Fuzzy engineering in nuclear research applications

Security, maintenance, monitoring, diagnosis, and environment are all related to humans and their society, and are the most important and difficult problems of nuclear engineering. These problems are so complicated that they can hardly be solved without a global approach. Therefore, fuzzy engineering may be one of the most powerful tools available to us. This paper reports on the initial activity of fuzzy engineering at the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre. It illustrates two applications, namely, nuclear emergency decision aiding systems, and inspection of transmission lines of nuclear installations with preliminary results, then states a new R&D project concerning a fuzzy model-based control of a nuclear reactor giving more practical questions to do with fuzzy engineering rather than presenting solutions.<>