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Optimization of Hydroacoustic Deployments at John Day Dam

Description: This report describes short-term studies conducted in late November and early December 2001 to optimize hydroacoustic sampling techniques for John Day Dam before the 2002 fish passage efficiency (FPE) study. Knowledge gained in this study should significantly improve hydroacoustic sampling and the accuracy of estimates of fish passage at two locations that have presented problems in past studies. The spillway has been most problematic because many fish detected there were not entrained. Without… more
Date: November 12, 2002
Creator: Ploskey, Gene R.; Cook, Christopher B.; Titzler, P. Scott & Moursund, Russell A.
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BRIGHT Lights, BIG City: Massive Galaxies, Giant Ly-A Nebulae, and Proto-Clusters

Description: High redshift radio galaxies are great cosmological tools for pinpointing the most massive objects in the early Universe: massive forming galaxies, active super-massive black holes and proto-clusters. They report on deep narrow-band imaging and spectroscopic observations of several z > 2 radio galaxy fields to investigate the nature of giant Ly-{alpha} nebulae centered on the galaxies and to search for over-dense regions around them. They discuss the possible implications for our understandi… more
Date: August 1, 2002
Creator: van Breugel, W.; Reuland, M.; de Vries, W.; Stanford, A.; Dey, A.; Kurk, J. et al.
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Influence of Environmental Variables on the Susceptibility of Alloy 22 to Environmentally Assisted Cracking

Description: In its current design, the high-level nuclear waste containers include an external layer of Alloy 22 (NO6022). This material was selected to provide long-term corrosion resistance since if water enters in contact with the containers, they may undergo corrosion. The model for the degradation of the containers includes three modes of corrosion, namely general corrosion, localized corrosion and environmentally assisted cracking (EAC). The objective of the current research was to quantify the susce… more
Date: September 26, 2002
Creator: Fix, D. V.; Estill, J. C.; King, K. J.; Day, S. D. & Rebak, R. B.
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Electrochemical Behavior of Alloy 22 in 5 M CaC12

Description: The corrosion resistance of Alloy 22 (UNS No.: N06022) was studied in 5 M CaCl{sub 2} electrolyte at various temperatures. Potentiodynamic polarization was used to examine the electrochemical behavior and measure the key potentials. Alloy 22 was found to be susceptible to localized corrosion in this high chloride [10M Cl{sup -}] environment at temperatures as low as 6O C.
Date: May 30, 2002
Creator: Ilevbare, G O
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The Use of Electromyogram (EMG) Telemetry to Assess Swimming Activity and Energy Use of Adult Spring Chinook Salmon Migrating through the Tailraces, Fishways, and Forebays of Bonneville Dam, 2000 and 2001

Description: In 2000, PNNL conducted a two-year study for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to investigate energy use and swimming performance of adult spring chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawystcha) migrating upstream through a large hydropower dam on the Columbia River. The investigation involved one year of laboratory study and one year of field study at Bonneville Dam. The objectives of the laboratory study were to 1) measure active rates of oxygen consumption of adult spring chinook salmon at three wat… more
Date: October 16, 2002
Creator: Brown, Richard S.; Geist, David R. & Mesa, Matthew G.
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CartaBlanca-rapid prototyping development environment for non-linear systems on unstructured grids.

Description: This talk describes a component-based nonlinear physical system simulation prototyping package written entirely in Java using objectoriented design, The package provides scientists and engineers a 'developer-friendly' software environment for large-scale computational algorithm and physical model development, on the Jacobian-Free Newton-Krylov solution method surrounding a finite-volume treatment of conservation equations. This enables a clean component-like implementation. We first provide mot… more
Date: January 1, 2002
Creator: VanderHeyden, William Brian; Livescu, Daniel & Padial-Collins, Nely T.
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Engineering index : a metric for assessing margin in engineered systems

Description: Inherent in most engineered products is some measure of margin or over design. Engineers often do not retain design and performance knowledge so they can quantify uncertainties and estimate how much margin their product possesses. When knowledge-capture and quantification is neither possible, nor permissible, engineers rely on cultural lore and institutionalised practices to assign nominal conditions and tolerances. Often what gets lost along the way is design intent, product requirements, and … more
Date: January 1, 2002
Creator: Dolin, Ronald M.
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Damage detection using frequency domain ARX models and extreme value statistics

Description: Structural health monitoring (SHM) is fast becoming a field of great importance as engineers seek for new ways to ensure the safety of structures throughout their designed lifetime. Current methods for analyzing the dynamic response of structures often use standard frequency response functions to model linear system input/output relationships. However, these functions do not account for the nonlinear response of a system, which damage often introduces. In this study, an auto-regressive model wi… more
Date: January 1, 2002
Creator: Fasel, T. R. (Timothy R.); Sohn, H. (Hoon) & Farrar, C. R. (Charles R.)
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Development and deployment of advanced corrosion monitoring systems for high-level waste tanks.

Description: This paper describes the results of a collaborative technology development program, sponsored by the Tanks Focus Area, to use electrochemical noise (EN) for corrosion monitoring in underground storage tanks. These tanks, made of carbon or stainless steels, contain high-level radioactive liquid waste (HLW) generated by weapons production or radioactive liquid waste from nuclear fuel reprocessing activities at several Department of Energy (DOE) sites. The term EN is used to describe low frequency… more
Date: January 1, 2002
Creator: Terry, M. T. (Michael T.); Edgemon, G. L. (Glenn L.); Mickalonis, J. I. (John I.) & Mizia, R. E. (Ronald E.)
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The next generation of shared seismic models for R&D.

Description: We have created several elastic 2-D models and are currently defining a complex 3D elastic salt model for distribution to the international research community for use in the calibration of AVO, polarization filtering, tomography, multicomponent seismic analysis, converted wave tomography, and seismic attribute analysis. We have also obtained the release of several real 2-D data sets corresponding to the 2-D models to test the robustness of any new techniques. In addition to the synthetic seismo… more
Date: January 1, 2002
Creator: Marfurt, K. J.; Wiley, R. (Robert); Martin, G. S. (Gary S.); House, L. S. (Leigh S.) & Larsen, S. C. (Shawn C.)
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Computational modeling and experimental characterization of indoor aerosol transport

Description: When a hazardous aerosol or gas is inadvertently or deliberately released in an occupied facility, the airborne material presents a hazard to people. Inadvertent accidents and exposures continue to occur in Los Alamos and other nuclear facilities despite state-of-art engineering and administrative controls, and heightened diligence. Despite the obvious need in occupational settings and for homeland defense, the body of research in hazardous aerosol dispersion and control in large, complex, vent… more
Date: January 1, 2002
Creator: Konecni, S. (Snezana); Whicker, J. J. (Jeffrey J.) & Martin, R. A. (Richard A.)
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Performing Trade Studies in the CERCLA Environment

Description: During almost any project, situations will arise that require project management and/or engineering personnel to make choices regarding project direction or product development. Often these choices are simply a part of the normal engineering development cycle (e.g., refinement or optimization of the product design). Frequently, on Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) and other similar projects, trade studies are initiated to address concerns or issues r… more
Date: July 1, 2002
Creator: Borland, Mark Wilson; Rice, Philip Matthew & Jamison, Ronald Kirt
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Newly Generated Liquid Waste Processing Alternatives Study, Volume 1

Description: This report identifies and evaluates three options for treating newly generated liquid waste at the Idaho Nuclear Technology and Engineering Center of the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory. The three options are: (a) treat the waste using processing facilities designed for treating sodium-bearing waste, (b) treat the waste using subcontractor-supplied mobile systems, or (c) treat the waste using a special facility designed and constructed for that purpose. In studying thes… more
Date: September 1, 2002
Creator: Landman, William Henry; Bates, Steven Odum; Bonnema, Bruce Edward; Palmer, Stanley Leland; Podgorney, Anna Kristine & Walsh, Stephanie
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Surface Remediation in the Aleutian Islands: A Case Study of Amchitka Island, Alaska

Description: Amchitka Island, Alaska, was at one time an integral player in the nation's defense program. Located in the North Pacific Ocean in the Aleutian Island archipelago, the island was intermittently inhabited by several key government agencies, including the U.S. Army, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (predecessor agency to the U.S. Department of Energy), and the U.S. Navy. Since 1993, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has conducted extensive investigations on Amchitka to determine the nature and… more
Date: February 25, 2002
Creator: Giblin, M. O.; Stahl, D. C. & Bechtel, J. A.
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Subsurface Contaminants Focus Area (SCFA) Lead Laboratory Providing Technical Assistance to the DOE Weapons Complex in Subsurface Contamination

Description: The Subsurface Contaminants Focus Area (SCFA), a DOE-HQ EM-50 organization, is hosted and managed at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, South Carolina. SCFA is an integrated program chartered to find technology and scientific solutions to address DOE subsurface environmental restoration problems throughout the DOE Weapons Complex. Since its inception in 1989, the SCFA program has resulted in a total of 269 deployments of 83 innovative technologies. Until recently, the primary thrust of the progr… more
Date: February 27, 2002
Creator: Wright, J. A. Jr. & Corey, J. C.
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Integration and conventional systems at STAR

Description: At the beginning of the design and construction of the STAR Detector, the collaboration assigned a team of physicists and engineers the responsibility of coordinating the construction of the detector. This group managed the general space assignments for each sub-system and coordinated the assembly and planning for the detector. Furthermore, as this group was the only STAR group with the responsibility of looking at the system as a whole, the collaboration assigned it several tasks that spanned … more
Date: February 20, 2002
Creator: Matis, Howard S.; Brown, Ralph L.; Christie, William; Edwards, W.R.; Jared, Richard; Minor, Bob et al.
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Russian Technology Advancements for Waste Mixing and Retrieval

Description: Engineers at the Mining and Chemical Combine nuclear facility, located in Zheleznogorsk, Russia, have developed a pulsating mixer/sluicer to mobilize a layer of consolidated, hardened sludge at the bottom of their 12-m-diameter by 30-m-high nuclear waste tanks. This waste has resisted mobilization by conventional sluicing jets. The new pulsating mixer/sluicer draws tank liquid into a pressure vessel, then expels it at elevated pressure either through a set of submerged mixing jets or a steerabl… more
Date: February 26, 2002
Creator: Gibbons, P. W.; Albert, T. E. & Barakov, B.
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Los Alamos National Laboratory Tritium Technology Deployments Large Scale Demonstration and Deployment Project

Description: This paper describes the organization, planning and initial implementation of a DOE OST program to deploy proven, cost effective technologies into D&D programs throughout the complex. The primary intent is to accelerate closure of the projects thereby saving considerable funds and at the same time being protective of worker health and the environment. Most of the technologies in the ''toolkit'' for this program have been demonstrated at a DOE site as part of a Large Scale Demonstration and … more
Date: February 26, 2002
Creator: McFee, J.; Blauvelt, D.; Stallings, E. & Willms, S.
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Maine Yankee: Making the Transition from an Operating Plant to an Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI)

Description: The purpose of this paper is to describe the challenges faced by Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company in making the transition from an operating nuclear power plant to an Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI). Maine Yankee (MY) is a 900-megawatt Combustion Engineering pressurized water reactor whose architect engineer was Stone & Webster. Maine Yankee was put into commercial operation on December 28, 1972. It is located on an 820-acre site, on the shores of the Back River in Wiscasse… more
Date: February 26, 2002
Creator: Norton, W. & McGough, M. S.
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Results From the (1) Data Collection Workshop, (2) Modeling Workshop and (3) Drilling and Coring Methods Workshop as Part of the Joint Industry Participation (JIP) Project to Characterize Natural Gas Hydrates in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico

Description: In 2000, Chevron began a project to learn how to characterize the natural gas hydrate deposits in the deepwater portions of the Gulf of Mexico. A Joint Industry Participation (JIP) group was formed in 2001, and a project partially funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) began in October 2001. The primary objective of this project is to develop technology and data to assist in the characterization of naturally occurring gas hydrates in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. These naturally occurrin… more
Date: September 1, 2002
Creator: Holditch, Stephen A. & Jones, Emrys
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St. Louis FUSRAP-A Strategy for Success

Description: In October 1997, Congress transferred the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) from the Department of Energy (DOE) to the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). FUSRAP addresses contamination generated by activities of the Manhattan Engineering District and the Atomic Energy Commission during the 1940's and 50's in support of the nation's nuclear weapons development program. The USACE Operation Order for FUSRAP gave responsibility for remediation of five sites in Mis… more
Date: February 27, 2002
Creator: Lyerla, M.; Fox, B.; Chinnock, J.; Haase, A.; Wojinski, S.; Bretz, M. et al.
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Long Term Stewardship Challenges at the St. Louis District FUSRAP Sites

Description: Non-Federally owned radioactively contaminated sites in St. Louis, Missouri are currently being remediated by the St. Louis District Corps of Engineers under the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP). When FUSRAP remediation is complete, inaccessible soils which have levels of contamination greater than unrestricted use standards, will remain. The purpose of this paper is to document the initial challenges facing the project team during its development of the Long Term Stewar… more
Date: February 27, 2002
Creator: Dell'Orco, L. & Chambers, D.
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Intermodal Transportation, USACE Style

Description: The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has developed project management techniques with a proven track record for safe and successful results for constructing large scale and massive projects such as improving our nations water transportation systems, flood control, bridges and dams. Applying many of these techniques to the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) managed by USACE to remediate the environment is achieving the same safe and successful results as their constructio… more
Date: February 27, 2002
Creator: Grumski, K. M. & Coutts, P. W.
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Mechanisms and Determinants of RNA Turnover: Plant IRESs and Polycistrons for Metabolic Engineering

Description: There is a strong need for tools that allow multiple transgenes to be expressed in genetically engineered plants. For the last 30 years it has been believed that nearly all eukaryotic mRNAs were monocistronic, with ribosomes entering at the 5' end and scanning through the 5'UTR to the first AUG codon. It is now clear that perhaps 3% of vertebrate and yeast mRNAs utilize IRESs (Internal Ribosome Entry Sites) within their 5'UTRs to promote the internal entry of ribosomes to mRNAs and subsequent t… more
Date: August 1, 2002
Creator: Meagher, Richard B.
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