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Studies of nuclear-waste migration in geologic media. Annual report, November 1976--October 1977

The confinement of nuclear wastes in geologic formations is being considered as a method of permanently disposing of the waste. Laboratory experiments (column infiltration, static absorption, and batch partitioning experiments) were performed with nuclides of Cs, Pu, Np, and Am to examine the migratory characteristics of long-lived radionuclides that could be mobilized by groundwaters infiltrating a nuclear waste repository and the surrounding geologic body. In column infiltration experiments, … more

Date: March 1, 1978

Creator: Seitz, M.G.; Rickert, P.G.; Fried, S.M.; Friedman, A.M. & Steindler, M.J.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Geology, hydrothermal petrology, stable isotope geochemistry, and fluid inclusion geothermometry of LASL geothermal test well C/T-1 (Mesa 31-1), East Mesa, Imperial Valley, California, USA

Borehole Mesa 31-1 (LASL C/T-1) is an 1899-m (6231-ft) deep well located in the northwestern part of the East Mesa Geothermal Field. Mesa 31-1 is the first Calibration/Test Well (C/T-1) in the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (LASL), Geothermal Log Interpretation Program. The purpose of this study is to provide a compilation of drillhole data, drill cuttings, well lithology, and formation petrology that will serve to support the use of well LASL C/T-1 as a calibration/test well for geothermal l… more

Date: August 1, 1980

Creator: Miller, K. R. & Elders, W. A.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Shale fracturing injections at Oak Ridge National Laboratory: 1977-1979 series

Intermediate-level waste solution generated at ORNL is periodically mixed with a cement-base blend of dry solids and injected into an impermeable shale formation at an approximate depth of 240 m (800 ft). The grout mix sets shortly after the injection, permanently fixing the radionuclides in the shale formation. A series of four injections of intermediate-level waste solution was made between 1977 and 1979. A total of 1.2 million l (314,000 gal) of waste solution containing 81,780 Ci of radionu… more

Date: September 1, 1980

Creator: Weeren, H.O.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Report on geologic exploration activities

This report provides an overview of the geological exploration activities being carried out as part of the National Waste Terminal Storage (NWTS) Program, which has been established by the US Department of Energy (DOE) to develop the technology and provide the facilities for the safe, environmentally acceptable isolation of civilian high-level and transuranic nuclear wastes, including spent fuel elements, for which the Federal government is reponsible. The principal programmatic emphasis is on … more

Date: January 1, 1980

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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The development of an integrated multistage fluid bed retorting process. [KENTORT II process--50-lb/hr]

This report summarizes the progress made on the development of an integrated multistage fluidized bed retorting process (KENTORT II). The KENTORT II process includes integral fluidized bed zone for pyrolysis, gasification, and combustion of the oil shale. The purpose of this program is to design and test the KENTORT II process at the 50-lb/hr scale. The work performed during this year involved projects that will contribute physical and chemical data for the final design of the 50-lb/hr retort. … more

Date: January 1, 1992

Creator: Carter, S.; Vego, A.; Taulbee, D. & Stehn, J.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Hydrogeologic effects of natural disruptive events on nuclear waste repositories

Some possible hydrogeologic effects of disruptive events that may affect repositories for nuclear wastte are described. A very large number of combinations of natural events can be imagined, but only those events which are judged to be most probable are covered. Waste-induced effects are not considered. The disruptive events discussed above are placed into four geologic settings. Although the geology is not specific to given repository sites that have been considered by other agencies, the geol… more

Date: June 1, 1980

Creator: Davis, S.N.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Advances in materials science, Metals and Ceramics Division. Triannual progress report, October 1979-January 1980

Progress is summarized concerning magnetic fusion energy materials, laser fusion energy, aluminium-air battery and vehicle, geothermal research, oil-shale research, nuclear waste management, office of basic energy sciences research, and materials research notes. (FS)

Date: March 31, 1980

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Geology of the Hanna Formation, Hanna Underground Coal Gasification Site, Hanna, Wyoming

The Hanna Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) study area consists of the SW1/4 of Section 29 and the E1/2SE1/4 of Section 30 in Township 22 North, Range 81 West, Wyoming. Regionally, this is located in the coal-bearing Hanna Syncline of the Hanna Basin in southeast Wyoming. The structure of the site is characterized by beds dipping gently to the northeast. An east-west fault graben complex interrupts this basic trend in the center of the area. The target coal bed of the UCG experiments was the … more

Date: January 1, 1984

Creator: Oliver, R.L. & Youngberg, A.D.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Geochemistry and hydrothermal alteration at selected Utah hot springs. Final report: Volume 3 (revised)

Application of Na-K-Ca geothermometry to warm springs in Utah indicates several areas with sufficiently high apparent temperatures to be of interest as geothermal exploration targets. A zone of warm springs in the Bonneville Basin show Na-K-Ca temperatures from 150/sup 0/C to 233/sup 0/C. Examination of Great Salt Lake, Bonneville sediment pore water, and Jordan Valley well-water chemistry indicates that mixing a small percent of these fluids with warm spring water can cause substantial errors … more

Date: July 1, 1976

Creator: Parry, W. T.; Benson, N. L. & Miller, C. D.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Hydrogeochemical and stream sediment reconnaissance basic data for Rapid City NTMS Quadrangle, South Dakota

Results of a reconnaissance geochemical survey of the Rapid City Quadrangle are reported. Field and laboratory data are presented for 417 groundwater and 477 stream sediment samples. Statistical and areal distributions of uranium and possible uranium-related variables are displayed. A generalized geologic map of the survey area is provided, and pertinent geologic factors which may be of significance in evaluating the potential for uranium mineralization are briefly discussed. Groundwater data i… more

Date: June 30, 1980

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Reclamation studies on oil shale lands in northwestern Colorado

The overall objective of this project is to study the effects of various reclamation practices on above- and belowground ecosystem development associated with disturbed oil shale lands in northwestern Colorado. Plant growth media that are being used in field test plots include retorted shale, soil over retorted shale, subsoil materials, and surface disturbed topsoils. Some of the more significant results are: (1) a soil cover of at least 61 cm in conjunction with a capiallary barrier provided t… more

Date: February 1980

Creator: Cook, C.W. & Redente, E.F.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Ground disposal of oil shale wastes: a review with an indexed annotated bibliography through 1976

This review covers the available literature concerning ground-disposed wastes and effluents of a potential oil shale industry. Ground disposal has been proposed for essentially all of the solid and liquid wastes produced (Pfeffer, 1974). Since an oil shale industry is not actually in operation, the review is anticipatory in nature. The section, Oil Shale Technology, provides essential background for interpreting the literature on potential shale oil wastes and the topics are treated more comple… more

Date: December 1, 1977

Creator: Routson, R.C. & Bean, R.M.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Microstructural interactions of geologic media with waste radionuclides

A preliminary investigation of the microstructure of four geologic media was taken to examine the interaction of Cs, Sr, Gd and U with those media. Since K/sub D/ measurements often vary by more than an order of magnitude on rocks of the same strata separated by several feet, it was probable that minor rock components play an important role in radionuclide sorption. A qualitative analysis of the rock surfaces after equilibration with solutions of Cs/sup +/, Sr/sup + +/, Gd/sup + + +/ and UO/sub… more

Date: March 1, 1978

Creator: Hinkebein, T. E. & Hlava, P. F.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Clay mineralogy and depositional history of the Frio Formation in two geopressured wells, Brazoria County, Texas

Twenty-three shale samples ranging in depth from 5194 ft to 13,246 ft from Gulf Oil Corporation No. 2 Texas State Lease 53034 well and 33 shale samples ranging in depth from 2185 ft to 15,592 ft from General Crude Oil Company/Department of Energy No. 1 Pleasant Bayou well were examined by x-ray techniques to determine the mineralogy of the geopressured zone in the Brazoria Fairway. Both wells have similar weight-percent trends with depth for a portion of the mineralogy. Calcite decreases, and p… more

Date: January 1, 1982

Creator: Freed, R.L.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Borehole cement and rock properties studies. Progress report for the period up to 1 August 1976

Research on the use of cements in radioactive waste isolation is reported. Other research is reported on the effects of thermal treatments of clays and shales on their cation exchange capacities and relative sorptive properties for cations. Development of instrumentation for measuring thermal properties of cements at atmospheric pressure was completed. A method was developed for measuring heat flow in shales and cement. Data on thermodynamic properties of cements and shales are included. Studie… more

Date: August 10, 1976

Creator: Roy, D. M.; Brindley, G. W.; McKinstry, H. A.; Voight, B.; Grutzeck, M.; Komarneni, S. et al.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Trip report for field visit to Fayetteville Shale gas wells.

This report describes a visit to several gas well sites in the Fayetteville Shale on August 9, 2007. I met with George Sheffer, Desoto Field Manager for SEECO, Inc. (a large gas producer in Arkansas). We talked in his Conway, Arkansas, office for an hour and a half about the processes and technologies that SEECO uses. We then drove into the field to some of SEECO's properties to see first-hand what the well sites looked like. In 2006, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Energy Tech… more

Date: September 30, 2007

Creator: Veil, J. A. & Division, Environmental Science

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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A Systems Approach to Identifying Exploration and Development Opportunities in the Illinois Basin: Digital Portifolio of Plays in Underexplored Lower Paleozoic Rocks

This study examined petroleum occurrence in Ordovician, Silurian and Devonian reservoirs in the Illinois Basin. Results from this project show that there is excellent potential for additional discovery of petroleum reservoirs in these formations. Numerous exploration targets and exploration strategies were identified that can be used to increase production from these underexplored strata. Some of the challenges to exploration of deeper strata include the lack of subsurface data, lack of underst… more

Date: June 30, 2008

Creator: Seyler, Beverly; Harris, David; Keith, Brian; Huff, Bryan & Lasemi, Yaghoob

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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General basin modeling for site suitability. Draft report 1. Baseline data

This report summarizes work completed by Golder Associates under Task 2 - Site Suitability specifically for modeling of fluid flow and mass transport in sedimentary basins containing thick shale or salt. It also describes ongoing and future work on the above topic. The purpose of the study is to develop a general model for a nuclear waste repository situated in a deep sedimentary basin environment. The model will be used in conjunction with Golder's fluid flow and mass transport codes to study … more

Date: April 1, 1979

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Oil shale health and environment research

While there have been sporadic efforts to demonstrate certain shale oil extraction technologies in recent years, none of the techniques have been thoroughly analyzed to determine the extent of potential occupational health impacts and even those technologies that have been demonstrated cannot be regarded as typical of a scaled-up, fully mature industry. Industrial hygiene studies have served to identify operations within certain technologies where mitigating methods can and should be applied to… more

Date: January 1, 1980

Creator: Holland, L.M. & Tillery, M.I.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Influence of irrigation and weathering reactions on the composition of percolates from retorted oil shale in field lysimeters

Major cations, anions, trace elements and dissolved organic C were measured in percolate from retorted oil shale collected from irrigated lysimeters in the field at Anvil Points, Colorado, over a two year period. The investigations indicated that chemical equilibrium was not established over the monitoring period and major changes occurred in percolate composition as a function of applied water volume and water residence time in the shale. Field and laboratory studies indicated that several fac… more

Date: April 1, 1979

Creator: Garland, T. R.; Wildung, R. E. & Harbert, H. P.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Removal of heavy metal ions from oil shale beneficiation process water by ferrite process

The ferrite process is an established technique for removing heavy metals from waste water. Because the process water resulting from oil shale beneficiation falls into the category of industrial waste water, it is anticipated that this process may turn out to be a potential viable treatment for oil shale beneficiation process water containing many heave metal ions. The process is chemoremedial because not only effluent water comply with quality standards, but harmful heavy metals are converted … more

Date: January 1, 1991

Creator: Mehta, R.K.; Zhang, L.; Lamont, W.E. & Schultz, C.W. (Alabama Univ., University, AL (United States). Mineral Resources Inst.)

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Preliminary study of uranium favorability of the Wilcox and Claiborne Groups (Eocene) in Texas

Rocks of the Wilcox and Claiborne Groups crop out in the Texas Gulf Coastal Plain and are represented by a series of sands and shales which reflect oscillation of the strandline. The Wilcox Group (lower Eocene), usually undifferentiated in Texas, consists of very fine sands and clays and abundant lignite. The Claiborne Group (middle Eocene) comprises, in ascending order, Carrizo Sand, Reklaw Formation (clay), Queen City Sand, Weches Formation (clay), Sparta Sand, Cook Mountain Formation (clay),… more

Date: January 1, 1978

Creator: Wilbert, W. P. & Templain, C. J.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Thermal behavior of dawsonite

Evidence for the dawsonite decomposition reaction sequence is presented. Synthetic dawsonite was heated at temperatures from 250 to 800/sup 0/C and studied by X-ray powder diffraction and infrared spectroscopy. From 350 to 550/sup 0/C sodium carbonate and a low temperature form of alumina were the main products. Hydrolysis experiments showed that this heretofore unidentified alumina product is rho-alumina. At temperatures of 600/sup 0/C and above, the sodium carbonate and rho-alumina react in a… more

Date: June 1, 1980

Creator: Keenan, F J; Howatson, J & Smith, J W

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Chemical durability of glass containing SRP waste: leachability characteristics, protective layer formation, and repository system interactions

The Repository Systems Program at Savannah River consists of the following elements: (a) static repository tests, (b) slow flow groundwater tests, (c) dynamic leaching experiments, (d) long term leaching tests, and (e) in situ experiments. The scouting tests performed in the static repository program are summarized and a new dynamic leaching concept is introduced in this paper. Abbreviated MCC-1 static leaching tests were used in this static repository program. The tests were conducted at 90/su… more

Date: January 1, 1982

Creator: Wicks, G G; Robnett, B M & Rankin, W D

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department