IN THIS PAPER, THE GENETIC ALGORITHM METHOD HAS BEEN USED FOR FINDING THE RADIAL CONFIGURATION WITH MINIMUM ACTIVE POWER Loss AT A Distribution SYSTEM. THE MAIN FEATURE OF THIS METHOD IS THAT IT CAN PASS FROM LOCAL OPTIMUMS AND REACHES TO THE GLOBAL OPTIMUM. BY USING THE FEATURES OF Distribution SYSTEMS, AN INTEGER CODING METHOD WITH SUITABLE LENGTH, HAS BEEN PRESENTED. THIS INTEGER CHROMOSOME CODING METHOD, AS COMPARED WITH OTHER GENETIC ALGORITHM METODS, FIRSTLY REDUCES THE GENERATION OF INFEASIBLE CONFIGURATIONS(CONFIGURATIONS WITH LOOP OR UNFEEDED BUS) AND SECONDLY, REDUCES THE LENGTH OF CHROMOSOMES. BECAUSE OF THIS TWO FEATURES, IT REDUCES THE COMPUTATIONAL BURDEN AND IMPROVE THE CONVERGENCE SPEED. THE DIFFICULTY OF TUNING THE AMOUNT OF MUTATION AND CROSSOVER PROBABILITY, HAS BEEN SOLVED BY A SUITABLE ADAPTIVE METHOD.