The National Ignition Facility, construction for which will be completed in March, 2009, will be the highest energy laser ever built. The high temperatures and densities it will produce will enable a number of experiments in inertial confinement fusion and stockpile stewardship, as well as in nuclear astrophysics, X-ray astronomy, laser-plasma interactions, hydrodynamics, and planetary science.

We study a perishable inventory system that requires to maintain a minimum inventory volume at all times, where the minimum amount in the constraint is significant with respect to regular market demand and the traditional Economic Manufacturing Quantity (EMQ) models do not suffice. The problem is motivated by applications in homeland security, which are related to the management of pharmaceutic...

The elimination of stockpiled weaponry constitutes a key step in arms control and disarmament processes, lending permanence irreversibility to reductions. Yet it has proven challenging practice. destruction advanced weapon components, like lethal chemical agents the fissile materials from which nuclear weapons are constructed, is often technically complex costly. To elucidate dynamics this back...

The utilization of the Crushing and Barge Loading Conveyor (BLC) systems is important in coal processing. A crushing system required as a tool for process into smaller sizes then transferring it to stockpile. While BLC needed transport from stockpile barge. In general, control supervision are carried out separately by two operators. However, distance between operators causes time lag informatio...

Batu Hijau mine is one of the mining areas in Indonesia that have been operated for 20 years. The main concentrate product contains primary minerals copper (Cu) and gold (Au). However, not only processing fresh mined ore but also store low-grade stockpile. Therefore, this study compares Cu recovery different stockpile on changes concentration dissolved tailings potentially contaminated environm...