Multi-criteria decision support and evaluation of strategies for nuclear remediation management☆

Evaluation strategies for nuclear and radiological emergency and post-accident management

“…1). The ASY processes incoming data and predicts the location and quantity of contamination including temporal variation (Geldermann et al, 2009). To this purpose, a chain of models for atmospheric transport and dispersion, soil and plant deposition, hydrological dispersion, food chain, and radiological dose modelling is used.…”

“…In Web-HIPRE natural language reports for explaining the results of the decision making are integrated (Geldermann et al, 2009). Two reports explaining the results using in English language are generated:…”

“…Klein, 1994) are used (cf. Papamichail and French, 2003;Geldermann et al, 2009 for a more detailed description). Providing natural language reports in addition to graphical output has several advantages in MCDA: first, a decision maker who is not familiar with the graphical representations is provided with an easily understandable interpretation.…”

“…Nuclear accidents differ from many other disasters by their high complexity and -fortunately -low frequency of occurrence. However, these characteristics render an adequate management difficult as approaches like contingency plans or checklists typically used in emergency management lack the flexibility needed (Geldermann et al, 2009). …”

A location analysis approach for military maintenance scheduling with geographically dispersed service areas

“…Also, the MCLP and set covering models have been applied to similar urban location problems [14,15]. Additional vehicle scheduling problems with locational aspects have been studied more recently [16][17][18], and the sensitivity of operating in a nuclear environment can be seen in [19][20][21]. In addition, problems for geographically dispersed services [22,23] and for developing facility networks across large areas [24][25][26][27] are the focus of recent research.…”