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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Meltdown"”.
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Reactor core meltdown containment for offshore applications.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Ocean Engineering. Thesis. 1973. M.S. (Also M.S. in Nuclear Engineering.)
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Marketing, distribution, and consumption of popular music in the face of music piracy and the economic meltdown in Zimbabwe from 2008 to 2019
… this has been exacerbated by the economic meltdown that the country is facing since 2008. Piracy has emerged to be a problem which has attracted a substantial amount of local and international attention over the past few decades. However, the marketing, distribution, and consumption of …
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An Investigation of Geopolymers for Use In High Temperature Applications
… in high temperature conditions, such as a core meltdown at a nuclear power plant or a structural fire, where dehydration of materials occurs. Geopolymer concretes synthesized with fly ash, metakaolin, ground glass, and combinations thereof are investigated. To simulate the thermal loading that …
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Japan's delayed antinuclear power mobilization after 3.11
The meltdown of Fukushima Daiichi's nuclear plant was one of three disasters that rocked Japan on 11 March 2011, a day often referred to as "3.11." This nuclear accident led to increased attention to and disapproval of nuclear power among the Japanese public. However, despite widespread antinuclear …
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Dynamic Mutation Rates and Extinction in Sexual Organisms
… process, which I call "deterministic mutational meltdown,” places an upper limit on the relative size of the repair genome. The tendency of mutator alleles to recruit new mutator alleles, which I call "positive-feedback mutation pressure,” affects the mutation dynamics of any organism. If an …
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The changing face of Andean peatlands: the effects of climate and human disturbance on ecosystem structure and function
… elevations, except when water from glacial meltdown was supplied in which case production reached extremely high values. Modeling of peatland dynamics indicated increasing decomposition rates in sites with high human disturbance, an effect that propagated towards the future in the form of …
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The application and reconstruction of international law by domestic courts : an analytical framework for the judicial mediation of a cosmopolitan and emancipatory international law
… environmental degradation to an economic meltdown and political instability, accompanied by grave human suffering – all of which can be addressed only through ecumenical cooperation at a global level. This, in turn, presupposes a global system of regulation. Thus far, the only regime …
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Desorption of Non-Exchangeable Radiocesium in soil from Fukushima Prefecture, Japan
… by an earthquake and a tsunami resulting in the meltdown of four of the six reactor cores operating at the plant. As a result, nuclear waste was released from the plant, contaminating the soil in the region. Most of the contamination was sequestered within the few inches of the soil but unluckily …
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We know what the CMBS did last summer and why
… the series of events that culminated in the meltdown of CMBS. We also address CRIIMI MAE, at the time the largest buyer of subordinate CMBS and an emerging player in CMBS issuance, in a case study to assess structural vulnerability in the CMBS market. Finally, we explore the hedging potential …
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A thermal-hydraulic analysis of the cooling system for the 500 KW Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University reactor
… should not occur on any fuel plate, 3) fuel meltdown must not occur after a loss-of-flow or loss-of-coolant accident, 4) fuel plate vibration problems should not be significant. The results of the investigation indicate that the above limiting conditions will not be exceeded provided that …
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The Performance Cost of Security
… question by new microarchitectural attacks, e.g. Meltdown and Spectre. Microarchitectural attacks exploit the effects of microarchitectural components or optimizations in order to leak data to an attacker. These attacks have caused processor manufacturers to introduce performance impacting …
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Microwave appliance performance as affected by container geometry and material
… Evenness of cooking was determined by comparing meltdown and temperature in gelatin, temperature and separation/uncooked portions in custard, and index to volume in cakes. Firmness was measured in custard while moisture content was determined in cakes. In analysis of the data, ANOVA and Duncan's …
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Modeling analyses and data in human reliability
… safety assessments are used to estimate the core meltdown risk, by means of sequential analyses of accidents. In order to assess probabilities of the appearance of these sequences, it is necessary to specifically assess probabilities of operation failures accomplished by human operators in a …
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Corporate governance and accounting irregularities: evidence from the two-tier board structure in Indonesia
… 2008 subprime mortgage and financial institution meltdown. The existence and persistence of such cases of financial scandals have led many investors, regulators, companies and academics to try to reduce such incidence by improving the effectiveness of corporate governance and increasing awareness …
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Does thorium have a place in the future U.S. electricity mix?
… features that eliminate the chance of a nuclear meltdown, operate under safer conditions, and prevent atmospheric exposure in the event of a reactor breach. Furthermore, using thorium instead of uranium eliminates the need to enrich and fabricate fuel and generates less waste that only needs to …
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Ornament because of crime : learning from Mafia Baroque
… power. Building on the context of the economic meltdown of the mid-1990s, the urban development out-pacing the changing regulatory environment due to corruption, , and the unclear laws relating to land restitution and private development- it seeks to understand how these mafia individuals …
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How autistic adults experience bereavement: an interpretative phenomenological study
… an increase in autistic inertia, shutdown, and meltdown. The findings provide preliminary data on how the demands of bereavement, including the burden of minority stress, may increase the risk of autistic burnout for autistic survivors. Bereavement instigated a narrative reconstruction of the …
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A study of Korean shipbuilders' strategy for sustainable growth
… current market situation. Before the financial meltdown in 2008, in the five preceding years, the healthy global economy and the rapid growth of the Chinese economy led to 35% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in shipbuilding orders. Korean shipbuilders' sales and profits increased dramatically …
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An Integrative Approach to Evaluating Radiocesium Contamination in Fukushima Prefecture
<p>An earthquake in Japan led to the meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant which released radionuclides into the surrounding regions. Of these radionuclides, cesium-137 (<sup>137</sup>Cs<sup>+</sup>) has been shown to be the most abundant. Research has shown that adsorption of …
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The Politics of Disaster and Their Role in Imagining an Outside. Understanding the Rise of the Post-Fukushima Anti-Nuclear Movements
… 2011. The huge earthquake and tsunami caused the meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which triggered the largest wave of activism since the 1960s. Based on the author’s fieldwork on the post-Fukushima anti-nuclear movements in Tokyo, this thesis investigates how the disaster impacted …
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