since the emergence of power market, the target of power generating utilities has mainly switched from cost minimization to revenue maximization. they dispatch their power energy generation units in the uncertain environment of power market. as a result, multi-stage stochastic programming has been applied widely by many power generating agents as a suitable tool for dealing with self-scheduling...

We measured the 14( content of atmospheric methane at a 200-m-high sampling station in The Netherlands. Combined with trajectories and a transport model, it is possible to estimate the 14CH4 emissions from nuclear power plants in northwestern Europe. We demonstrate here two different methods of analyzing the data: forward modeling and an inverse method. Our data suggest that the emissions from ...

Contamination with radiopharmaceuticals in nuclear medicine centers in addition to being a health concern requires time-consuming decontamination efforts. According to NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) contamination should be monitored in nuclear medicine centers where radiopharmaceuticals are prepared and administrated at the end of each working session; otherwise, contamination spread...

Nowadays, a low power sensor network technology is very important in wireless communication technology. Wireless sensor network are often used in remote monitoring control applications, health care, security and environmental monitoring. [1] Wireless sensor networks are an emerging technology consisting of small, low-power [4], and low-cost devices that integrate limited computation, sensing, a...

Radiological doses from nuclear power plant accidents can extend to great distances away from the site. These technical and perceived risks of nuclear power generation are addressed in an optimization of the siting of additional nuclear units primarily in the middle Atlantic and northeastern United States of America. This study relies on a constrained optimization of long-term latent cancer and...

contamination with radiopharmaceuticals in nuclear medicine centers in addition to being a health concern requires time-consuming decontamination efforts. according to nrc (nuclear regulatory commission) contamination should be monitored in nuclear medicine centers where radiopharmaceuticals are prepared and administrated at the end of each working session; otherwise, contamination spread to ot...

In this paper we explore a new class of optical networks that try to reduce static power using laser modulation techniques as well as by sharing optical channels. In our proposed scheme, OptiShare, a station can only source power from a segmented tree based power waveguide only if it has one or multiple tokens. A station arbitrates for a token before sending a message, and then releases it. At ...

Falling revenues and rising costs have put U.S. nuclear plants in financial trouble, and some threaten to close. To understand the potential private and social consequences, we examine the abrupt closure of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) in 2012. Using a novel econometric approach, we show that the lost generation from SONGS was met largely by increased in-state natural gas g...