Deep Surrogate Models for Multi-dimensional Regression of Reactor Power

摘要

There is renewed interest in developing small modular reactors and micro-reactors. Innovation is necessary in both construction and operation methods of these reactors to be financially attractive [1]. For construction, methods such as additive manufacturing [2] is under active development. For operation, an area of interest is the development of fully au-tonomous reactor control [3]. Significant efforts are necessary to demonstrate an autonomous control framework for a nu-clear system, while adhering to established safety criteria. For critical reactors of interest, the latter precludes implementing such a framework. Therefore, our group has proposed and received support for demonstration of an autonomous frame-work on a subcritical system: the MIT Graphite Exponential Pile(MGEP)~1.