Schematic of radiation-shielding design with many-objective evolutionary algorithm. (IMAGE)

Nuclear Science and Techniques

Schematic of radiation-shielding design with many-objective evolutionary algorithm.

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Reactor radiation-shielding optimization methods are proposed by combining many-objective evolutionary algorithms with particle-transport calculation software that can optimize the reactor primary-shielding structures, material types, and material compositions to obtain optimal shielding-design schemes through an automated process. A schematic of the many-objective optimization of the radiation-shielding design is shown in Fig. 1.

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Zhen-Ping Chen

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