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2003 SITE ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT

Description: Each year, Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), a multi-program national laboratory, prepares an annual Site Environmental Report (SER) in accordance with Order 231.1A, Environment, Safety and Health Reporting, of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The SER is written to inform outside regulators, the public, and Laboratory employees of BNL's environmental performance during the calendar year in review, and to summarize BNL's on-site environmental data; environmental management performance; c… more
Date: October 1, 2004
Creator: DIVISION, ENVIRONMENT AND WASTE MANAGMENT SERVICES & AL., ET
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Advanced Computational Model for Three-Phase Slurry Reactors Progress Report: October 2004

Description: In this project, an Eulerian-Lagrangian formulation for analyzing three-phase slurry flows in a bubble column was developed. The approach used an Eulerian analysis of liquid flows in the bubble column, and made use of the Lagrangian trajectory analysis for the bubbles and particle motions. The bubble-bubble and particle-particle collisions are included the model. The model predictions are compared with the experimental data and good agreement was found An experimental setup for studying two-dim… more
Date: October 1, 2004
Creator: Ahmadi, Goodarz
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Advanced Core Design And Fuel Management For Pebble-Bed Reactors

Description: A method for designing and optimizing recirculating pebble-bed reactor cores is presented. At the heart of the method is a new reactor physics computer code, PEBBED, which accurately and efficiently computes the neutronic and material properties of the asymptotic (equilibrium) fuel cycle. This core state is shown to be unique for a given core geometry, power level, discharge burnup, and fuel circulation policy. Fuel circulation in the pebble-bed can be described in terms of a few well?defined p… more
Date: October 1, 2004
Creator: Gougar, Hans D.; Ougouag, Abderrafi M. & Terry, William K.
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Advanced Testing Techniques to Measure the PWSCC Resistance of Alloy 690 and its Weld Metals

Description: Wrought Alloy 600 and its weld metals (Alloy 182 and Alloy 82) were originally used in pressurized water reactors (PWRs) due to the material's inherent resistance to general corrosion in a number of aggressive environments and because of a coefficient of thermal expansion that is very close to that of low alloy and carbon steel. Over the last thirty years, stress corrosion cracking in PWR primary water (PWSCC) has been observed in numerous Alloy 600 component items and associated welds, sometim… more
Date: October 1, 2004
Creator: P.Andreson
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Alaska Village Electric Load Calculator

Description: As part of designing a village electric power system, the present and future electric loads must be defined, including both seasonal and daily usage patterns. However, in many cases, detailed electric load information is not readily available. NREL developed the Alaska Village Electric Load Calculator to help estimate the electricity requirements in a village given basic information about the types of facilities located within the community. The purpose of this report is to explain how the load… more
Date: October 1, 2004
Creator: Devine, M. & Baring-Gould, E. I.
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Analysis of multichannel internet communication.

Description: A novel method employing machine-based learning to identify messages related to other messages is described and evaluated. This technique may enable an analyst to identify and correlate a small number of related messages from a large sample of individual messages. The classic machine learning techniques of decision trees and naive Bayes classification are seeded with few (or no) messages of interest and 'learn' to identify other related messages. The performance of this approach and these speci… more
Date: October 1, 2004
Creator: Nove, Charles E.; Maclin, Richard Frank; Theuninck, Andrew K. (University of Minnesota-Duluth, Duluth, MN); Newland, Jeremy L. (University of Minnesota-Duluth, Duluth, MN); Torrey, Lisa A. (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI) & Robinson, Eric R. (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI)
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Automated Diagnosis and Classification of Steam Generator Tube Defects

Description: A major cause of failure in nuclear steam generators is tube degradation. Tube defects are divided into seven categories, one of which is intergranular attack/stress corrosion cracking (IGA/SCC). Defects of this type usually begin on the outer surface of the tubes and propagate both inward and laterally. In many cases these defects occur at or near the tube support plates. Several different methods exist for the nondestructive evaluation of nuclear steam generator tubes for defect characterizat… more
Date: October 1, 2004
Creator: Garcia, Gabe V.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A capillary valve for microfluidic systems.

Description: Microfluidic systems are becoming increasingly complicated as the number of applications grows. The use of microfluidic systems for chemical and biological agent detection, for example, requires that a given sample be subjected to many process steps, which requires microvalves to control the position and transport of the sample. Each microfluidic application has its own specific valve requirements and this has precipitated the wide variety of valve designs reported in the literature. Each of th… more
Date: October 1, 2004
Creator: Cummings, Eric B.; Kanouff, Michael P. & Rush, Brian M.
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Carbon Sequestration in Reclaimed Mined Soils of Ohio Quarterly Report

Description: This research project is aimed at assessing the soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration potential of reclaimed minesoils (RMS). The experimental sites, owned and maintained by the American Electrical Power, are located in Guernsey, Morgan, Noble, and Muskingum Counties of Ohio. These sites, characterized by age chronosequences, were reclaimed with and without topsoil application and are under continuous grass or forest cover. During this quarter, water infiltration tests were performed on the s… more
Date: October 1, 2004
Creator: Shukla, M. K. & Lal, R.
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Case study for model validation : assessing a model for thermal decomposition of polyurethane foam.

Description: A case study is reported to document the details of a validation process to assess the accuracy of a mathematical model to represent experiments involving thermal decomposition of polyurethane foam. The focus of the report is to work through a validation process. The process addresses the following activities. The intended application of mathematical model is discussed to better understand the pertinent parameter space. The parameter space of the validation experiments is mapped to the applicat… more
Date: October 1, 2004
Creator: Dowding, Kevin J.; Leslie, Ian H. (New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM); Hobbs, Michael L.; Rutherford, Brian Milne; Hills, Richard Guy (New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM) & Pilch, Martin M.
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Catalyst Additives to Enhance Mercury Oxidation and Capture Quarterly Report: July - September 2004

Description: Bench-scale carbon-catalyst tests were conducted in the first quarter of 2004, to obtain kinetic rates of mercury oxidation and sorption for different forms of carbon. The current quarterly report provides a more extensive quantitative analysis of the data obtained from the CRTF experiments on different carbon types and carbocalcium mixtures than was presented in the last quarterly report. The procedure and basis for normalizing mercury removals, so that they could be compared on an equal resid… more
Date: October 2004
Creator: Gale, Thomas K.
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CH-TRU Waste Content Codes (CH-TRUCON)

Description: The CH-TRU Waste Content Codes (CH-TRUCON) document describes the inventory of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) CH-TRU waste within the transportation parameters specified by the Contact-Handled Transuranic Waste Authorized Methods for Payload Control (CH-TRAMPAC). The CH-TRAMPAC defines the allowable payload for the Transuranic Package Transporter-II (TRUPACT-II) and HalfPACT packagings. This document is a catalog of TRUPACT-II and HalfPACT authorized contents and a description of the metho… more
Date: October 1, 2004
Creator: Westinghouse TRU Solutions LLC
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Clad Degradation- Summary and Abstraction for LA

Description: The purpose of this model report is to develop the summary cladding degradation abstraction that will be used in the Total System Performance Assessment for the License Application (TSPA-LA). Most civilian commercial nuclear fuel is encased in Zircaloy cladding. The model addressed in this report is intended to describe the postulated condition of commercial Zircaloy-clad fuel as a function of postclosure time after it is placed in the repository. Earlier total system performance assessments an… more
Date: October 1, 2004
Creator: Stahl, D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Coarse-Grid Simulation of Reacting and Non-Reacting Gas-Particle Flows

Description: Many processes involved in coal utilization involve handling of fine particles, their pneumatic transport, and their reactions in fluidized beds, spouted beds and circulating fluidized beds. One of the factors limiting our ability to simulate these processes is the hydrodynamics encountered in them. Two major issues that contribute to this limitation are lack of good and computationally expedient models for frictional interaction between particles, and models to capture the consequences of meso… more
Date: October 2004
Creator: Sundaresan, Sankaran
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Coho Salmon Master Plan, Clearwater River Basin.

Description: The Nez Perce Tribe has a desire and a goal to reintroduce and restore coho salmon to the Clearwater River Subbasin at levels of abundance and productivity sufficient to support sustainable runs and annual harvest. Consistent with the Clearwater Subbasin Plan (EcoVista 2003), the Nez Perce Tribe envisions developing an annual escapement of 14,000 coho salmon to the Clearwater River Subbasin. In 1994, the Nez Perce Tribe began coho reintroduction by securing eggs through U.S. v. Oregon; by 1998 … more
Date: October 1, 2004
Creator: Tribe, Nez Perce & FishPro
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Completion Report for Well Cluster ER-6-1

Description: Well Cluster ER-6-1 was constructed for the U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Site Office in support of the Nevada Environmental Restoration Division at the Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada. This work was initiated as part of the Groundwater Characterization Project, now known as the Underground Test Area Project. The well cluster is located in southeastern Yucca Flat. Detailed lithologic descriptions with stratigraphic assignments for Well Cluster E… more
Date: October 2004
Creator: Bechtel Nevada
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Completion Report for Well ER-2-1

Description: Well ER-2-1 was drilled for the U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Site Office (formerly Nevada Operations Office), in support of the Nevada Environmental Restoration Project at the Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada. This well was drilled in February and March of 2003, as part of a hydrogeologic investigation program for the Yucca Flat/Climax Mine Corrective Action Unit in the northeastern portion of the Nevada Test Site. Well ER-2-1 was drilled as par… more
Date: October 2004
Creator: Bechtel Nevada
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Completion Report for Well ER-EC-5

Description: Well ER-EC-5 was drilled for the U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Site Office in support of the Nevada Environmental Restoration Project at the Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada. This well was drilled in the summer of 1999 as part of the U.S. Department of Energy's hydrogeologic investigation program in the Western Pahute Mesa - Oasis Valley region just west of the Nevada Test Site. A 44.5-centimeter surface hole was drilled and cased off to a depth … more
Date: October 2004
Creator: Bechtel Nevada
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Completion Report for Well ER-EC-7

Description: Well ER-EC-7 was drilled for the U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Site Office in support of the Nevada Environmental Restoration Project at the Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada. This well was drilled in the summer of 1999 as part of the Department of Energy's hydrogeologic investigation program in the Western Pahute Mesa - Oasis Valley region just west of the Test Site. A 44.5-centimeter surface hole was drilled and cased off to a depth of 265.8 met… more
Date: October 2004
Creator: Bechtel Nevada
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Completion Report for Well ER-EC-8

Description: Well ER-EC-8 was drilled for the U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Site Office in support of the Nevada Environmental Restoration Project at the Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada. This well was drilled in the summer of 1999 as part of the U.S. Department of Energy's hydrogeologic investigation program in the Western Pahute Mesa - Oasis Valley region just west of the Nevada Test Site. A 44.5-centimeter surface hole was drilled and cased off to a depth … more
Date: October 2004
Creator: Bechtel Nevada
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Comprehensive Statistically-Based Method to Interpret Real-Time Flowing Measurements

Description: In this project, we are developing new methods for interpreting measurements in complex wells (horizontal, multilateral and multi-branching wells) to determine the profiles of oil, gas, and water entry. These methods are needed to take full advantage of ''smart'' well instrumentation, a technology that is rapidly evolving to provide the ability to continuously and permanently monitor downhole temperature, pressure, volumetric flow rate, and perhaps other fluid flow properties at many locations … more
Date: October 1, 2004
Creator: Dawkrajai, Pinan; Romero, Analis A.; Yoshioka, Keita; Zhu, Ding; Hill, A.D. & Lake, Larry W.
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