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Reliability of Nuclear Power Plants
Since the 1970s, the field of industrial reliability has evolved significantly, in part due to the design and early operation of the first generation nuclear power plants. Indeed, the needs of this sector have led to the development of specific and innovative reliability methods, which have since been taken up and adapted by other industrial sectors, leading to the development of the management of uncertainties and Health and Usage Monitoring Systems. In this industry, reliability assessment approaches have matured. There are now methods, data and tools available that can be used with confidence for many industrial applications. The purpose of this book is to present and illustrate them with...
Trieste
In Italy, an elderly mother awaits a reunion with the son stolen from her by the Nazis—“A darkly hypnotic kaleidoscope of a book” (The Jewish Daily Forward). Haya Tedeschi sits alone in Gorizia, in northeastern Italy, surrounded by a basket of photographs and newspaper clippings. Now an old woman, she waits to be reunited after sixty-two years with her son, fathered by an SS officer and stolen from her by the German authorities as part of Himmler’s clandestine Lebensborn project. Tedeschi reflects on her Catholicized Jewish family’s experiences, in a narrative that deals unsparingly with the massacre of Italian Jews in the concentration camps of Trieste. Her obsessive search for her son leads her to photographs, maps, and fragments of verse, to testimonies from the Nuremberg trials and interviews with second-generation Jews, and to eyewitness accounts of atrocities that took place on her doorstep. From this broad collage of material and memory arises the staggering chronicle of Nazi occupation in northern Italy that “explores the 20th century’s darkest chapter in an original way . . . an exceptional reading experience” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune).
The Technology of Pressurized Water Reactors
This book offers a complete panorama of the pressurized water reactor industry, beginning from its origin in the USA and the realization of nuclear engines for naval propulsion, to its most recent developments in the field of civil energy production, particularly in France with the 56 reactors of the multinational electric utility company, Electricité de France (EDF). This comprehensive two-volume masterwork features detailed descriptions of all the crucial components driving a pressurized water nuclear reactor. Volume 1 deals with the main components, such as the main primary circuit, the reactor core, and the steam generators. Volume 2 covers the secondary circuit and the cold source, inc...
A Guided Tour of Artificial Intelligence Research
The purpose of this book is to provide an overview of AI research, ranging from basic work to interfaces and applications, with as much emphasis on results as on current issues. It is aimed at an audience of master students and Ph.D. students, and can be of interest as well for researchers and engineers who want to know more about AI. The book is split into three volumes: - the first volume brings together twenty-three chapters dealing with the foundations of knowledge representation and the formalization of reasoning and learning (Volume 1. Knowledge representation, reasoning and learning) - the second volume offers a view of AI, in fourteen chapters, from the side of the algorithms (Volume...
Maîtrise des risques et sûreté de fonctionnement
Le 1er novembre 1755, la maîtrise des risques industriels et de la sûreté de fonctionnement connaissait un tournant. Avant le célèbre tremblement de terre de Lisbonne, le risque est en effet considéré comme une punition divine, et ce depuis les Romains (et le commerce maritime) qui sont, très vraisemblablement, à l'origine de la notion de risque. Après cette date, le risque devient de la responsabilité de l'homme qui doit essayer de le maîtriser, de le réduire le plus possible, voire d'en profiter en saisissant les opportunités qu’il présente. Il faudra attendre les années 1980 pour voir naître une nouvelle approche du risque. Elle se singularise par un fourmillement de pa...
La fiabilité des centrales nucléaires
Les démarches fiabilistes sont parvenues à maturité, les méthodes, les données et les outils disponibles peuvent être utilisés en toute confiance. Le domaine de la fiabilité a notamment évolué grâce à l’exploitation des centrales nucléaires de production d’électricité. De nouveaux besoins ont également émergé pour conduire aux développements de méthodes novatrices qui ont ensuite été étendues à d’autres contextes. Méthodique et didactique, La fiabilité des centrales nucléaires présente successivement : l’évolution des procédures, le retour d’expérience et l’expertise, la fiabilité des systèmes et les évaluations probabilistes de sûreté, la fiabilité des structures et les modèles probabilisés en mécanique, la fiabilité des composants et l’impact de la maintenance, les facteurs humains et organisationnels, l’impact du Big Data et, enfin, une synthèse présentant les perspectives de R&D. Cet ouvrage, rédigé par des spécialistes du secteur nucléaire, est destiné à tous ceux qui sont confrontés à une évaluation de la fiabilité comme les décideurs, les ingénieurs.
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