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Support for a nuclear future: student response to the CRBRP

Description: Results are presented of a multiple regression analysis of questionnaire data from two random samples of University of Tennessee seniors. Data were collected from 94 students with science/engineering majors (the ''Tech'' sample), and 91 students with non-science/engineering majors (the ''Mass'' sample--which represents the majority of the students). The purpose of the analysis was to isolate factors which independently explain student response to the CRBRP and to breeder reactors in general.
Date: January 1, 1977
Creator: Bremseth, M. D. & Clelland, D. A.
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Science in Action'': An interdisciplinary science education program

Description: Science in Action is an education outreach program for pre-collegiate students. It is based on the concept that, in order to interest students in science, they must see science and scientists at work. The program encompasses the full range of scientific disciplines -- the core sciences, engineering and mathematics. A unique aspect of the program is the involvement and support of scientists and engineers representing local professional societies, industries, businesses, and academic institutions… more
Date: January 1, 1991
Creator: Horton, L.L.
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Energy in the '80s: decade of decision

Description: This proceeding includes the six papers presented at the Public Awareness Symposium plus the WATTEC/Engineers' Week banquet address on nuclear power by Dr. Harold M. Agnew of General Atomic Co.; these presentations on the final day, February 22, concluded the 1980 WATTEC conference. A separate abstract was prepared for each paper and for the banquet address.
Date: June 1, 1980
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Education confronts the energy dilemma

Description: The conference was convened to present a role that America's schools could play in solving or coping with the energy crisis. Eleven sessions were conducted to fulfill this concern: Our Energy Crisis and Education: A Critical Assessment; The Energy Agenda at the Office of Education; Energy Resources: Scenarios for the Future; The Moral Dilemma of Energy Education; Constraints Influencing Education's Role; Energy Education: What's Been Done to Date; Practitioners Discuss Their Future Roles, Respo… more
Date: January 1, 1977
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Permitting and solid waste management issues for the Bailly Station wet limestone Advanced Flue Gas Desulfurization (AFGD) system

Description: Pure Air (a general partnership between Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Inc.). is constructing a wet limestone co-current advanced flue gas desulfurization (AFGD) system that has technological and commercial advantages over conventional FGD systems in the United States. The AFGD system is being installed at the Northern Indiana Public Service Company's Bailly Generating Station near Gary, Indiana. The AFGD system is scheduled to be operational by the S… more
Date: January 1, 1991
Creator: Bolinsky, F.T. (Pure Air, Allentown, PA (United States)); Ross, J. (Northern Indiana Public Service Co., Hammond, IN (United States)); Dennis, D.S. (United Engineers and Constructors, Inc., Denver, CO (United States). Stearns-Roger Div.) & Huston, J.S. (Environmental Alternatives, Inc., Warren NJ (USA))
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Effort to earn public support and confidence in Hanford Site cleanup work

Description: Public involvement is needed for Hanford Site cleanup to succeed. If people do not know about, understand, and support cleanup, it will be more difficult and expensive. The Tri-Party Agreement calls for public involvement in decisions about cleanup options and schedules. This paper defines what public involvement means and how the Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology), US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and US Department of Energy (DOE) have conducted it. Experience and survey… more
Date: September 1, 1991
Creator: Brown, M.C.; Edwards, C. (Westinghouse Hanford Co., Richland, WA (United States)) & Beers, A.A. (Washington State Dept. of Ecology, Olympia, WA (United States))
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Improved conversion efficiency workshop. Volume 1. Working papers

Description: This pre-Workshop brief deals with the energy situation in the United States and the ERDA Division of Conservation Research and Technology activities. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the national energy situation and the National Energy Plan for achieving a transition from scarce oil and gas to more-abundant, renewable sources of energy. Chapter 2 describes CONRT's role in the transition and the technology options for improving energy conversion efficiency in the four energy-using sector… more
Date: January 1, 1977
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Hello out there. Are you reading me. [Audience identification]

Description: Audience identification is the first step in purposeful writing. Yet we find little written information that helps us in determining the makeup of an audience, what it needs to know, and how we can use that information to produce a meaningful publication. A large national laboratory reaches diverse audiences with different types of publications. Representative communicators who produce manuals, press releases, public relations publications, in-house publications, journal articles, and technical… more
Date: January 1, 1982
Creator: Lindberg, H.A.
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Environmental amenities and the location of industrial activity

Description: Discussion of the impacts of perceived risk on decisions to locate business activity in areas likely to host noxious facilities has become an important part of socioeconomic impact analysis. The paper reviews the literature and presents empirical evidence, and shows that amenities are only a significant location factor for certain types of business activity. Policies to offset the potential loss of businesses through perceived risk in communities hosting waste facilities, should, therefore, car… more
Date: January 1, 1992
Creator: Allison, T. (Argonne National Lab., IL (United States)) & Calzonetti, F. (West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV (United States))
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Emergence of collective action and environmental networking in relation to radioactive waste management

Description: This paper explores the relationship between the national environmental movement and nuclear technology in relation to a local emergent group. The historical development of nuclear technology in this conutry has followed a path leading to continued fear and mistrust of waste management by a portion of the population. At the forefront of opposition to nuclear technology are people and groups endorsing environmental values. Because of the antinuclear attitudes of environmentalists and the value o… more
Date: January 1, 1985
Creator: Williams, R.G. & Payne, B.A.
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Department of Energy low-level waste management strategy

Description: The DOE strategy recognizes that public perception of low-level waste management practices is not positive. Actions are included that are aimed at opening the system to the public. A better informed public will be able to better assess the performance of the low-level waste management system.
Date: January 1, 1980
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Search for a bridge to the energy future: Proceedings

Description: The alarming effects, concerns, and even the insights into long-range energy planning that grew out of the OPEC oil embargo of 1973 are fading from the view of a shortsighted public. The enthusiastic initiatives taken in many countries for the development of alternative energy sources have withered due to lack of economic and/or ideological incentive. The events since December 1985, when the members of OPEC decided to increase production in an effort to capture their share of market, have broug… more
Date: January 1, 1986
Creator: Saluja, S.S. (ed.)
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Understanding public perspectives on nuclear energy

Description: The levels of and underlying bases for public support, opposition, and ambivalence toward continued nuclear power development are reviewed. Data are presented on the public's general evaluations of nuclear power by indicating the extent of support and opposition, by discussing the interpretation of undecided responses, and by examining changes in public opinion over time. Differences in general attitudes toward nuclear energy related to demographic characteristics, including sex, age, education… more
Date: May 1, 1978
Creator: Melber, B.D. & Rankin, W.L.
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Social Media's New Role in Emergency Management

Description: As technology continues to evolve, emergency management organizations must adapt to new ways of responding to the media and public. This paper examines a brief overview of social media's new role in emergency management. This includes definitions of social media, the benefits of utilizing social media, examples of social media being used and finally a discussion of how agencies, such as Department of Energy national laboratories, can begin including social media in their emergency management pl… more
Date: March 1, 2008
Creator: Huffman, Ethan & Prentice, Sara
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Public confidence in local management officials: organizational credibility and emergency behavior

Description: Confidence issues create potential risks for the public in any emergency situation. They do so because credibility and associated perceptions of legitimacy and competency of organizations are determinants of human behavior in disasters. Credibility, however, is only one of numerous factors that shape response of people or organizations to a threatening event. The purposes of this paper are to review what is known about the way in which credibility and related constructs influence emergency resp… more
Date: January 1, 1984
Creator: Sorensen, J.H.
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Working with the states to transport TMI-2 core debris

Description: Close communications with state officials has been a key factor in success of the Three Mile Island Unit 2 core debris shipments. The US Department of Energy made extensive efforts to provide state officials with schedule information, answer technical questions, and satisfy concerns. Communications started before the campaign and continued during shipments and at intervals between shipments. Those efforts led to good working relationships with the states, kept governors and other state official… more
Date: January 1, 1989
Creator: Smith, T. A. & Anselmo, A. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Twelfth annual US DOE low-level waste management conference

Description: The papers in this document comprise the proceedings of the Department of Energy's Twelfth Annual Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference, which was held in Chicago, Illinois, on August 28 and 29, 1990. General subjects addressed during the conference included: mixed waste, low-level radioactive waste tracking and transportation, public involvement, performance assessment, waste stabilization, financial assurance, waste minimization, licensing and environmental documentation, below-re… more
Date: January 1, 1990
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Geothermal district heating: basics to success

Description: A district heating system using geothermal energy is a viable and economic option in many locations. A successful system, however, is dependent upon a variety of factors, and it is the purpose of this presentation to accent those items that are proving to have significant impact upon the successful operation of geothermal district heating systems. (These lessons can also apply to other sources of energy.) The six major basics to success that are discussed in this paper are economic viability, a… more
Date: January 1, 1985
Creator: Lunis, B.C.
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Barriers to improvements in energy efficiency

Description: To promote energy-efficiency improvements, actions may be required at one or more levels -- from the lowest level of the consumer (residential, commercial, industrial, etc.) through the highest level of the global agencies. But barriers to the implementation of energy-efficiency improvements exist or can arise at all these levels. Taking up each one of these barriers in turn, the paper discusses specific measures that can contribute to overcoming the barriers. However, a one-barrier-one-measure… more
Date: October 1, 1991
Creator: Reddy, A.K.N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Using previous public testimony to prepare risk messages

Description: People need a sense of control over their own lives, but they sometimes feel that they do not have that control when faced with a risk such as that posed by a nuclear power reactor or an incinerator for radioactive waste. Agencies communicating the risk must understand the fears of stakeholders (the people who share in the risk) and try to address those fears. The Emergency Response and Community Right to Know Act, Title 3 of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA), is a broad r… more
Date: January 1, 1991
Creator: Durbin, M.E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Snake River Basin environmental program

Description: The Snake River Basin Environmental Program was designed to evaluate existing environmental data with respect to potential geothermal development in eight Known Geothermal Resource Areas (KGRAs) in Idaho. State and federal agencies, public interest groups, consulting groups, and universities participated in the DOE program. Final reports for the program are intended to be utilized as reference documents and planning tools for future environmental studies. Evaluation of the data indicated that t… more
Date: September 1, 1979
Creator: Spencer, S. G. & Sullivan, J. F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Los Alamos National Laboratory's Environmental Surveillance and Radiological Emergency Vehicle and the Co-60 Incident

Description: A 4-wheel drive van has been outfitted at Los Alamos for environmental surveillance and radiological emergencies. The van's capabilities were described at this conference in 1982. The rapid gamma search and spectral analysis capabilities were utilized in conjunction with the cobalt-60 (/sup 60/Co) teletherapy source incident in Juarez, Mexico. Assistance was requested by the State of New Mexico (through DOE/Albuquerque Area Office) in January 1984 to perform initial in-situ isotopic identificat… more
Date: January 1, 1984
Creator: Van Etten, D. M.; Ahlquist, A. J. & Hansen, W. R.
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Some crucial issues in nuclear energy

Description: The future projected in the Project Independence Report calls heavily on nuclear energy. Validating the nuclear option will require technology improvement and implementation of new policy. But of all the issues that might compromise nuclear energy the most important now appears to be the public acceptability of this energy source.
Date: January 1, 1974
Creator: Weinberg, A.M.
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Outlook for nuclear fission energy

Description: The electric utility industry has made a substantial commitment to nuclear power. The industrial capability to produce nuclear plants is large and well established. Nevertheless, nuclear energy in the United States is at the crossroad, and the direction it will take is not at all assured. The postponements, cancellations, and lack of orders for new plants over the past three years raise some serious questions about the future. The present problems of nuclear energy are primarily nontechnical in… more
Date: January 1, 1978
Creator: Anderson, T.D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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