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Long-term tradeoffs between nuclear- and fossil-fuel burning

Description: A global energy/economics/environmental (E{sup 3}) model has been adapted with a nuclear energy/materials model to understand better {open_quotes}top-level{close_quotes}, long-term trade offs between civilian nuclear power, nuclear-weapons proliferation, fossil-fuel burning, and global economic welfare. Using a {open_quotes}business-as-usual{close_quotes} (BAU) point-of-departure case, economic, resource, proliferation-risk implications of plutonium recycle in LAIRs, greenhouse-gas-mitigating c… more
Date: December 31, 1996
Creator: Krakowski, Robert A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Nuclear power: engineering facts and environmental issues. Final report, June 23, 1974--June 27, 1974. [Instructional activities for one-week workshop for high school teachers on environmental aspects of power generation and safety of nuclear power plants]

Description: The outline is presented of a one-week workshop for high school teachers on the environmental aspects of power generation and safety requirements for nuclear power plants. Instructional activities consisted of lectures, demonstration laboratory sessions, and a tour of the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant. (CH)
Date: January 1, 1974
Creator: Kikuchi, C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Survey of fish impingement at power plants in the United States. Volume II. Inland waters

Description: Impingement of fish at cooling-water intakes of 33 power plants located on inland waters other than the Great Lakes has been surveyed and data are presented. Descriptions of site, plant, and intake design and operation are provided. Reports in this volume summarize impingement data for individual plants in tabular and histogram formats. Information was available from differing sources such as the utilities themselves, public documents, regulatory agencies, and others. Thus, the extent of detail… more
Date: March 1, 1977
Creator: Freeman, III, Richard F. & Sharma, Rajendra K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Survey of fish impingement at power plants in the United States. Volume III. Estuaries and coastal waters

Description: Impingement of fish at cooling-water intakes of 32 power plants, located on estuaries and coastal waters has been surveyed and data are presented. Descriptions of site, plant, and intake design and operation are provided. Reports in this volume summarize impingement data for individual plants in tabular and histogram formats. Information was available from differing sources such as the utilities themselves, public documents, regulatory agencies, and others. Thus, the extent of detail in the rep… more
Date: March 1, 1977
Creator: Stupka, Richard C. & Sharma, Rajendra K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Survey of fish impingement at power plants in the United States. Volume I. The Great Lakes

Description: Impingement of fish at cooling-water intakes of 20 power plants located on the Great Lakes has been surveyed and data are presented. Descriptions of site, plant, and intake design and operation are provided. Reports in this volume summarize impingement data for individual plants in tabular and histogram formats. Information was available from differing sources such as the utilities themselves, public documents, regulatory agencies, and others. Thus, the extent of detail in the reports varies gr… more
Date: March 1, 1977
Creator: Sharma, Rajendra K. & Freeman, III, Richard F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Resource Programs : Draft Environmental Impact Statement, Volume 2, Appendices.

Description: Every two years, Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) prepares a Resource Program which identifies the resource actions BPA will take to meet its obligation to serve the forecasted power requirements of its customers. The Resource Program`s Environmental Impact Statement (RPEIS) is a programmatic environmental document which will support decisions made in several future Resource Programs. Environmental documents tiered to the EIS may be prepared on a site-specific basis. The RPEIS includes a d… more
Date: March 1, 1992
Creator: United States. Bonneville Power Administration.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Impact on the steam electric power industry of deleting Section 316(a) of the Clean Water Act: Energy and environmental impacts

Description: Many power plants discharge large volumes of cooling water. In some cases, the temperature of the discharge exceeds state thermal requirements. Section 316(a) of the Clean Water Act (CWA) allows a thermal discharger to demonstrate that less stringent thermal effluent limitations would still protect aquatic life. About 32% of the total steam electric generating capacity in the United States operates under Section 316(a) variances. In 1991, the US Senate proposed legislation that would delete Sec… more
Date: January 1, 1993
Creator: Veil, J. A.; VanKuiken, J. C.; Folga, S. & Gillette, J. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Selection of heat disposal methods for a Hanford Nuclear Energy Center

Description: Selection of the best method for disposal of the waste heat from a large power generation center requires a comprehensive comparison of the costs and environmental effects. The objective is to identify the heat dissipation method with the minimum total economic and environmental cost. A 20 reactor HNEC will dissipate about 50,000 MWt of waste heat; a 40 reactor HNEC would release about 100,000 MWt. This is a much larger discharge of heat than has occurred from other concentrated industrial faci… more
Date: June 1, 1976
Creator: Young, J. R.; Kannberg, L. D.; Ramsdell, J. V.; Rickard, W. H. & Watson, D. G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Drift-modeling and monitoring comparisons. [Drift from power plant cooling towers]

Description: Congress is looking into the conglomeration of nuclear reactors into energy centers of limited area. Drift from cooling towers can corrode and damage structures in the immediate vicinity of the towers, cause a public nuisance if located near parking lots or high-density traffic areas, and endanger local vegetation. The estimation of salt deposition has relied primarily on predictions from a variety of models, with very few direct measurements. One of the major efforts in our program is to evalu… more
Date: January 1, 1977
Creator: Chen, N.C.J. & Hanna, S.R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Atmospheric impacts of evaporative cooling systems

Description: The report summarizes available information on the effects of various power plant cooling systems on the atmosphere. While evaporative cooling systems sharply reduce the biological impacts of thermal discharges in water bodies, they create (at least, for heat-release rates comparable to those of two-unit nuclear generating stations) atmospheric changes. For an isolated site such as required for a nuclear power plant, these changes are rather small and local, and usually environmentally acceptab… more
Date: October 1, 1976
Creator: Carson, J. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Perspectives on fish impingement

Description: Data on fish impingement and related parameters are being gathered at a large number of power stations throughout the country at substantial monetary and manpower costs. A national survey of fish impingement at power plants was conducted and much of the information compiled in a standardized format--an effort that we think will aid in planning improvements in the design, siting, and operation of the cooling-water intakes. This paper examines the objectives of the fish impingement studies, monit… more
Date: January 1, 1977
Creator: Sharma, R.K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Creation of an industry information resource to catalogue power plant cooling system impacts and mitigation measures affecting aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. [Cooling Systems Effects Data Base]

Description: The data base design and scope, as well as the products and services offered, for the Cooling Systems Effects Data Base are summarized.
Date: January 1, 1979
Creator: Hannon, E.H.; D'Angelo, L.J. & Talmage, S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Impingement studies at the 100-N reactor water intake

Description: Fish impingement and traveling screen passage were studied at the 100-N reactor water intake structure, Columbia River mile 380, from late April to August 1977. Species and numbers of fish affected were determined and compared to those at the adjacent Hanford Generating Project (HGP). Fish protection procedures previously developed for HGP were evaluated for application at 100-N.
Date: September 1, 1977
Creator: Page, T. L.; Neitzel, D. A. & Gray, R. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Prediction of Local Effects of Proposed Cooling Ponds

Description: A Fog Excess Water (FEW) Index has been shown to provide a good measure of the likelihood for steam fog to occur at specific cooling pond installations. The FEW Index is derived from the assumption that the surface boundary layer over a cooling pond will be strongly convective, and that highly efficient vertical transport mechanisms will result in a thorough mixing of air saturated at surface temperature with ambient air aloft. Available data support this assumption. An extension of this approa… more
Date: 1978
Creator: Hicks, B. B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Power plant siting; an application of the nominal group process technique

Description: The application of interactive group processes to the problem of facility siting is examined by this report. Much of the discussion is abstracted from experience gained in applying the Nominal Group Process Technique, an interactive group technique, to the identification and rating of factors important in siting nuclear power plants. Through this experience, interactive group process techniques are shown to facilitate the incorporation of the many diverse factors which play a role in siting. In… more
Date: October 3, 1976
Creator: Voelker, A. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Repair of radiation damage in mammalian cells: its relevance to environmental effects

Description: Assessment of the potential biological hazards associated with energy production technologies involves the quantitation of risk on the basis of dose-effect dependencies, from which, it is hoped, some safety guidelines can be developed. Our current knowledge of the biological importance of damage/repair processes stems by and large from radiation studies which clearly demonstrate that cellular response to radiation depends upon the ability of cells to repair the damage. Apparently, the same is t… more
Date: January 1, 1979
Creator: Han, A. & Elkind, M. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Quarterly Progress Report Covering Period October 1 Through December 31, 1978 Biocide By-Products in Aquatic Environments

Description: Analysis of water samples from several locations across the U.S. is underway. We have completed analysis using the Purge and Trap and headspace techniques on several locations. In the freshwater phase of the program we have completed fifteen chloroform acute toxicity bioassays with rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri), bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus), and catfish (Ictalurus punctatus). Results indicate, in all cases, the LC-50 is well above that which could be expected to be discharged due to power p… more
Date: March 1, 1979
Creator: Anderson, D.R.; Bean, R.M. & Gibson, C.I.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Effects of atmospheric deposition of energy-related pollutants on water quality: a review and assessment

Description: The effects on surface-water quality of atmospheric pollutants that are generated during energy production are reviewed and evaluated. Atmospheric inputs from such sources to the aquatic environment may include trace elements, organic compounds, radionuclides, and acids. Combustion is the largest energy-related source of trace-element emissions to the atmosphere. This report reviews the nature of these emissions from coal-fired power plants and discusses their terrestrial and aquatic effects fo… more
Date: May 1, 1981
Creator: Davis, M.J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Manufacturing sector carbon dioxide emissions in nine OECD countries 1973--87: A Divisia index decomposition to changes in fuel mix, emission coefficients, industry structure, energy intensities, and international structure

Description: In this paper the reduction in energy-related manufacturing carbon dioxide emissions for nine OECD countries in the period 1973 to 1987 is analyzed. Carbon dioxide emissions are estimated from energy use data. The emphasis is on carbon dioxide intensities, defined as emissions divided by value added. The overall manufacturing carbon dioxide intensity for the nine OECD countries was reduced by 42% in the period 1973--1987. Five fuels are specified together with six subsectors of manufacturing. C… more
Date: November 1, 1990
Creator: Torvanger, A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Toxicity and effects of bromoform on five marine species

Description: Bromoform has been identified as the single most abundant halogenated organic compound produced by the chlorination of marine waters. To determine the potential biological effects of its release into marine waters, short-term toxicity bioassays and 28-day uptake/28-day depuration studies were conducted with five marine species: Protothaca staminea, Mercenaria mercenaria, Crassostrea virginica, Penaeus aztecus, and Brevoortia tyrannus. The bioassay studies indicate that 96-hr LC/sub 50/'s r… more
Date: June 1, 1979
Creator: Gibson, C.I.; Tone, F.C.; Wilkinson, P. & Blaylock, J.W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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