Comparative study of meta-heuristic algorithms for reactor fuel reloading optimization based on the developed BP-ANN calculation method

In order to obtain optimal core configurations, the problems of fuel reloading optimization must be solved in nuclear engineering field. This problem is a combinational optimization problem with an enormous solution space. In the traditional calculation method, the meta-heuristic algorithms (MHAs) are used to search and update optimization solutions continuously, while the core physics calculation programs are used to calculate the optimization...