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Approach to decision modeling for an ignition test reactor

A comparison matrix decision model is applied to candidates for a D-T ignition tokamak (TNS), including assessment of semi-quantifiable or judgemental factors as well as quantitative ones. The results show that TNS is mission-sensitive with a choice implied between near-term achievability and reactor technology.

Date: September 30, 1977

Creator: Howland, H.R. & Varljen, T.C.

Item Type: Article

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Habitat Evaluation and Monitoring in the Columbia River Basin, Final Report.

The law established the Northwest Power Planning Council to prepare and adopt a regional conservation and electric power plan, and a program to protect, mitigate, and enhance fish and wildlife. The objectives are the development of regional plans and programs related to energy conservation, renewable resources, other resources, and protecting mitigating, and enhancing fish and wildlife resources and to protect, mitigate, and enhance the fish and wildlife, including related spawning grounds and … more

Date: December 1, 1986

Creator: Everson, Larry B.; Campbell, Charles J.; Craven, Richard E. & Welsh, Thomas L.

Item Type: Report

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Energy conservation and energy decentralization: issues and prospects

Views are presented of the seemingly paradoxical nature and irrationality of the energy system and the decisions that determine its evolution. An economic approach to energy decisions, while widely espoused and generally believed to be the underpinning of our system, appears not to be functioning in very-important areas. The result is enormous waste of economic and intangible resources to produce energy that could be effectively replaced by energy conservation at low costs. This inefficiency in… more

Date: January 1, 1980

Creator: Levine, M. D. & Craig, P. P.

Item Type: Article

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Evaluation of proposed designs for streamflow monitoring structures at waste disposal sites

Design of small surface water monitoring stations associated with waste sites requires an approach that balances several problems. The monitoring site must have a capacity for a wide range of flows, allow accurate measurements over the full performance range, minimize effects from accumulation of contaminated sediments, and minimize costs of construction and operation. Selecting a station design that takes these factors into consideration can be done systematically through use of formal decisio… more

Date: January 1, 1991

Creator: Clapp, R. B.; Borders, D. M.; Tardiff, M. F. & Huff, D. D.

Item Type: Article

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Marketing of coal mining equipment. Evaluation of present techniques: suggestions to aid commercialization. Final report

This report is an examination of the equipment preferences and decision-making methodology of the coal industry. The prime purpose is to indicate directions in which equipment research might proceed and also to indicate methods by which investment in new, more productive mining equipment could be encouraged. In addition to this, an investigation of the research and development decisions of major mining equipment manufacturers was conducted. The findings can best be condensed into three categori… more

Date: September 19, 1980

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Summary of HTGR (high-temperature gas-cooled reactor) benchmark data from the high temperature lattice test reactor

The High Temperature Lattice Test Reactor (HTLTR) was a unique critical facility specifically built and operated to measure variations in neutronic characteristics of high temperature gas cooled reactor (HTGR) lattices at temperatures up to 1000{degree}C. The Los Alamos National Laboratory commissioned Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL) to prepare this summary reference report on the HTLTR benchmark data and its associated documentation. In the initial stages of the program, the principle of th… more

Date: October 1, 1989

Creator: Newman, D.F.

Item Type: Report

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Least cost planning from a customer's perspective

In this paper, I offer some thoughts about least cost planning, not from the perspective of the regulator or utility, but from the perspective of a residential customer. The problem that I address is, as a homeowner in northern Virginia, I am about to make a long term fuel choice for my household, where the options include, natural gas, electricity and fuel oil. An additional choice is the energy efficiency capital investment in my home that could decrease my monthly fuel costs. My decision pro… more

Date: March 2, 1992

Creator: Sutherland, R.J.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Energy-consumption modelling

A highly sophisticated and accurate approach is described to compute on an hourly or daily basis the energy consumption for space heating by individual buildings, urban sectors, and whole cities. The need for models and specifically weather-sensitive models, composite models, and space-heating models are discussed. Development of the Colorado State University Model, based on heat-transfer equations and on a heuristic, adaptive, self-organizing computation learning approach, is described. Result… more

Date: April 1980

Creator: Reiter, Elmar R.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Research and development of methods and tools for achieving and maintaining consensus processes in the face of change within and among government oversight agencies: Volume 1

This progress report summarizes our research activities under our consensus grant. In year four of the grant, we continued to capitalize on and benefit from historical events which drove our early emphasis on group process studies. Following our work on various procedures for bringing together groups such as the State and Tribal Government Working Group and the Stakeholders' Forum (both of which provide input to the Five-Year Waste Plan), we continue to observe these groups and collect data. We… more

Date: March 1, 1992

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Comparative ranking of 0. 1-10 MW/sub e/ solar thermal electric power systems. Volume II. Supporting data. Final report

This report is part of a two-volume set summarizing the results of a comparative ranking of generic solar thermal concepts designed specifically for electric power generation. The original objective of the study was to project the mid-1990 cost and performance of selected generic solar thermal electric power systems for utility applications and to rank these systems by criteria that reflect their future commercial acceptance. This study considered plants with rated capacities of 1-10 MW/sub e/,… more

Date: July 1, 1980

Creator: Thornton, J.P.; Brown, K.C.; Finegold, J.G.; Gresham, J.B.; Herlevich, F.A. & Kriz, T.A.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Techniques for analyzing the impacts of certain electric-utility ratemaking and regulatory-policy concepts. Regulatory laws and policies. [State by state]

This report is a legal study prepared to provide a review of the substantive and procedural laws of each regulatory jurisdiction that may affect implementation of the PURPA standards, and to summarize the current state of consideration and implementation of policies and rate designs similar or identical to the PURPA standards by state regulatory agencies and nonregulated utilities. This report is divided into three sections. The first section, the Introduction, summarizes the standards promulga… more

Date: August 1, 1980

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Wildlife Protection, Mitigation, and Enhancment Plan: Minidoka Dam: Final Report.

A wildlife protection, mitigation, and enhancement plan has been developed for the US Bureau of Reclamation's Minidoka Dam and Reservoir in south-central Idaho. Specific objectives of this study included the following: Develop protection, mitigation, and enhancement goals and objectives for target wildlife species; identify potential protection, mitigation, and enhancement opportunities to achieve the mitigation objectives; and coordinate project activities with agencies, tribes, and the public… more

Date: April 1, 1991

Creator: Meuleman, G. Allyn; Martin, Robert C. & Hansen, H. Jerome

Item Type: Report

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Interactive planning system for developing decommissioning and decontamination plans at Hanford

The 570-square mile Hanford Project contains facilities with varying degrees of radioactive contamination as a result of plutonium production operations. With the evolution of production requirements and technology, many of these have been retired and will be decommissioned and decontaminated (D and D). Planning for D and D at Hanford requires identification and characterization of contaminated facilities, prioritization of facilities for decommissioning, selection of D and D modes, estimating … more

Date: September 1, 1977

Creator: Litchfield, J. W. & King, J. C.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Assessment of solar options for small power systems applications. Volume V. SOLSTEP: a computer model for solar plant system simulations

The simulation code, SOLSTEP, was developed at the Pacific Northwest Laboratory to facilitate the evaluation of proposed designs for solar thermal power plants. It allows the user to analyze the thermodynamic and economic performance of a conceptual design for several field size-storage capacity configurations. This feature makes it possible to study the levelized energy cost of a proposed concept over a range of plant capacity factors. The thermodynamic performance is analyzed on a time step b… more

Date: September 1, 1980

Creator: Bird, S.P.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Ranking energy-conservation measures to establish research priorities: synopsis of a workshop

A workshop was convened to assist DOE's Technology Assessment Division in evaluating the need to prepare additional environmental- and social-impact assessments of different energy-conservation measures. Attendees participated in a decision-making exercise designed to rank 19 different energy-conservation measures according to their overall potential for achieving important national goals and their ease of implementation. The participants felt that the most-important ranking criteria dealt with… more

Date: May 2, 1979

Creator: Moskowitz, P.D.; Le, T.Q. & Pierce, B.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Analysis of natural gas supply strategies at Fort Drum

This analysis investigates strategies for Fort Drum to acquire a reliable natural gas supply while reducing its gas supply costs. The purpose of this study is to recommend an optimal supply mix based on the life-cycle costs of each strategy analyzed. In particular, this study is intended to provide initial guidance as to whether or not the building and operating of a propane-air mixing station is a feasible alternative to the current gas acquisition strategy. The analysis proceeded by defining … more

Date: July 1, 1992

Creator: Stucky, D. J.; Shankle, S. A. & Anderson, D. M.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Political side of risk: a new approach

The resolution of many of the Nation's most-serious problems today is hampered by our apparent inability to systematically deal with the socio-political dimensions of the societal acceptance of risks in areas of technical development, decision making, and policy formulation. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the energy field. The nature of public hazards has changed drastically during the past half century or so, driving public considerations of risk into the political realm. This has given… more

Date: January 1, 1980

Creator: Sorenson, J.B. & Trauth, C.A. Jr.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Basic research needs in seven energy-related technologies, conservation, conversion, transmission and storage, environmental fission, fossil, geothermal, and solar

This volume comprises seven studies performed by seven groups at seven national laboratories. The laboratories were selected because of their assigned lead roles in research pertaining to the respective technologies. Researches were requested to solicit views of other workers in the fields.

Date: July 1, 1980

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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The Prioritization of Environment, Safety, and Health Activities

Federal facilities, including the national laboratories, must bring existing operations into compliance with environment, safety, and health (ES H) regulations while restoring sites of past operations to conform with today's more rigorous standards. The need for ES H resources is increasing while overall budgets are decreasing, and the resulting staffing and financial constraints often make it impossible to carry out all necessary activities simultaneously. This stimulated interest in formal me… more

Date: September 1, 1991

Creator: Otway, H.; Puckett, J.M. & von Winterfeldt, D.

Item Type: Report

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Thermal storage applications workshop. Volume 1. Plenary session analysis

On February 14 and 15, 1978, a workshop on solar power development and thermal and thermochemical energy storage technology was held at Golden, Colorado. These proceedings contain the record of this workshop. They are divided into two volumes. Volume I presents an analysis and condensation of information discussed in round-table plenary sessions.

Date: February 15, 1979

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Benefits of stimulating geothermal energy development with tax and research subsidies

A technique is demonstrated for evaluating benefits of subsidies and examples are given for using it to determine the cost-benefit ratio. Examples use two preferential tax treatments as opposed to direct research grants for the high-temperature, low-salinity hydrothermal resources. Results are compared and some conclusions are given. (PCS)

Date: January 1, 1976

Creator: Knutsen, C. A.

Item Type: Book

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Evaluation of management options for disposal of salt and trace element laden agricultural drainage water from the Fallon Indian Reservation, Fallon, Nevada

This is the final report describing work performed on the Fallon Indian Reservation by the Earth Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory during FY90. These investigations were initiated at the request of the United States Bureau of Reclamation in response to recent concerns regarding disposal of agriculture drainage water from the Reservation. The Reservation is transected by numerous irrigation and drainage canals, including the TJ Drain. Recent investigations by the US Fish and Wild… more

Date: March 1, 1991

Creator: Tokunaga, Tetsu & Benson, S.

Item Type: Report

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The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments and the Great Lakes Economy: Challenges and Opportunities

This paper deals with the market for SO{sub 2} emission allowances over time and electric utility compliance choices. For currently high emitting plants ( > 2.5 lb SO{sub 2}/MMBtu), the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) provide for about twice as many SO{sub 2} allowances to be issued per year in Phase 1 (1995--1999) than in Phase 2. Also, considering the scrubber incentives in Phase 1, there is likely to be substantial emission banking for use in Phase 2. Allowance prices are expected to in… more

Date: January 1, 1991

Creator: Hanson, D.; Molburg, J.; Pandola, G.; Taxon, T.; Lurie, G.; Fisher, R. et al.

Item Type: Article

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Assessment of solar options for small power systems applications. Volume IV. Comparative ranking of concepts

A comparative analysis of solar thermal conversion concepts that are potentially suitable for development as small electric power systems (1 to 10 MWe) is presented. Cogeneration and total energy systems were beyond the scope of this study. Seven generic type of collectors, together with associated subsystems for electric power generation, were considered. The collectors can be classified into three categories: (1) two-axis tracking (with compound-curvature reflecting surfaces); (2) one-axis tr… more

Date: July 1, 1980

Creator: Currie, J.W. & Jannol, M.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department