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Título del libro: Societe Francaise D'energie Nucleaire - International Congress On Advances In Nuclear Power Plants - Icapp 2007, "the Nuclear Renaissance At Work"
Título del capítulo: Development of a tool for comparing different nuclear power reactor technologies: The Mexican choice

Autores UNAM:
CECILIA MARTIN DEL CAMPO MARQUEZ; JUAN LUIS FRANCOIS LACOUTURE;
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Año de publicación:
2008
Palabras clave:

Agglomeration; Boiling water reactors; Chlorine compounds; Electric power plants; Fuzzy inference; Fuzzy logic; Fuzzy sets; Fuzzy systems; MATLAB; Membership functions; Nuclear energy; Nuclear engineering; Nuclear industry; Nuclear power plants; Nuclear reactors; Pressure tube reactors; Pressurized water reactors; Set theory; Small nuclear reactors; Steam power plants; Technology; Two phase flow; Water cooled reactors; Advanced boiling water reactor; Aggregation methods; Boiling water; Comparative assessments; Fuzzy logic inference; Fuzzy logics; International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants; MATLAB tool boxes; Multi-criteria; Non-linear functions; Nuclear power; Nuclear renaissance; Pressurized water; Public information; Set of rules; Power plants


Resumen:

This paper describes a methodology which allows making a comparative assessment of nuclear power reactor options. The methodology was divided in three steps. The first step consists on searching of common indicators to be compared. A total of twenty indicators were considered and grouped in three main criteria. The second step is to obtain the values of all the indicators for each of the reactor technologies being compared. The third step is to utilize an aggregation method to integrate all the indicators in an overall qualification. Fuzzy Logic was selected as multicriteria aggregation method because it is tolerant of imprecisely defined data; it can model non-linear functions of arbitrary complexity; and it is. able to build on top of the experience of experts. The Fuzzy Logic inference system was built using the MATLAB toolbox; three fuzzy sets were described for each entry variable (Indicator) and five fuzzy sets for the output variable (Qualification). Both, the set of membership function and the set of rules were defined in combination. The methodology is simple but at the same time it is powerful; it allows the use of all of the indicators with their own magnitudes and units. Five reactors were compared: the Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR), the Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR), the Evolutionary Pressurized water Reactor (EPR), the Advanced Pressurized water reactor 1000 (API000) and the Pebbled Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR). Preliminary results were obtained using non official data obtained from public information, non specific for Mexican projects.


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