WELCOME TO THE CORTEX PROJECT
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Launched in September 2017, CORTEX aims to develop an innovative core monitoring technique that allows detecting anomalies in nuclear reactors.
Workshops & Courses
A series of workshops and courses will be organised during the CORTEX project to disseminate knowledge and train the scientific community.
Project resources
All of the project’s resources will be available directly from the website. This includes: newsletters, promotional materials, publications, public deliverables and presentations.
CORTEX VIDEO
Watch our video to learn how CORTEX can help maintain nuclear power plants operational and safe.
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STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE 1
To develop simulation tools that will be specifically dedicated to the modelling of the stationary fluctuations’ effect in power reactors with a high level of fidelity
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE 3
Advanced signal analysis and machine learning techniques will be combined with reactor transfer function modelling capabilities
STRATEGIC OBEJECTIVE 2
The validation of the simulation tools will be performed using reactor experiments specifically designed for noise analysis applications
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE 4
The modelling capabilities for the estimation of the reactor transfer function and the advanced signal analysis techniques need to be combined into a set of tools that can be directly used for analysing plant data and performing core diagnostics
LATEST NEWS
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…