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Nuclear Back-end and Transmutation Technology for Waste Disposal:Beyond the F…
This book covers essential aspects of transmutation technologies, highlighting especially the advances in Japan. The accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) has caused us to focus attention on a large amount of spent nuclear fuels stored in NPPs. In addition, public anxiety regarding the treatment and disposal of high-level radioactive wastes that require long-term control i…
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- 1
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- 978-4-431-55110-2
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- XV, 341
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Analytics for Smart Energy Management: Tools and Applications for Sustainable…
This book introduces the issues and problems that arise when implementing smart energy management for sustainable manufacturing in the automotive manufacturing industry and the analytical tools and applications to deal with them. It uses a number of illustrative examples to explain energy management in automotive manufacturing, which involves most types of manufacturing technology and various l…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-32729-7
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- XI, 295
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- Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing
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- 658 OHS a
The Physics of the Manhattan Project
The development of nuclear weapons during the Manhattan Project is one of the most significant scientific events of the twentieth century. This revised and updated 3rd edition explores the challenges that faced the scientists and engineers of the Manhattan Project. It gives a clear introduction to fission weapons at the level of an upper-year undergraduate physics student by examining the detai…
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- 978-3-662-43533-5
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- XVII, 222
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Performance Assessment of Concrete Structures and Engineered Barriers for Nuc…
Pembangkit listrik tenaga nuklir dan banyak fasilitas serta struktur yang digunakan untuk pemrosesan, penyimpanan sementara, dan pembuangan bahan limbah radioaktif yang dihasilkan oleh siklus bahan bakar menggunakan beton dalam konstruksinya. Struktur ini diperlukan untuk berfungsi dengan aman dan andal di lingkungan yang menantang dan bervariasi untuk periode waktu yang berpotensi berkisar hin…
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- Vol. 21
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- 978-94-024-0904-8
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- -
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- RILEM State-of-the-Art Reports
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- 333.792 HOS p
Design of Thermal Barrier Coatings :A Modelling Approach
This book details the relationships between microstructure, interface roughness, and properties of thermal barrier coatings. The author proposes a method for the reduction of the thermal conductivity of the ceramic layer in order to increase the lifetime of thermal barrier coatings. He includes models for the optimization of ceramic layer microstructure and interface roughness
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- 9783319172545
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- xiv, 82 pages
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- 333.79
Radionuclide and Metal Sorption on Cement and Concrete
Cementitious materials are being widely used as solidification/stabilisation and barrier materials for a variety of chemical and radioactive wastes, primarily due to their favourable retention properties for metals, radionuclides and other contaminants. The retention properties result from various mineral phases in hydrated cement that possess a high density and diversity of reactive sites for …
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- 978-3-319-23651-3
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Radioactive Waste Engineering and Management
This book describes essential and effective management for reliably ensuring public safety from radioactive wastes in Japan. This is the first book to cover many aspects of wastes from the nuclear fuel cycle to research and medical use, allowing readers to understand the characterization, treatment and final disposal of generated wastes, performance assessment, institutional systems, and social…
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- 978-4-431-55417-2
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Optimum Investment Strategy in the Power Industry Mathematical Models
This book presents an innovative methodology for identifying optimum investment strategies in the power industry. To do so, it examines results including, among others, the impact of oxy-fuel technology on CO2 emissions prices, and the specific cost of electricity production. The technical and economic analysis presented here extend the available knowledge in the field of investment optimizati…
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- 978-3-319-31872-1
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The Risk City Cities Countering Climate Change: Emerging Planning Theories a…
Contemporary cities face phenomenal risks, and they face particularly high levels of mounting social and environmental risks, including social polarization, urban conflicts, riots, terror, and climate change threats. This book suggests that climate change and its resulting uncertainties challenge the concepts, procedures, and scope of conventional approaches to planning, creating a need to reth…
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- 978-94-017-9768-9
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GHG Emissions and Economic Growth A Computable General Equilibrium Model Bas…
Issues linking climate change and economic growth are now at the centre of discussions regarding development strategies especially in the context of developing countries. This book contributes by analyzing the relationship between economic growth and GHG emissions in India with explicit reference to all major economic sectors. One of the most popular tools for macroeconomic policy analysis is S…
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- 978-81-322-1943-9
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