(Finance) – An advanced model of artificial intelligence To improve the calculations of the simulations of ‘severi’ accidents in reactors nuclear. To study it is theAENEAS As part of the European Assas Da project 4 million euroscoordinated by the French ASNRwhich sees the participation of 14 partners from EU countries, Switzerland and Ukraine.
The model aims to combine temporal analysis and relationships between variables to optimize the calculations of the code Astecthe European reference software that allows you to simulate the phenomena generated by a severe accident in a water -cooled reactor, from the initial event to the possible release of radioactive materials outside the containment. THE’final goal It is strengthening safety in case of nuclear accidents by adopting ready and experimenting response strategies. This will be possible thanks to the collaboration between international researchers specialized in severe accidents and automatic learning experts.
“Nuclear reactors simulators assist the formation of operators, the design and evaluation of safety. However, only a few simulators in the world modelize severe accidents that can involve the merger of the core. The Assas project aims to create a prototype of simulator based on the Astec code to model, calculate and view the main phenomena of an accident in real time through an interactive graphics interface – explains the manager for Enea del project Fulvio Mascariresearcher of the nuclear department. – The goal is to achieve a calculation speed of the code such as to offer the simulator users a realistic training experience. As a demonstration of the commitment in the formation of the younger generations, Enea finances a doctorate bag with the University of Bologna in this area “.
The upgrade of the Astec code will allow you to create simulators engineering And in a royal scale that can be used to develop guidelines on the management of severe accidents, develop new safety systems and form operators. “The next steps – concludes Mascari – foresee the validation of models and theIntegration of physical models and techniques of machine learning to further increase the accuracy of the simulations “.