Subsurface organic amendment with plastic film mulching reinforced soil organic carbon through altering saline soil aggregate structure and regulating fungal community

The combination of plastic film mulching and subsurface organic amendment is a novel strategy for saline soil amelioration and utilization in China. However, how the strategy affect soil organic carbon (SOC) contents directly and indirectly (physical protection and microbiological regulation) were still not-documented. Therefore, four treatments, i.e., no amendment with and without plastic film mulching, subsurface (10-30 cm soil depth) organic amendment with and without plastic film mulching, were arranged and sampled after three-year filed experiment. Compared with no amendment with and without plastic film mulching, subsurface organic amendment increased the SOC content in the 0-40 cm soil depth by 70% and 90%, respectively. Plastic film mulching decreased SOC by 16% without organic amendment. Subsurface organic amendment transformed the dominant aggregation particles from <0.053 mm to 0.25-2 mm, indicating that both direct carbon input and indirect physical protection contributed to SOC increment. Conversely, SOC decreased with plastic film mulching due to the 14% lower fungal diversity compared with soil without plastic film mulching, was supported by the positive path coefficient from fungal diversity to SOC. Therefore, the combination of plastic film mulching and subsurface organic amendment increased SOC by 61% by direct carbon input and indirect physical protection and microbial regulation. In conclusion, subsurface organic amendment with plastic film mulching reinforced soil organic carbon increment through altering saline soil aggregate structure and regulating fungal community, and confirmed it is a feasible way to increase SOC for saline soil amelioration.

The Efficacy of the Global Nuclear Security Legal Regime and States’ Implementation Capacity in Light of the Forthcoming Development of Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies

The forthcoming arrival of small modular reactors and other advanced nuclear reactor technologies can be an immensely beneficial development in the world’s collective pursuit of energy security and meeting climate change objectives. The key question is whether or not these new reactor technologies significantly alter the fundamental premises underlying the existing nuclear security legal regime. The Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material and its Amendment (A/CPPNM) are the only legally binding international instruments governing the physical protection of nuclear materials and nuclear facilities. Together the A/CPPNM and the international guidance on nuclear security comprise the current legal framework for nuclear security. This chapter examines whether the A/CPPNM adequately covers advanced reactor technologies; and whether the States that are interested in acquiring these new reactor technologies have the capacity to effectively implement the associated legal requirements, regulatory standards, and international guidance that comes along with such technologies. The analysis touches upon the role of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the IAEA Nuclear Security Guidance, and issues of cybersecurity.

Estoque e Mecanismo de Proteção Física do Carbono no Solo em Manejos Agrícolas

O compartimento terrestre é o maior reservatório de carbono no solo e armazena cerca de três vezes mais que o compartimento atmosférico. Porém, a atmosfera tem aumentado suas concentrações, devido as elevadas emissões de gases de efeito estufa, decorrente principalmente do consumo de combustíveis fosseis e queimadas das florestas. O Brasil é um dos maiores emissores, especialmente de dióxido de carbono, pelo qual o setor de mudanças do uso da terra e florestas são responsáveis majoritariamente pelas emissões. O solo em condições naturais tem um equilíbrio entre a entrada e saída de carbono, no entanto quando o solo é cultivado, principalmente com sistemas convencionais, há uma perda significativa dos estoques de carbono do solo. No entanto, quando é adotado manejos conservacionistas ocorre o mecanismo de proteção física do carbono através da formação e estabilização dos agregados, que dificulta o acesso dos microrganismos a decomposição e mantém estocado no solo, o que mitiga a emissão para atmosfera. Diante do exposto, este trabalho teve como objetivo mostrar como os manejos influenciam no estoque de carbono no solo, e como é atuação do mecanismo de proteção física de agregados em sistemas conservacionistas, demostrando como foram os avanços na pesquisa da interação da matéria orgânica com a formação e estabilização de agregados. Stock and Mechanism of Physical Protection of Soil Carbon in Agricultural Managements A B S T R A C TThe terrestrial compartment is the largest carbon reservoir in the soil and stores about three times as much as the atmospheric compartment. However, the atmosphere has increased its concentrations, due to the high emissions of greenhouse gases, mainly due to the consumption of fossil fuels and forest fires. Brazil is one of the largest emitters, especially of carbon dioxide, for which the sector of land use change and forests are responsible for the majority of emissions. Soil under natural conditions has a balance between carbon input and output, however when the soil is cultivated, mainly with conventional systems, there is a significant loss of soil carbon stocks. However, when conservation management is adopted, there is a mechanism for the physical protection of carbon through the formation and stabilization of aggregates, which hinders the access of microorganisms to decomposition and keeps them stored in the soil, which mitigates the emission into the atmosphere. In view of the above, this study aimed to show how the management influences the carbon stock in the soil, and how the mechanism of physical protection of aggregates in conservationist systems works, demonstrating how advances were made in researching the interaction of organic matter with formation and stabilization of aggregates.Key words: aggregates, carbon dioxide, greenhouse effect, crop-livestock-forest integration, organic matter

Legal and practical dimensions of the protection of areas, facilities and devices important for state security

The article discusses the legal obligations of heads of units included in the register of areas, facilities and devices subject to mandatory protection in the voivodeship. The obligation of the head of the unit to provide physical or technical protection of an object. Significant items for state security with the use of internal security services or personal and property protection agencies – that is often criticized. However, it should be remembered that the cooperation of services, guards and inspections with the private sector is necessary to obtain an appropriate level of security. In addition, practical ways to ensure the safety of areas, facilities and devices subject to mandatory protection are also presented. The current technological development does not reduce the protection of the facility only to physical protection, allowing the use of modern technical security systems in order to support the activities of specialized employees of armed security formations. Due to the above, the authors described the operation of selected technical security systems in protected facilities.

Physical protection system effectiveness calculation in nuclear reactor facility using EASI code: case study sabotage scenario

Every nuclear facility must pay attention to the 3S aspect (Safety-Security-Safeguard) to prevent nuclear accidents. One element in the nuclear security aspects includes a reliable Physical Protection System (PPS), which aims to ward off security disturbances and other illegal acts, i.e., sabotage, theft, Etc. This study evaluates the PPS performance by adversary-path analysis approach using the EASI code for hypothetical nuclear reactor facility to anticipate sabotage attacks as the highest consequences scenario. We perform the probability of interruption (PI) calculation as represented by the effectiveness of the PPS. The study results show that in the PPS design, calculating the PI value using the EASI code confirms the need to pay attention in determining the MVP. The results provide feedback for the PPS designer to accept the current design or strengthen it to obtain a reliable PPS.

Protection of a Stationary Object from the Massive Impact of Mobile Objects under Conditions of von Neumann's Mixed Game

The method of statistical simulation modeling (SSM) has been used to analyze the operating conditions and the efficiency of the physical protection system of a stationary object from the massive impact of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones). It is shown that the conditions of the problem correspond to the reflexive version of a two-sided von Neumann's mixed game. statistical risk-oriented characteristics for two variants of the object protection system implementation using force mechanical and electromagnetic effects on the "drones cloud" are determined. The possibilities and the prospects for using the results obtained using the SSM method are presented.