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Licensing Hydropower Projects: Better Time and Cost Data Needed to Reach Informed Decisions About Process Reforms

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report assesses the licensing process of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Specifically, GAO examines (1) why the licensing process now takes longer and costs more than it did when FERC issued most original licenses several decades ago; (2) whether participants in the licensing process agree on the need for, and type of, further reforms to reduce time and costs; and (3) whether available ti… more
Date: May 2, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Licensing Hydropower Projects: Better Time and Cost Data Needed to Reach Informed Decisions About Process Reforms

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Hydropower projects generate about 10 percent of all electricity produced in the United States. Federally owned and operated hydropower projects generate about half of this amount, while about 1,000 nonfederally owned and operated hydropower projects, which are licensed by the federal government, generate the rest. Some licensees and other participants in the licensing process have expressed concern that obtaining a… more
Date: June 27, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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CFD Analysis of Turbulent Flow Phenomena in the Lower Plenum of a Prismatic Gas-Cooled Reactor

Description: This paper is concerned with the implementation of a computational model of turbulent flow in a section of the lower plenum of Very High Temperature Reactor (VHTR). The proposed model has been encoded in a state-of-the-art CFD code, NPHASE. The results of NPHASE predictions have been compared against the experimental data collected using a scaled model of a sub-region in the lower plenum of a modular prismatic gas-cooled reactor. It has been shown that the NPHASE-based model is capable of predi… more
Date: September 1, 2007
Creator: Gallaway, T.; Antal, S.P.; Podowski, M.Z. & Guillen, D.P.
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Small, Inexpensive Combined NOx Sensor and O2 Sensor

Description: It has been successfully demonstrated in this program that a zirconia multilayer structure with rhodium-based porous electrodes performs well as an amperometric NOx sensor. The sensitivity of the sensor bodies operating at 650 to 700 C is large, with demonstrated current outputs of 14 mA at 500 ppm NOx from sensors with 30 layers. The sensor bodies are small (4.5 x 4.2 x 3.1 mm), rugged, and inexpensive. It is projected the sensor bodies will cost $5 - $10 in production. This program has built … more
Date: September 8, 2008
Creator: Lawless, W. N. & C. F. Clark, Jr.
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Yucca Mountain licensing support network archive assistant.

Description: This report describes the Licensing Support Network (LSN) Assistant--a set of tools for categorizing e-mail messages and documents, and investigating and correcting existing archives of categorized e-mail messages and documents. The two main tools in the LSN Assistant are the LSN Archive Assistant (LSNAA) tool for recategorizing manually labeled e-mail messages and documents and the LSN Realtime Assistant (LSNRA) tool for categorizing new e-mail messages and documents. This report focuses on th… more
Date: March 1, 2008
Creator: Dunlavy, Daniel M.; Bauer, Travis L.; Verzi, Stephen J.; Basilico, Justin Derrick & Shaneyfelt, Wendy
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Maintaining a Technology-Neutral Approach to Hydrogen Production Process Development through Conceptual Design of the Next Generation Nuclear Plant

Description: The Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP) project was authorized in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct), tasking the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) with demonstrating High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor (HTGR) technology. The demonstration is to include the technical, licensing, operational, and commercial viability of HTGR technology for the production of electricity and hydrogen. The Nuclear Hydrogen Initiative (NHI), a component of the DOE Hydrogen Program managed by the Office of Nuclear … more
Date: May 1, 2008
Creator: Patterson, Michael W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Safety and Nonsafety Communications and Interactions in International Nuclear Power Plants

Description: Current industry and NRC guidance documents such as IEEE 7-4.3.2, Reg. Guide 1.152, and IEEE 603 do not sufficiently define a level of detail for evaluating interdivisional communications independence. The NRC seeks to establish criteria for safety systems communications that can be uniformly applied in evaluation of a variety of safety system designs. This report focuses strictly on communication issues related to data sent between safety systems and between safety and nonsafety systems. Furth… more
Date: August 1, 2007
Creator: Kisner, Roger A; Mullens, James Allen; Wilson, Thomas L; Wood, Richard Thomas; Korsah, Kofi; Qualls, A L et al.
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Enhancing the DNA Patent Database

Description: Final Report on Award No. DE-FG0201ER63171 Principal Investigator: LeRoy B. Walters February 18, 2008 This project successfully completed its goal of surveying and reporting on the DNA patenting and licensing policies at 30 major U.S. academic institutions. The report of survey results was published in the January 2006 issue of Nature Biotechnology under the title “The Licensing of DNA Patents by US Academic Institutions: An Empirical Survey.” Lori Pressman was the lead author on this feature a… more
Date: February 18, 2008
Creator: Walters, LeRoy B.
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TESTING OF FLOW THROUGH STRESS CORROSION CRACKS

Description: One aspect of licensing the high-level nuclear waste repository to be located at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, is the determination of the inclusion of the effects of features, events, and processes (FEPs) on the performance of the repository. Among the FEPs evaluated are the advection of solids and liquids through stress corrosion cracks in waste packages and drip shields. The presence of one or more cracks or other small openings of sufficient size in a waste package or drip shield may provide a pa… more
Date: October 18, 2005
Creator: NA
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Human Factors Considerations in New Nuclear Power Plants: Detailed Analysis.

Description: This Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) sponsored study has identified human-performance issues in new and advanced nuclear power plants. To identify the issues, current industry developments and trends were evaluated in the areas of reactor technology, instrumentation and control technology, human-system integration technology, and human factors engineering (HFE) methods and tools. The issues were organized into seven high-level HFE topic areas: Role of Personnel and Automation, Staffing and … more
Date: February 14, 2008
Creator: O'Hara, John; Higgins, James C.; Brown, William S. & Fink, Robert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Updates to the ORIGEN-S Cross-Section Libraries Using ENDF-VI, EAF-99, and FENDL-2.0

Description: The standard cross-section library for light-water reactor (LWR) analyses used by the ORIGEN-S depletion and decay code has been extensively updated. This work entailed the development of broad multigroup neutron cross sections for ORIGEN-S from several sources of pointwise continuous-energy cross-section evaluations, including the U.S. Evaluated Nuclear Data Files ENDF/B-VI Release 7, the Fusion Evaluated Nuclear Data Library FENDL-2.0, and the European Activation File EAF-99. The pointwise cr… more
Date: November 4, 2004
Creator: Murphy, B. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Range of Applicability and Bias Determination for Postclosure Criticality of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel

Description: The purpose of this calculation report, Range of Applicability and Bias Determination for Postclosure Criticality of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel, is to validate the computational method used to perform postclosure criticality calculations. The validation process applies the criticality analysis methodology approach documented in Section 3.5 of the Disposal Criticality Analysis Methodology Topical Report. The application systems for this validation consist of waste packages containing transpor… more
Date: October 1, 2007
Creator: Radulescu, Georgeta; Mueller, Don; Goluoglu, Sedat; Hollenbach, Daniel F & Fox, Patricia B
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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NGNP Graphite Selection and Acquisition Strategy

Description: The nuclear graphite (H-451) previously used in the United States for High-Temperature Reactors (HTRs) is no longer available. New graphites have been developed and are considered suitable candidates for the Next-Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP). A complete properties database for these new, available, candidate grades of graphite must be developed to support the design and licensing of NGNP core components. Data are required for the physical, mechanical (including radiation-induced creep), and … more
Date: September 30, 2007
Creator: Burchell, T.; Bratton, R. & Windes, W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Study of Experience Credit for Professional Engineering Licensure

Description: Oak Ridge National Laboratory performed a study of experience credit for professional engineering licensure for the Department of Energy's Industrial Assessment Center (IAC) Program. One of the study's goals was to determine how state licensure boards grant experience credit for engineering licensure, particularly in regards to IAC experience and experience prior to graduation. Another goal involved passing IAC information to state licensure boards to allow the boards to become familiar with th… more
Date: August 11, 2003
Creator: Martin, M.A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Summary report on safety and licensing strategy support for the ABR prototype.

Description: Argonne National Laboratory is providing support to the US Department of Energy in the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) in certification of an advanced, sodium-cooled fast reactor. The reactor is to be constructed as a prototype for future commercial power reactors that will produce electricity while consuming actinides recovered from light water reactor spent fuel. This prototype reactor has been called the Advanced Burner Reactor, or ABR, and is now often referred to as the advanced r… more
Date: September 18, 2007
Creator: Cahalan, J. E.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Security Proof for Password Authentication in TLS-Verifier-based Three-Party Group Diffie-Hellman

Description: The internet has grown greatly in the past decade, by some numbers exceeding 47 million active web sites and a total aggregate exceeding100 million web sites. What is common practice today on the Internet is that servers have public keys, but clients are largely authenticated via short passwords. Protecting these passwords by not storing them in the clear on institutions's servers has become a priority. This paper develops password-based ciphersuites for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) proto… more
Date: April 21, 2008
Creator: Chevassut, Olivier; Milner, Joseph & Pointcheval, David
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Methods for Quantifying Uncertainty in Fast Reactor Analyses.

Description: Liquid-metal-cooled fast reactors in the form of sodium-cooled fast reactors have been successfully built and tested in the U.S. and throughout the world. However, no fast reactor has operated in the U.S. for nearly fourteen years. More importantly, the U.S. has not constructed a fast reactor in nearly 30 years. In addition to reestablishing the necessary industrial infrastructure, the development, testing, and licensing of a new, advanced fast reactor concept will likely require a significant … more
Date: April 7, 2008
Creator: Fanning, T. H. & Fischer, P. F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Accuracy and Efficiency of a Coupled Neutronics and Thermal Hydraulics Model

Description: The accuracy requirements for modern nuclear reactor simulation are steadily increasing due to the cost and regulation of relevant experimental facilities. Because of the increase in the cost of experiments and the decrease in the cost of simulation, simulation will play a much larger role in the design and licensing of new nuclear reactors. Fortunately as the work load of simulation increases, there are better physics models, new numerical techniques, and more powerful computer hardware that w… more
Date: September 1, 2007
Creator: Mousseau, Vincent A. & Pope, Michael A.
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Preliminary Study of Turbulent Flow in the Lower Plenum of a Gas-Cooled Reactor

Description: A preliminary study of the turbulent flow in a scaled model of a portion of the lower plenum of a gas-cooled advanced reactor concept has been conducted. The reactor is configured such that hot gases at various temperatures exit the coolant channels in the reactor core, where they empty into a lower plenum and mix together with a crossflow past vertical cylindrical support columns, then exit through an outlet duct. An accurate assessment of the flow behavior will be necessary prior to final des… more
Date: September 1, 2007
Creator: Guillen, D. P. & McIlroy, H. M., Jr.
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Evaluation of Nevada Test Site Ground Motion and Rock Property Data to Bound Ground Motions at the Yucca Mountain Repository

Description: Yucca Mountain licensing will require estimation of ground motions from probabilistic seismic hazard analyses (PSHA) with annual probabilities of exceedance on the order of 10{sup -6} to 10{sup -7} per year or smaller, which correspond to much longer earthquake return periods than most previous PSHA studies. These long return periods for the Yucca Mountain PSHA result in estimates of ground motion that are extremely high ({approx} 10 g) and that are believed to be physically unrealizable. Howev… more
Date: February 14, 2005
Creator: Hutchings, L. J.; Foxall, W.; Rambo, J. & Wagoner, J. L.
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Uncertainty: a discriminator for above and below boiling repository design decisions

Description: The US nuclear waste disposal program is evaluating the Yucca Mountain (YM) site for possible disposal of nuclear waste. Radioactive decay of the waste, particularly spent fuel, generates sufficient heat to significantly raise repository temperatures. Environmental conditions in the repository system evolve in response to this heat. The amount of temperature increase, and thus environmental changes, depends on repository design and operations. Because the evolving environment cannot be directly… more
Date: November 14, 2000
Creator: Wilder, D G; Lin, W; Buscheck, T A; Wolery, T J & Francis, N D
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Planning, Licensing, Modifications, and Use of a Russian Vessel for Shipping Spent Nuclear Fuel by Sea in Support of the DOE RRRFR Program

Description: The Russian Research Reactor Fuel Return (RRRFR) Program, under the U.S. Department of Energy’s Global Threat Reduction Initiative, began returning Russian-supplied high-enriched uranium (HEU) spent nuclear fuel (SNF), stored at Russian-designed research reactors throughout the world, to Russia in January 2006. During the first years of making HEU SNF shipments, it became clear that the modes of transportation needed to be expanded from highway and railroad to include sea and air to meet the ex… more
Date: October 1, 2001
Creator: Tyacke, Michael; Bolshinsky, Dr. Igor; Tomczak, Wlodzimierz; Naletov, Sergey & Pichugin, Oleg
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Phenomena Identification and Ranking Technique (PIRT) Panel Meeting Summary Report

Description: Phenomena Identification and Ranking Technique (PIRT) is a systematic way of gathering information from experts on a specific subject and ranking the importance of the information. NRC, in collaboration with DOE and the working group, conducted the PIRT exercises to identify safety-relevant phenomena for NGNP, and to assess and rank the importance and knowledge base for each phenomenon. The overall objective was to provide NRC with an expert assessment of the safety-relevant NGNP phenomena, and… more
Date: July 1, 2007
Creator: Holbrook, Mark
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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