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Title: An Application of ASP in Nuclear Engineering: Explaining the Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident Scenario
Abstract The paper describes an ongoing effort in developing a declarative system for supporting operators in the Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) control room. The focus is on two modules: diagnosis and explanation of events that happened in NPPs. We describe an Answer Set Programming (ASP) representation of an NPP, which consists of declarations of state variables, components, their connections, and rules encoding the plant behavior. We then show how the ASP program can be used to explain the series of events that occurred in the Three Mile Island, Unit 2 (TMI-2) NPP accident, the most severe accident in the USA nuclear power plant operating history. We also describe an explanation module aimed at addressing answers to questions such as “why an event occurs?” or “what should be done?” given the collected data.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1914635 1757207
NSF-PAR ID:
10208814
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Theory and Practice of Logic Programming
Volume:
20
Issue:
6
ISSN:
1471-0684
Page Range / eLocation ID:
926 to 941
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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