The Strategic Teaming and Resource Sharing (STARS) alliance includes six pressurized water reactor (PWR) stations, all located west of the Mississippi River: Callaway, Comanche Peak, Diablo Canyon, Palo Verde, South Texas Project (STP), and Wolf Creek (Palo Verde joined in 2002). In 2000, a STARS radwaste team was formed to pursue cost reductions. The team was challenged to obtain a 10 percent ...

a major reason why many developing nations have not made significant advancement in sustainable development (sd) agenda is the neglect of existing building stock which forms the bulk of built assets. although sustainable development is a universal challenge, it cannot be approached in the same way for all nations, but rather practical response can be defined nationally or locally. this paper re...

Inhabitants’ behaviour in buildings has a strong impact on the energy consumption patterns resulting in energy waste. The existing multi agent and centralized energy management approaches are focused on consumption optimization and load predictions without taking into account the inhabitants’ behaviour. We argue that the consumption optimization without waste reduction is difficult. In this art...

The current study presents an investigation on the waste management in the cattle slaughterhouse by the following objectives: a) to identify the existing waste management practices in relation to sources, quantity and characteristic of wastes; b) to identify the situation of production, collection, storage, transportation, processing and recycling, and final disposal of wastes and the problems ...

The state of the art on Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) management is based on the domestic separation of materials produced. After domestic separation, the resident has to transfer the separated materials to the MSW manager through the hands of collection workers. It is exactly at this stage that an end-use product changes its status and property becomes waste. This paper analyzes and compares the...

Johannes Dietrich MSc Researcher, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany Frank Becker Project Manager, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany Thomas Nittka Dr.-Ing. Manager, tricom GmbH, Berlin, Germany Matthias Wabbels Manager, tricom GmbH, Berlin, Germany Dan Modoran Eng. Partner, Greentronics, Alexandria, Romania Cristian Aionesei Eng. Partner, Greentronics, Alexandria, Roman...

ABSTRACT In Transactional Memory (TM) if any two concurrently executing transactions perform conflicting data accesses, one of them is aborted. The transaction to be aborted is usually selected by some form of contention manager. Aborted transactions waste computing resources, and reduce performance. Ideally, concurrent execution of transactions would be ordered to minimize aborts, but such an ...

Construction wastes have become the major source of solid wastes in Hong Kong. Thousands of tonnes of solid wastes are produced every year from construction and demolition activities. Increasing generation of these wastes has caused significant impacts on the environment and aroused growing public concerns. Therefore, the minimization of construction wastes has become a pressing issue. This pap...