Efficient burnup of minor actinides is one of the most promising alternatives for minimizing waste in advanced nuclear fuel cycles. This work examines the concept of employing a Z-pinch driven fusion source in a sub-critical transmutation reactor designed to burn up actinides and generate constant power. Its fuel cycle is designed to allow on-line fission product removal and fuel replenishment....

Burn injury is a ubiquitous threat in the military environment. The risks during combat are well recognised, but the handling of fuel, oil, munitions and other hot or flammable materials during peacetime deployment and training also imposes an inherent risk of accidental burn injury. Over the last hundred years, the burn threat in combat has ranged from nuclear weapons to small shoulderlaunched...

Burn injury is a ubiquitous threat in the military environment. The risks during combat are well recognised, but the handling of fuel, oil, munitions and other hot or flammable materials during peacetime deployment and training also imposes an inherent risk of accidental burn injury. Over the last hundred years, the burn threat in combat has ranged from nuclear weapons to small shoulderlaunched...

The study was done on Jatropha bio fuel stove technology. The study deals with comprehensive literature review followed by technical modifications. The wick stove proto type designed for kerosene burning was chosen for the study. The concepts for preliminary design and premodifications were drawn on the basis of observations received during testing of proto type to burn with Jatropha oil. Then ...

BACKGROUND To investigate factors related to prevention of self-immolation in west of Iran. METHODS In a case-control study, 30 consecutive cases of deliberate self-inflicted burns admitted to the regional burn centre (Imam Khomeini hospital in Kermanshah province, Iran) were compared with controls selected from the community and matched by sex, age, district-county of residence, and rural vs...

Aim Pyrogeographical theory suggests that fire is controlled by spatial gradients in resources to burn (fuel amount) and climatic conditions promoting combustion (fuel moisture). Examining trade-offs among these environmental constraints is critical to understanding future fire activity. We evaluate constraints on fire frequency in modern fire records over the entire Mediterranean biome and ide...

Knowledge of the fuel flow rate is important for accurate fuel burn and emissions inventory generation and for accurate engine performance modeling. In this paper, machine learning techniques are applied to aircraft flight recorder data to model the fuel flow rate as a function of the aircraft altitude, ground speed, vertical speed, and takeoff mass in the airborne phases of flight. Models are ...

A programme is in place to recover the minor actinides from the high active waste solutions of the reprocessing operations and burn them in the fast reactors as well as Accelerator Driven Subcritical Reactor Systems(ADS). Recovery flowsheets based on indigenously synthesised Octyl Phenyl N,N’diisobutyl carbamoyl methyl phosphine oxide (OΦCMPO), malonamides and diglycol amides are being develope...

Burn injury is a ubiquitous threat in the military environment. The risks during combat are well recognised, but the handling of fuel, oil, munitions and other hot or flammable materials during peacetime deployment and training also imposes an inherent risk of accidental burn injury. Over the last hundred years, the burn threat in combat has ranged from nuclear weapons to small shoulderlaunched...