Svitlana Alyokhina – Författare

This is a comprehensive overview of the latest advancements and strategies for achieving a sustainable energy future. It offers a multidisciplinary perspective on energy sustainability, integrating research on community-driven energy transitions, digital innovation, automation, and urban climate adaptation. The book examines the role of positive energy districts in facilitating just energy transitions, the realities of energy communities in Austria, and Romania's ambitious urban decarbonization initiatives in Reșița. The book also highlights the transformative potential of digital services in enhancing energy efficiency, the development of automation systems for resource conservation, and the innovative concept of climate fitness for resilient urban environments. Featuring case studies from Europe and beyond, it offers a multidisciplinary perspective on energy sustainability, bridging technological advancements with social, economic, and policy-driven approaches. This is a seminal text for researchers, policymakers, urban planners, and professionals working toward a greener and more equitable future.

The book covers basic approaches to the nuclear fuel state of energy reactors in the last stages of the nuclear fuel cycle, these have been developed by the authors based on Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) operational experience. The book starts by looking at the physical safety basis of water-water energetic reactor (WWER) nuclear fuel. It goes on to discuss modern approaches to the heat exchange modelling in nuclear power plant equipment. Next, the safety criteria when making a decision about dry storage for WWER-1000 fuel assembly are discussed. Then the effect of reactor capacity cyclic changes on energy accumulation of creep formations in fuel cladding is covered in full, along with a chapter on the analysis of WWER-1000 fuel cladding failure. Finally, the book finishes with a description of thermal safety criteria for dry storage of spent nuclear fuel.The book is essential reading for anyone concerned with NPP maintenance and safety.