Emergency response to any large scale environmental incidents on the Texas - Mexico will not be easy. Any large scale incident that crosses jurisdictional boundaries, including the international boundary, may require joint ...

Technology to recover uranium from seawater may act as a potential backstop on the production cost of uranium in a growing international nuclear industry. Convincing proof of the existence of an effective expected upper ...

In the United States, some utilities provide lime softening to remove hardness from the drinking water. Lime softening generates residuals as part of the water treatment process, which are inert and non-hazardous. This ...

Floods, fires, and earthquakes continue to impose significant economic and social costs on society. Many technically effective strategies for reducing seismic risk have not been implemented, and so have been of little ...

This research examines freight rail electrification by creating an energy model to simulate trains along specific corridors. The parameters for the energy model were developed after an extensive literature review. Using ...