In Work Package 1 (WP1) of the CORTEX project, the main objective is to develop methods and models for the calculation of neutron noise in nuclear reactors. The efforts of WP1 are planned to be used in the analysis of…
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CORTEX had its third annual meeting at “l’Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne” (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) on October 14-16, 2019. The meeting was hosted by the Laboratory for Reactor Physics and Systems Behaviour (LRS), home of the CROCUS research reactor. During…
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…
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,…
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…
CORTEX Coordinator, Christophe Demazières from Chalmers University of Technology, presented an overview of the project at the third DAE-BRNS Symposium on Advances in Reactor Physics (ARP-2017) in Mumbai, India, on 6-9 December 2017. His presentation, entitled Noise-based core monitoring and diagnostics –…
The Horizon-2020 CORTEX project (CORe monitoring Techniques and EXperimental validation and demonstration) was officially launched during a kickoff meeting in Brussels on 5-6 September 2017. During two days, the consortium came together to review all of the work to be…