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Ohkubo, Yukio. "Survey of Palo Verde Nuclear Power Plant and Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant." Proceedings of the National Symposium on Power and Energy Systems 2017.22 (2017): A134. http://dx.doi.org/10.1299/jsmepes.2017.22.a134.

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Chen, Jun, Robert Bornstein, and Charles G. Lindsey. "Transport of a Power Plant Tracer Plume over Grand Canyon National Park." Journal of Applied Meteorology 38, no. 8 (August 1999): 1049–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0450(1999)038<1049:toappt>2.0.co;2.

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Perkins, John H. "Closing Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, 2009–2018: Decision-Making on Energy Investments Relevant to Climate Change." Case Studies in the Environment 3, no. 1 (December 31, 2019): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/cse.2018.001313.

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Modern economies cannot function without electricity, and production of electric power affects citizens in many ways, including climate change. Production of electricity requires investments that easily reach billions of dollars, and streams of investment capital must be perpetual to procure fuel, build and maintain plants, and transmit electricity to customers. This case study addresses whether a California decision relevant to investments about generating electricity adequately considered competing concerns. In 2009, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E, a private, investor-owned utility) applied to renew the operating licenses of its two nuclear reactors at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant (the “plant”). By 2016, PG&E had decided not to seek license renewal and asked the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to approve a price increase for its electricity to pay for specified expenses in closing the plant, which generated 24% of PG&E’s electricity. Four environmental groups and two labor organizations supported PG&E, and CPUC approved most elements of PG&E’s plan in 2018. PG&E’s application generated considerable debate during the CPUC process, and multiple organizations argued that PG&E’s plan was flawed. Two of the protests were from environmental groups favoring nuclear power as mitigation for climate change. Nuclear reactors generate electricity with uranium and have low emissions of carbon dioxide, the key source of climate change. This case study summarizes the competing arguments relevant to energy investments and climate change. Was the decision to close the plant in the best interest of the PG&E customers and the residents and taxpayers of California?
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North, Wheeler J., Einar K. Anderson, and Faylla A. Chapman. "Abundance changes in Laminaria setchellii and Pterygophora californica (Laminariales, Phaeophyta) near the Diablo Canyon Power Plant." Hydrobiologia 204-205, no. 1 (September 1990): 233–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00040239.

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Rogers, Chuck, and Mark D. Wakins. "CITY OF THOUSAND OAKS USES INNOVATIVE POWER PURCHASE AGREEMENTS FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY AT ITS HILL CANYON WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT." Proceedings of the Water Environment Federation 2008, no. 11 (January 1, 2008): 4529–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.2175/193864708788805152.

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Ehrler, C. P., J. R. Steinbeck, E. A. Laman, J. B. Hedgepeth, J. R. Skalski, and D. L. Mayer. "A Process for Evaluating Adverse Environmental Impacts by Cooling-Water System Entrainment at a California Power Plant." Scientific World JOURNAL 2 (2002): 81–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2002.182.

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A study to determine the effects of entrainment by the Diablo Canyon Power Plant (DCPP) was conducted between 1996 and 1999 as required under Section 316(b) of the Clean Water Act. The goal of this study was to present the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board (CCRWQCB) with results that could be used to determine if any adverse environmental impacts (AEIs) were caused by the operation of the plant’s cooling-water intake structure (CWIS). To this end we chose, under guidance of the CCRWQCB and their entrainment technical working group, a unique approach combining three different models for estimating power plant effects: fecundity hindcasting (FH), adult equivalent loss (AEL), and the empirical transport model (ETM). Comparisons of the results from these three approaches provided us a relative measure of confidence in our estimates of effects. A total of 14 target larval fish taxa were assessed as part of the DCPP 316(b). Example results are presented here for the kelp, gopher, and black-and-yellow (KGB) rockfish complex and clinid kelpfish. Estimates of larval entrainment losses for KGB rockfish were in close agreement (FH is approximately equals to 550 adult females per year, AEL is approximately equals to 1,000 adults [male and female] per year, and ETM = larval mortality as high as 5% which could be interpreted as ca. 2,600 1 kg adult fish). The similar results from the three models provided confidence in the estimated effects for this group. Due to lack of life history information needed to parameterize the FH and AEL models, effects on clinid kelpfish could only be assessed using the ETM model. Results from this model plus ancillary information about local populations of adult kelpfish suggest that the CWIS might be causing an AEI in the vicinity of DCPP.
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Yoon, Clara E., Karianne J. Bergen, Kexin Rong, Hashem Elezabi, William L. Ellsworth, Gregory C. Beroza, Peter Bailis, and Philip Levis. "Unsupervised Large‐Scale Search for Similar Earthquake Signals." Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 109, no. 4 (June 25, 2019): 1451–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1785/0120190006.

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Abstract Seismology has continuously recorded ground‐motion spanning up to decades. Blind, uninformed search for similar‐signal waveforms within this continuous data can detect small earthquakes missing from earthquake catalogs, yet doing so with naive approaches is computationally infeasible. We present results from an improved version of the Fingerprint And Similarity Thresholding (FAST) algorithm, an unsupervised data‐mining approach to earthquake detection, now available as open‐source software. We use FAST to search for small earthquakes in 6–11 yr of continuous data from 27 channels over an 11‐station local seismic network near the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in central California. FAST detected 4554 earthquakes in this data set, with a 7.5% false detection rate: 4134 of the detected events were previously cataloged earthquakes located across California, and 420 were new local earthquake detections with magnitudes −0.3≤ML≤2.4, of which 224 events were located near the seismic network. Although seismicity rates are low, this study confirms that nearby faults are active. This example shows how seismology can leverage recent advances in data‐mining algorithms, along with improved computing power, to extract useful additional earthquake information from long‐duration continuous data sets.
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Crawford, M. "Scientists Battle Over Grand Canyon Pollution: Test results implicating a power plant as the prime cause of wintertime haze have sparked a dispute over the data." Science 247, no. 4945 (February 23, 1990): 911–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.247.4945.911.

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Raichlen, Frederic. "WAVE-INDUCED EFFECTS IN A COOLING WATER BASIN." Coastal Engineering Proceedings 1, no. 20 (January 29, 1986): 196. http://dx.doi.org/10.9753/icce.v20.196.

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Wave-induced effects have been observed in a model of the cooling water intake basin of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company's Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. This model, built to an undistorted scale of 1:45, was constructed initially to study the design for the repair of the terminus region of the West breakwater damaged in storms of January 28, 1981. It was decided by PG&E to investigate, in the same model, the forces due to waves acting on two air intake structures for the auxiliary saltwater pumps and the pressures or. the external and the internal walls and the ceiling of the cooling water intake structure located in the manmade cooling water intake basin. During the course of the experiments it was noticed that the mean water level in the breakwater enclosed basin changed as a function of the incident wave characteristics. This allowed waves to overtop the cooling water intake structure which, without the change in mean water level, would not have occurred. It is this difference between the mean water level and the still water level inside the cooling water basin, defined as ponding, which will be reported herein. Diskin, et al. (1970) investigated this effect behind low and submerged permeable breakwaters in a two-dimensional wave tank model. As was mentioned by them, in normal breakwater tests it is a common practice to provide some means of communication between the seaward and shoreward side of the breakwater so that precisely this mean water level change due to overtopping of the structure does not occur. For their experiments the change in mean level varied from about 5% of the deep water wave height to 32% of the deep water wave height depending upon the submergence of the breakwater crest; the smallest change corresponded to the largest depth over the breakwater crest. This effect was discussed by Dalrymple and Dean (1971), and they proposed an analytical model based on the conservation of mass. The estimated inflow was equated to an estimate of the return flow over and through the permeable structure. Some limited agreement with the results of Diskin, et al. (1970) were shown.
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Dedović, Maja Muftić, Samir Avdaković, Adnan Mujezinović, and Nedis Dautbašić. "Integration of PV into the Sarajevo Canton Energy System-Air Quality and Heating Challenges." Energies 14, no. 1 (December 29, 2020): 123. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14010123.

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The use of renewable energy sources increases the energy self-sustainability of cities, enabling citizens to reduce energy costs, which results in an increase in their standard of living. However, solar energy penetration in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and its capital Sarajevo, is not in line with the possibilities. Furthermore, the Sarajevo Canton is extremely polluted during the winter months because of the use of unacceptable heating fuel. The aim of this paper is to introduce photovoltaic power systems use in heating electrification system. In this paper AQI is calculated based on historical data and the hybrid model EMD-SARIMA for air pollution and a solar production forecast is presented. The methodology was tested in the Sarajevo Canton, taking into account 35,000 households. In order to ensure clean air, renewable electric energy use for household heating should be implemented. The widespread use of inefficient individual heating systems characterized by inefficient and expensive use of firewood and the use of coal in individual furnaces in populated areas are the main problems of internal and urban air pollution in Sarajevo Canton. In order to reduce energy poverty in Sarajevo Canton, the use of a floating photovoltaic power plant located on Lake Jablanica with a capacity of 30 MW and the solar prosumers with capacity of 115 MW to provide the 196 GWh necessary for heating electrification of 35,000 households is implemented in this paper. Finally, based on correlation between AQI forecast and solar production it was calculated that the values of the AQI, considering the application of solar energy during 150 days (five months) in one heating season, have significantly decreased. Also renewable energy sources have a very important role in reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into the atmosphere and reducing urban pollution. With this approach, households would be heated by renewable electricity, which would make Sarajevo a cleaner, smarter city.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Canyon Power Plant"

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Alford, John Matthew. "The Power Politics of Hells Canyon." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278138/.

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This study examines the controversy regarding Hells Canyon on the Snake River, North America's deepest gorge. Throughout the 1950s, federal and private electric power proponents wrangled over who would harness the canyon's potential for generating hydroelectricity. After a decade of debate, the privately-owned Idaho Power Company won the right to build three small dams in the canyon versus one large public power structure. The thesis concludes that private development of Hells Canyon led to incomplete resource development. Further, support of private development led to extensive Republican electoral losses in the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s.
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Books on the topic "Canyon Power Plant"

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Pujo, June Belletto de. Emergency planning: The case of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. [S.l.]: Natural Hazard Research, 1985.

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Pujo, June Belletto de. Emergency planning: The case of Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant. Boulder[Colo.]: Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, 1985.

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Pujo, June Belletto de. Emergency planning: The case of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. [Boulder: Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, 1985.

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Commission, California Energy. Final Commission decision, Canyon Power Plant: Application for certification (07-AFC-9), Orange County. Sacramento, Calif.]: California Energy Commission, 2010.

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Commission, California Energy. Presiding member's proposed decision, Canyon Power Plant: Application for certification (07-AFC-9), Orange County. Sacramento, Calif.]: California Energy Commission, 2010.

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Utilities, California Legislature Senate Committee on Energy and Public. Joint hearing on Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant: Public utilities commission staff report recommending $4 billion disallowance. Sacramento, Calif: California Legislature, Senate Committee on Energy & Public Utilities, 1987.

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Evered, Judith. Protest Diablo: Living and dying under the shadow of a nuclear power plant. [S.l: Judith Evered], 2010.

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Regulation, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Nuclear Reactor. Technical specifications Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, Unit no. 2, docket no. 50-323: Appendix "A" to license no. DPR-81. Washington, D.C: The Commission, 1985.

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California. Legislature. Senate. Task Force on California Nuclear Emergency Response. Hearing on Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant Emergency Response Plan: South County Regional Center, 801 West Branch Street, Arroyo Grande, California, Friday, August 28, 1987. Sacramento, CA (State Capitol, Box 942849, Sacramento 94249-0001): Joint Publications, 1987.

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LLC, Liberty Wind. Sand Canyon wind farm modeling and measurement: Final report. Bakersfield, CA: Liberty Wind LLC, 2008.

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Baskett, Ronald L., John S. Nasstrom, and Rolf Lange. "Emergency Response Model Evaluation Using Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant Tracer Experiments." In Air Pollution Modeling and Its Application VIII, 603–4. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3720-5_57.

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North, Wheeler J., Einar K. Anderson, and Faylla A. Chapman. "Abundance changes in Laminaria setchellii and Pterygophora californica (Laminariales, Phaeophyta) near the Diablo Canyon Power Plant." In Thirteenth International Seaweed Symposium, 233–39. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2049-1_33.

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Needham, Andrew. "The Living River." In Power Lines. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691139067.003.0007.

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This chapter addresses how The New York Times challenged the long-held claims of Arizona officials that their state was entitled to a portion of the Colorado River by rights, a claim recently upheld by the Supreme Court. The paper also argued that Arizona's attempt to realize those claims endangered the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon itself. Transforming the flowing energy of water into flowing electricity, the Times suggested, was not in the national interest. Such critiques of Arizona's growth emerged in the wake of the Interior Department's development of the Pacific Southwest Water Plan, a plan designed in 1963 to realize Arizona's Colorado River claims. The critiques emerged from several different conservationist groups, but most powerfully from the Sierra Club, which was gradually changing the description of its politics from “conservation” to “environmentalism” and assuming a far more public voice in disputes over the proper use of public lands.
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Filčák, Richard, and Daniel Škobla. "No pollution and no Roma in my backyard: class and race in framing local activism in Laborov, eastern Slovakia." In Environmental Justice, Popular Struggle and Community Development, edited by Anne Harley and Eurig Scandrett, 53–68. Policy Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447350835.003.0004.

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The chapter follows the story of a small town, Laborov, Slovakia. The local environmental agenda has been evolving around two highly controversial issues: campaigns against a plan to build a coal burning power plant and waste management practices stigmatising local Roma community. The endeavour to prohibit the construction of the power plant can be on one hand considered an example of successful short-term popular mobilisation and community resistance to environmentally irresponsible big capital investment. On the other hand, the story cannot be fully understood without analysing ruling class collective interests as well as the context of local inter-ethnic relations. A constituting feature of local social order is Roma marginalisation and institutional discrimination where waste management plays an important role. Hidden beneath the surface are patterns of class and ethnic oppression - opening an important question of framing environmental justice which can be hardly pursued without achieving social justice.
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De Blij, Harm. "Globals, Locals, and Mobals." In The Power of Place. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195367706.003.0005.

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Earth may be a planet of shrinking functional distances, but it remains a world of staggering situational differences. From the uneven distribution of natural resources to the unequal availability of opportunity, place remains a powerful arbitrator. Many hundreds of millions of farmers in river basins of Asia and Africa live their lives much as their distant ancestors did, still remote from the forces of globalization, children as well as adults still at high personal risk and great material disadvantage. Tens of millions of habitants of isolated mountain valleys from the Andes to the Balkans and from the Caucasus to Kashmir are as bound to their isolated abodes as their forebears were. Of the seven billion current passengers on Cruiseship Earth, the overwhelming majority (the myth of mass migration notwithstanding) will die very near the cabin in which they were born. In their lifetimes, this vast majority will have worn the garb, spoken the language, professed the faith, shared the health conditions, absorbed the education, acquired the attitudes, and inherited the legacy that constitutes the power of place: the accumulated geography whose formative imprint still dominates the planet. The regional impress of poverty continues to trap countless millions who are and will be born into it and who, globalization notwithstanding, cannot escape it. The “wealth gap” between the fortunate and the less fortunate, still largely a matter of chance and destiny, evinces a widening range resulting from the perpetuation of privilege and power in the so-called global “core” and its international tentacles. Those disparities, represented at all levels of scale, will entail increasing risk in a world of rising anger and weapons of growing destructive efficiency. At the same time, the notion that the world, if not “flat,” is flattening under the impress of globalization is gaining traction. As noted in the preface, the idea that diversities of place continue to play a key role in shaping humanity’s variegated mosaic tends to be dismissed by globalizers who see an increasingly homogenized and borderless world. “Flatness” is becoming an assumption, not merely a prospect, as implied by the titles of numerous books and articles of recent vintage (Fung et al., 2008).
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Avery, William H., and Chih Wu. "OTEC Economics." In Renewable Energy from the Ocean. Oxford University Press, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195071993.003.0015.

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The economic contribution that OTEC will make to the solution of the nation’s energy problems depends on its perceived merits relative to existing and alternative sources of energy and fuels. The previous chapters have shown that OTEC technology is ready for large-scale demonstrations that will provide a firm basis for commercial development. OTEC can have a large impact on U.S. energy needs by supplying liquid fuels for direct use in transportation, or for electric power production via fuel cells. Its commercial development will depend finally on political and other factors that cannot be assessed quantitatively. The national security and environmental impacts of continuing dependence on oil should receive major emphasis in decisions to implement new processes for fuel production. In this chapter we review the estimated sales prices of fuels and electric power from existing and proposed sources and compare them with OTEC prices. Actual manufacturing costs are generally unavailable and are highly dependent on the financing methods and resources of the individual producer. However, an objective comparison of the sales prices of fuels produced by proposed processes can be made by using the Mossman financial analysis method to estimate the sales price of fuel or electric power that must be charged for profitable operation. This requires only information on the plant investment, input fuel costs, and operation and maintenance costs. The sensitivity of the product costs to changes in the estimates in plant investment can then be displayed in a suitable graph. With this procedure the alternatives can be equitably compared from a uniform point of view. This includes costs of related facilities as well as the plant investment. See the discussion in Section 7.3. These costs vary with time in an unpredictable manner. Past forecasts have been in error by large factors. These costs are a small part of the total, typically a few percent of plant investment for capital-intensive projects. Environmental impact costs have usually been ignored. These items are a few percent of plant investment. State and local property taxes will be zero for sea-based OTEC systems.
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Pires, Robson. "Solution Methods of Large Complex-Valued Nonlinear System of Equations." In Advances in Complex Analysis and Applications. IntechOpen, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.92741.

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Nonlinear systems of equations in complex plane are frequently encountered in applied mathematics, e.g., power systems, signal processing, control theory, neural networks, and biomedicine, to name a few. The solution of these problems often requires a first- or second-order approximation of nonlinear functions to generate a new step or descent direction to meet the solution iteratively. However, such methods cannot be applied to functions of complex and complex conjugate variables because they are necessarily nonanalytic. To overcome this problem, the Wirtinger calculus allows an expansion of nonlinear functions in its original complex and complex conjugate variables once they are analytic in their argument as a whole. Thus, the goal is to apply this methodology for solving nonlinear systems of equations emerged from applications in the industry. For instances, the complex-valued Jacobian matrix emerged from the power flow analysis model which is solved by Newton-Raphson method can be exactly determined. Similarly, overdetermined Jacobian matrices can be dealt, e.g., through the Gauss-Newton method in complex plane aimed to solve power system state estimation problems. Finally, the factorization method of the aforementioned Jacobian matrices is addressed through the fast Givens transformation algorithm which means the square root-free Givens rotations method in complex plane.
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Sklyar, Vladimir, Anton Andrashov, Eugene Babeshko, and Andriy Kovalenko. "Field Programmable Gate Array Technology for NPP I&Cs." In Nuclear Power Plant Instrumentation and Control Systems for Safety and Security, 116–45. IGI Global, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5133-3.ch004.

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FPGA is a convenient technology that is being applied intensively to build I&CS for critical industries like NPPs. Practical experience confirms that in some cases application of the FPGA technology is much more reasonable than application of other technologies like microprocessors, etc. Experience of RPC Radiy in FPGA-based I&C development is provided in this chapter, as well as general information on FPGAs. Dependability of NPP I&CS is an important but challenging task. There are several techniques that can be applied for safety and dependability assessments, but all of them have limitations and cannot be easily applied in most cases. Sometimes combined usage of different methods is the most appropriate solution. Techniques of dependability assessment and achievement developed and used by RPC Radiy, as well as elements of the assessment methodology are briefly described.
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Fox, Michael H. "Now What?" In Why We Need Nuclear Power. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199344574.003.0019.

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Time is running short! When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its first scientific report in 1990 on the possibility of humancaused global warming, the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2 ) was 354 ppm. When I began writing this book about four years ago, the concentration of CO2 was 387 ppm. It is now 397 ppm and rising. In spite of Kyoto, in spite of Copenhagen and Cancun, atmospheric CO2 continues its inexorable upward path. And the earth continues to warm. The United States and the world are not yet serious about changing policies to stop this spiral. Too many politicians and others have their heads buried in the sand and refuse to acknowledge the continuing deluge of data showing that the world is indeed warming. 2010 was the warmest year—and the decade from 2000 to 2010 was the warmest decade—for at least the last 100,000 years. A serious debate is ongoing among geologists to decide if the earth has formally passed out of the Holocene epoch of the last 12,000 years into the Anthropocene epoch, in which 7 billion humans are the primary factor driving climate. Sea levels continue to rise, the oceans are acidifying, glaciers and ice sheets continue to melt, the Arctic will likely be ice-free during the summer sometime this century, and weather extremes have become commonplace around the earth. Plant and animal species are migrating to higher latitudes at 17 kilometers per decade on average, and alpine species are moving to higher altitudes at 11 meters every decade. Changes like this have occurred in the past, but over time spans of thousands to tens of thousands of years, giving species time to adapt. There are those who argue that species have always had to adapt to a changing climate or die and therefore they will handle the current changes. While there is some truth to that, it ignores the fact that many species are already under great pressure from the impact of humans on habitat.
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Gingerich, Owen. "6. Rheticus." In Copernicus: A Very Short Introduction, 44–50. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199330966.003.0007.

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As Copernicus entered his sixties, he was still a busy canon, particularly with respect to his medical expertise. Martin Luther’s Reformation was gaining power at this time, and a young mathematician-astronomer from Wittenberg (home of Luther and his thriving university) became aware of Copernicus’s work. Georg Joachim Rheticus left Wittenberg early in May 1539 to travel to Varmia. Rheticus brought with him a gift: three technical books printed by Johannes Petreius in Nuremberg. He went on to assist Copernicus with observations of the planet Mercury and completion of De revolutionibus. In the autumn of 1541, Rheticus returned to Wittenberg armed with the manuscript of Copernicus’s magnum opus.
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Conference papers on the topic "Canyon Power Plant"

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Sommerville, D. "Development of a Site Specific Biofouling Control Program for the Diablo Canyon Power Plant." In OCEANS '86. IEEE, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/oceans.1986.1160543.

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Fernandez, Alfredo, Weiyu Chen, Thaleia Travasarou, and Dan O’Connell. "Approach and Insights from 3-D Site Response Analyses at the Diablo Canyon Power Plant." In Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics V. Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/9780784481462.026.

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Yates, Diane, Bertha T. Jimenez, and Yicheng Peng. "Portland General Electric (PGE): Clean Power Generation Wind Project in Biglow Canyon & Boardman Coal Plant." In PICMET '07 - 2007 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology. IEEE, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/picmet.2007.4349588.

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Chen, Franklin F. K., and B. Ronald Moncrief. "Canyon Building Ventilation System Dynamic Model Optimization Study." In ASME 1993 International Computers in Engineering Conference and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/cie1993-0052.

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Abstract A canyon building houses special nuclear material processing facilities in two canyon like structures, each with approximately a million cubic feet of air space and a hundred thousand hydraulic equivalent feet of ductwork of various cross sections. The canyon ventilation system is a “once through” design with separate supply and exhaust fans, utilizes two large sand filters to remove radionuclide particulate matter, and exhausts through a tall stack. The ventilation equipment is similar to most industrial ventilation systems. However, in a canyon building, nuclear contamination prohibits access to a large portion of the system and therefore limits the kind of plant data possible. The facility investigated is 40 years old and is operating with original or replacement equipment of comparable antiquity. These factors, access and aged equipment, present a challenge in gauging the performance of canyon ventilation, particularly under uncommon operating conditions. The ability to assess canyon ventilation system performance became critical with time, as the system took on additional exhaust loads and aging equipment approached design maximum. Many “What if?” questions, needed to address modernization/safety issues, are difficult to answer without a dynamic model. This paper describes the development, the validation and the utilization of a dynamic model to analyze the capacity of this ventilation system, under many unusual but likely conditions. The development of a ventilation model with volume and hydraulics of this scale is unique. The resultant model resolutions of better than 0.05″wg under normal plant conditions and approximately 0.2″wg under all plant conditions achievable with a desktop computer is a benchmark of the power of micro-computers. The detail planning and the persistent execution of large scale plant experiments under very restrictive conditions not only produced data to validate the model but lent credence to subsequent applications of the model to mission oriented analysis. Modelling methodology adopted a two parameter space approach, rational parameters and irrational parameters. Rational parameters, such as fan age-factors, idle parameters, infiltration areas and tunnel hydraulic parameters are deduced from plant data based on certain hydraulic models. Due to limited accessibility and therefore partial data availability, the identification of irrational model parameters, such as register positions and unidentifiable infiltrations, required unique treatment of the parameter space. These unique parameters were identified by a numerical search strategy to minimize a set of performance indices. With the large number of parameters, this further attests to our strategy in utilizing the computing power of modern micros. Nine irrational parameters at five levels and 12 sets of plant data, counting up to 540 runs, were completely searched over the time span of a long weekend. Some key results, in assessing emergency operation, in evaluating modernization options, are presented to illustrate the functions of the dynamic model.
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Nguyen, Jack T. "Dry, Closed-Cycle Cooling for Thermoelectric Power Plants Employing Low Temperature Organic Rankine Cycle Waste Heat Recovery and Cool Thermal Energy Storage." In ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2011-62982.

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A patent pending concept is presented for a dry, closed-cycle power plant cooling system employing low temperature organic Rankine cycle waste heat recovery (ORC-WHR) in combination with cool thermal energy storage (TES). It offers a compelling way for power plants to operate like conventional once-through cooling (OTC) — i.e., without an efficiency penalty due to heat rate increase experienced by state-of-the-art dry, wet, and hybrid cooling systems — while eliminating water consumption and attached negative environmental impact. Further, cool TES provides power plants the desirable capability and benefits associated with grid-scale energy storage. Key components of the concept are comprised of developed technology and field-proven equipment. Performance estimates to convert from OTC for the Diablo Canyon nuclear-powered steam electric generating facility located in central California are presented to illustrate the real benefits gained verses closed-cycle wet cooling.
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Reitze, Eric, and Hank Price. "Implementation of an Integrated Solar Combined Cycle on an Existing Coal Fired Power Plant." In ASME 2010 4th International Conference on Energy Sustainability. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2010-90263.

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This paper presents the implementation of an integrated solar combined cycle (ISCC) on the existing 44 MW Cameo Power Generating Station, located in Palisade, Colorado. The plant was originally built in 1957 as a coal fired power plant, to serve the Grand Junction community. This plant has been chosen to demonstrate the viability of the ISCC because of its time line to decommissioning and the availability of additional power from nearby stations to fulfill the community’s needs. The solar system at Cameo utilizes 8 aluminum parabolic trough collectors arranged in 4 loops. Each of these collectors is approximately 150 meters long and 5.77 meters wide. The hot heat transfer fluid used in the solar field is sent to a solar feed water heater, located in between two of the existing feed water heaters, to supplement the thermal energy required by the steam cycle. At design conditions, the solar field will provide 4 MW of thermal energy to the power plant. The development of this ISCC has faced several design and construction challenges not common in traditional power plant and solar power plant design. When first constructed, the Cameo station had no provisions made regarding solar field location, heat transfer fluid piping runs, heat transfer fluid pumping station, thermal expansion vessels, the addition of solar thermal energy to the feed water system, and the integration of a solar field control system into the existing plant distributed control system. Also unaccounted for are the affects the integration of a solar feed water heater has on the thermodynamic efficiency of the steam cycle. This paper discusses these challenges, as well as their resolution, as seen during the engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning phases of this project. The Cameo Power Generating Station is located in the DeBeque Canyon, 4 miles east of Palisade, Colorado along the Colorado River and Interstate 70. The solar feed water heating demonstration will be in operation for 1 to 2 years, at the discretion of Xcel Energy, to test and develop operating and maintenance methods for large scale application. After such time, both the plant and the solar field will be decommissioned. After decommissioning all applicable solar field equipment shall be refurbished and utilized at additional testing facilities.
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Zhu, Xin, Chang’an Wang, Chunli Tang, and Defu Che. "Energy Analysis of a Lignite-Fueled Power Plant With a Two-Stage Predrying System." In ASME 2017 Power Conference Joint With ICOPE-17 collocated with the ASME 2017 11th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, the ASME 2017 15th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology, and the ASME 2017 Nuclear Forum. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/power-icope2017-3180.

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Performance of lignite-fueled power plants can be improved by predrying the lignite and it is influenced by the characteristics of drying heat source. Heat source for lignite predrying in power plants can be high-temperature flue gas, boiler exhaust gas and extraction steam. Nevertheless, balance point among drying safety, lignite drying degree and drying thermal economy cannot be located using single drying heat source. In this study, a lignite-fueled power plant with a two-stage drying system was proposed. The drying system mainly contains two fluidized bed dryers — the first stage dryer and the second stage dryer. Boiler exhaust gas and extraction steam supply the heat, respectively. The proposed power plant can attain higher lignite drying degree than the power plant in which only boiler exhaust was employed. The new power plant also features higher overall efficiency for the same lignite drying degree compared with extraction steam drying power plant..
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Baliga, Ravi, Tom Neal Watts, and Harish Kamath. "Application of an Integrated Head Assembly Concept at Pressurized Water Reactor Commercial Nuclear Plants." In 2014 22nd International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone22-30916.

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In a typical pressurized water reactor commercial nuclear plant, a number of components such as CRDMs, a lift rig to lift the Reactor Vessel Closure Head (RVCH), seismic restraints, missile shield, and a cooling system with large air ducts are installed on or directly over the RVCH. These components and systems are typically designed and installed individually to perform designated functions during plant operation. During refueling outages the removal of the RVCH from the pressure vessel and its subsequent re-installation on the pressure vessel for fuel loading requires individual dismantling and reassembly of these components resulting in an expensive and time-consuming process. Prior to detensioning the RVCH from the vessel, a lengthy series of steps or detailed procedures must be followed to safely remove the head area components and to store them in their designated spaces inside containment. The procedure generally includes: removal and storage of the concrete missile shield; removal and storage of CRDM cooling ducts; removal of seismic restraints; removal of head area cables; installation of the tripod assembly over the service structure; disconnecting the vent and level indicator lines; and installation of temporary lead blankets around the RVCH. Once the refueling is complete, these procedural steps are repeated in reverse order. Each procedure in the refueling process contributes significantly to the total cost associated with personnel time required to perform the refueling, power plant down time and consequent loss of electricity production, radiation exposure to personnel, and risks and costs associated with potential human errors. In addition, these components require a large amount of storage space inside containment raising the risk of having inadvertent contamination of work and storage areas. To reduce the outage duration and the associated radiation exposure to the workers, the authors have designed an Integrated Head Assembly (IHA) for Callaway nuclear plant based on Mr. Baliga’s patented design as disclosed in U.S. Patents. The IHA is an assembly of all head area components integrally attached to the RVCH so that all these components can be lifted with the RVCH in one assembly (see Figure 1). The IHA also provides a forced air convection system that improves the efficiency of the CRDM cooling. The IHA reduces a significant amount of critical path time and radiation dosage during refueling outages. Mr. Baliga’s invention has been implemented at several commercial nuclear plants in the USA (Turkey Point Units 3 and 4; Salem Units 1 and 2; DC Cook Units 1 and 2; Diablo Canyon Units 1 and 2; Davis Besse Unit 1; and Callaway Unit 1). This paper provides details of the IHA design implemented at Callaway nuclear plant in the USA.
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Conka, Zsolt, Vladimir Kohan, and Michal Kolcun. "Impact of photovoltaic power plants on voltage stability of power system." In 2019 International IEEE Conference and Workshop in Óbuda on Electrical and Power Engineering (CANDO-EPE). IEEE, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/cando-epe47959.2019.9111014.

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Mustafa, Ehtasham, Ramy S. A. Afia, and Zoltan Adam Tamus. "Application of Novel Electrical Aging Markers for Irradiated Low Voltage Nuclear Power Plant Power Cables." In 2020 IEEE 3rd International Conference and Workshop in Óbuda on Electrical and Power Engineering (CANDO-EPE). IEEE, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/cando-epe51100.2020.9337754.

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Reports on the topic "Canyon Power Plant"

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Oshatz, Daryl. Theta13 Neutrino Experiment at the Diablo Canyon Power Plant, LBNL Engineering Summary Report. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), March 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/834621.

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Cuta, Judith M., and Harold E. Adkins. Preliminary Thermal Modeling of HI-STORM 100 Storage Modules at Diablo Canyon Power Plant ISFSI. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), April 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1134526.

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Hauth, J. T., J. L. Toquam, A. T. Bramwell, and T. E. Fleming. LETTER REPORT SUMMARY RESULTS OF THE NRC TEAM INTERACTION SKILLS STUDY AT DIABLO CANYON POWER PLANT. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), December 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1086620.

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Gore, B. F., T. V. Vo, and D. G. Harrison. Auxiliary feedwater system risk-based inspection guide for the Diablo Canyon Unit 1 Nuclear Power Plant. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), August 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/6546020.

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H. Carrasco and H. Sarper. Developing Engineered Fuel (Briquettes) Using Fly Ash from the Aquila Coal-Fired Power Plant in Canon City and Locally Available Biomass Waste. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), June 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/901786.

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