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2002 Site Environmental Report.

Description: The 2002 Site Environmental Report (SER) is prepared in accordance with DOE Order 231.1, ''Environment, Safety and Health Reporting'', and summarizes the status of Brookhaven National Laboratory's (BNL) environmental programs and performance and restoration efforts, as well as any impacts, both past and present, that Laboratory operations have had on the environment. The document is intended to be technical in nature. A summary of the report is also prepared as a separate document to provide a … more
Date: October 2003
Creator: Brookhaven National Laboratory
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Abortion: Legislative Response

Description: The primary focus of this issue brief is legislative action in the 108th Congress with respect to abortion. However, discussion of those legislative proposals necessarily involves a brief discussion of the leading U.S. Supreme Court decisions concerning a woman’s right to choose whether to terminate her pregnancy. For a more detailed discussion of the relevant case law, see CRS Report 95-724, Abortion Law Development: A Brief Overview.
Date: October 1, 2003
Creator: Lewis, Karen J.; Shimabukuro, Jon O. & Ely, Dana
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Adaptive Full-Spectrum Solar Energy Systems Cross-Cutting R&D on Adaptive Full Spectrum Solar Energy Systems for More Efficient and Affordable Use of Solar Energy in Buildings and Hybrid Photobioreactors

Description: This RD&D project is a three year team effort to develop a hybrid solar lighting (HSL) system that transports day light from a paraboloidal dish concentrator to a luminaire via a large core polymer fiber optic. The luminaire can be a device to distribute sunlight into a space for the production of algae or it can be a device that is a combination of day lighting and fluorescent lighting for office lighting. In this project, the sunlight is collected using a one-meter paraboloidal concentrat… more
Date: October 2003
Creator: Wood, Byard D. & Muhs, Jeff D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Adaptive network countermeasures.

Description: This report describes the results of a two-year LDRD funded by the Differentiating Technologies investment area. The project investigated the use of countermeasures in protecting computer networks as well as how current countermeasures could be changed in order to adapt with both evolving networks and evolving attackers. The work involved collaboration between Sandia employees and students in the Sandia - California Center for Cyber Defenders (CCD) program. We include an explanation of the need… more
Date: October 1, 2003
Creator: McClelland-Bane, Randy; Van Randwyk, Jamie A.; Carathimas, Anthony G. & Thomas, Eric D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The adequacy of current import and export controls on sealed radioactive sources.

Description: Millions of sealed radioactive sources (SRSs) are being used for a wide variety of beneficial purposes throughout the world. Security experts are now concerned that these beneficial SRSs could be used in a radiological dispersion device to terrorize and disrupt society. The greatest safety and security threat is from those highly radioactive Category 1 and 2 SRSs. Without adequate controls, it may be relatively easy to legally purchase a Category 1 or 2 SRS on the international market under fal… more
Date: October 1, 2003
Creator: Longley, Susan W.; Cochran, John Russell; Price, Laura L. (Beta Corporation, Glendale, AZ) & Lipinski, Kendra J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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ADVANCED CO2 CYCLE POWER GENERATION

Description: Research is being conducted under United States Department of Energy (DOE) Contract DE-FC26-02NT41621 to develop a conceptual design and determine the performance characteristics of a new IGCC plant configuration that facilitates CO{sub 2} removal for sequestration. This new configuration will be designed to achieve CO{sub 2} sequestration without the need for water gas shifting and CO{sub 2} separation, and may eliminate the need for a separate sequestration compressor. This research introduce… more
Date: October 1, 2003
Creator: Nehrozoglu, A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Advanced, Low/Zero Emission Boiler Design and Operation

Description: This document reviews the work performed during the quarter July--September 2003. Significant progress has been made in Task 1 (Site Preparation), Task 2 (Test performance) and Task 3 (Techno-Economic Study) of the project: the site preparation has been completed, two weeks of tests have been performed and the power generating units to be compared from an economical standpoint have been selected and accurately described. In the experimental part of this effort (task1), the partners in this proj… more
Date: October 2003
Creator: Chatel-Pelage, Fabienne
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Advanced Processing of CdTe- and CuIn1-xGaxSe2-Based Solar Cells: Final Technical Report, 26 May 1998--22 December 2001

Description: This project addresses most of the key CdTe technology areas, with focus on improving the manufacturability and long-term stability of this technology. The activities over this 3-year period include developing simplified processing, studying novel front and back contacts, and improving long-term stability. This report describes work carried out during the last year of the project. The solar cells discussed below are fabricated by various deposition technologies that include chemical vapor depos… more
Date: October 2003
Creator: Morel, D. L. & Ferekides, C. S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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ADVANCED TURBINE SYSTEM FEDERAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

Description: Rolls-Royce Corporation has completed a cooperative agreement under Department of Energy (DOE) contract DE-FC21-96MC33066 in support of the Advanced Turbine Systems (ATS) program to stimulate industrial power generation markets. This DOE contract was performed during the period of October 1995 to December 2002. This final technical report, which is a program deliverable, describes all associated results obtained during Phases 3A and 3B of the contract. Rolls-Royce Corporation (formerly Allison … more
Date: October 1, 2003
Creator: Macri, Frank
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Algorithm development for Prognostics and Health Management (PHM).

Description: This report summarizes the results of a three-year LDRD project on prognostics and health management. System failure over some future time interval (an alternative definition is the capability to predict the remaining useful life of a system). Prognostics are integrated with health monitoring (through inspections, sensors, etc.) to provide an overall PHM capability that optimizes maintenance actions and results in higher availability at a lower cost. Our goal in this research was to develop PHM… more
Date: October 1, 2003
Creator: Swiler, Laura Painton; Campbell, James E.; Doser, Adele Beatrice & Lowder, Kelly S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Algorithmic support for commodity-based parallel computing systems.

Description: The Computational Plant or Cplant is a commodity-based distributed-memory supercomputer under development at Sandia National Laboratories. Distributed-memory supercomputers run many parallel programs simultaneously. Users submit their programs to a job queue. When a job is scheduled to run, it is assigned to a set of available processors. Job runtime depends not only on the number of processors but also on the particular set of processors assigned to it. Jobs should be allocated to localized cl… more
Date: October 1, 2003
Creator: Leung, Vitus Joseph; Bender, Michael A. (State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY); Bunde, David P. (University of Illinois, Urbna, IL) & Phillips, Cynthia Ann
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Architectural requirements for the Red Storm computing system.

Description: This report is based on the Statement of Work (SOW) describing the various requirements for delivering 3 new supercomputer system to Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) as part of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) program. This system is named Red Storm and will be a distributed memory, massively parallel processor (MPP) machine built primarily out of commodity parts. The requirements presented here distill extensive architectural and design ex… more
Date: October 1, 2003
Creator: Camp, William J. & Tomkins, James Lee
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Assessing mesoscale material response under shock & isentropic compression via high-resolution line-imaging VISAR.

Description: Of special promise for providing dynamic mesoscale response data is the line-imaging VISAR, an instrument for providing spatially resolved velocity histories in dynamic experiments. We have prepared two line-imaging VISAR systems capable of spatial resolution in the 10-20 micron range, at the Z and STAR facilities. We have applied this instrument to selected experiments on a compressed gas gun, chosen to provide initial data for several problems of interest, including: (1) pore-collapse in copp… more
Date: October 1, 2003
Creator: Hall, Clint Allen; Furnish, Michael David; Podsednik, Jason W.; Reinhart, William Dodd; Trott, Wayne Merle & Mason, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Assessment of Low Cost Novel Sorbents for Coal-Fired Power Plant Mercury Control

Description: This is a Technical Report under a program funded by the Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) to obtain the necessary information to assess the viability of lower cost alternatives to commercially available activated carbon for mercury control in coal-fired utilities. Tests and analysis on samples from Powerton and Valley to yield waste characterization results for the COHPAC long-term tests were conducted. A draft final report for the sorbent evaluations at Valle… more
Date: October 2003
Creator: Ley, Trevor
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Assessment of Tank 241-S-112 Liquid Waste Mixing in Tank 241-SY-101

Description: The objectives of this study were to evaluate mixing of liquid waste from Tank 241-S-112 with waste in Tank 241-SY-101 and to determine the properties of the resulting waste for the cross-site transfer to avoid potential double-shell tank corrosion and pipeline plugging. We applied the time-varying, three-dimensional computer code TEMPEST to Tank SY-101 as it received the S-112 liquid waste. The model predicts that temperature variations in Tank SY-101 generate a natural convection flow that is… more
Date: October 2003
Creator: Onishi, Yasuo; Trent, Donald S.; Wells, Beric E. & Mahoney, Lenna A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Association of Airborne Moisture-Indicating Microorganisms With Building-Related Symptoms and Water Damage in 100 U.S. Office Buildings: Analyses of the U.S. EPA Base Data

Description: Metrics of culturable airborne microorganisms for either total organisms or suspected harmful subgroups have generally not been associated with symptoms among building occupants. However, the visible presence of moisture damage or mold in residences and other buildings has consistently been associated with respiratory symptoms and other health effects. This relationship is presumably caused by adverse but uncharacterized exposures to moisture-related microbiological growth. In order to assess t… more
Date: October 1, 2003
Creator: Mendell, Mark J.; Lei, Quanhong; Cozen, Myrna O.; Shendell, DerekG.; Macher, Janet M. & Tsai, Feng C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Biocatalytic Desulfurization Project

Description: The analysis of Petro Star diesel sulfur species is complete and a report is attached. Further analytical efforts will concentrate on characterization of diesel fuel, hydrodesulfurized to varying degrees, in order to determine sulfur species that may be problematic to hydrogen treatment and represent potential target substrates for biodesulfurization in a combined HDS-BDS process. Quotes have been received and are being considered for the partial treatment of Petro Star Inc. marine diesel fuel.… more
Date: October 2003
Creator: Collins, Scott & Nunn, David
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Bull Trout Population and Habitat Surveys in the Middle Fork Willamette and McKenzie Rivers, Annual Report 2002.

Description: Bull trout in the Willamette River Basin were historically distributed throughout major tributaries including the Middle Fork Willamette and McKenzie rivers. Habitat degradation, over-harvest, passage barriers, fish removal by rotenone, and hybridization and competition with non-native brook trout are all likely factors that have led to the decline of bull trout in the Willamette Basin (Ratliff and Howell 1992). The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the Columbia River bull trout population … more
Date: October 1, 2003
Creator: Seals, Jason & Reis, Kelly
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Captive Rearing Program for Salmon River Chinook Salmon : Project Progress Report, 2001 Annual Report.

Description: During 2001, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game continued to develop techniques to rear chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha to sexual maturity in captivity and to monitor their reproductive performance under natural conditions. Eyed-eggs were hydraulically collected from redds in the East Fork Salmon River (EFSR; N = 311) and the West Fork Yankee Fork Salmon River (WFYF; N = 272) to establish brood year 2001 culture cohorts. The eyed-eggs were incubated and reared by family group at the … more
Date: October 2003
Creator: Venditti, David A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Capture and Use of Coal Mine Ventilation Air Methane Semi-Annual Technical Progress Report: April-September 2003

Description: This is the second semi-annual Technical Progress report under the subject agreement. During the second six months of the project the following items were accomplished: (1) the detailed engineering design was started by MEGTEC Systems, (2) a pre-investigation meeting was held with Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) to discuss the allegations in the 101(c) Petition for Modification of Application of Mandatory Safety Standard, (3) the 101(c) Petition for Modification was withdrawn, alth… more
Date: October 2003
Creator: Kosmack, Deborah A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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