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Environmental monitoring at major U. S. Energy Research and Development Administration contractor sites: calendar year 1976. Volume 2

Description: The purpose of this compilation is to present, in a central reference document, all of the individual annual reports summarizing the results of the environmental monitoring programs conducted at each of the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) sites having a potential for environmental impact or which release a significant quantity of radioactivity or nonradioactive pollutants. Data on the levels of radioactivity and nonradioactive pollutants in effluents and the environs at ea… more
Date: August 1, 1977
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Effects of energy related activities on the plankton of the Chesapeake Bay. Section 1. Progress report, 1 August 1976--30 September 1977

Description: Progress is reported on a comprehensive study of the ecology of the Chesapeake Bay estuary system. Emphasis is placed on seasonal variations of initial energy fixation by phytoplankton primary producers and subsequent energy transfer to herbivours and becterial heterotrophs. The impact of chemical and radioactive effluents from electric power plants on the ecology of Chesapeake Bay will be assessed. Data are included on the role of plankton metabolism in regenerating nutrients, nutrient exchang… more
Date: 1977~
Creator: Taft, Jay L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Diffusion estimation for small emissions. Preliminary report

Description: A simplified approach is presented to the calculation of ground level concentrations of effluents from small industrial and fuel burning installations. It is intended to serve as a first approximation to a very complex process. Because each stack, building, and terrain configuration is different, actual ground concentrations may frequently differ from the values calculated here by a factor of two. Nonetheless, this procedure should be useful for determining whether ambient air quality standards… more
Date: May 1, 1973
Creator: Briggs, G.A.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Validation of the kinetic model for predicting the composition of chlorinated water discharged from power plant cooling systems

Description: The purpose of this report is to present a validation of a previously described kinetic model which was developed to predict the composition of chlorinated fresh water discharged from power plant cooling systems. The model was programmed in two versions: as a stand-alone program and as a part of a unified transport model developed from consistent mathematical models to simulate the dispersion of heated water and radioisotopic and chemical effluents from power plant discharges. The results of te… more
Date: October 31, 1977
Creator: Lietzke, M. H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Potential effects of geothermal energy conversion on Imperial Valley ecosystems. [Seven workshop presentations]

Description: This workshop on potential effcts of geothermal energy conversion on the ecology of Imperial Valley brought together personnel of Lawrence Livermore Laboratory and many collaborators under the sponsorship of the ERDA Imperial Valley Environmental Project (IVEP). The LLL Integrated Assessment Team identified the electric power potential and its associated effluents, discharges, subsidence, water requirements, land use, and noise. The Working Groups addressed the ecological problems. Water resour… more
Date: December 17, 1976
Creator: Shinn, J.H. (ed.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Evaluation of energy related risk acceptance (APHA energy task force)

Description: Living in a technological society with large energy requirements involves a number of related actities with attendant health risks, both to the working and to the general public. Therefore, the formulation of some general principles for risk acceptance is necessary. In addition to maximizing benefits and minimizing risk, relevant considerations must be made about the perception of risk as voluntary or involuntary, the number of persons collectively at risk at any one occasion, and the extent to… more
Date: January 1, 1977
Creator: Hull, A.P.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Trends in atmospheric particulate concentrations at a location in the northeast United States. [Rural area near New York City]

Description: Real-time measurements of total particulate concentrations have been made continuously during the past two years to provide aerometric background information for correlation with meteorological parameters. The measurements were made to determine short and long time variations, frequency distributions, episodical information, effects on solar radiation and spectral analysis to show important time histories in a rural area near the New York City metropolitan region. This study provides useful bac… more
Date: January 1, 1977
Creator: Brown, R.M. & Sethu Raman, S.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Visibility issue in the Rocky Mountain West. [Relation to energy facility siting]

Description: Clear, clean air is one of the natural resources of the Rocky Mountain West. The visibility provisions of the Clean Air Act of 1977 were intended to protect this natural resource in certain Federal class I areas, for example, national parks and wilderness areas. There are a number of potential issues which arise due to the possible reduction of visibility caused by emissions from energy facilities. A number of these issues are briefly discussed. The issues are highlighted by computer generated … more
Date: January 1, 1977
Creator: Leonard, E. M.; Williams, M. D. & Mutschlecner, J. P.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Modeling the dispersion of atmospheric pollution using cubic splines and Chapeau functions. [Environmental transport of chemical and radioactive gaseous wastes at Savannah River Plant]

Description: A quasi-Lagrangian cubic-spline method and a chapeau-function (Galerkin) method are investigated and numerical results compared in advecting a passive scalar. Both methods are simple to use, computationally fast, and give reasonably accurate results. Little numerical dissipation is manifested by either scheme. In simple advection tests with equal mesh spacing, chapeau functions are more accurate than the quasi-Lagrangian cubic-spline method for maintaining peak concentration values. In tests wi… more
Date: January 1, 1977
Creator: Pepper, D.W. & Kern, C.D.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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MAP3S: studying the transport, transformation, and fate of atmospheric energy-related pollutants. Addendum: project listings for FY 1977

Description: The Multistate Atmospheric Power Production Pollution Study (MAP3S) is sponsored by the Assistant Secretary for Environment of the United States Department of Energy. The goal of the MAP3S program is to develop and demonstrate an improved, verified numerical capability to simulate the present and potential future changes in pollutant concentration, atmospheric behavior and precipitation chemistry as a result of pollutant releases to the atomosphere from large scale power production processes, p… more
Date: January 1, 1978
Creator: MacCracken, M C
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Investigation of the effects of halogenated organic compounds produced in cooling systems and process effluents on aquatic organisms

Description: Both public health and environmental concern have been generated by the identification of an assemblage of halogenated organic compounds produced in the chlorination of drinking water, sewage, and power plant cooling waters. Our objectives were to determine which compounds contributed significantly to the toxicity of such chloro-organic mixtures and whether significant interaction occurred. Toxicity studies were conducted using the embryo of the carp (Cyprinus carpio) and the cladoceran Daphnia… more
Date: January 1, 1977
Creator: Trabalka, J.R. & Burch, M.B.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Effects of mesoscale weather disturbances on contamination concentrations. Fourth technical progress report, August 1, 1976--October 31, 1977

Description: The objective of this research is the development and verification of a regional scale numerical weather prediction model for use in forecasting air pollution concentrations. The scope includes verification of meteorological forecasts of flow fields, boundary layer structure and precipitation using three hourly rawinsonde data in the central and eastern United States. A prototype regional numerical weather forecast system has been developed. This system includes codes to read in the first guess… more
Date: July 1, 1977
Creator: Kreitzberg, C. W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Environmental testing. [Bioassay of effluents from solvent refined coal]

Description: Coupling of chemical separation and fractionation with environmental testing is able to identify those materials most biologically active, at least, in acute toxicity. In the case of the (SRC) solvent refined coal effluent the primary activity was attributed to the acidic organic fraction, where the phenolics are located. Because of the relative removal efficiency of phenolics through chemical stripping and biological treatment, near-field acute toxicity from effluent releases would not be expe… more
Date: January 1, 1978
Creator: Gehrs, C.W.; Parkhurst, B.R. & Shriner, D.S.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Pacific Northwest Laboratory annual report for 1977 to the DOE Assistant Secretary for Environment. Part 1. Biomedical sciences

Description: Separate abstracts were prepared for 68 sections of this report that discuss the health hazards associated with the nuclear fuel cycle, fossil fuel cycle, oil shale processing, and biomagnetic effects associated with fusion. A list is included of 52 publications during the time period covered by this report.
Date: February 1, 1978
Creator: Wiley, W.R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Master schedule for CY-1978. Hanford Environmental Surveillance Routine Program

Description: This report provides the current schedule of data collection for the routine environmental surveillance program at the Hanford Site. No results are presented in this report. The data collected are available in routine reports issued by the Environmental Evaluations staff.
Date: December 1, 1977
Creator: Blumer, P. J.; Myers, D. A. & Fix, J. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Biological effects of activation products and other chemicals released from fusion power plants

Description: Literature reviews indicate that existing information is incomplete, often contradictory, and of questionable value for the prediction and assessment of ultimate impact from fusion-associated activation products and other chemical releases. It is still uncertain which structural materials will be used in the blanket and first wall of fusion power plants. However, niobium, vanadium, vanadium-chromium alloy, vanadium-titanium alloy, sintered aluminum product, and stainless steel have been suggest… more
Date: September 1, 1976
Creator: Strand, J. A. & Poston, T. M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Comparative evaluation of effects of ozonated and chlorinated thermal discharges on estuarine and freshwater organisms

Description: Although limited, the results of tests evaluating the comparative effects of chlorinated and ozonated thermal discharges on mummichog and white perch indicate that the biological effects of ozonation are much less severe than those of chlorination. The data also show white perch to be more sensitive than mummichog to the tested biocides. The relative effects of ozonation and chlorination in the behavioral studies were similar to those observed in the toxicity studies. Cough rates were higher in… more
Date: July 23, 1979
Creator: Meldrim, J. W.; Holmstrom, E. R. & Balog, G. E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Influence of irrigation and weathering reactions on the composition of percolates from retorted oil shale in field lysimeters

Description: Major cations, anions, trace elements and dissolved organic C were measured in percolate from retorted oil shale collected from irrigated lysimeters in the field at Anvil Points, Colorado, over a two year period. The investigations indicated that chemical equilibrium was not established over the monitoring period and major changes occurred in percolate composition as a function of applied water volume and water residence time in the shale. Field and laboratory studies indicated that several fac… more
Date: April 1, 1979
Creator: Garland, T. R.; Wildung, R. E. & Harbert, H. P.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Chemical effluents surface waters from nuclear power plants. Quarterly progress report. [Copper Toxicity]

Description: The objectives of this research project are three-fold: To obtain data on the behavior of potentially toxic substances introduced into surface waters from nuclear power plants; To determine the impact magnitude of these substances on representative and economically important aquatic species; and To develop models with which to predict the partitioning of these substances among the abiotic aquatic compartments. Results are reported from investigations of copper partitioning in seawater, evaluati… more
Date: October 31, 1977
Creator: Harrison, F.L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Design and analysis of aquatic monitoring programs at nuclear power plants.

Description: This report addresses some of the problems of designing, conducting, and analyzing aquatic environmental monitoring programs for impact assessment of nuclear power plants. The concepts discussed are applicable to monitoring the effects of chemical, radioactive, or thermal effluents. The concept of control and treatment station pairs is the fundamental basis for the experimental method proposed. This concept is based on the hypothesis that the relationship between the two stations forming the pa… more
Date: November 1, 1977
Creator: McKenzie, D. H.; Kannberg, L. D.; Gore, K. L.; Arnold, E. M. & Watson, D. G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Bibliography of selected references on the effects of coal mine pollutants on aquatic ecosystems

Description: This bibliography contains more than 1400 references dealing with field and laboratory research on potential toxicities and disturbances known or postulated to be caused by pollutants found in coal mine effluents. The first of the three sections into which the bibliography is divided contains a select list of published bibliographies and literature reviews. In the second section are references on mine drainage studies, general references on environmental pollutants, and references dealing with … more
Date: December 1, 1979
Creator: Daniels, T F; Daniels, L K; Olsen, R D & Johnson, D O
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Division of Biological and Medical Research annual report 1978

Description: The research during 1978 in the Division of Biological and Medical Research, Argonne National Laboratory, is summarized. Studies related to nuclear energy include responses of beagles to continuous low-level /sup 60/Co gamma radiation, and development of leukemic indicators; comparison of lifetime effects in mice of low-level neutron and /sup 60/Co gamma radiation; genetic effects of high LET radiations; and metabolic and therapeutic studies of heavy metals. Studies of nonnuclear energy sources… more
Date: January 1, 1978
Creator: Rosenthal, M.W. (ed.)
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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