Near-Field Modelling for the Safety Assessment of French High-Level Waste Repositories
In assessing the safety of a French high-level waste repository, the fluxes of radionuclides released by the near-field into the geosphere are modelled by the CONDIMENT source code. This...
Optimization Method for Dimensioning a Geological HLW Waste Repository
This method was developed by the CEA to optimize the dimensions of a geological repository by taking account of technical and economic parameters. It involves optimizing radioactive waste...
Spent Fuel and High-Level Waste Management in Selected Countries: Trends and Issues
This paper contains descriptions of the major parameters and plans for management of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive wastes in Belgium, Canada, France, the Federal Republic...
Influence of High Burn Up Nuclear Fuel and MOX on the High Level Reprocessing Waste Management
This paper compares characteristics of high level waste issued from the reprocessing of high burn up fuel (HTC) and mixed oxide (U-Pu)O2 fuel (MOX)...
French National Research Project on Soil Nailing: Clouterre
Public/Private Partnership—The French Example: The Toulouse Metro Project
Faced with a continuing great demand for urban public transportation, the French public authorities have, for several years, been looking for new sources of financing. Concerning urban...
Overhauling and Opening to Traffic of a Toll Tunnel in Marseilles (France)
The city of Marseilles called for bids for overhauling and opening to traffic an old unused railway tunnel, under the very center of the city. The tender scheme was a concession. The paper...
An Example of Privately Funded Project
The paper discusses the proposal of the Syndicat des Transports Parisiens, the local authority in charge of Public Transports in the Paris region, to ask private firms to implement without...
Use of Linear Programming for Hydraulics Problems
Water is becoming a more and more precious commodity worldwide with each passing day. At the same time, the optimum and most productive solutions to water control and utilization are becoming...
French Technologies for Oil Spill Response by Chemicals
Role of Waste Packages in the Safety of a High Level Waste Repository in a Deep Geological Formation
The safety of a radioactive waste disposal facility lays on the three following barriers placed between the radioactive materials and the biosphere: the waste package, the engineered barriers,...
Public/Private Partnerships: Recent Trends in France
The revival of liberal ideas provided rich soil in France for the growth of private/public partnerships in financing urban mobility services. This partnership is based on one of the following...
Effect of Minor Actinide Removal From Fission Products Before Vitrification on the Radiological Impact of a High Level Waste Deep Repository
The topic of this work is to assess the effect of minor actinide (Cm, Am, Np) removal from fission products before vitrification on the radiological impact of a vitrified waste geological...
Probabilistic Traffic Load Models and Extreme Loads on a Bridge
This paper contains a summary of the intensive traffic measurements collected in France and Europe, and of the probabilistic distributions adopted for the main parameters. The evaluation...
Optimal Control of the West Parisian Area Water Supply Network
Optimal Control of the West Parisian Area Water Supply Network
The West Parisian Area regional office of Lyonnaise des Eaux has been equipped with computer-aided optimal decision-making software, using daily water demand forecasts. This tool calculates...
Computerized Operation of Water and Urban Networks: From Digital Mapping to Integrated Information Systems
Advances in computer hardware and software have provided the opportunity for development of powerful technical information systems (TIS) for municipal water supply and distribution services....
The Software Certification of the Laon Cable Car
The SK System in Paris
Recent Gondola and Funicular Installations in Parks and Cities
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