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The design of pressurised water reactor (PWR) reload cores is not only a formidable optimization problem but also in many instances a multiobjective problem. This paper describes a genetic algorithm (GA) designed to perform true multiobjective optimization on such problems.
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Parks, G.T. (1998). Multiobjective Pressurised Water Reactor Reload Core Design using a Genetic Algorithm. In: Artificial Neural Nets and Genetic Algorithms. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6492-1_12
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