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Status of Coral Reef Fish Assemblages and Benthic Condition Around Guam: A Report Based on Underwater Visual Surveys in Guam and the Mariana Archipelago, April-June 2011

Description: The following report presents comprehensive data set on the coral reefs around Guam. The data is based on the reefs' fish and marine life and compare them to marine life and assemblages in areas around Guam open to fishing.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Williams, Ivor; Zamzow, Jill; Lino, Kevin; Ferguson, Marie & Donham, Emily
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Report of the Sea Turtle Longline Fishery Post-release Mortality Workshop, November 15-16, 2011

Description: This report produces the results of a workshop held by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). This workshop was meant to review information to determine if the current NMFS' criteria should be modified, objectives including the review of the current NMFS' criteria for sea turtle post-release mortality estimates; to identify, review, and assess relevant research conducted after the 2004 expert workshop; and to discuss the potential effects of hook design and size on injury and mortality.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Swimmer, Yonat & Gilman, Eric
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Site Characterization for CO{sub 2} Storage from Coal-fired Power Facilities in the Black Warrior Basin of Alabama

Description: Coal-fired power plants produce large quantities of carbon dioxide. In order to mitigate the greenhouse gas emissions from these power plants, it is necessary to separate and store the carbon dioxide. Saline formations provide a potential sink for carbon dioxide and delineating the capacity of the various known saline formations is a key part of building a storage inventory. As part of this effort, a project was undertaken to access the storage capacity of saline reservoirs in the Black Warrior… more
Date: August 31, 2012
Creator: Clark, Peter; Pashin, Jack; Carlson, Eric; Goodliffe, Andrew; McIntyre-Redden, Marcella; Mann, Steven et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Update and Expansion of the Center of Automotive Technology Excellence Under the Graduate Automotive Technology Education (GATE) Program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Description: The Graduate Automotive Technology Education (GATE) Center at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville has completed its seventh year of operation under this agreement, its thirteenth year in total. During this period the Center has involved eleven GATE Fellows and three GATE Research Assistants in preparing them to contribute to advanced automotive technologies in the center’s focus area: Advanced Hybrid Propulsion and Control Systems. In addition to the impact that the Center has had on the stu… more
Date: August 30, 2012
Creator: Irick, David
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Hawaii Electric System Reliability.

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Date: August 1, 2012
Creator: Loose, Verne W. & Silva Monroy, Cesar Augusto
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Procuring Energy-Efficient Products (Fact Sheet) (Revised)

Description: Overview of the U.S. Department of Energy Federal Energy Management Program Energy-Efficient Product Procurement Program and its designated product category list.
Date: August 1, 2012
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Effects of remediation amendments on vadose zone microorganisms

Description: Surfactant-based foam delivery technology has been studied to remediate Hanford 200 area deep vadose zone sediment. However, the surfactants and remediation amendments have an unknown effect on indigenous subsurface microorganisms. Microbial populations are important factors to consider in remediation efforts due to their potential to alter soil geochemistry. This project focuses on measuring microbial metabolic responses to remediation amendments in batch and column studies using Deep Vadose Z… more
Date: August 10, 2012
Creator: Miller, Hannah M. & Tilton, Fred A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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City of Grand Rapids Building Solar Roof Demonstration

Description: Grand Rapids, Michigan is striving to reduce it environmental footprint. The municipal government organization has established environmental sustainability policies with the goal of securing 100% of its energy from renewable sources by 2020. This report describes the process by which the City of Grand Rapids evaluated, selected and installed solar panels on the Water/Environmental Services Building. The solar panels are the first to be placed on a municipal building. Its new power monitoring sy… more
Date: August 31, 2012
Creator: DeClercq, Mark & Martinez, Imelda
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Advanced Measurements of Silicon Carbide Ceramic Matrix Composites

Description: Silicon carbide (SiC) is being considered as a fuel cladding material for accident tolerant fuel under the Light Water Reactor Sustainability (LWRS) Program sponsored by the Nuclear Energy Division of the Department of Energy. Silicon carbide has many potential advantages over traditional zirconium based cladding systems. These include high melting point, low susceptibility to corrosion, and low degradation of mechanical properties under neutron irradiation. In addition, ceramic matrix composit… more
Date: August 1, 2012
Creator: Farzbod, Farhad; Reese, Stephen J.; Hua, Zilong; Khafizov, Marat & Hurley, David H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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NGNP High Temperature Materials White Paper

Description: This white paper is one in a series of white papers that address key generic issues of the combined construction and operating license (COL) pre-application program key generic issues for the Next Generation Nuclear Plant reactor using the prismatic block fuel technology. The purpose of the pre-application program interactions with the NRC staff is to reduce the time required for COL application review by identifying and addressing key regulatory issues and, if possible, obtaining agreements fo… more
Date: August 1, 2012
Creator: Lommers, Lew & Honma, George
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Neutron Coincidence Counting Studies

Description: The efficiency comparison for measured and simulated responses of a 10B-lined proportional counter and a 3He proportional counter in a close, symmetrical geometry are presented. The measurement geometry was modeled in MCNPX to validate the methods used for simulating the response of both the 3He and 10B-lined tubes. The MCNPX models agree within 1% with the 3He tube measurements and within 3% for the 10B-lined tubes when a 0.75-µm boron-metal lining is used.
Date: August 31, 2012
Creator: Rogers, Jeremy L.; Ely, James H.; Kouzes, Richard T.; Lintereur, Azaree T. & Siciliano, Edward R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Safety Design Strategy for the Remote Handled Low-Level Waste Disposal Project

Description: In accordance with the requirements of U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Order 413.3A, “Program and Project Management for the Acquisition of Capital Assets,” safety must be integrated into the design process for new or major modifications to DOE Hazard Category 1, 2, and 3 nuclear facilities. The intended purpose of this requirement involves the handling of hazardous materials, both radiological and chemical, in a way that provides adequate protection to the public, workers, and the environment.… more
Date: August 1, 2012
Creator: Chirstensen, Boyd D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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LONG-TERM COLLOID MOBILIZATION AND COLLOID-FACILITATED TRANSPORT OF RADIONUCLIDES IN A SEMI-ARID VADOSE ZONE

Description: The main purpose of this project was to improve the fundamental mechanistic understanding and quantification of long-term colloid mobilization and colloid-facilitated transport of radionuclides in the vadose zone, with special emphasis on the semi-arid Hanford site. While we focused some of the experiments on hydrogeological and geochemical conditions of the Hanford site, many of our results apply to colloid and colloid-facilitated transport in general. Specific objectives were (1) to determine… more
Date: August 1, 2012
Creator: Flury, Markus; Harsh, James B.; Zhang, Fred; Gee, Glendon W.; Mattson, Earl D. & L, Peter C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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INDEPENDENT VERIFICATION SURVEY REPORT FOR ZONE 1 OF THE EAST TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGY PARK IN OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE

Description: Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) conducted in-process inspections and independent verification (IV) surveys in support of DOE's remedial efforts in Zone 1 of East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Inspections concluded that the remediation contractor's soil removal and survey objectives were satisfied and the dynamic verification strategy (DVS) was implemented as designed. Independent verification (IV) activities included gamma walkover surveys and soil… more
Date: August 16, 2012
Creator: King, David A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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EVALUATION AND RECOMMENDATION OF SALTSTONE MIXER AUGER/PADDLES MATERIALS OF CONSTRUCTION FOR IMPROVED WEAR RESISTANCE

Description: Wear and corrosion testing were conducted to evaluate alternate materials of construction for the Saltstone mixer auger and paddles. These components have been degraded by wear from the slurry processed in the mixer. Material test options included PVD coatings (TiN, TiCN, and ZrN), weld overlays (Stellite 12 and Ultimet) and higher hardness steels and carbides (D2 and tungsten carbide). The corrosion testing demonstrated that the slurry is not detrimental to the current materials of constructio… more
Date: August 15, 2012
Creator: Mickalonis, J. & Torres, R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Minimization of Blast furnace Fuel Rate by Optimizing Burden and Gas Distribution

Description: The goal of the research is to improve the competitive edge of steel mills by using the advanced CFD technology to optimize the gas and burden distributions inside a blast furnace for achieving the best gas utilization. A state-of-the-art 3-D CFD model has been developed for simulating the gas distribution inside a blast furnace at given burden conditions, burden distribution and blast parameters. The comprehensive 3-D CFD model has been validated by plant measurement data from an actual blast … more
Date: August 15, 2012
Creator: Zhou, Chenn
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Transformer Efficiency Assessment - Okinawa, Japan

Description: The US Army Engineering & Support Center, Huntsville (USAESCH), and the US Marine Corps Base (MCB), Okinawa, Japan retained Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to conduct a Transformer Efficiency Assessment of “key” transformers located at multiple military bases in Okinawa, Japan. The purpose of this assessment is to support the Marine Corps Base, Okinawa in evaluating medium voltage distribution transformers for potential efficiency upgrades. The original scope of work included the MCB providing … more
Date: August 1, 2012
Creator: Baldwin, Thomas L.; Turk, Robert J.; Myers, Kurt S.; Gentle, Jake P. & Bush, Jason W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Center for Technology for Advanced Scientific Component Software (TASCS)

Description: Indiana University’s SWIM activities have primarily been in three areas. All are completed, but we are continuing to work on two of them because refinements are useful to both DoE laboratories and the high performance computing community.
Date: August 2, 2012
Creator: Bramley, Randall B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Elementary Particle Physics at Baylor (Final Report)

Description: This report summarizes the activities of the Baylor University Experimental High Energy Physics (HEP) group on the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) experiment from August 15, 2005 to May 31, 2012. Led by the Principal Investigator (Dr. Jay R. Dittmann), the Baylor HEP group has actively pursued a variety of cutting-edge measurements from proton-antiproton collisions at the energy frontier.
Date: August 25, 2012
Creator: Dittmann, J.R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Measuring Cluster Relaxedness

Description: When is a dark matter halo 'relaxed'? In our efforts to understand the structure of the universe, dark matter simulations have provided essential grounds for theoretical predictions. These simulations provide a wealth of ways of parameterizing and measuring the features of astronomical objects. It is these measurements on which we base comparisons of our world and our attempts to re-create it. One of the essential questions dark matter simulations help address is how dark matter halos evolve. H… more
Date: August 24, 2012
Creator: Moreland, Blythe & /SLAC, /Michigan U.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Research and Design of a Sample Heater for Beam Line 6-2c Transmission X-ray Microscope

Description: There exists a need for environmental control of samples to be imaged by the Transmission X-Ray Microscope (TXM) at the SSRLs Beam Line 6-2c. In order to observe heat-driven chemical or morphological changes that normally occur in situ, microscopes require an additional component that effectively heats a given sample without heating any of the microscope elements. The confinement of the heat and other concerns about the heaters integrity limit which type of heater is appropriate for the TXM. Th… more
Date: August 27, 2012
Creator: Policht, Veronica & /Loyola U., Chicago /SLAC
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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