Capital costs, fuel, operation and maintenance (O&M) costs, and electricity prices play a key role in the economics of nuclear power plants. Often standardized reactor designs are required to be locally adapted, which often impacts the project plans and the supply chain. It then becomes...

Small and medium sized reactors, SMRs, (according to IAEA, ‘small’ refers to reactors with power less than 300MWe, and ‘medium’ with power less than 700MWe) are considered as an attractive option for investment in nuclear power plants. SMRs may benefit from flexibility of investment,...

Quantitative understanding and prediction of theprocesses of runoff generation and its transmission to theoutlet represent one of the most basic and challenging areasof hydrology. Traditional techniques for design floodestimation use historical rainfall-runoff data for unithydrograph derivation....

The persistence phenomenon is studied in a financial context by using a novel mapping of the time evolution of the values of shares in a portfolio onto Ising spins. The method is applied to historical data from the London Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 index (FTSE 100) over an arbitrarily...

A statistical analysis of the solar daily global irradiation for Genoa, Italy, has been carried out using a 9 year time series. The frequency distribution of the fluctuations in the daily values of the time series about the mean, normalized by the standard deviation, has been transformed into a...

The sediment graphs (time distribution of sediment yield) are very essential if the sediment transports the pollutants that are toxic at high concentrations, requiring determination of peak, rather than average sediment flow rate. In this paper, an effort has been made to develop a simple...

Persistence is studied in a financial context by mapping the time evolution of the values of the shares quoted on the London Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 index (FTSE 100) onto Ising spins. By following the time dependence of the spins, we find evidence for power law decay of the proportion...