Statistical modelling of graphite brick cracking in advanced gas-cooled reactors.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C (Applied Statistics)
1 - 15.
Graphite cores in Advanced Gas-Cooled Nuclear Reactors contain bricks which are subject to cracking and periodic inspections provide information on the state of a sample of the bricks. Statistical models are fitted to the historic data and used to predict the numbers of cracked bricks that are expected to be seen at reactor inspections. As more data have become available the complexity of the best performing models has increased. By repeatedly making blind predictions of core behaviour the predictive performance of the models can be quantified and they can then be used to forecast core behaviour over longer periods.
|Title:||Statistical modelling of graphite brick cracking in advanced gas-cooled reactors.|
|Keywords:||graphite, nuclear reactors, blind predictions, model performance, system variability|
|UCL classification:||UCL > School of BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Statistical Science|
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