Scheduling the disposal of nuclear waste material in a geologic repository using the transportation model
研究利用线性规划中的经典运输模型，为沸水堆和压水堆产生的乏燃料制定最优地质处置时间表，通过最小化吸收和散发热量所需的总面积来实现优化。
An optimal disposal schedule for the burial of spent nuclear fuel from boiling-water and pressurized-water power reactors in a geologic repository has been developed using the classical transportation model from linear programming. Optimization is achieved by minimizing the total area required to absorb and dissipate the dynamic, yet highly predictable. quantity of heat produced by the nuclear waste. Costs associated with burying the spent power-reactor fuel can be measured in terms of the «area required per ton of waste material.» This thermal cost is a time-varying quantity governed by the principles of radioactive decay