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Capital requirements for the transportaton of energy materials based on 1978 ARC estimates

Description: TERA's estimates of capital requirements to transport natural gas, crude oil, petroleum products, and coal in the US by 1990 are presented. Summaries of transportation investment requirements through 1990 are tabulated for Scenarios B, C, and D. Scenario A is high supply, high demand. Scenario B is a high energy demand, low oil and gas supply case and requires most capital for transportation of all energy commodities. Scenario D requires the least amount of investment in transportation and is t… more
Date: October 1, 1979
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Relative Potential Hazards of Radioactive Waste in Various Water Systems

Description: The potential hazard to man arising from the hypothetical release of radioactive spent fuel waste into various water systems has been evaluated. Radionuclide transport and human exposure were simulated for six water systems: a large Northwestern river, a small Northeastern river, a small Northwestern river, a large Central Region river, a lake with no outflow in an arid region, and an aquifer discharging directly into an ocean.
Date: June 15, 1979
Creator: Duffy, John J. & Mealy, Gregory L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Tagging studies of mule deer fawns on the Hanford Site, 1969 to 1977

Description: From 1969 to 1977, 346 mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) fawns were tagged and released on islands and shoreline habitat associated with the Columbia River on the Hanford Site in south-central Washington. The purpose was to determine the movement of mule deer along the Columbia River shoreline from the Hanford Site through tag recovery. Twenty-one tagged deer have been killed primarily by hunters near the Hanford Site or on areas of the Hanford Site open to public access. Movements of up to 113 k… more
Date: October 1, 1979
Creator: Eberhardt, L. E.; Hedlund, J. D. & Rickard, W. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Geothermal Modeling of the Raft River Geothermal Field

Description: This interim report presents the results to date of chemical modeling of the Raft River KGRA. Earlier work indicated a northwest-southeast anomaly in the contours. Modeling techniques applied to more complete data allowed further definition of the anomaly. Models described in this report show the source of various minerals in the geothermal water. There appears to be a regional heat source that gives rise to uniform conductive heat flow in the region, but convective flow is concentrated near th… more
Date: November 1, 1979
Creator: Overton, H. L.; Chaney, R. E.; McAtee, D. L. & Graham, D. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Environmental report of Purex Plant and Uranium Oxide Plant - Hanford reservation

Description: A description of the site, program, and facilities is given. The data and calculations indicate that there will be no significant adverse environmental impact from the resumption of full-scale operations of the Purex and Uranium Oxide Plants. All significant pathways of radionuclides in Purex Plant effluents are evaluated. This includes submersion in the airborne effluent plumes, consumption of drinking water and foodstuffs irrigated with Columbia River water, ingestion of radioactive iodine th… more
Date: April 1, 1979
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Geohydrology and ground-water quality beneath the 300 Area, Hanford Site, Washington

Description: Ground water enters the 300 Area from the northwest, west, and southwest. However, throughout most of the 300 Area, the flow is to the east and southeast. Ground water flows to the northeast only in the southern portion of the 300 Area. Variations in level of the Columbia River affected the ground-water system by altering the level and shape of the 300 Area watertable. Large quantities of process waste water, when warmed during summer months by solar radiation or cooled during winter months by … more
Date: June 1, 1979
Creator: Lindberg, J.W. & Bond, F.W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Capital requirements for the transportation of energy materials: 1979 ARC estimates. Final report

Description: TERA's estimates of capital requirements to transport natural gas, crude oil, petroleum products, and coal in the US by 1990 are presented. It is a continuation of a 1978 study (EAPA 5:3946) to perform a similar analysis on 1979 scenarios. Scenarios B, C, and D from the EIA's Mid-range Energy Forecasting Systems, as used in the 1979 Annual Report to Congress (ARC), were provided as a basis for the analysis and represent three alternative futures. Summaries of transportation investment requireme… more
Date: September 28, 1979
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Environmental status of the Hanford site for CY 1978

Description: Continued compliance of Hanford operations with all applicable state and federal environmental regulations, with the exception of suspended particulates from several steam power plants, was demonstrated by the environmental and effluent data collected during 1978. Included in the environmental data collected were measurements of external radiation, and radionuclide analyses of air samples, Columbia River water, other surface waters, wildlife, soil, and vegetation. Periodically all roadways, rai… more
Date: August 1, 1979
Creator: Houston, J. R. & Blumer, P. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Sensitivity studies of the swift radionuclide transport model

Description: There are large uncertainties in the input waste depository. The aim of the sensitivity studies was to identify these uncertainties and to reduce the number of SWIFT transport calculations. The sensitivity analysis was applied to a hypothetical problem consisting of both a reference site containing a nuclear waste depository and a disruptive-event scenario for the possible release of radioactive materials to the biosphere. Results are presented for the total radionuclide discharge to a river in… more
Date: January 1, 1979
Creator: Campbell, J. E.; Langkopf, B. S. & Iman, R. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Master schedule for CY-1980 Hanford Environmental Surveillance Routine Program

Description: The current schedule of data collection for the routine environmental surveillance program at the Hanford Site is presented. The enviromental surveillance program objectives are to evaluate the levels of radioactive and nonradioactive pollutants in the Hanford environs, as required in Manual Chapter 0513, and to monitor Hanford operations for compliance with applicable environmental criteria given in Manual Chapter 0524 and Washington State Water Quality Standards. Data are reported on the foll… more
Date: December 1, 1979
Creator: Blumer, P. J.; Houston, J. R. & Eddy, P. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Annotated bibliography of the geology of the Columbia Plateau (Columbia River Basalt) and adjacent areas of Oregon

Description: This bibliography containing approximately 2000 entries was prepared by the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries under Subcontract SA-913 with Rockwell Hanford Operations' Basalt Waste Isolation Program. The objective of the Basalt Waste Isolation Program is to determine the feasibility of storing nuclear waste within the Columbia River Basalt Group. Under the geologic portion of this program, the stratigraphic, structural, tectonic, seismic, and hydrologic aspects of the Columbi… more
Date: January 1, 1979
Creator: Bela, J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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