Monte Carlo Dropout Uncertainty Quantification of Long Short-Term Memory Autoencoder Anomaly Detection in a Liquid Sodium Cold Trap

Advanced high-temperature fluid reactors, such as sodium-cooled fast reactors (SFRs) and molten salt-cooled reactors (MSCRs), require coolant purification systems to prevent fluid contamination and local freezing that can lead to plugging. Liquid sodium purification can be achieved with a cold trap,...

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Vydáno v:Nuclear technology Ročník 211; číslo 12; s. 3004 - 3017
Hlavní autoři: Akins, Alexandra, Kultgen, Derek, Wu, Xu, Heifetz, Alexander
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Taylor & Francis 02.12.2025
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anomaly detection
long short-term memory autoencoder
machine learning
sodium fast reactor
Uncertainty quantification
ISSN:0029-5450, 1943-7471
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Shrnutí:Advanced high-temperature fluid reactors, such as sodium-cooled fast reactors (SFRs) and molten salt-cooled reactors (MSCRs), require coolant purification systems to prevent fluid contamination and local freezing that can lead to plugging. Liquid sodium purification can be achieved with a cold trap, where the sodium temperature is reduced to a near-freezing point to precipitate out impurities. Automation of monitoring of the cold trap performance with machine learning algorithms can aid in early detection of incipient anomalies. An efficient approach to loss-of-coolant-type anomaly detection in a cold trap monitored with more than two dozen thermal-hydraulic sensors consists of a long short-term memory (LSTM) autoencoder. This work develops the uncertainty quantification of the LSTM autoencoder performance for cold trap anomaly detection using the Monte Carlo (MC) dropout method. The MC dropout methodology creates a distribution of sister distributions that all slightly differ from each other because of random neurons being turned off for testing. The variances of the sister network distributions are used to make an uncertainty interval. Our analysis shows that the uncertainty in the autoencoder performance is largest near the peak of the anomaly signal. Using the MC dropout method, we investigate the uncertainty in the anomaly detection with missing sensor inputs. This capability allows the reactor operator to evaluate resilience of the anomaly detection system and to make informed decisions about continuity of operation in the event of sensor failure.
ISSN:0029-5450
1943-7471
DOI:10.1080/00295450.2025.2518613