Nuclear power plants
Psychological empowerment in French nuclear power plants
... eighties, nuclear safety has been discussed in organizational studies and constitutes nowadays a specific stream with several ...of nuclear plants, the nuclear safety literature has emphasized ...
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How Nuclear Power Plants in Spain are reacting to the Massive Introduction of Renewable Energy
... US power plants are turning to gas and away from coal which is being exported to ...new power plants were constructed (Cossent, Gomez & Olmos, 2011) but from 2008 onwards the electricity ...
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Childhood leukaemia incidence below the age of 5 years near French nuclear power plants.
... ; Power Plants Introduction Kaatsch and colleagues recently published the results of a case-control study of leukaemia incidence among children under the age of 5 years living in the vicinity of ...
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Creep behaviour at high temperature of a stabilized austenitic steel for Gen-IV nuclear power plants
... Contact data (L.Mateus Freire, CEA and MINES ParisTech, lucie.mateus-freire@mines-paristech.fr) Summary ASTRID is a fast-reactor prototype for the 4 th generation of nuclear power plants. The ...
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Advanced thermal hydraulic simulations for human reliability assessment of nuclear power plants
... Introduction Nuclear power plants were designed using deterministic safety assessments ...the nuclear power plant can adequately respond to these events according to specified ...
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Fouling of Steam Generator Tubes in Nuclear Power Plants : Investigation on the Preventive Effect of Polyacrylic Acid on Iron Oxides Deposition
... in nuclear power plants has been investigated for long-term use in the USA (EPRI, ...at Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs): the online long-term use and the offline applications which ...
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Strengthening fonctional validation of critical system by using Model Checking : Application to Instrumentation and Control systems in nuclear power plants
... French nuclear industry initiated an ambitious R&D program called ...of nuclear power plants ...French nuclear industry (EDF, ALSTOM, AREVA and RRCN) and various software tools ...
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Capacity Factor Risk At Nuclear Power Plants
... a nuclear power plant is uncertainty about the plant’s realized capacity ...the Power Reactor Information System (PRIS) database maintained by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the ...
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A FTIR/chemometrics approach to characterize the gamma radiation effects on iodine/epoxy-paint interactions in Nuclear Power Plants
... the nuclear power ...French nuclear reactor containment ...a Nuclear Power Plant, fission products can be released from the nuclear fuel to the reactor containment ...
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Computer optimization of dry and wet/dry cooling tower systems for large fossil and nuclear power plants
... Results of optimization using different methods of replacing lost capacity for 1200 MWe nuclear plant with dry cooling tower system and high back pressure turbine.. Water flow d[r] ...
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Achieving higher capacity factors in nuclear power plants through longer operating cycles
... periodicities of monitoring, inspection, calibration, maintenance and/or repair. Mean time to failure is a parameter used to capture all of these activities. Perhaps a bet[r] ...
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Knowledge management for modelling nuclear power plants control in incidental and accidental states
... L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignemen[r] ...
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Radiochemical ageing of epoxy coating for nuclear plants
... Lee, J.R., Park, S.J., Seo, M.K., Baik, Y.K., Lee, S.K., 2006. A study on physicochemical properties of epoxy coating system for nuclear power plants. Nucl. Eng. Des. 236, 931–937. Longieras, N., ...
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Nuclear power: What optimal contribution to the French electric power mix?
... charging power modulation, which would mean charging energy losses, it would be worth considering taking advantage from the available energy to produce valuable services and products ...the nuclear economic ...
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The Nuclear Power Plant: Our New “Tower of Babel”?
... components, nuclear power plants are prone to ...as nuclear power plants, nuclear weapons systems, recombinant DNA production, or even ships carrying highly toxic or ...
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Bio-energy Carriers as Back-up Fuel in Hybrid Solar Power Plants
... Operating temperatures are limited to ~390 °C (PTC) or ~565 °C (molten salt in solar power towers, SPT). SPTs mostly apply molten salts, although direct steam or hot air applications are also proposed, each ...
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Stranded assets risk derails Vietnam's plan for new coal power plants
... coal power plants caused less ...the power sector would easily become the leading source of ...coal plants were ...coal plants (Gray et ...coal plants worldwide. For those ...
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Solar based large scale power plants : what is the best option
... rated power ranging from 20 up to 60 MW each ...rated power is comparable to the nine Solar Energy Generating Systems (SEGS) power plants built in California ranging from 14 MW (SEGS I) to 80 ...
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Advantages and disadvantages of the French nuclear power system
... This case shows how a problem detected at one plant site is treated within EDF as a clue about the presence of similar problems at other plants.. Even as site staff conduct tests to dete[r] ...
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Event-triggered variable horizon supervisory predictive control of hybrid power plants
... overall power produced by the cell for a short, a long and a variable horizon ...the power tracking is never ...total power is not very good when the solar power is steady, because predictions ...
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