The application of Artificial Neural Network in nuclear energy

Nuclear power system shows very typical nonlinear characteristics in many aspects. Sometimes the system´s safety must suffer from the inconvenience which induced by the nonlinear characteristic, such as system control problem, safety analysis, correlation application range, and so on. Artificial Neural Network (ANN) as the simulation technology of human brain can deal with some inherent essences of complex system. Many researchers try to import this method into nuclear energy field. In this paper, some representative usages of ANN in nuclear field are introduced roundly. After that some existed problems are discussed and some suggestions are given.