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5MW Raft River Facility Experience

Description: Located in Northern California In Lake and Sonoma Counties about 90 miles north of San Francisco, Pacific Gas and Electric Company's (PG and E's) The Geysers Power Plant, which has at present fourteen units in service with a net generating capacity of 798MW, is the largest geothermal development in the world. Eight additional PG and E units now in construction, design, and planning will add 720MW of additional capacity by 1986. Figure 1 shows the location of this project and the locations of th… more
Date: December 1, 1980
Creator: Whitbeck, J.F.
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Abandoned Texas oil fields

Description: Data for Texas abandoned oil fields were primarily derived from two sources: (1) Texas Railroad Commission (TRRC), and (2) Dwight's ENERGYDATA. For purposes of this report, abandoned oil fields are defined as those fields that had no production during 1977. The TRRC OILMASTER computer tapes were used to identify these abandoned oil fields. The tapes also provided data on formation depth, gravity of oil production, location (both district and county), discovery date, and the cumulative productio… more
Date: December 1, 1980
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Achieving Technical Performance

Description: Originally, operating a license and protecting the environment were to be handled in separate workshops but since these two subjects are closely related they were combined. The workshop participants did, however, try to focus the discussion on the two separately, though we were not always successful. Fortunately, we had two people in our group who are intimately involved in licensing proceedings in the only two states that have considered geothermal power plants, California and New Mexico. Lavo… more
Date: December 1, 1980
Creator: Unitt, S.G.
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Acid rain information book. Draft final report

Description: Acid rain is one of the most widely publicized environmental issues of the day. The potential consequences of increasingly widespread acid rain demand that this phenomenon be carefully evaluated. Reveiw of the literature shows a rapidly growing body of knowledge, but also reveals major gaps in understanding that need to be narrowed. This document discusses major aspects of the acid rain phenomenon, points out areas of uncertainty, and summarizes current and projected research by responsible gov… more
Date: December 1, 1980
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Activity and Diffusion of Metals in Binary Aluminum Alloys

Description: To determine the activity of zinc in Zn-Al alloys, the electromotive force (emf) of the cell: Zn/ZnCl/sub 2/-KC1 (eut)/Zn,Al was measured at temperatures between 569.5 K (296.5C) and 649.5 K (376.5C). The applicability of a two-suffix Margules equation was demonstrated, in good agreement with theoretical expectations. The diffusion coefficient of Zn in Al determined from a planar diffusion model for the experimental data was about 3 x 10/sup -10/ cm/sup 2//sec to 2 x 10/sup -9/ cm/sup 2//sec in… more
Date: December 1, 1980
Creator: Jao, Chiang Seng
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
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Advanced fusion concepts: project summaries

Description: This report contains descriptions of the activities of all the projects supported by the Advanced Fusion Concepts Branch of the Office of Fusion Energy, US Department of Energy. These descriptions are project summaries of each of the individual projects, and contain the following: title, principle investigators, funding levels, purpose, approach, progress, plans, milestones, graduate students, graduates, other professional staff, and recent publications. Information is given for each of the fol… more
Date: December 1, 1980
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Advanced Gas Cooled Nuclear Reactor Materials Evaluation and Development Program. Progress report, July 1, 1980-September 30, 1980

Description: Objectives of this program are to evaluate candidate alloys for Very High Temperature Reactor (VHTR) Nuclear Process Heat (NPH) and Direct Cycle Helium Turbine (DCHT) applications, in terms of the effect of simulated reactor primary coolant (helium containing small amounts of various other gases), high temperatures, and long time exposures, on the mechanical properties and structural and surface stability of selected candidate alloys. A second objective is to select and recommend materials for … more
Date: December 12, 1980
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Advanced Two-Phase Flow Instrumentation Program. Quarterly progress report, April-June 1980

Description: Work performed to develop and evaluate liquid level sensors for in-vessel use in pressurized water reactors is described. Experiments were performed with three thermal-type level sensors in natural convection to saturated water and steam. Pressures in those tests ranged from 0.1 to 8.6 MPa (15 to 1250 psia). Thermal-type sensors were also tested in steam-water forced convection at low and moderate pressures. Sensor response was found to be insensitive to flow velocity and void fraction but sens… more
Date: December 1, 1980
Creator: Turnage, K. G.; Davis, C. E.; Anderson, R. L. & Miller, G. N.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Aerial radiological survey of the Nuclear Fuel Services Center (NFS) and surrounding area, West Valley, New York, September 1979

Description: An aerial radiological survey encompassing the Western New York Nuclear Fuel Services Center (NFS) near West Valley, New York, was conducted during 7-12 September 1979. The survey data showed that the average ground surface radiation levels for the site and its environs are less than were measured during the 1969 survey when reprocessing was occurring. The area exhibiting above-background radiation levels is decreasing with time due to (1) radioactive decay, (2) dilution and dispersion of man-m… more
Date: December 1, 1980
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Ahuachapan Geothermal Power Plant, El Salvador

Description: The Ahuachapan geothermal power plant has been the subject of several recent reports and papers (1-7). This article is a condensation of the author's earlier writings (5-7), and incorporates new information on the geothermal activities in El Salvador obtained recently through a telephone conversation with Ing. R. Caceres of the Comision Ejecutiva Hidroelectrica del Rio Lempa (C.E.L.) who has been engaged in the design and engineering of the newest unit at Ahuachapan. El Salvador is the first of… more
Date: December 1, 1980
Creator: DiPippo, Ronald
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
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Alloy development for irradiation performance. Quarterly progress report for period ending September 30, 1980

Description: This report is organized along topical lines in parallel to a Program Plan of the same title so that activities and accomplishments may be followed readily relative to that Program Plan. Thus, the work of a given laboratory may appear throughout the report. Chapters 1, 2, 8, and 9 review activities on analysis and evaluation, test methods development, status of irradiation experiments, and corrosion testing and hydrogen permeation studies, respectively. These activities relate to each of the al… more
Date: December 1, 1980
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Alternating-direction implicit numerical solution of the time-dependent, three-dimensional, single fluid, resistive magnetohydrodynamic equations

Description: Resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is described by a set of eight coupled, nonlinear, three-dimensional, time-dependent, partial differential equations. A computer code, IMP (Implicit MHD Program), has been developed to solve these equations numerically by the method of finite differences on an Eulerian mesh. In this model, the equations are expressed in orthogonal curvilinear coordinates, making the code applicable to a variety of coordinate systems. The Douglas-Gunn algorithm for Alternatin… more
Date: December 1, 1980
Creator: Finan, C. H., III
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Analysis of 12 electric power system outages/disturbances impacting the Florida Peninsula

Description: Between January 3 and August 3, 1979, there were 12 occasions on which electric power was curtailed or public appeals were made to customers to reduce their load in Peninsular Florida due to bulk electric power supply problems. The Economic Regulatory Administration (ERA) of the US DOE, pursuant to its electric power supply adequacy and reliability responsibilities, initiated a twofold analysis of the bulk power supply situation in Florida. The first phase of the analysis evaluated the technica… more
Date: December 1, 1980
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Analysis of alternative-fuel price trajectories

Description: Findings are presented from a study to (1) acquire, analyze, and report alternative published price projections including both oil- and coal-price trajectories, and to (2) apply the fixed-annuity formula to the updated primary source projections (Energy Information Administration; Data Resources, Inc.; and Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates, Inc.) and to the newly acquired price projections. This report also encompasses: comparisons of key assumptions underlying the price projections, a… more
Date: December 31, 1980
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Analysis of alternative strategies for energy conservation in new buildings

Description: Building Energy Performance Standards (BEPS) were mandated by the Energy Conservation Standards for New Buildings Act of 1976 (Title III of Energy Conservation and Production Act) to promote energy efficiency and the use of renewable resources in new buildings. The report analyzes alternative Federal strategies and their component policy instruments and recommends a strategy for achieving the goals of the Act. The concern is limited to space conditioning (heating, cooling, and lighting) and wat… more
Date: December 1, 1980
Creator: Fang, J. M. & Tawil, J. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Analysis of heat transfer in building thermal insulation

Description: The measurement of the apparent thermal properties (i.e., conductivity, resistivity, and resistance) of insulation by the guarded hot-plate technique is mathematically simulated on a computer by assuming that coupled conductive and radiative heat transfer occurs in an absorbing and emitting single-phase gray medium. Calculations are performed for insulation extinction coefficients between 0.001 and 1000 ft-/sup 1/, thicknesses between 0.0208 and 1.0 ft, continuous-phase thermal conductivities b… more
Date: December 1, 1980
Creator: Fine, H. A.; Jury, S. H.; Yarbrough, D. W. & McElroy, D. L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Analysis of Preliminary Flow Data from Pleasant Bayou No. 2 Geopressured Well

Description: The main purpose of this study is to analyze pressure drawdown and buildup data to evaulate formation parameters. In this connection, we note that the, flow periods 1 and 2 were too short (13 minutes and 184 minutes respectively) to give meaningful data for analysis purposes. Also, flow data for part of flow period 3 and pressure buildup data for practically all of buildup period 4 are missing. The complete flow and pressure drawdown/buildup data are, however, available for flow/shutin period S… more
Date: December 16, 1980
Creator: Garg, S.K.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
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Analysis of the performance and space-conditioning impacts of dedicated heat-pump water heaters

Description: A description is given of the development and testing of the newly-marketed dedicated heat pump water heater (HPWH), and an analysis is presented of its performance and space conditioning impacts. This system utilizes an air-to-water heat pump, costs about $1000 installed, and obtains a coefficient of performance (COP) of about 2.0 in laboratory and field tests. Since a HPWH is usually installed indoors and extracts heat from the air, its operation is a space conditioning benefit if an air cond… more
Date: December 1, 1980
Creator: Morrison, L. & Swisher, J.
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Analysis of the thorium axial blanket experiments in the proteus reactor

Description: Detailed analysis has been completed for the ThO/sub 2/ and Th-metal axial blanket experiments performed at the Swiss PROTEUS critical facility in order to compare reaction rates and neutron spectra measured in prototypic GCFR configurations with calculated results. The PROTEUS configurations allowed the analysis of infinitely dilute thorium data in a PuO/sub 2//UO/sub 2/ fast lattice spectrum at core center as well as the analysis of resonance self-shielding effects in the thorium-bearing axia… more
Date: December 1, 1980
Creator: White, J.R. & Ingersoll, D.T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Analysis on the use of engineered barriers for geologic isolation of spent fuel in a reference salt site repository

Description: A perspective on the potential durability and effectiveness requirements for the waste form, container and other engineered barriers for geologic disposal of spent nuclear fuel has been developed. This perspective is based on calculated potential doses to individuals who may be exposed to radioactivity released from a repository via a groundwater transport pathway. These potential dose commitments were calculated with an integrated geosphere transport and bioshpere transport model. A sensitivit… more
Date: December 1, 1980
Creator: Cloninger, M.O.; Cole, C.R. & Washburn, J.F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Angular momentum misalignment in deep inelastic processes and angular distribution of sequentially emitted particles and gamma rays

Description: The angular momentum misalignment for fragments produced in deep inelastic scattering is discussed in terms of the thermal excitation of angular-momentum-bearing modes in the intermediate complex. Analytical expressions for the in- and out-of-plane angular distributions are obtained for sequentially emitted particles and fission fragments. The angular momentum dependence of the ratio between particle and neutron decay width is explicitly treated and found to be quite important. Similarly angula… more
Date: December 1, 1980
Creator: Moretto, L. G.; Blau, S. & Pacheco, A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
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Animal investigation program 1978 annual report: Nevada Test Site and vicinity

Description: Data are presented from the radioanalyses of tissues collected from cattle, mule deer, desert bighorn sheep, rabbits, golden eagles, and other wildlife that resided on or near the Nevada Test Site during 1978. Routine and special activities of the Animal Investigation Program are also discussed. Other than the naturally occurring Potassium-40, gamma-emitting radionuclides were detected infrequently with the exception of short-lived radionuclides found in samples from animals collected soon afte… more
Date: December 1, 1980
Creator: Smith, D. D.; Bernhardt, D. E. & Giles, K. R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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