3D convolutional and recurrent neural networks for reactor perturbation unfolding and anomaly detection

Aiden Durrant* (Corresponding Author), Georgios Leontidis, Stefanos Kollias

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Abstract

With Europe's ageing fleet of nuclear reactors operating closer to their safety limits, the monitoring of such reactors through complex models has become of great interest to maintain a high level of availability and safety. Therefore, we propose an extended Deep Learning framework as part of the CORTEX Horizon 2020 EU project for the unfolding of reactor transfer functions from induced neutron noise sources. The unfolding allows for the identification and localisation of reactor core perturbation sources from neutron detector readings in Pressurised Water Reactors. A 3D Convolutional Neural Network (3D-CNN) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) have been presented, each to study the signals presented in frequency and time domain respectively. The proposed approach achieves state-of-the-art results with the classification of perturbation type in the frequency domain reaching 99.89% accuracy and localisation of the classified perturbation source being regressed to 0.2902 Mean Absolute Error (MAE).
Original languageEnglish
Article number20
Number of pages9
JournalEPJ Nuclear Sciences & Technologies
Volume5
Early online date29 Nov 2019
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

The research conducted was made possible through funding from the Euratom research and training programme 2014-2018 under grant agreement No 754316 for the ‘CORe Monitoring Techniques And EXperimental Validation And Demonstration (CORTEX)’ Horizon 2020 project, 2017-2021. We would like to
thank the Chalmers University of Technology, particularly Dr C. Demaziere, Dr P. Vinai, Dr A. Milonakis and the Paul Scherrer Institute, particularly Dr A. Dokhane and Dr V. Verma for providing the frequency and domain data respectively, for assisting us with their understanding and for collaborating with us in the analysis process.

Keywords

  • Machine Learning
  • Deep Learning
  • nuclear reactors
  • signal processing

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