “Innovation for a safe, efficient and low-carbon nuclear energy production”. It will be devoted to the discussion on the technical…
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The CORTEX project had its second annual meeting at GRS, Munich, Germany, between October 22 and 24, 2018. All 18 European partners were present at the meeting. The meeting was also attended by the Japanese partner of CORTEX. In total,…
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…
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…
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…