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Stability of Biochar Under Storage Conditions and Evaluating its Potential as a Carbon Sequestration Tool in the United States

Creator:

Rovero, Matthew

Abstract:

Biochar has shown promise as a soil amendment for improvement of agricultural and forest productivity, remediation of heavy metals, and sequestration of carbon, but has not yet been adopted for widespread use in any of these applications. By assessing the production potential as a carbon sequestration tool, and the stability...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis
Incorporating statistical uncertainty into nuclear material diversion pathway analysis using probabilistic risk assessment

Creator:

Pharn, Benjamin T.

Abstract:

A Level 1 probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) is applied to a plutonium button-making process, but in regards to the risk of diversion (or theft) of special nuclear material (SNM) rather than the risk of mechanical failure. The main objective of the project was to identify the relative vulnerability of areas...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis