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1999 Pacific Northwest Loads and Resources Study.

Description: The Pacific Northwest Loads and Resources Study (White Book) is published annually by BPA and establishes the planning basis for supplying electricity to customers. It serves a dual purpose. First, the White Book presents projections of regional and Federal system load and resource capabilities, along with relevant definitions and explanations. Second, the White Book serves as a benchmark for annual BPA determinations made pursuant to its regional power sales contracts. Specifically, BPA uses t… more
Date: December 1, 1999
Creator: United States. Bonneville Power Administration.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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An aerial radiological survey of the Nevada Test Site

Description: A team from the Remote Sensing Laboratory conducted an aerial radiological survey of the US Department of Energy's Nevada Test Site including three neighboring areas during August and September 1994. The survey team measured the terrestrial gamma radiation at the Nevada Test Site to determine the levels of natural and man-made radiation. This survey included the areas covered by previous surveys conducted from 1962 through 1993. The results of the aerial survey showed a terrestrial background e… more
Date: December 1, 1999
Creator: Hendricks, T J & Riedhauser, S R
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Aktau Plastics Plant Explosives Material Report

Description: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has been cooperating with the Republic of Kazakhstanin Combined Threat Reduction (CTR) activities at the BN350 reactor located at the Mangyshlak Atomic Energy Complex (MAEC) in the city of Aktau, Kazakhstan since 1994. DOE contract personnel have been stationed at this facility for the last two years and DOE representatives regularly visit this location to oversee the continuing cooperative activities. Continued future cooperation is planned. A Russian news r… more
Date: December 1, 1999
Creator: CASE JR.,ROGER S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Application of stochastic and artificial intelligence methods for nuclear material identification

Description: Nuclear materials safeguard efforts necessitate the use of non-destructive methods to determine the attributes of fissile samples enclosed in special, non-accessible containers. To this end, a large variety of methods has been developed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and elsewhere. Usually, a given set of statistics of the stochastic neutron-photon coupled field, such as source-detector, detector-detector cross correlation functions, and multiplicities are measured over a range of … more
Date: December 1, 1999
Creator: Pozzi, S. & Segovia, F.J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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ASH EMISSIVITY CHARACTERIZATION AND PREDICTION

Description: The increased use of western subbituminous coals has generated concerns regarding highly reflective ash disrupting heat transfer in the radiant zone of pulverized-fuel boilers. Ash emissivity and reflectivity is primarily a function of ash particle size, with reflective deposits expected to consist of very small refractory ash materials such as CaO, MgO, or sulfate materials such as Na{sub 2}SO{sub 4}. For biomass fuels and biomass-coal blends, similar reflectivity issues may arise as a result … more
Date: December 1, 1999
Creator: Zygarlicke, Christopher J.; McCollor, Donald P. & Crocker, Charlene R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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An assessment of the MCNP4C weight window

Description: A new, enhanced weight window generator suite has been developed for MCNP version 4C. The new generator correctly estimates importances in either a user-specified, geometry-independent, orthogonal grid or in MCNP geometric cells. The geometry-independent option alleviates the need to subdivide the MCNP cell geometry for variance reduction purposes. In addition, the new suite corrects several pathologies in the existing MCNP weight window generator. The new generator is applied in a set of five … more
Date: December 1, 1999
Creator: Culbertson, Christopher N. & Hendricks, John S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Baseline Concentrations of Radionuclides and Trace Elements in Soils and Vegetation around the DARHT Facility: Construction Phase (1998)

Description: The Mitigation Action Plan for the Dual-Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test (DARHT) facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory mandates the establishment of baseline concentrations for potential environmental contaminants. To this end, concentrations of {sup 3}H, {sup 137}Cs, {sup 90}Sr, {sup 238}Pu, {sup 239,240}Pu, {sup 241}Am, and {sup tot}U and Ag, As, Ba, Be, Cd, Cr, Cu, Hg, Ni, Pb, Sb, Se, and Tl were determined in surface and subsurface soils, sediments, and vegetation (overstory and und… more
Date: December 1, 1999
Creator: Fresquez, P. R.; Ebinger, M. H.; Haagenstad, H. T. & L. Naranjo, Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Budget FY2000: A Chronology with Internet Access

Description: This report provides a select chronology of congressional and presidential actions and documents related to major budget events in calendar year 1999, covering the FY2000 budget. While the paper copy provides numerous Internet addresses, congressional offices can also use the Internet version of this report to access active links to appropriations and budget legislation, budget and economic data tables, pie charts, glossaries, selected testimony, publications, the President’s budget documents, … more
Date: December 1, 1999
Creator: Watkins, Susan E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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CATDAT : A Program for Parametric and Nonparametric Categorical Data Analysis : User's Manual Version 1.0, 1998-1999 Progress Report.

Description: Natural resource professionals are increasingly required to develop rigorous statistical models that relate environmental data to categorical responses data. Recent advances in the statistical and computing sciences have led to the development of sophisticated methods for parametric and nonparametric analysis of data with categorical responses. The statistical software package CATDAT was designed to make some of these relatively new and powerful techniques available to scientists. The CATDAT st… more
Date: December 1, 1999
Creator: Peterson, James T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Central Waste Complex (CWC) Waste Analysis Plan

Description: The purpose of this waste analysis plan (WAP) is to document the waste acceptance process, sampling methodologies, analytical techniques, and overall processes that are undertaken for waste accepted for storage at the Central Waste Complex (CWC), which is located in the 200 West Area of the Hanford Facility, Richland, Washington. Because dangerous waste does not include the source, special nuclear, and by-product material components of mixed waste, radionuclides are not within the scope of this… more
Date: December 1, 1999
Creator: ELLEFSON, M.D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Characterizing the Fabric of the Urban Environment: A Case Study of Sacramento, California

Description: To estimate the impact of light-colored surfaces (roofs and pavements) and urban vegetation (trees, grass, shrubs) on meteorology and air quality of a city, it is essential to accurately estimate the fraction of various urban surfaces. In this report, we estimate the fabric of Sacramento by analyzing high-resolution (0.30-m) aerial color photographs of about 65 square km of the urban area. The analysis show that in downtown Sacramento, vegetation as seen from above the canopy covers 30% of the … more
Date: December 1, 1999
Creator: Akbari, Hashen; Rose, L. Shea & Taha, Haider
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Cold Vacuum Drying (CVD) Facility Safety Class Instrumentation & Control System Design Description

Description: This document describes the Cold Vacuum Drying Facility (CVDF) Safety Class Instrumentation and Control system (SCIC). The SCIC provides safety functions and features to protect the environment, off-site and on-site personnel and equipment. The function of the SCIC is to provide automatic trip features, valve interlocks, alarms, indication and control for the cold vacuum drying process.
Date: December 1, 1999
Creator: WHITEHURST, R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Commercial thermal distribution systems, Final report for CIEE/CEC

Description: According to the California Energy Commission (CEC 1998a), California commercial buildings account for 35% of statewide electricity consumption, and 16% of statewide gas consumption. Space conditioning accounts for roughly 16,000 GWh of electricity and 800 million therms of natural gas annually, and the vast majority of this space conditioning energy passes through thermal distribution systems in these buildings. In addition, 8600 GWh per year is consumed by fans and pumps in commercial buildin… more
Date: December 1, 1999
Creator: Xu, Tengfang; Bechu, Olivier; Carrie, Remi; Dickerhoff, Darryl; Fisk, William; Franconi, Ellen et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Conduit Fasteners

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Date: December 1, 1999
Creator: Van Katwijk, Carl
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions Grid of the Future White Paper on Review of Recent Reliability Issues and Systems Events

Description: This report is one of six reports developed under the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) program in Power System Integration and Reliability (PSIR). The objective of this report is to review, analyze, and evaluate critical reliability issues demonstrated by recent disturbance events in the North America power system. Eleven major disturbances are examined, most occurring in this decade. The strategic challenge is that the pattern of technical need has persisted for a long period of time. For more … more
Date: December 1, 1999
Creator: Hauer, John F. & Dagle, Jeffery E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Corrosion of alloy 718 in a mercury thermal convection loop

Description: Two thermal convection loops (TCLs) fabricated from annealed alloy 718 continuously circulated mercury (Hg) with 1000 wppm gallium (Ga), respectively, for about 5000 h, duplicating previous TCL tests for annealed 316L. In each case, the maximum loop temperature was 305C, the minimum temperature was 242C, and the Hg flow rate was approximately 1.2 m/min. Unlike the 316L exposed to Hg, which above about 260C exhibited a thin, porous surface layer depleted in Ni and Cr, the alloy 718 coupons revea… more
Date: December 1, 1999
Creator: Pawel, S. J.; DiStefano, J. R. & Manneschmidt, E. T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Critical Analysis of Dry Storage Temperature Limits for Zircaloy-Clad Spent Nuclear Fuel Based on Diffusion Controlled Cavity Growth

Description: Interim dry storage of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) rods is of critical concern because a shortage of existing SNF wet storage capacity combined with delays in the availability of a permanent disposal repository has led to an increasing number of SNF rods being placed into interim dry storage. Safe interim dry storage must be maintained for a minimum of twenty years according to the Standard Review Plan for Dry Cask Storage Systems [1] and the Code of Federal Regulations, 10 CFR Part 72 [2]. Interi… more
Date: December 1, 1999
Creator: Hayes, T.A.; Rosen, R.S. & Kassner, M.E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Daylighting simulation: methods, algorithms, and resources

Description: This document presents work conducted as part of Subtask C, ''Daylighting Design Tools'', Subgroup C2, ''New Daylight Algorithms'', of the IEA SHC Task 21 and the ECBCS Program Annex 29 ''Daylight in Buildings''. The search for and collection of daylighting analysis methods and algorithms led to two important observations. First, there is a wide range of needs for different types of methods to produce a complete analysis tool. These include: Geometry; Light modeling; Characterization of the nat… more
Date: December 1, 1999
Creator: Carroll, William L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Design of Experiments Results for the Feedthru Insulator

Description: A design of experiments (DoE) was performed at Ceramtec to improve the yield of a cermet part known as the feedthru insulator. The factors chosen to be varied in this DoE were syringe orifice size, fill condition, solvent, and surfactant. These factors were chosen because of their anticipated effect on the cermet slurry and its consequences to the feedthru insulator in succeeding fabrication operations. Response variables to the DoE were chosen to be indirect indicators of production yield for … more
Date: December 1, 1999
Creator: BENAVIDES,GILBERT L.; VAN ORNUM,DAVID J.; BACA,MAUREEN R. & APPEL,PATRICIA E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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