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Cost/risk/benefit analysis report on the decontamination and decommissioning of Z-plant

Description: This study was performed to estimate the cost of decontaminating and decommissioning Z-Plant. All of the buildings in the Z-Plant exclusion area except Building 2736-Z, the plutonium storage vault, are included in the study. The study also excludes all underground facilities within the exclusion area which are not contained within a building and all Z-Plant related facilities outside the perimeter fence. The contamination in Z-Plant is primarily /sup 239/Pu which has a half-life of 24,360 years… more
Date: September 28, 1979
Creator: Melvin, J. P.; Sexton, R. A.; Fort, M. L. & Nunn, S. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Experiments in Cold Fusion

Description: The work of Steve Jones and others in muon-catalyzed cold fusion of deuterium and hydrogen suggests the possibility of such fusion catalyzed by ions, or combinations of atoms, or more-or-less free electrons in solid and liquid materials. A hint that this might occur naturally comes from the heat generated in volcanic action in subduction zones on the earth. It is questionable whether the potential energy of material raised to the height of a midocean ridge and falling to the depth of an ocean t… more
Date: March 28, 1986
Creator: Palmer, E. P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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(University of California, Davis) annual report for radioimmunotherapy program, Year 4, (1986)

Description: The goal of this program is to answer the fundamental scientific questions for the development of an effective approach to delivering radiation therapy to cancer on antibody-based radiopharmaceuticals. These basic questions refer to the choice of antibody fragments related to their biokinetics, the variation of the biokinetics with variations in the radiochemistry of labeling and the radionuclide used to label, the radionuclide radiation dosimetry, and the feasibility calculated from quantitati… more
Date: January 28, 1986
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Tritium waste control: April--June 1978. [Catalytic exchange detritiation; liquid waste decontamination; fixation in polymer impregnated concrete; management of high specific activity tritiated wastes]

Description: The Combined Electrolysis Catalytic Exchange system was operated to experimentally determine mass transfer coefficients and to test the process controller. Values for H/sub OG/ and K/sub tilde y/a were obtained at three separate molar flow ratios (tilde L/tilde G). Replicate values of K/sub tilde y/a from additional runs agreed with initial results to within 16%. Two process controller tests were completed that demonstrated the reliability of the system hardware and the feasibility of the digit… more
Date: July 28, 1978
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Preliminary remedial action objectives for the Tank 16 groundwater operable unit

Description: Tank 16 is a High Level Radioactive Waste tank in the H-Area Tank Farm on the Savannah River Site that was placed into service in May 1959. A leak was detected in one of the construction weld joints while the tank was being filled. Before jet evacuation of the tank waste was completed, the leak overflowed the annulus pan and an estimated 16 to 700 gallons of waste escaped to the environment (soil and groundwater) over a six hour period contaminating approximately 1,600--70,000 cubic feet of soi… more
Date: October 28, 1992
Creator: Miles, W.C. Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Evaluation of a nonevaporable getter pump for tritium handling in the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor

Description: Lawrence Livermore Laboratory has tested and evaluated a commercially available getter pump for use with tritium in the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR). The pump contains Zr(84%)--Al in cartridge form with a concentric heating unit. It performed well in all tests, except for frequent heater failures.
Date: September 28, 1978
Creator: Singleton, M. F. & Griffith, C. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The trend of contamination in the air, the Columbia River, rain, sanitary water, vegetation, and wastes, at the Hanford Works for the period July, August, September 1947

Description: This report summarizes the contamination observed at the Hanford Works and vicinity for the period July, August, and September, 1947. Daily or weekly trends for all sampling locations as included in previous reports are omitted except in those cases where a true trend can be established. Statistical analysis to determine significant values and differences is used whenever possible. The report is divided into the following topic sections: meteorological -- wind conditions; extent of beta contami… more
Date: December 28, 1947
Creator: Singlevich, W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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(Radiological assessments of radionuclide releases)

Description: As a consequence of the Chernobyl accident, data have been obtained throughout the Northern Hemisphere on the concentrations of radionuclides in air, vegetation, soil, water, and foodstuffs that could be important means of human exposure. At the IAEA's invitation, the traveler reviewed recently published data and handbook summaries. The traveler evaluated the need for revising the default values recommended in Chapter 5, Terrestrial and Aquatic Food Chain Transport,'' of IAEA Safety Series No. … more
Date: December 28, 1990
Creator: Hoffman, F.O.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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International safeguards: Accounting for nuclear materials

Description: Nuclear safeguards applied by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are one element of the non-proliferation regime'', the collection of measures whose aim is to forestall the spread of nuclear weapons to countries that do not already possess them. Safeguards verifications provide evidence that nuclear materials in peaceful use for nuclear-power production are properly accounted for. Though carried out in cooperation with nuclear facility operators, the verifications can provide assuran… more
Date: September 28, 1988
Creator: Fishbone, L.G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Level densities and gamma-ray strength functions in 170,171,172-Yb

Description: Level densities and radiative strength functions in {sup 171}Yb and {sup 170}Yb nuclei have been measured using the {sup 171}Yb({sup 3}He{sup 3}He{gamma}){sup 171}Yb and {sup 171}Yb({sup 3}He,{alpha}{gamma}){sup 170}Yb reactions. New data on {sup 171}Yb are compared to a previous measurement for {sup 171}Yb from the {sup 172}Yb({sup 3}He,{alpha}{gamma}){sup 171}Yb reaction. Systematics of level densities and radiative strength functions in {sup 170,171,172}Yb are established. The entropy excess… more
Date: July 28, 2004
Creator: Agvaanluvsan, U.; Schiller, A.; Becker, J.; Bernstein, L.; Garrett, P.; Guttormsen, M. et al.
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Final Technical Report for "Ice nuclei relation to aerosol properties: Data analysis and model parameterization for IN in mixed-phase clouds" (DOE/SC00002354)

Description: Clouds play an important role in weather and climate. In addition to their key role in the hydrologic cycle, clouds scatter incoming solar radiation and trap infrared radiation from the surface and lower atmosphere. Despite their importance, feedbacks involving clouds remain as one of the largest sources of uncertainty in climate models. To better simulate cloud processes requires better characterization of cloud microphysical processes, which can affect the spatial extent, optical depth and li… more
Date: September 28, 2012
Creator: DeMott, Paul J.; Prenni, Anthony J. & Kreidenweis, Sonia M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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1964 computer run on a laser-imploded capsule

Description: WAZER Alchemy 7b (WA-7b) is a WAZER calculation of a laser-driven micro-implosion of a spherical capsule consisting of a thin gold pusher surrounded by a thick (frozen) deuterium ablator. The properties of the target capsule and the shape of the laser pulse used to irradiate it are described.
Date: March 28, 1973
Creator: Kidder, Ray E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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YALINA Facility a Sub-Critical Accelerator- Driven System (Ads) for Nuclear Energy Research Facility Description and an Overview of the Research Program (1997-2008).

Description: The YALINA facility is a zero-power, sub-critical assembly driven by a conventional neutron generator. It was conceived, constructed, and put into operation at the Radiation Physics and Chemistry Problems Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus located in Minsk-Sosny, Belarus. This facility was conceived for the purpose of investigating the static and dynamic neutronics properties of accelerator driven sub-critical systems, and to serve as a neutron source for investigating the… more
Date: April 28, 2010
Creator: Gohar, Y. & Smith, D. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Studying neutron-rich 18 N in fusion-evaporation reactions

Description: Light neutron-rich nuclei provide an excellent opportunity to study the changes in nuclear shell structure that occur with increasing neutron number and are an important testing ground for shell model theories. Probably one of the most striking examples of shell modification is the occurrence of intruder ground states, which signal an inversion of the normal shell ordering. Intruder ground states are observed around {sup 32}Mg (Z=10-12), ''the island of inversion'', and in {sup 11}Be. An analog… more
Date: July 28, 2006
Creator: Wiedeking, M.; Fallon, P.; Bernstein, L.; Macchiavelli, A.; Phair, L.; Burke, J. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Calculation of 239Pu(n,2n) Cross Section by the Subtraction and the Ratio Methods

Description: The {sup 239}Pu(n,2n) and the {sup 235}U(n,2n) cross section are estimated by applying unitarity in several approaches: a subtraction method and also by using a ratio approach that relates the above cross sections to the {sup 238}U(n,2n) cross section and the {sup 239}Pu(n,2n) cross section to the {sup 235}U(n,2n) cross section, respectively. Also, a self-consistent, simultaneous analysis of the cross section data of four nuclei, {sup 239}Pu, {sup 235}U, {sup 238}U and {sup 232}Th, was undertak… more
Date: September 28, 2000
Creator: Mavratil, P. & McNabb, D.P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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DESCRIPTION OF PRINTED OUTPUT FROM INTRANUCLEAR CASCADE CALCULATION

Description: ABS>A detailed description of the printed output sheets from the intranuclear cascade calculation described in ORNL3383 is given. The three analysis codes --analysis codes I and II and an evaporation code --that were written to organize the raw data of the output tape are considered. (auth) A tabulation of the neutron total cross section of U/sup 233/ as a function of neutron energy from 0.07 to 10,000 ev, measured with the ORNL fast chopper time- of-flight neutron spectrometer is given. (auth)
Date: May 28, 1963
Creator: Bertini, H.W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Design of a Fluorine-18 Production System at ORNL Cyclotron Facility. Part 2

Description: A fluorine-18 recovery system using an anion-exchange side-stream column was designed for the H/sub 2//sup 18/O target at the ORNL 86-inch cyclotron. The extent of radiolysis was determined and a catalyst vessel, containing a palladium catalyst, was incorporated to recombine the radiolysis product gases. The preliminary design of an externally bombarded gas target for the production of /sup 18/F/sub 2/ from /sup 18/O/sub 2/ was also completed.
Date: November 28, 1977
Creator: Chu, Y.E.; Engstrom, S.D. & Sundberg, D.G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Laser cleanup of Pt group metals

Description: Due to increasing interest in chemical and fuel synthesis from syngas, the feasibility and practicality of purifying Pt group metals (Pd, Ru, Rh) using LIS technologies have been re-evaluated. Findings for the selective removal of /sup 107/Pd from Pd metal are described here. The selectivity of this technique is based on the angular momentum selection rules for atomic absorption of circularly polarized light. In principle, it is possible to selectively excite isotopes with non-zero nuclear spin… more
Date: October 28, 1980
Creator: Chen, H. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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High-resolution positron Q-value measurements and nuclear-structure studies far from the stability line. Progress report

Description: Extensive data analysis and theoretical analysis has been done to complete the extensive decay scheme investigation of /sup 206/ /sup 208/Fr and the level structures of /sup 206/ /sup 208/Rn. A final version of a journal article is presented in preprint form. Extensive Monte Carlo calculations have been made to correct the end point energies of positron spectra taken with intrinsic Ge detectors for annihilation radiation interferences. These calculations were tested using the decay of /sup 82/S… more
Date: February 28, 1981
Creator: Avignone, F. T. III
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Fusion component design for the moving-ring field-reversed mirror reactor

Description: This partial report on the reactor design contains sections on the following: (1) burner section magnet system design, (2) plasma ring energy recovery, (3) vacuum system, (4) cryogenic system, (5) tritium flows and inventories, and (6) reactor design and layout. (MOW)
Date: January 28, 1981
Creator: Carlson, G.A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Interim report on modeling studies of two-photon isotope separation

Description: The two-photon or two-step dissociation method of laser induced isotope enrichment is being modeled for the HBrNO photochemical system. In the model, H/sup 79/Br is selectively excited by resonance IR laser radiation and then dissociated by uv radiation. Selectively dissociated Br atoms are scavenged to form isotopically enriched BrNO and Br/sub 2/. This model includes all kinetic and absorption processes found to be significant and the time-varying concentrations of any species involved in a s… more
Date: January 28, 1975
Creator: Hwang, W.C.; Badcock, C.C. & Kamada, R.F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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