The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project is aworldwide research experiment that aims to explore nuclear fusion as a viable source of energy for the coming years. Mobile robotics plays an important role in the remote handling systems that perform the maintenance operations in ITER. The Cask and Plug Remote Handling System (CPRHS) is one of the remote handling systems t...

An important aspect of railroad environmental risk management involves tank car transportation of hazardous materials. This paper describes a quantitative, environmental risk analysis of rail transportation of a group of light, non-aqueous-phase liquid (LNAPL) chemicals commonly transported by rail in North America. The Hazardous Materials Transportation Environmental Consequence Model (HMTECM)...

Until the beginning of World War lI the culture method was not extensively used in the diagnosis of gonorrhoea; diagnosis by culture was made only where laboratory facilities were available close to the clinics. The rapidly increasing incidence of gonorrhoea-especially among soldiers-made it desirable to obtain better diagnosis and control of the disease, and it became necessary to provide clin...

A risk assessment model is constructed for the hazardous materials (hazmat) road transportation combining features of TransCAD traffic forecasts, and based on traffic planning network of spatial analysis and attribute process, the database for path planning of hazmat transportation was set up. Based on the TransCAD platform, this research analyzes the risk value of hazmat transportation in each...

This paper introduces a Value-at-Risk (VaR) model to generate route choices for a hazmat shipment based on a specified risk confidence level. The objective is to determine a route which minimizes the likelihood that the risk will be greater than a set threshold. Several properties of the VaR model are established. An exact solution procedure is proposed and tested to solve the single-trip probl...

A considerable problem in competitive trade world is choosing the best supply chain. As a result in much more serious circumstances of competitions looking for the best supplier for manufacturing, for preparing raw material, is very significant. Meantime suppliers have different scenarios to be fulfilled, such as changing selection variables like lead-time, transportation cost and transportatio...