Background: China's inland nuclear power plants plan has been suspended until 2015 since Fukushima disaster. The policy on inland nuclear power plants becomes uncertain. This paper provides an overview of inland nuclear power plants the safety grantee, economic power on diminishing disparities between Western China and Eastern China, efforts on environmental improvement with reforming of energy...

Abstract—Presented article outlines a rationale, why it is necessary to develop competence about infrastructure risk in water transport. Climate changes are evident and require special attention and global monitoring. Current risk assessment methods for Inland waterway transport just consider some dramatic events. We present a new method for the assessment of risk and vulnerability of inland wa...

One of the important environmental issues is the quality of surface waters in the world. Poland belongs to countries with a low quality of the inland waters. The sanitary condition of the five water reservoirs of south-east Poland was analyzed. Water and sediment samples were incubated on the selective and/or differential media. High concentrations of many common and pathogenic microbial indica...

[1] Surface temperatures were extracted from nighttime thermal infrared imagery of 167 large inland water bodies distributed worldwide beginning in 1985 for the months July through September and January through March. Results indicate that the mean nighttime surface water temperature has been rapidly warming for the period 1985–2009 with an average rate of 0.045 ± 0.011°C yr and rates as high a...

*Institute of Biology, Freshwater Ecology, Arboretum, Humboldt University at Berlin, Berlin, Germany †Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany ‡Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia §Institute of Botany, Zˇ aliu ̨ ju ̨ Ezˇeru ̨ , Vilnius, Lithuania –Central Asian Hydrometerological Institute NIGMI, Tashkent, Uzbekistan **Institute of Biolo...

Inland waterways are large-scale networks used principally for navigation. Even if the transport planning is an important issue, the water resource management is a crucial point. Indeed, navigation is not possible when there is too little or too much water inside the waterways. Hence, the water resource management of waterways has to be particularly efficient in a context of climate change and ...

Angel Borja*, Theo C. Prins, Nomiki Simboura, Jesper H. Andersen, Torsten Berg, Joao-Carlos Marques, Joao M. Neto, Nadia Papadopoulou, Johnny Reker, Heliana Teixeira and Laura Uusitalo 1 AZTI-Tecnalia, Marine Research Division, Pasaia, Spain 2 Deltares, Delft, Netherlands 3 Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Oceanography, Anavissos, Greece 4 NIVA Denmark Water Research, Copenhage...

Data from 104 sediment cores from the Great Lakes and "inland lakes" in the region were compiled to assess historical and recent changes in mercury (Hg) deposition. The lower Great Lakes showed sharp increases in Hg loading c. 1850-1950 from point-source water dischargers, with marked decreases during the past half century associated with effluent controls and decreases in the industrial use of...