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Effects of energy constraints on transportation systems. [Twenty-six papers]

Description: Twenty-six papers are presented on a variety of topics including: energy and transportaton facts and figures; long-range planning under energy constraints; technology assessment of alternative fuels; energy efficiency of intercity passenger and freight movement; energy efficiency of intracity passenger movement; federal role; electrification of railroads; energy impact of the electric car in an urban enviroment; research needs and projects in progress--federal viewpoint; research needs in trans… more
Date: December 1, 1977
Creator: Mittal, R. K.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Gas turbine engines and transmissions for bus demonstration programs. Technical status report, 31 January 1980-30 April 1980

Description: Activities related to the procurement and delivery of 11 gas turbine engines, 11 automatic transmissions, and software items such as cost reports, drawings and parts lists for the bus demonstration program are reported. (LCL)
Date: May 1, 1980
Creator: Nigro, D.N.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Radioactive waste transportation systems analysis and program plan

Description: The objective of the Transportation/Logistics Study is to ensure the availability of a viable system for transporting the wastes to a federal repository in 1985. In order to accomplish this objective, a systems analysis of waste transportation has been directed by ORNL to determine the problems that must be solved and to develop a program plan that identifies which problems must first be pursued. To facilitate this overall approach and to provide for short- and long-range waste management, logi… more
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Shappert, L. B.; Joy, D. S. & Heiskell, M. M.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Compendium of federal and state radioactive materials transportation laws and regulations: Transportation Legislative Database (TLDB)

Description: The Transportation Legislative Database (TLDB) is an on-line information service containing detailed information on legislation and regulations regarding the transportation of radioactive materials in the United States. The system is dedicated to serving the legislative and regulatory information needs of the US Department of Energy and other federal agencies; state, tribal, and local governments; the hazardous materials transportation industry; and interested members of the general public. In … more
Date: October 1, 1989
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Solid fuel applications to transportation engines

Description: The utilization of solid fuels as alternatives to liquid fuels for future transportation engines is reviewed. Alternative liquid fuels will not be addressed nor will petroleum/solid fuel blends except for the case of diesel engines. With respect to diesel engines, coal/oil mixtures will be addressed because of the high interest in this specific application as a result of the large number of diesel engines currently in transportation use. Final assessments refer to solid fuels only for diesel en… more
Date: June 1, 1980
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Analysis of Radiation Doses from Operation of Postulated Commercial Spent Fuel Transportation Systems

Description: This report contains a system study of estimated radiation doses to the public and workers resulting from the transport of spent fuel from commercial nuclear power reactors to a geologic repository. The report contains a detailed breakdown of activities and a description of time/distance/dose-rate estimates for each activity within the system. Collective doses are estimated for each of the major activities at the reactor site, in transit, and at the repository receiving facility. Annual individ… more
Date: November 1, 1987
Creator: Schneider, K. J.; Hostick, C. J.; Ross, W. A.; Peterson, R. W.; Smith, R. I.; Stiles, D. L. et al.
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Maglev system design considerations

Description: Although efforts are now being made to develop magnetic levitation technologies in the United States, they have been underway for two decades in Germany and Japan. The characteristics of maglev systems being considered for implementation in the United States are speculative. A conference was held at Argonne National Laboratory on November 28--29, 1990, to discuss these characteristics and their implications for the design requirements of operational systems. This paper reviews some of the facto… more
Date: January 1, 1991
Creator: Coffey, H. T.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Capital requirements for the transportation of energy materials: 1979 ARC estimates. Draft final report

Description: This report contains TERA's estimates of capital requirements to transport natural gas, crude oil, petroleum products, and coal in the United States by 1990. The low, medium, and high world-oil-price scenarios from the EIA's Mid-range Energy Forecasting System (MEFS), as used in the 1979 Annual Report to Congress (ARC), were provided as a basis for the analysis and represent three alternative futures. TERA's approach varies by energy commodity to make best use of the information and analytical … more
Date: August 13, 1980
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Use of transportable storage casks in the nuclear waste management system: Appendices

Description: A study was performed to determine the viability of the use of transportable storage casks (TSCs), and other metal casks that are designed primarily for storage but which might be used to ship their stored contents to DOE on a one-time use basis (referred to in this study as storage only casks, or SOCs), in the combined utility/DOE spent fuel management system. The viability of the use of TSCs and SOCs was assessed in terms of the costs and savings involved in their use, the sensitivity of thes… more
Date: December 1, 1987
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Alternative scenarios for Federal transportation policy. Volume I. Summary. First year final report

Description: A summary is given of research evaluating the economic effects of existing and prospective federal policies governing intercity and international freight and passenger transportation enterprises in the economy of the United States. The analysis encompasses all modes of transportation, including rail, motor, water, air and intermodal coordinative institutions, and focuses upon the impact of alternative regulatory policies. However, other federal policies including subsidy, taxation, procurement,… more
Date: January 1, 1977
Creator: Friedlaender, A. & Simpson, R.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Management of social and economic impacts associated with the construction of large-scale projects: experiences from the Western coal development communities

Description: The construction and operation of large-scale energy or resource development projects are accompanied by environmental, social, and economic changes or impacts. Impact assessment is the key tool used to determine which impact areas will most severely affect the community and will thus need to be managed. Impact management, only recently recognized as part of the assessment process, includes public and private actions to ameliorate impacts. The use of available impact management strategies can a… more
Date: June 1, 1977
Creator: Greene, M.R. & Curry, M.G.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Potential Displacement of Petroleum Imports by Solar Energy Technologies

Description: The United States currently imports close to half of its petroleum requirements. This report delineates the economic, social, and political costs of such a foreign oil dependency. These costs are often intangible, but combined they clearly constitute a greater price for imported petroleum than the strictly economic cost. If we can assume that imported oil imposes significant socioeconomic costs upon the American economy and society, one way to reduce these costs is to develop alternative, domes… more
Date: May 1, 1980
Creator: DeLeon, Peter; Jackson, Byron L.; McNown, Robert F. & Mahrenholz, Gary J.
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Can the Sun replace uranium

Description: Two asymptotic worlds, one based on solar energy, the other based on nuclear energy, are compared. The total energy demand in each case is 2,000 quads. Although the Sun can in principal supply this energy, it probably will be very expensive. If the energy were supplied entirely by breeders, the nuclear energy system would pose formidable systems problems--particularly safety and proliferation. It is suggested that in view of these possible difficulties, all options must be kept open.
Date: July 1, 1977
Creator: Weinberg, A.M.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A cask fleet operations study

Description: This document describes the cask fleet currently available to transport spent nuclear fuels. The report describes the proposed operational procedures for these casks and the vehicles intended to transport them. Included are techniques for loading the cask, lifting it onto the transport vehicle, preparing the invoices, and unloading the cask at the destination. The document concludes with a discussion on the maintenance and repair of the casks. (tem) 29 figs.
Date: March 1, 1988
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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WASTES: Waste System Transportation and Economic Simulation--Version 2: Technical Reference Manual

Description: The Waste System Transportation and Economic Simulation (WASTES) Technical Reference Manual was written to describe and document the algorithms used within the WASTES model as implemented in Version 2.23. The manual will serve as a reference for users of the WASTES system. The intended audience for this manual are knowledgeable users of WASTES who have an interest in the underlying principles and algorithms used within the WASTES model. Each algorithm is described in nonprogrammers terminology,… more
Date: February 1, 1988
Creator: Sovers, R. A.; Shay, M. R.; Ouderkirk, S. J.; McNair, G. W. & Eagle, B. G.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Near-Site Transportation Infrastructure Project

Description: There are 122 commercial nuclear facilities from which spent nuclear fuel will be accepted by the Federal Waste Management System (FWMS). Since some facilities share common sites and some facilities are on adjacent sites, 76 sites were identified for the Near-Site Transportation Infrastructure (NSTI) project. The objective of the NSTI project was to identify the options available for transportation of spent-fuel casks from each of these commercial nuclear facility sites to the main transportati… more
Date: February 1, 1992
Creator: Viebrock, J.M. & Mote, N. (Nuclear Assurance Corp., Norcross, GA (United States))
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Design and use of SNM transportation systems at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. [Special Nuclear Materials (SNM)]

Description: The Plutonium Processing Facility at the Los Alamos National Laboratory is located in a building containing approximately 63,000 square feet of laboratory space with an additional 63,000 feet of basement area that is used for heating, ventilation, filtering, storage, and other house'' systems. The building's upper floor is set up in four separate wings with different types of processing occurring both within each wing and between the wings. Because of the diversity of these various processes, m… more
Date: January 1, 1991
Creator: Tellier, L.L.
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Energy emergency planning guide: Winter 1977-78

Description: This Energy Emergency Planning Guide for Winter, 1977-78 has been prepared in order to: identify and evaluate actions available to deal with energy emergencies this winter; provide an advance indication to the public of those actions considered most likely to be taken by the government, and provide industry, state, and local governments with suggestions about actions which they can take to deal with energy emergencies. The Guide contains specifications for over 50 standby programs and procedure… more
Date: November 1, 1977
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Modal shifts in short-haul passenger travel and the consequent energy impacts. [Intercity travel under 500 miles]

Description: A study was performed to evaluate the impacts of strategies to effect modal shifts in short-haul passenger travel (defined herein as intercity travel under 500 miles) from energy-intensive modes to those modes that are less energy-intensive. A series of individual strategies, ranging from incentives to the less energy-intensive modes (bus, rail) to penalties to the more energy-intensive modes (auto, air) was examined to determine energy saved and policy implications relative to strategy impleme… more
Date: March 1, 1980
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Health and safety. Preliminary comparative assessment of the satellite power system (SPS) and other energy alternatives

Description: Existing data on the health and safety risks of a satellite power system and four electrical generation systems are analyzed: a combined-cycle coal power system with a low-Btu gasifier and open-cycle gas turbine, a fission power system with fuel reprocessing, a central-station, terrestrial, solar-photovoltaic power system, and a first-generation design for a fusion power system. The systems are compared on the basis of expected deaths and person-days lost per year associated with 1000 MW of ave… more
Date: April 1, 1980
Creator: Habegger, L. J.; Gasper, J. R. & Brown, C. D.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Industrial energy-efficiency-improvement program

Description: Progress made by industry toward attaining the voluntary 1980 energy efficiency improvement targets is reported. The mandatory reporting population has been expanded from ten original industries to include ten additional non-targeted industries and all corporations using over one trillion Btu's annually in any manufacturing industry. The ten most energy intensive industries have been involved in the reporting program since the signing of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act and as industrial … more
Date: December 1, 1980
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Energy Division annual progress report for period ending September 30, 1991

Description: The Energy Division is one of 17 research divisions at Oak Ridge Laboratory. Its goals and accomplishments are described in this annual progress report for FY 1991. The division's total expenditures in FY 1991 were $39.1 million. The work is supported by the US Department of Energy, US Department of Defense, many other federal agencies, and some private organizations. Disciplines of the 124 technical staff members include engineering, social sciences, physical and life sciences, and mathematics… more
Date: April 1, 1992
Creator: Stone, J.N. (ed.)
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