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Sustainability, Volume 4, Issue 8

August 2012 - 16 articles

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Articles (16)

  • Review
  • Open Access
108 Citations
24,364 Views
25 Pages

22 August 2012

Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are vulnerable to climate change impacts including sea level rise, invasive species, ocean acidification, changes in rainfall patterns, increased temperatures, and changing hazard regimes including hurr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
10,532 Views
13 Pages

22 August 2012

Our previous studies on water cooled thorium breeder reactor based on matured pressurized water reactor (PWR) plant technology concluded that reduced moderated core by arranging fuel pins in a triangular tight lattice array and using heavy water as c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
9,737 Views
9 Pages

21 August 2012

Biosludge is a by-product of secondary wastewater treatment processes. Due to its high contents of organic carbon and plant nutrients, this bioresource can be practically reused as raw feedstock for making organic fertilizers and building materials....

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
9,281 Views
20 Pages

21 August 2012

CANDLE (Constant Axial shape of Neutron flux, nuclide number densities and power shape During Life of Energy producing reactor) reactors have been intensively researched in the last decades [1–6]. Research shows that this kind of reactor is highly ec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
8,335 Views
12 Pages

Sustainability Indicators for the Use of Resources—The Exergy Approach

  • Christopher J. Koroneos,
  • Evanthia A. Nanaki and
  • George A. Xydis

20 August 2012

Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions reached an all-time high in 2010, rising 45% in the past 20 years. The rise of peoples’ concerns regarding environmental problems such as global warming and waste management problem has led to a movement to conve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,533 Views
19 Pages

16 August 2012

The temperature response in the soil surrounding multiple boreholes is evaluated analytically and numerically. The assumption of constant heat flux along the borehole wall is examined by coupling the problem to the heat transfer problem inside the bo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
10,846 Views
15 Pages

Enhancing Meso Level Research in Sustainability Science—Challenges and Research Needs

  • Keishiro Hara,
  • Michinori Uwasu,
  • Hideki Kobayashi,
  • Shuji Kurimoto,
  • Shinsuke Yamanaka,
  • Yoshiyuki Shimoda and
  • Yasushi Umeda

15 August 2012

Growing numbers of promising visions of the future and scenarios that may lead toward building sustainable societies are being developed. At the same time, advanced technologies and research seeds that could increase the likelihood of achieving such...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
17,245 Views
27 Pages

14 August 2012

In recent years, small modular reactors (SMRs) have been attracting considerable attention around the world. SMR designs incorporate innovative approaches to achieve simplicity, modularity and speed of build, passive safety features, proliferation re...

  • Dissertation
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,037 Views
21 Pages

13 August 2012

Multilateral Nuclear Approaches (MNAs) is a concept of international and/or multilateral control of nuclear material and/or nuclear fuel cycle facilities. It is a strategy for contributing to and promoting the sustainability of nuclear energy while e...

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