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Inderscience Publishers Articles
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Nuclear code of ethics
The nuclear industry is inseparable from the other techniques making up our industrial society. It is not an excrescence that can be lanced without impinging upon the other sectors of this society, one of whose aspects is its interrelativity. The ...
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Utilisation of air-groundwater exergy potential for improvement of the performance of heat pump systems
This paper reports a study on the use of the non-flow air-groundwater exergy potential for improving heat pump performance. It is shown that for air/groundwater temperature differences of order 15°C, energy savings up to 50% may be expected for heat ...
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Thermodynamic modelling of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell
This paper presents the thermodynamic modelling of a proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell at various operating conditions through energy and exergy analyses. In addition, the correlations and equations available in literature were used to ...
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Exergetical analysis and design optimisation of the Stirling engine
A detailed design optimisation study of an endo- and exoirreversible Stirling engine is carried out. After energetic, entropic and exergetic analyses of the hot-end and cold-end heat exchangers of the engine, an adapted model of the engine, ...
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Thermodynamic analysis and multi-parametric optimisation of double effect absorption chiller
A mathematical simulation model based on the mass and the energy balances as well as the second law, a thermodynamic analysis and a multi-parametric optimisation of an ammonia-water double effect absorption chiller are performed. Exergy analysis is ...
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Accelerating innovation through knowledge co-evolution: a case study in the Taiwan semiconductor industry
This paper attempts to propose a conceptual framework that explains the relationship between knowledge co-evolutionary mechanisms and innovation development. Combining strategic management, innovation management and organisational ecology theories, ...
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Knowledge management at ELETRONUCLEAR
ELETRONUCLEAR, a state-owned company responsible for design, construction, ownership and operation of nuclear power plants in Brazil, is applying systematic measures to preserve its essential technological know-how. A special project called ...
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Education for the nuclear power industry: Swedish perspective
In the Swedish nuclear power industry staff, very few newly employed have a deep education in reactor technology. To remedy this, a joint education company, Nuclear Training and Safety Center (KSU), has been formed. To ensure that nuclear competence ...
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Numerical and experimental simulation of accident processes using KMS large-scale test facility under the program of training university students for nuclear power industry
The KMS large-scale test facility is being constructed at NITI site and designed to model accident processes in VVER reactor plants and provide experimental data for safety analysis of both existing and future NPPs. The KMS phase I is at the ...
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Nuclear education in Russia: status, peculiarities, problems and perspectives
The paper is devoted to analysis of Russian nuclear education system: its current status, specific features, difficulties and prospects. Russian higher education system in nuclear engineering has been created simultaneously with the development of ...
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Assuring nuclear safety education in the twenty-first century in Sweden
One of the most critical challenges in the future for nuclear technology is to maintain nuclear competence. In this paper, the work to cope with this challenge in Sweden is described. The main measure has been the cooperation between the authorities ...
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Replacing nuclear staff: the proactive work at IPEN/CNEN-SP-Brazil
The purpose of this paper was to bring out the actual situation of Nuclear Education and Training in Brazil. Accordingly, this paper overviews the situation of educational matters in Latin America, especially in Brazil, in terms of efficiency and ...
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Misinformation, nuclear energy and national education in France
Some people think that nuclear energy will develop again in France. They are mistaken: they will face rising generations that are educated to be antinuclear. This paper analyses one of the ways by which this could be achieved.Keywords: ...
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Engineering hybrid nano-devices powered by the F<SUB><SMALL>1</SMALL></SUB>-ATPase biomolecular motor
Hybrid nano-devices that encompass organic and inorganic components offer truly unique and flexible functionalities. With integrated biomolecules and active proteins, it is plausible to envision seamless interfacing with nastive biological ...
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A compact model for electrostatic discharge protection nanoelectronics simulation
In nanoelectronics, snapback phenomena play an important role in electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection devices, in particular for gigascale, very large scale integration (VLSI) circuit design. In this paper we present a new ESD equivalent circuit ...
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Efforts in improvement of nuclear knowledge and information management in Croatia
The IAEA was authorised for exchange of technical and scientific information on peaceful uses of atomic energy and established INIS in 1970 as an international bibliographic database in the nuclear field and in nuclear related areas. Countries at ...
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Nuclear knowledge management initiatives of the Regional Cooperative Agreement undertaken by the Electronic Networking and Outreach project
The Regional Cooperative Agreement (RCA) in the Asia Pacific region is one of the cooperative agreements under the aegis of the International Atomic Energy Agency and currently consists of 17 member states. Since the region covered by the RCA is ...
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Development of NPP personnel training system in Ukraine
Modern personnel training and retraining system is a guarantee of NPPs safe reliable operation. Since the time when independence of Ukraine was proclaimed personnel training system was created directly at NPPs. This system is based on the latest ...
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Nuclear knowledge management and preservation in Lithuania
Problems of nuclear knowledge management and preservation in Lithuania are presented in the paper. The support provided through bilateral cooperation projects was very important for Lithuania. The main projects implemented in the last 14 years are ...
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Need for restoration of the nuclear knowledge management in Serbia
Nuclear programmes in former Yugoslavia have been supported by comprehensive research and development (R&D), educational programmes and pertinent training in the country and abroad. Three research reactors and one nuclear power plant (NPP) were ...