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Last month, the Nuclear Energy University Program<\/a> (NEUP) at the US Department of Energy<\/a> (DOE) pledged more than $56 million to support nuclear energy researchers and programs across the country. The funding announcement also included results\"Ezgi\u00a0from this year\u2019s NEUP Innovations in Nuclear Energy R&D Student Competition, which recognizes students making innovative contributions to nuclear research and development.<\/p>\n

Ezgi Gursel, an industrial and systems engineering PhD student working with Associate Professor Anahita Khojandi<\/a>, was one of the nation\u2019s 14 winners.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a great honor to receive this award,\u201d said Gursel. \u201cI\u2019m very grateful to the NEUP for their recognition and support.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gursel received the award for using artificial intelligence (AI) to detect human errors in nuclear power plants (NPPs). While automation has made many aspects of NPP operation more reliable, human-made records still occasionally disagree with automatic sensor readings.<\/p>\n

\u201cHuman errors can lead to a range of problems in NPPs, including downtime, delayed responses, and the need for unexpected and costly corrective measures,\u201d Gursel said. \u201cThose issues can impact the safety, reliability, and operational efficiency of a plant.\u201d<\/p>\n

To catch those errors, NPPs often employ anomaly detection algorithms\u2014but those algorithms can struggle to find patterns in the highly detailed datasets, where each timestamp can correspond to dozens of sensor readings.<\/p>\n

Gursel and her team realized that a more sophisticated approach was needed. A generative adversarial network (GAN) consists of two competing AIs; one pollutes the dataset with convincing forgeries while the other tries to determine which data points are real.<\/p>\n

Over time, the network learns to accurately highlight points that do not fit with the true data\u2014like those derived from human error.<\/p>\n

\u201cGANs are commonly used in fields such as cybersecurity, medicine, and power systems,\u201d said Gursel, \u201cbut to the best of our knowledge, ours is the first work using GANs to detect human errors in NPPs.\u201d<\/p>\n

By incorporating a GAN, Gursel\u2019s project outperformed the algorithms previously considered state-of-the-art.<\/p>\n

Gursel\u2019s NEUP award includes a $3,500 honorarium and opportunities to travel and present her research.<\/p>\n

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Contact<\/h4>\n

Izzie Gall (865-974-7203, egall4@utk.edu<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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