Assessment of nuclear energy sustainability index using fuzzy logic

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 240, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1928-1933

  Abouelnaga, Ayah E ^a   Metwally, Abdelmohsen ^a   Aly, Naguib ^a   Nagy, Mohammad ^a   Agamy, Saeed ^a  

^a Alexandria University The Faculty Of Engineering   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DEMANDS; ENERGY GENERATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS; NONLINEAR FUNCTIONS; SUSTAINABILITY DIMENSIONS;

ENERGY MANAGEMENT; FOSSIL FUELS; FUNCTIONS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

FUZZY LOGIC;

EID: 77955308041     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2010.03.010     Document Type: Article

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