Initial Operation Model for the Central Arizona Project
A microcomputer program for operating uncompleted portions of the Central Arizona Project has been developed. Engineers may use this program daily to assist in scheduling pumping plant...
Retrofit Services: Responding to Today's Market
As a result of the decline in demand for new nuclear power plant construction the nuclear industry has experienced a major change in the nature of business opportunities. To meet the rising...
Structural Considerations for a Radwaste Facility
The structural engineer needs to consider several criteria when designing a radioactive-waste processing facility in order to properly balance the requirements of safety and economy. This...
Look Back and Learn
The cancellations of some nuclear power plants are being attributed in part to cost overruns due to construction-related problems. The experienced civil construction engineer involved...
Decentralization of Nuclear Power Plant Engineering
The cost of nuclear power construction in the past two decades has increased by an order of magnitude, forcing utilities and A/E's to look for ways to reduce engineering and...
Seismic Pope Support Construction Practices
During the mid 1970's the regulatory agencies controlling the design and construction of nuclear power plants began to demand stricter adherence to already existing codes...
Nuclear Power Plant Delays: Probable Causes and Resolutions
The nuclear power industry in the United States is experiencing technological as well as construction and operation problems in nuclear facilities. It is the intent of this paper to review...
The Prudency Management Audit: A New Challenge for the Civil Engineer
The Nuclear Industry, particularly utilities and their constructor, engineering and vendor agents, is faced with a surging increase in Prudency Management Audits. Such Audits are often...
Structural Retrofit for Nuclear Power Plants
Retrofitting of nuclear power plants is a major concern these days. Recent rulings of regulatory agencies have affected most of the generating plants in some way. The lessons learned from...
Nuclear Outages: An Approach to Project Controls
The nuclear refueling outage is short-lived, fast paced, and very costly to the nuclear utility. To better control modification expenses and reduce outage-related costs, utilities are...
Modifications At Operating Nuclear Power Plants
In these days of continuing regulatory requirement changes and high interest rates, the engineering of structural modifications for operating nuclear power plants has taken on greater...
Modifying Piping Systems During a Plant Outage
This paper describes methods to reduce problems in design and planning of modifications to piping systems during a nuclear plant outage. Significant differences between original design...
Intact Decommissioning Alternative for Nuclear Power Plants
Previous studies of decommissioning options for nuclear power plants have examined potential alternatives such as immediate dismantlement, entombment, and moth-balling. This paper describes...
Civil Engineering Challenge with Nuclear Waste
The planning, design and construction of the ground surface facilities for a nuclear waste repository involves civil engineering in many ways. The transportation of heavy, metal shielded...
Innovtive Designs for Low-Level Nuclear Waste Disposal Trenches
Shallow land burial of low-level nuclear wastes presents many problems that are within the scope of civil engineering analysis and design. This paper presents the results of a U. S. Nuclear...
A Model for Nuclear Waste Shipping and Storage
A management option for spent fuel assemblies from nuclear power plants is storage in away-from-reactor (AFR) storage facilities. The purpose of this paper is to preseent a new mathematical...
Oconee Spent Fuel Rerack
Spent fuel storage problems facing electric utilities with nuclear generation are growing more critical as existing spent fuel storage capacity is utilized. Due to the inaccessibility...
Coping with Transition: Improving the Management Process
At Arkansas Power & Light Company, the Energy Supply Department has some 2,000 employees and operates (in addition to providing General Office engineering, technical, and administrative...
Local Pressure in Ice-Structure Interactions
Two models for the determination of local pressures during marine ice or iceberg collisions with bottom-founded structures are presented. The first model is a two-dimensional analytical...
The Hybrid Arena
The University of North Carolina's new basketball arena at Chapel Hill combines steel and fabric in a dome whose design by David Geiger Associates is based on the principles...
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