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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"power facilities"”.
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Securing nuclear and radiological material in the homeland
… (NRC) to better secure nuclear generating power facilities, there is no similar comprehensive security strategy for NRAM stored or being transported in the U.S. This poses a potentially serious threat to our homeland security. This research reviews the present statutory and regulatory …
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Physio-morphological effects of abrupt thermal stress on diatoms
… energy has resulted in increased construction of power generating facilities. Conventional fossil fuel power plants are being built to produce many times the electricity of those built in previous years. Nuclear power plants, not economically feasible in small sizes, are being constructed to …
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Siting solar energy facilities in New York state : sources of and responses to controversy
… sources of energy. One such source is solar power, and the federal and state governments in the United States have created various policies and financial incentives to encourage adoption of solar energy technologies. While solar energy offers tremendous potential benefits, siting …
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Examination of hull forms for an Offshore Nuclear Plant
… disasters and cost of terrestrial nuclear power facilities. The original ONP conceptual design consists of a large cylindrical floating platform similar to existing platforms in the offshore oil and natural gas industries. This study investigates the advantages and disadvantages of …
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Substations: landscape guidelines for site selection, design, construction and maintenance : this study [dissertation] is submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Diploma of Landscape Architecture, Lincoln College, University of Canterbury
Most of New Zealand's facilities for the bulk generation and transmission of electricity are owned and operated by New Zealand Electricity, a division of the Ministry of Energy. Facilities include generating stations, high-voltage transmission lines and substations which function either as …
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Thermodynamically-driven Advances in Efficient and Cost-Effective Desalination and Brine Concentration
… plant itself, but as primary energy entering a power plant in a coproduction arrangement. The first section of this work investigates a variety of metrics for comparing the energy and exergy consumption attributable to desalination in coproduction plants, evaluates 48 different power-water …