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House Characteristics Associated With Gamma Radiation and Radon Daughter Working Levels in Eastern Pennsylvania

Description: Working levels (WL) of radon daughters and ..gamma.. measurements in basements are described for approx.1200 houses near the Reading Prong. House variables studied included condition and construction materials of basement floors and walls, basement heights and areas, heating systems, air conditioning, water supply, and presence of drains and sump pumps. WL's were poorly predicted by house characteristics or ..gamma.. measurements, while ..gamma.. levels were well predicted by house characterist… more
Date: January 1, 1987
Creator: Stebbings, J. H.; Dignam, J. J.; Reilly, M. A.; Gerusky, T. M.; Hartman, T. T. & Anast, G. A.
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Simulation of the steady-state transport of radon from soil into houses with basements under constant negative pressure

Description: A theoretical model was developed to simulate this phenomenon, under some specific assumptions. The model simulates: the generation and decay of radon within the soil; its transport throughout the soil due to diffusion and convection induced by the pressure disturbance applied at a crack in the basement; its entrance into the house through the crack; and the resultant indoor radon concentration. The most important assumptions adopted in the model were: a steady-state condition; a house with a b… more
Date: May 1, 1987
Creator: de Oliveira Loureiro, C.
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Particulate emissions from residential wood combustion: Final report: Norteast regional Biomass Program

Description: The objective of this study was to provide a resource document for the Northeastern states when pursuing the analysis of localized problems resulting from residential wood combustion. Specific tasks performed include assigning emission rates for total suspended particulates (TSP) and benzo(a)pyrene (BaP) from wood burning stoves, estimating the impact on ambient air quality from residential wood combustion and elucidating the policy options available to Northeastern states in their effort to li… more
Date: January 1, 1987
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Nuclear waste package fabricated from concrete

Description: After the United States enacted the Nuclear Waste Policy Act in 1983, the Department of Energy must design, site, build and operate permanent geologic repositories for high-level nuclear waste. The Department of Energy has recently selected three sites, one being the Hanford Site in the state of Washington. At this particular site, the repository will be located in basalt at a depth of approximately 3000 feet deep. The main concern of this site, is contamination of the groundwater by release of… more
Date: March 1, 1987
Creator: Pfeiffer, P. A. & Kennedy, J. M.
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A comparison of atmospheric transport considerations in eastern and western oil shale operations

Description: Atmospheric transport represents one of the critically important pathways for the distribution of pollutants from any oil shale operation. Our experience in studying eastern and western shale resources and operation suggest many common features regarding the atmospheric domain, but also many significant differences. Any issue of atmospheric transport and dispersion can be broken down into major elements: source factors which include the spatial and temporal distribution of pollutant sources as … more
Date: January 1, 1987
Creator: Barr, S.
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RCRA Facilities Assessment (RFA)---Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Description: US Department of Energy (DOE) facilities are required to be in full compliance with all federal and state regulations. In response to this requirement, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has established a Remedial Action Program (RAP) to provide comprehensive management of areas where past and current research, development, and waste management activities have resulted in residual contamination of facilities or the environment. This report presents the RCRA Facility Assessment (RFA) requi… more
Date: March 1, 1987
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A proposed metric for assessing the potential of community annoyance from wind turbine low-frequency noise emissions

Description: Given our initial experience with the low-frequency, impulsive noise emissions from the MOD-1 wind turbine and their impact on the surrounding community, the ability to assess the potential of interior low-frequency annoyance in homes located near wind turbine installations may be important. Since there are currently no universally accepted metrics or descriptors for low-frequency community annoyance, we performed a limited program using volunteers to see if we could identify a method suitable … more
Date: October 5, 1987
Creator: Kelley, N.D.
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An analysis of the hydrologic effects of proposed test drilling in the Winema National Forest near Crater Lake, Oregon

Description: This paper describes the results of a preliminary study on the hydrologic regime underlying the Crater Lake Caldera, Oregon. The study was performed to provide a basis for evaluating the potential for polluting Crater Lake by drilling exploratory boreholes on the flanks of the mountain. A simple conceptual model of the hydrologic regime was developed by synthesizing the data from the region surrounding the Caldera. Based on the conceptual model, a series of numerical simulations aimed at establ… more
Date: July 1, 1987
Creator: Sammel, E.A. & Benson, S.
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User's manual for the convective cloud module version 1. 0. [RADM; RSM]

Description: This manual describes a convective cloud model and provide guidance for users. The convective cloud model is assumed to provide a time-averaged distribution of data from a population of precipitating, convective clouds in different stages of development. This model was designed to characterize a scavenging environment using meteorological conditions provided by a regional-scale meteorological code. This meteorological code explicitly simulates processes related to cloud microphysics. The cloud … more
Date: April 1, 1987
Creator: Scott, B. C.
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Environmental Survey preliminary report, Portsmouth Uranium Enrichment Complex, Piketon, Ohio

Description: This report presents the preliminary findings from the first phase of the Environmental Survey of the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Portsmouth Uranium Enrichment Complex (PUEC), conducted August 4 through August 15, 1986. The Survey is being conducted by an interdisciplinary team of environmental specialists, led and managed by the Office of Environment, Safety and Health's Office of Environmental Audit. Team specialists are being supplied by a private contractor. The objective of th… more
Date: August 1, 1987
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Environmental Survey preliminary report, Hanford Site, Richland, Washington

Description: This report presents the preliminary findings from the first phase of the Environmental Survey of the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Hanford Site, conducted August 18 through September 5, 1986. The Survey is being conducted by an interdisciplinary team of environmental specialists, led and managed by the Office of Environment, Safety and Health's Office of Environmental Audit. Individual team components are being supplied by a private contractor. The objective of the Survey is to iden… more
Date: August 1, 1987
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Statistical methods for environmental pollution monitoring

Description: The application of statistics to environmental pollution monitoring studies requires a knowledge of statistical analysis methods particularly well suited to pollution data. This book fills that need by providing sampling plans, statistical tests, parameter estimation procedure techniques, and references to pertinent publications. Most of the statistical techniques are relatively simple, and examples, exercises, and case studies are provided to illustrate procedures. The book is logically divide… more
Date: 1987~
Creator: Gilbert, R. O.
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Application of a four-dimensional data assimilation technique for airflow simulations over the western intermountainous region

Description: We used a three-dimensional time-dependent model, together with the technique of four-dimensional data assimilation, to obtain the diurnal variations of wind, temperature, water vapor, and turbulence in a mountainous region from the west coast to east of the Rockies, and from northern Mexico to Wyoming. Tracer particles were then released in the model to study the transport and diffusion of pollutants through a Lagrangian random-particle statistical method.
Date: January 1, 1987
Creator: Kao, C.Y. & Yamada, T.
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Environmental Survey preliminary report, Y-12 Plant, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Description: This report presents the preliminary findings from the first phase of the Environmental Survey of the Department of Energy (DOE), Y-12 Plant, conducted November 10 through 21 and December 9 through 11, 1986. This Survey is being conducted by a multidisciplinary team of environmental specialists, led and managed by the Office of Environment, Safety and Health's Office of Environmental Audit. Individual team members are outside experts being supplied by a private contractor. The objective of the … more
Date: November 1, 1987
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The impacts of balanced and exhaust mechanical ventilation on indoor radon

Description: Models for estimating radon entry rates, indoor radon concentrations, and ventilation rates in houses with a basement or a vented crawl-space and ventilated by natural infiltration, mechanical exhaust ventilation, or balanced mechanical ventilation are described. Simulations are performed for a range of soil and housing characteristics using hourly weather data for the heating season in Spokane, WA. For a house with a basement, we show that any ventilation technique should be acceptable when th… more
Date: February 1, 1987
Creator: Fisk, W.J. & Mowris, R.J.
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Environmental Survey preliminary report, Pinellas Plant, Largo, Florida

Description: The purpose of this report is to present the preliminary findings made during the Environmental Survey, conducted May 11 through 22, 1987, at the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Pinellas Plant in Largo, Florida. As a Preliminary Report, the contents are subject to revisions, which will be made in a forthcoming Interim Report, based on Albuquerque Operations Office review and comments on technical accuracy, the results of the sampling and analyses, and other information that may come to… more
Date: November 1, 1987
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Environmental Survey preliminary report, Pantex Facility, Amarillo, Texas

Description: This report presents the preliminary findings from the first phase of the Environmental Survey of the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Pantex Facility, conducted November 3 through 14, 1986.The Survey is being conducted by an interdisciplinary team of environmental specialist, led and managed by the Office of Environment, Safety and Health's Office of Environmental Audit. Individual team components are outside experts being supplied by a private contractor. The objective of the Survey i… more
Date: September 1, 1987
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Environmental Survey preliminary report, Rocky Flats Plant, Golden, Colorado

Description: This report presents the preliminary findings of the Environmental Survey of the United States Department of Energy (DOE), Rocky Flats Plant (RFP), conducted August 11 through 22, 1986. The Survey is being conducted by an multidisciplinary team of environmental specialists, led and managed by the Office of Environment, Safety and Health's Office of Environmental Audit. Individual team members are outside experts supplied by a private contractor. The objective of the Survey is to identify enviro… more
Date: June 1, 1987
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Radon in groundwater of the Long Valley Caldera, California

Description: In the Long Valley caldera, an area of recently (approx.550 y) active volcanism and current seismic activity, /sup 222/Rn concentrations in hot, warm, and cold spring waters have been measured since 1982. Rn contents of the waters correlate inversely with temperature and specific conductance, with high concentrations (1500 to 2500 pCi/l) occurring in dilute cold springs on the margins of the caldera, and low concentrations (12 to 25 pCi/l) in hot to boiling springs. Rn correlates only slightly … more
Date: April 1, 1987
Creator: Flexser, S.; Wollenberg, H. A. & Smith, A. R.
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Environmental Survey preliminary report, Feed Materials Production Center, Fernald, Ohio

Description: This report presents the preliminary findings from the first phase of the environmental survey of the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Feed Materials Production Center (FMPC), conducted June 16 through 27, 1986. The survey is being conducted by an interdisciplinary team of environmental specialists, led and managed by the Office of Environment, Safety and Health's Office of Environmental Audit. Individual team components are being supplied by a private contractor. The objective of the s… more
Date: March 1, 1987
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Assessment of instrumentation needs for advanced coal power plant applications: Final report

Description: The purpose of this study was to identify contaminants, identify instrumentation needs, assess available instrumentation and identify instruments that should be developed for controlling and monitoring gas streams encountered in the following power plants: Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle, Pressurized Fluidized Bed Combustion, and Gasification Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell. Emphasis was placed on hot gas cleanup system gas stream analysis, and included process control, research and environme… more
Date: October 1, 1987
Creator: Nelson, E. T.; Fischer, W. H.; Lipka, J. V.; Rutkowski, M. D. & Zaharchuk, R.
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Environmental Survey preliminary report, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California

Description: This report presents the preliminary findings from the first phase of the Environmental Survey of the Department of Energy (DOE) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), conducted December 1 through 19, 1986. The Survey is being conducted by an interdisciplinary team of environmental specialists, led and managed by the Office of Environment, Safety and Health's Office of Environmental Audit. Individual team components are being supplied by a private contractor. The objective of the Survey… more
Date: December 1, 1987
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Status of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory new hydrofracture facility: Implications for the disposal of liquid low-level radioactive wastes by underground injection

Description: From 1982 to 1984, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) disposed of approximately 2.8 x 10/sup 16/ Bq (7.5 x 10/sup 5/ Ci) of liquid low-level radioactive wastes by underground injection at its new hydrofracture facility. This paper summarizes the regulatory and operational status of that ORNL facility and discusses its future outlook. Operational developments and regulatory changes that have raised major questions about the continued operation of the new hydrofracture facility include: (1) sig… more
Date: January 1, 1987
Creator: Haase, C. S. & Stow, S. H.
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Application and sensitivity studies of the orographic cloud model MCCP (Mountain Cloud Chemistry Program) PLUVIUS

Description: A special MCCP version of the PLUVIUS MOD 5.0 reactive storm model (MCCP PLUVIUS) was applied to conditions representative of Mt. Mitchell, North Carolina. Tests were also conducted to determine the sensitivity of the model to various meteorological and chemical parameters. Results of the modeling investigation indicate that aqueous concentrations and deposition fluxes of pollutants are location dependent. The greatest concentrations occur at the edges of the cloud, where the liquid water conte… more
Date: July 1, 1987
Creator: Chapman, E. G.; Luecken, D. J. & Whiteman, C. D.
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