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Electricity demand has to be met and nuclear power has the capacity needed for heat production in order to run the large turbines that generate electricity. Though this kind of power generation produces maximum power, it is a non-renewable source of energy and its effect on the environment is not predictable. Actual impact on the environment is very less, if the locating is carefully done. Also, nuclear power plant locating is an important action in environmental protection. Difference criteria should be paid attention in site selection, so using of special methods are necessary to assimilate the criteria. In this research, GIS software and Analytical Hierarchy Process were used. Weighted Linear Combination (WLC) is a relatively new MCDA which has presented more flexible and reliable results for site selection. In this paper, first of all, maps were built in considering to environmental factors, in next step, each layer, was graded. Low grade showed non-coordination or less coordination and high grade showed more coordination. Assimilate of graded map in WLC process, separates area into unsuitable, relative unsuitable, moderately suitable and suitable parts. Suitable parts can have high priority in decision making and also moderately suitable parts can have high priority for development projects in future. 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Electricity demand has to be met and nuclear power has the capacity needed for heat production in order to run the large turbines that generate electricity. Though this kind of power generation produces maximum power, it is a non-renewable source of energy and its effect on the environment is not predictable. Actual impact on the environment is very less, if the locating is carefully done. Also, nuclear power plant locating is an important action in environmental protection. Difference criteria should be paid attention in site selection, so using of special methods are necessary to assimilate the criteria. In this research, GIS software and Analytical Hierarchy Process were used. Weighted Linear Combination (WLC) is a relatively new MCDA which has presented more flexible and reliable results for site selection. In this paper, first of all, maps were built in considering to environmental factors, in next step, each layer, was graded. Low grade showed non-coordination or less coordination and high grade showed more coordination. Assimilate of graded map in WLC process, separates area into unsuitable, relative unsuitable, moderately suitable and suitable parts. Suitable parts can have high priority in decision making and also moderately suitable parts can have high priority for development projects in future. 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Electricity demand has to be met and nuclear power has the capacity needed for heat production in order to run the large turbines that generate electricity. Though this kind of power generation produces maximum power, it is a non-renewable source of energy and its effect on the environment is not predictable. Actual impact on the environment is very less, if the locating is carefully done. Also, nuclear power plant locating is an important action in environmental protection. Difference criteria should be paid attention in site selection, so using of special methods are necessary to assimilate the criteria. In this research, GIS software and Analytical Hierarchy Process were used. Weighted Linear Combination (WLC) is a relatively new MCDA which has presented more flexible and reliable results for site selection. In this paper, first of all, maps were built in considering to environmental factors, in next step, each layer, was graded. Low grade showed non-coordination or less coordination and high grade showed more coordination. Assimilate of graded map in WLC process, separates area into unsuitable, relative unsuitable, moderately suitable and suitable parts. Suitable parts can have high priority in decision making and also moderately suitable parts can have high priority for development projects in future. 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Furthermore, the country legal requirements have set up the long term objective of building and operating nuclear power plants to produce 20,000 MW of electricity for Atomic Energy Organization of Iran. For this purpose, a research was conducted to build new power plants based on the politics of Islamic Republic of Iran by utilizing the International standard requirements of the Atomic Energy and considering environmental, social and economic parameters. In this research, the cause and effect decision making model of Fuzzy DEMATEL was investigated. After numerous studies, the model was modified to build a nuclear power plant in order to demonstrate both the cause and effect relationship among effective criteria in the decision making process and the ultimate weight for each criterion. Finally, the maps showing the spatial location of each criterion were drawn by utilizing the measured weights in GIS and were prepared to apply spatial combination process. Since the presented cause and effect model demonstrates the criteria of access to shoreline the most significant in the locating process and it plays the most important role in decision making for building the nuclear power plant, this criterion and its considerations should be at the apex of the decision making in the feasibility studies of power plant location. According to the results of spatial combination and the proposed cause and effect model, the best model to build a nuclear power plant was determined in Bushehr Province, Iran.</p><div class="ds-related-work--ctas"><button class="ds2-5-text-link ds2-5-text-link--inline js-swp-download-button" data-signup-modal="{"location":"wsj-grid-card-download-pdf-modal","work_title":"The development of nuclear power plants by means of modified model of Fuzzy DEMATEL and GIS in Bushehr, Iran","attachmentId":111292778,"attachmentType":"pdf","work_url":"https://www.academia.edu/114651748/The_development_of_nuclear_power_plants_by_means_of_modified_model_of_Fuzzy_DEMATEL_and_GIS_in_Bushehr_Iran","alternativeTracking":true}"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">download</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download free PDF</span></button><a class="ds2-5-text-link ds2-5-text-link--inline js-wsj-grid-card-view-pdf" href="https://www.academia.edu/114651748/The_development_of_nuclear_power_plants_by_means_of_modified_model_of_Fuzzy_DEMATEL_and_GIS_in_Bushehr_Iran"><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View PDF</span><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">chevron_right</span></a></div></div><div class="ds-related-work--container js-wsj-grid-card" data-collection-position="5" data-entity-id="106189584" data-sort-order="default"><a class="ds-related-work--title js-wsj-grid-card-title ds2-5-body-md ds2-5-body-link" href="https://www.academia.edu/106189584/Multi_criteria_decision_analysis_FANP_based_on_GIS_for_siting_municipal_solid_waste_incineration_power_plant_in_the_north_of_Iran">Multi- criteria decision analysis FANP based on GIS for siting municipal solid waste incineration power plant in the north of Iran</a><div class="ds-related-work--metadata"><a class="js-wsj-grid-card-author ds2-5-body-sm ds2-5-body-link" data-author-id="8935147" href="https://jdm.academia.edu/NiloofarAbedinzadeh">Niloofar Abedinzadeh</a></div><p class="ds-related-work--metadata ds2-5-body-xs">Sustainable Cities and Society, 2019</p><p class="ds-related-work--abstract ds2-5-body-sm">Site selecting for installing municipal solid waste incineration power plant with sustainable development perspectives is a multi-criteria decision. Identifying the factors that affect it will lead to more advantages including reducing costs and eliminating community dissatisfaction. In this research, in order to provide the most optimal model, the criteria for installing MSWI power plant were developed in the form of three main environmental, economic, and socio-cultural criteria. First, the decision making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) technique has been applied to identify the interrelations between factors. Then, they were ranked by importance by fuzzy analytic network process (FANP). Based on the results, the highest and least significance have been assigned to the main economic, socio-cultural criteria, and sub-criteria of land use and railway respectively. Finally, a case study was conducted in Rasht County in order to evaluate the efficiency of the obtained model. Using geographic information system, GIS, we applied the final weights to the layers of each of the sub-criteria and overlay them. The results of the output map indicated the capability of the obtained model based on FANP and GIS to select the proper place for installing MSWI power plant and its application in other similar studies.</p><div class="ds-related-work--ctas"><button class="ds2-5-text-link ds2-5-text-link--inline js-swp-download-button" data-signup-modal="{"location":"wsj-grid-card-download-pdf-modal","work_title":"Multi- criteria decision analysis FANP based on GIS for siting municipal solid waste incineration power plant in the north of Iran","attachmentId":105451061,"attachmentType":"pdf","work_url":"https://www.academia.edu/106189584/Multi_criteria_decision_analysis_FANP_based_on_GIS_for_siting_municipal_solid_waste_incineration_power_plant_in_the_north_of_Iran","alternativeTracking":true}"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">download</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download free PDF</span></button><a class="ds2-5-text-link ds2-5-text-link--inline js-wsj-grid-card-view-pdf" href="https://www.academia.edu/106189584/Multi_criteria_decision_analysis_FANP_based_on_GIS_for_siting_municipal_solid_waste_incineration_power_plant_in_the_north_of_Iran"><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View PDF</span><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">chevron_right</span></a></div></div><div class="ds-related-work--container js-wsj-grid-card" data-collection-position="6" data-entity-id="43414651" data-sort-order="default"><a class="ds-related-work--title js-wsj-grid-card-title ds2-5-body-md ds2-5-body-link" href="https://www.academia.edu/43414651/GIS_BASED_SOLAR_AND_WIND_TURBINE_SITE_SELECTION_USING_MULTI_CRITERIA_ANALYSIS_CASE_STUDY_TEHRAN_IRAN">GIS-BASED SOLAR AND WIND TURBINE SITE SELECTION USING MULTI-CRITERIA ANALYSIS: CASE STUDY TEHRAN, IRAN</a><div class="ds-related-work--metadata"><a class="js-wsj-grid-card-author ds2-5-body-sm ds2-5-body-link" data-author-id="9434749" href="https://khtu.academia.edu/minasadeghi">Mina Sadeghi</a></div><p class="ds-related-work--abstract ds2-5-body-sm">Renewable energy has less negative impacts on environment than fossil fuels. Iran has many resources for renewable energy exploitation but because of their high price, it has not been developed. Site selection is an important step for utilizing large investments like solar farms and wind turbines. Multi-criteria evaluation methods are commonly used for site selection. The purpose of this paper is to determine suitable sites for solar farm and wind turbine using GIS and AHP in Tehran, in order to generate a distributed network to increase power network stability. The final land suitability index was grouped in four categories as "most suitable", "suitable", "moderate" and "low suitable". As a result 94.61% (789939.63 km 2 ) is low suitable, 4.47% (37337.17 km 2 ) is moderate, 0.59% (4964.22 km 2 ) is suitable and 0.32% (2680.70 km 2 ) is the most suitable for building wind turbine and for solar farm, 44.07% (8116.88 km 2 ) is low suitable, 12.81% (2359.79 km 2 ) is moderate, 35.10% (6464.29 km 2 ) is suitable and 8.02% (1477.28 km 2 ) is the most suitable.</p><div class="ds-related-work--ctas"><button class="ds2-5-text-link ds2-5-text-link--inline js-swp-download-button" data-signup-modal="{"location":"wsj-grid-card-download-pdf-modal","work_title":"GIS-BASED SOLAR AND WIND TURBINE SITE SELECTION USING MULTI-CRITERIA ANALYSIS: CASE STUDY TEHRAN, IRAN","attachmentId":63715375,"attachmentType":"pdf","work_url":"https://www.academia.edu/43414651/GIS_BASED_SOLAR_AND_WIND_TURBINE_SITE_SELECTION_USING_MULTI_CRITERIA_ANALYSIS_CASE_STUDY_TEHRAN_IRAN","alternativeTracking":true}"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">download</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download free PDF</span></button><a class="ds2-5-text-link ds2-5-text-link--inline js-wsj-grid-card-view-pdf" href="https://www.academia.edu/43414651/GIS_BASED_SOLAR_AND_WIND_TURBINE_SITE_SELECTION_USING_MULTI_CRITERIA_ANALYSIS_CASE_STUDY_TEHRAN_IRAN"><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View PDF</span><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">chevron_right</span></a></div></div><div class="ds-related-work--container js-wsj-grid-card" data-collection-position="7" data-entity-id="21818776" data-sort-order="default"><a class="ds-related-work--title js-wsj-grid-card-title ds2-5-body-md ds2-5-body-link" href="https://www.academia.edu/21818776/A_geographic_information_system_for_gas_power_plant_location_using_analytical_hierarchy_process_and_fuzzy_logic">A geographic information system for gas power plant location using analytical hierarchy process and fuzzy logic</a><div class="ds-related-work--metadata"><a class="js-wsj-grid-card-author ds2-5-body-sm ds2-5-body-link" data-author-id="25037253" href="https://tehran.academia.edu/FatemehSadatAlavipoor">Fatemeh Sadat Alavipoor</a></div><p class="ds-related-work--abstract ds2-5-body-sm">This research recommends a geographic information system-based and multi-criteria evaluation for locating a gas power plant in Natanz City in Iran. The multi-criteria decision framework offers a hierarchy model to select a suitable place for a gas power plant. This framework includes analytic hierarchy process, fuzzy set theory and weighted linear combination. The analytic hierarchy process was applied to compare the importance of criteria among hierarchy elements classified by environmental group criteria. In the next step, the fuzzy logic was used to regulate the criteria through various fuzzy membership functions and fuzzy layers were formed by using fuzzy operators in the Arc-GIS environment. Subsequently, they were categorized into 6 classes using reclassify function. Then weighted linear combination was applied to combine the research layers. Finally, the two approaches were analyzed to find the most suitable place to set up a gas power plant. According to the results, the utilization of GAMMA fuzzy operator was shown to be suitable for this site selection.</p><div class="ds-related-work--ctas"><button class="ds2-5-text-link ds2-5-text-link--inline js-swp-download-button" data-signup-modal="{"location":"wsj-grid-card-download-pdf-modal","work_title":"A geographic information system for gas power plant location using analytical hierarchy process and fuzzy logic","attachmentId":42574014,"attachmentType":"pdf","work_url":"https://www.academia.edu/21818776/A_geographic_information_system_for_gas_power_plant_location_using_analytical_hierarchy_process_and_fuzzy_logic","alternativeTracking":true}"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">download</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download free PDF</span></button><a class="ds2-5-text-link ds2-5-text-link--inline js-wsj-grid-card-view-pdf" href="https://www.academia.edu/21818776/A_geographic_information_system_for_gas_power_plant_location_using_analytical_hierarchy_process_and_fuzzy_logic"><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View PDF</span><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">chevron_right</span></a></div></div><div class="ds-related-work--container js-wsj-grid-card" data-collection-position="8" data-entity-id="67322029" data-sort-order="default"><a class="ds-related-work--title js-wsj-grid-card-title ds2-5-body-md ds2-5-body-link" href="https://www.academia.edu/67322029/Industrial_State_Site_Selection_Using_MCDM_Method_and_GIS_in_Germi_Ardabil_Iran">Industrial State Site Selection Using MCDM Method and GIS in Germi, Ardabil, Iran</a><div class="ds-related-work--metadata"><a class="js-wsj-grid-card-author ds2-5-body-sm ds2-5-body-link" data-author-id="55719885" href="https://independent.academia.edu/EbrahimFataei">Ebrahim Fataei</a></div><p class="ds-related-work--metadata ds2-5-body-xs">Journal of Industrial and Intelligent Information, 2015</p><p class="ds-related-work--abstract ds2-5-body-sm">The industrial state site selection for urban and industrial equipment's establishment is tied to some limiting and strengthening factors. Increasingly, the relationships between environmental concerns and industrial, social and political affairs as well as rapid growth of the potential changes rise up regional and local system's complexity. The conditions of different areas in our country indicate that we should consider environmental planning topics more than previous. There are different methods for site selection however using multicriteria methods are more preferred. In this study we investigated about the second industrial area's site selection in Germi where is located in the Ardebil province, in Iran. Totally seven criteria including average annual temperature, slope, water resources, roads, landuse, residential areas and geological fault, were mapped using Arc GIS 9.3. Meanwhile we used Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) for map's weighting. The preferred areas were located after field work and software analysis and considering economic, social and environmental conditions such as land ownership value and access. Based on infrastructural facilities existence and short distance to Germi city, the first preference was selected. </p><div class="ds-related-work--ctas"><button class="ds2-5-text-link ds2-5-text-link--inline js-swp-download-button" data-signup-modal="{"location":"wsj-grid-card-download-pdf-modal","work_title":"Industrial State Site Selection Using MCDM Method and GIS in Germi, Ardabil, Iran","attachmentId":78182821,"attachmentType":"pdf","work_url":"https://www.academia.edu/67322029/Industrial_State_Site_Selection_Using_MCDM_Method_and_GIS_in_Germi_Ardabil_Iran","alternativeTracking":true}"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">download</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download free PDF</span></button><a class="ds2-5-text-link ds2-5-text-link--inline js-wsj-grid-card-view-pdf" href="https://www.academia.edu/67322029/Industrial_State_Site_Selection_Using_MCDM_Method_and_GIS_in_Germi_Ardabil_Iran"><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View PDF</span><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">chevron_right</span></a></div></div><div class="ds-related-work--container js-wsj-grid-card" data-collection-position="9" data-entity-id="102986934" data-sort-order="default"><a class="ds-related-work--title js-wsj-grid-card-title ds2-5-body-md ds2-5-body-link" href="https://www.academia.edu/102986934/Multi_criteria_decision_support_system_for_wind_farm_site_selection_using_GIS">Multi-criteria decision support system for wind farm site selection using GIS</a><div class="ds-related-work--metadata"><a class="js-wsj-grid-card-author ds2-5-body-sm ds2-5-body-link" data-author-id="272785630" href="https://independent.academia.edu/SiamakMoradi4">Siamak Moradi</a></div><p class="ds-related-work--metadata ds2-5-body-xs">Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 2016</p><p class="ds-related-work--abstract ds2-5-body-sm">The present study analyzed a multi-criteria decision support system to define wind energy resources in western Iran. Clean domestic renewable energy can be the best option in consideration of intense economic development and its accompanying increase in energy consumption. The most important barrier to wider deployment of renewable resources in Iran is the price of fossil fuels, which is the lowest in the world. The government has recently decided to remove subsidies for fossil fuel, meaning that its price will increase and will make the cost of green energies more attractive. Wind power is an option for improved economic conditions in the region and low environmental impacts. This study applied geographic information system to determine the potential of wind energy in Markazi province in western Iran. The multiple criteria decision making method and site selection criterion for wind resources assessment is explained and developed for the study area. Criteria of equal importance were investigated, including technical, environmental, economic and geographic standards. The results were favorable for electricity production in accordance with international standards from wind in western Iran. 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