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Biotechnology for the Environment, A Report on the Joint United States - European Union Celebration of a Decade of Environmental Biotechnology Exchange Activities for Early Career Scientists, Project ID: 0011751

Description: The joint EU-US Task Force on Environmental Biotechnology held a workshop entitled, 'A Celebration of a Decade of Environmental Biotechnology Exchange Activities' on October 17, 2005 in Brussels, Belgium. This was a fitting venue since Brussels was where the EU-US transatlantic initiative originated. The workshop brought together former trainees who are currently active in the field of environmental biotechnology in order to (1) assess the impact of the past training activities; (2) to promote … more
Date: September 30, 2006
Creator: Suflita, Joseph M.
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SRNL PARTICIPATION IN THE MULTI-SCALE ENSEMBLE EXERCISES

Description: Consequence assessment during emergency response often requires atmospheric transport and dispersion modeling to guide decision making. A statistical analysis of the ensemble of results from several models is a useful way of estimating the uncertainty for a given forecast. ENSEMBLE is a European Union program that utilizes an internet-based system to ingest transport results from numerous modeling agencies. A recent set of exercises required output on three distinct spatial and temporal scales.… more
Date: October 29, 2007
Creator: Buckley, R
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Policy Strategies and Paths to promote Sustainable Energy Systems- The dynamic Invert Simulation Tool

Description: The European Union has established a number of targetsregarding energy efficiency, Renewable Energy Sources (RES) and CO2reductions as the 'GREEN PAPER on Energy Efficiency', the Directive for'promotion of the use of bio-fuels or other renewable fuels fortransport' or 'Directive of the European Parliament of the Council on thepromotion of cogeneration based on a useful heat demand in the internalenergy market'. A lot of the according RES and RUE measures are notattractive for investors from an … more
Date: May 1, 2006
Creator: Stadler, Michael; Kranzl, Lukas; Huber, Claus; Haas, Reinhard & Tsioliaridou, Elena
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An Assessment of Radiation Damage Models and Methods

Description: The current state of development of the primary models used for investigating and simulating irradiation effects in structural alloys of interest to the U.S. DOE's Generation-IV reactor program are discussed. The underlying theory that supports model development is also described where appropriate. First, the key processes that underlie radiation-induced changes in material properties are summarized, and the types of radiation effects that subsequently arise are described. Future development wo… more
Date: May 1, 2005
Creator: Stoller, Roger E. & Mansur, Louis K.
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Use of Wind Power Forecasting in Operational Decisions.

Description: The rapid expansion of wind power gives rise to a number of challenges for power system operators and electricity market participants. The key operational challenge is to efficiently handle the uncertainty and variability of wind power when balancing supply and demand in ths system. In this report, we analyze how wind power forecasting can serve as an efficient tool toward this end. We discuss the current status of wind power forecasting in U.S. electricity markets and develop several methodolo… more
Date: November 29, 2011
Creator: Botterud, A.; Zhi, Z.; Wang, J.; Bessa, R.J.; Keko, H.; Mendes, J. et al.
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Target Allocation Methodology for China's Provinces: Energy Intensity in the 12th FIve-Year Plan

Description: Experience with China's 20% energy intensity improvement target during the 11th Five-Year Plan (FYP) (2006-2010) has shown the challenges of rapidly setting targets and implementing measures to meet them. For the 12th FYP (2011-2015), there is an urgent need for a more scientific methodology to allocate targets among the provinces and to track physical and economic indicators of energy and carbon saving progress. This report provides a sectoral methodology for allocating a national energy inten… more
Date: March 21, 2011
Creator: Ohshita, Stephanie & Price, Lynn
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Identification of Fissionable Materials Using the Tagged Neutron Technique

Description: This summary describes experiments to detect and identify fissionable materials using the tagged neutron technique. The objective of this work is to enhance homeland security capability to find fissionable material that may be smuggled inside shipping boxes, containers, or vehicles. The technique distinguishes depleted uranium from lead, steel, and tungsten. Future work involves optimizing the technique to increase the count rate by many orders of magnitude and to build in the additional capabi… more
Date: June 30, 2009
Creator: Keegan, R. P.; Hurley, J. P.; Tinsley, J. R. & Trainham, R.
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Savannah River National Laboratory Involvement in the European ENSEMBLE Program

Description: Many atmospheric transport and dispersion models now exist to provide consequence assessment during emergency response to near-field releases. One way of estimating the uncertainty for a given forecast is to statistically analyze an ensemble of results from several models. ENSEMBLE is a European Union program that utilizes an internet-based system to ingest transport results from numerous modeling agencies. This paper addresses the involvement of the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) in… more
Date: October 24, 2005
Creator: Buckley, R. L. & Addies, Robert P.
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Implications of Carbon Regulation for Green Power Markets

Description: This paper examines the potential effects that emerging mandatory carbon markets have for voluntary markets for renewable energy, or green power markets. In an era of carbon regulation, green power markets will continue to play an important role because many consumers may be interested in supporting renewable energy development beyond what is supported through mandates or other types of policy support. The paper examines the extent to which GHG benefits motivate consumers to make voluntary rene… more
Date: April 1, 2007
Creator: Bird, L.; Holt, E. & Carroll, G.
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A Systems Engineering Framework for Design, Construction and Operation of the Next Generation Nuclear Plant

Description: Not since the International Space Station has a project of such wide participation been proposed for the United States. Ten countries, the European Union, universities, Department of Energy (DOE) laboratories, and industry will participate in the research and development, design, construction and/or operation of the fourth generation of nuclear power plants with a demonstration reactor to be built at a DOE site and operational by the middle of the next decade. This reactor will be like no other… more
Date: June 1, 2004
Creator: Gorski, Edward J.; Park, Charles V. & Southworth, Finis H.
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Climate for Collaboration: Analysis of US and EU Lessons and Opportunities in Energy and Climate Policy

Description: A deepening of cooperation between the United States and the European Union requires mutual trust, and understanding of current policies, challenges and successes. Through providing such understanding among policymakers, industry and other stakeholders in both economies, opportunities for transatlantic cooperation on climate change and energy policy emerge. This paper sets out by discussing the environmental, legislative, and economic contexts of the EU and US as related to climate. This contex… more
Date: November 1, 2009
Creator: De Vita, A.; de Connick, H.; McLaren, J. & Cochran, J.
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CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS PLANS for Phase I the INTERNATIONAL PILOT FOR Global Radiological source SORTING, Tracking, AND MONITORING (GradSStraM) Using eMERGING RFID AND WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES TO PROVIDE TOTAL ASSET AND INFORMATION VISUALIZATIONA United states- European Union Lighthouse Priority Project for fostering trade and reducing regulatory burden

Description: Thousands of shipments of radioisotopes developed in the United States (US) are transported domestically and internationally for medical and industrial applications, including to partner laboratories in European Union (EU) countries. Over the past five years, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Energy (DOE), and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have worked with state regulatory compliance personnel, key private sector shippers and carriers, the Department of Homelan… more
Date: January 1, 2009
Creator: Walker, Randy M
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Policymaker's Guide to Feed-in Tariff Policy Design

Description: Feed-in tariffs (FITs) are the most widely used renewable energy policy in the world for driving accelerating renewable energy (RE) deployment, accounting for a greater share of RE development than either tax incentives or renewable portfolio standard (RPS) policies. FITs have generated significant RE deployment, helping bring the countries that have implemented them successfully to the forefront of the global RE industry. In the European Union (EU), FIT policies have led to the deployment of m… more
Date: July 1, 2010
Creator: Couture, T. D.; Cory, K.; Kreycik, C. & Williams, E.
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Can fuzzy logic bring complex problems into focus? Modeling imprecise factors in environmental policy

Description: In modeling complex environmental problems, we often fail to make precise statements about inputs and outcome. In this case the fuzzy logic method native to the human mind provides a useful way to get at these problems. Fuzzy logic represents a significant change in both the approach to and outcome of environmental evaluations. Risk assessment is currently based on the implicit premise that probability theory provides the necessary and sufficient tools for dealing with uncertainty and variabili… more
Date: June 14, 2004
Creator: McKone, Thomas E. & Deshpande, Ashok W.
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Driving Forces and Priorities in the Hungarian Radioactive Waste Management

Description: Hungary, being a candidate state to the European Union, pays particular attention to the measures that are typically considered as good practice within the EU when developing and implementing its national program for the safe management of spent fuel and radioactive waste. The Public Agency for Radioactive Waste Management (PURAM) has been designated to carry out the multilevel tasks in the field of radioactive waste management. In accordance with changes in infrastructure, Hungary is about to … more
Date: February 26, 2002
Creator: Takats, F. & Ormai, P.
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Radioactive Waste Management - A Priority Thematic Area Within The Euratom 6th Framework Programme (2002-2006)

Description: The European Union's Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development and the specific EURATOM Framework Programme for Research and Training in Nuclear Energy (2002-2006)-EURATOM FP6--are the major building blocks for the European Commission to strengthen the foundations of the European Research Area, an open market for knowledge and science in Europe. The absence of a broadly agreed approach for radioactive waste management and disposal in the European Union caused the Euro… more
Date: February 24, 2003
Creator: Raynal, M. & von Maravic, H.
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Energy efficiency programs and policies in the industrial sector in industrialized countries

Description: About 37% of the primary energy consumed both in the U.S. and globally is used by the industrial sector. A variety of energy efficiency policies and programs have been implemented throughout the world in an effort to improve the energy efficiency of this sector. This report provides an overview of these policies and programs in twelve industrialized nations and the European Union (EU). We focus on energy efficiency products and services that are available to industrial consumers, such as report… more
Date: June 1, 2004
Creator: Galitsky, Christina; Price, Lynn & Worrell, Ernst
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Radioactive Waste Management in the European Union: Initiatives for New Legislation

Description: Improving the management of radioactive waste in the European Union is a major theme of the ''nuclear package'' recently adopted by the European Commission. Included in the package are proposals for new legislation that would bring about the development of common safety standards in Europe covering the full nuclear sector, segregated funds to cover all nuclear liabilities that remain after the operating lifetime of an installation and clearly defined waste programs for radioactive waste managem… more
Date: February 25, 2003
Creator: Taylor, D.
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Environmental legislation and the regulation of waste management in Sweden

Description: This study examines the regulatory aspects of waste management in Sweden, with a particular emphasis on regulating organic compounds produced by waste-to-energy facilities. Since the early 1960s, waste-to-energy has played a significant role in managing waste in Sweden. In 1993, more than 50% of the municipal solid waste available for treatment or disposal following source separation efforts was processed in one of the 21 waste-to-energy facilities operating in Sweden. This report examines Swed… more
Date: May 1995
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Atmospheric Prognostic and Dispersion Model Design for use in the European Ensemble Modeling Exercises

Description: The Savannah River Technology Center (SRTC) of the Department of Energy (DOE)Savannah River Site (SRS) has been involved with predicting the transport and dispersion of hazardous atmospheric releases for many years. The SRS utilizes an automated, real-time capability for consequence assessment during emergency response to local releases. The emphasis during these situations is to provide accurate guidance as quickly as possible. Consequently, atmospheric transport and dispersion models of a sim… more
Date: October 30, 2003
Creator: Buckley, R. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Conference-EC-US Task Force Joint US-EU Workshop on Metabolomics and Environmental Biotechnology

Description: Since 1990, the EC-US Task Force on Biotechnology Research has been coordinating transatlantic efforts to guide and exploit the ongoing revolution in biotechnology and the life sciences. The Task Force was established in June 1990 by the European Commission and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. The Task Force has acted as an effective forum for discussion, coordination, and development of new ideas for the last 18 years. Task Force members are European Commission and US G… more
Date: June 4, 2009
Creator: Young, PI: Lily Y. & Zylstra, Co-PI: Gerben J.
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Detailed Evaluation of Renewable Energy Power System Operation: A Summary of the European Union Hybrid Power System Component Benchmarking Project; Preprint

Description: This paper describes the results of the European Union (EU) Benchmarking Project, a 3-year, multi-agency research project to improve the design of renewable-based hybrid power systems based on the analysis of existing systems and the benchmarking of specific system components, most critically batteries. Based on the analysis of hundreds of power systems, efforts were made to classify different categories of similar use and then determine component-specific recommendations that will allow more c… more
Date: May 1, 2005
Creator: Baring-Gould, E. I.; Wenzl, H.; Kaiser, R.; Wilmot, N.; Mattera, F.; Tselepis, S. et al.
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Test of the ITER TF Insert and Central Solenoid Model Coil

Description: The Central Solenoid Model Coil (CSMC) was designed and built by ITER collaboration between the European Union, Japan, Russian Federation and the United States in 1993-2001. Three heavily instrumented insert coils have been also built for testing in the background field of the CSMC to cover a wide operational space. The TF Insert was designed and built by the Russian Federation to simulate the conductor performance under the ITER TF coil conditions. The TF Insert Coil was tested in the CSMC Tes… more
Date: July 29, 2002
Creator: Martovetsky, N.; Takayasu, M.; Minervini, J.; Isono, T.; Sugimoto, M.; Kato, T. et al.
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Test of the ITER Central Solenoid Model Coil and CS Insert

Description: The Central Solenoid Model Coil (CSMC) was designed and built from 1993 to 1999 by an ITER collaboration between the US and Japan, with contributions from the European Union and the Russian Federation. The main goal of the project was to establish the superconducting magnet technology necessary for a large-scale fusion experimental reactor. Three heavily instrumented insert coils were built to cover a wide operational space for testing. The CS Insert, built by Japan, was tested in April-August … more
Date: September 25, 2001
Creator: Martovetsky, N.; Michael, P.; Minervini, J.; Radovinsky, A.; Takayasu, M.; Gung, C. Y. et al.
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