TY - RPRT TI - Optimizing pressurized-water reactor equilibrium cycle using a novel loading pattern encoding and rule-based genetic crossover operators AU - Nguyen, Khang Hoang Nhat [North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (United States); Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)] (ORCID:0000000217889948) AU - Kim, Junyung [Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)] (ORCID:0009000512447402) AU - Rollins, Nicholas [Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)] (ORCID:0000000160661984) AU - Luque-Gutierrez, Juan C. [North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (United States)] (ORCID:0009000183137023) AU - Hou, Jason [North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (United States)] (ORCID:0000000211441632) AU - Lawrence, Svetlana [Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)] (ORCID:0000000326778673) AU - Wang, Congjian [Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)] (ORCID:0000000207789927) AU - Abdo, Mohammad Gamal M. Mostafa [Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)] (ORCID:0000000198456978) PY - 2026 DO - 10.1016/j.net.2026.104113 UR - https://www.osti.gov/biblio/3024514 ID - 3024514 ER -