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The Integrated Waste Management program under the Office of Nuclear Energy is planning for the future transportation, storage, and eventual disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plant and waste…
The United States DOE Office of Integrated Waste Management program is planning for the transportation, storage, and eventual disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plant sites across the United…
The US Department of Energys Office of Nuclear Energy is planning for an integrated waste management approach to transport, store, and eventually dispose of spent nuclear fuel and other high-level radioactive waste as part of the Integrated…
Rail is a cost-effective and relatively low-emission mode for transporting intermodal containers over long distances. This paper addresses tactical planning of intermodal railroad operations by introducing a new problem that simultaneously…
START, the Stakeholder Tool for Assessing Radioactive Transportation is a web-based, decision-support tool developed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to support the Office of Integrated Waste Management (IWM). Its purpose is to…
National freight transport models are valuable tools for assessing the impact of various policies and investments on achieving decarbonization targets under different future scenarios. However, these models struggle to address several…
Dry casks for spent nuclear fuel (SNF) ensure the safe storage of SNF and provide radiation shielding. However, the presence of the thick casks encompassing several layers of steel and concrete makes inspection of the SNF a challenging…
We use direct numerical simulation (DNS) to investigate mass transfer between liquid steel and slag during a metallurgical secondary refinement process through two reduced-scale water experiments, which reproduce the dynamics seen in an…
With the steady increase in global logistics and freight transport demand, the need for efficient and sustainable intermodal transport systems becomes increasingly important. This study addresses the optimization of container movement by…
The accurate calculation and uncertainty quantification of the characteristics of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) play a crucial role in ensuring the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of nuclear energy production, waste management, and…
As global supply chains and freight volumes grow, the U.S. faces escalating transportation demands. The heavy reliance on road transport, coupled with the underutilization of the railway system, results in congested highways, prolonged…
The United States Department of Energy (U.S. DOE) is planning for the transportation, storage, and disposal of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW) from commercial nuclear power plants and other U.S. DOE sites.…
A dual-purpose ion-accelerator concept, capable of serving as radiation source in a versatile, nuclear-reaction-based cargo inspection system, is presented. The system will automatically and reliably detect small, operationally-relevant…
This study presents a cross-disciplinary reactor-to-repository framework to compare different advanced reactors with respect to their spent nuclear fuel (SNF). The framework consists of (1) OpenMC for simulating neutronics, fuel depletion,…
Hyperconnected relay transportation enables using a relay system of short-haul drivers to deliver long-haul shipments collectively, which helps address root causes of trucker shortage issues by transforming working conditions with…
This paper reviews intermodal transportation systems and their role in decarbonizing freight networks from an operations research perspective, analyzing over a decade of studies (2010-2024). We present a chronological analysis of the…
To support planning of alternative fuel technology (e.g., battery-electric locomotives) deployment for decarbonizing non-electrified freight rail, we develop a convex optimization formulation with a closed-form solution to determine the…
Load-forecasting problems have already been widely addressed with different approaches, granularities and objectives. Recent studies focus not only on deep learning methods but also on forecasting loads on single building level. This study…
Nuclear power is a significant source of electricity in the United States, but the average U.S. nuclear power plant is around 40 years old. Safe management of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) is a crucial aspect of the back end of the nuclear fuel…
The vast majority of world trade is carried by the sea shipping industry and petroleum is still the major energy source. To reduce greenhouse gas emissions, it is an urgent need for both industry and government to promote green shipping. To…