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Diablo Canyon Power Plant: Steam Generator Repair/replacement Cost/benefit Analysis

Nuclear power plant steam generator replacement decisions involve roughly $1 B in capital and replacement power costs. SDG has been engaged in helping utilities make this type of decision for the past 20 years. For PG&E, we decided to change our analytic approach to include a Monte Carlo simulation. This paper discusses the results and the strengths and limitations of this analytic approach. Be...

Homogeneity of Tellurium Isotopes in Chondrites, Leachates of Allende and Canyon Diablo

Introduction: Sn decays to Te with a half-life of 0.235 Myrs and is a possible short-lived chronometer for early solar system development. Sn can only be produced in significant amounts by the r-process, which is thought to take place in a supernova environment. The discovery of Te excesses that correlate with Sn/Te in meteorites would thus provide confirmation of the theory that a supernova in...

Observations on a 10-kg Graphite Nodule from the Canyon Diablo (iab-mg) Iron Meteorite

Novel link between E2F1 and Smac/DIABLO: proapoptotic Smac/DIABLO is transcriptionally upregulated by E2F1

Deregulated expression of E2F1 not only promotes S-phase entry but also induces apoptosis. Although it has been well documented that E2F1 is able to induce p53-dependent apoptosis via raising ARF activity, the mechanism by which E2F induces p53-independent apoptosis remains unclear. Here we report that E2F1 can directly bind to and activate the promoter of Smac/DIABLO, a mitochondrial proapopto...

Compacting Arm Binaries with the Diablo Framework

On most embedded systems, memory space and power resources are limited. As a consequence, significant effort is spent in creating resource-efficient programs for embedded systems. Compilers for embedded systems usually try to generate the most compact code possible, and libraries for embedded systems are usually quite a lot smaller than those for general purpose computer systems. One area of im...