Building an underground nuclear power plant in Singapore - geological and geotechnical considerations
With the escalating demand for energy in Singapore, constructing a Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) seems an attractive alternative to fossil fuels which are depleting and increasing in cost. However, constraints such as a small land area, vulnerability to terrorist attacks, disposal of radioactive nucl...
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| author | Yong, Shin Mun. |
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| description | With the escalating demand for energy in Singapore, constructing a Nuclear Power
Plant (NPP) seems an attractive alternative to fossil fuels which are depleting and
increasing in cost. However, constraints such as a small land area, vulnerability to
terrorist attacks, disposal of radioactive nuclear waste material and possible
contamination of the surroundings, call for an underground location for the NPP.
There are different types of underground sitings a NPP can adopt. These include level,
single and stacked orientations. Phase2, a 2-dimensional plastic finite element
program for calculating stresses and displacements around underground openings, is
used to provide analysis of potential civil engineering problems present in the layouts
proposed. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/444632023-03-03T17:12:04Z Building an underground nuclear power plant in Singapore - geological and geotechnical considerations Yong, Shin Mun. School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Wong Ngai Yuen DRNTU::Engineering::Civil engineering With the escalating demand for energy in Singapore, constructing a Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) seems an attractive alternative to fossil fuels which are depleting and increasing in cost. However, constraints such as a small land area, vulnerability to terrorist attacks, disposal of radioactive nuclear waste material and possible contamination of the surroundings, call for an underground location for the NPP. There are different types of underground sitings a NPP can adopt. These include level, single and stacked orientations. Phase2, a 2-dimensional plastic finite element program for calculating stresses and displacements around underground openings, is used to provide analysis of potential civil engineering problems present in the layouts proposed. Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) 2011-06-01T09:21:29Z 2011-06-01T09:21:29Z 2011 2011 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/44463 en Nanyang Technological University 188 p. application/pdf |
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