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Sensitivity and representativity analysis of past experiments with respect to ABTR system.

Description: A comprehensive validation analysis has been performed that incorporates representativity of multiple parameters, experiments, reference designs, and adjustment of the nuclear data. The work involves a new representativity study among selected reactor designs and several experiments. Application, using existing experiments, to reference design like the ABTR and the SFR has demonstrated that it is possible to achieve a significant reduction of uncertainty on the main integral parameters of inter… more
Date: August 29, 2007
Creator: Aliberti, G.; Palmiotti, G. & Salvatores, M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Proceedings of the USNRC/EPRI/ANL heated crevice seminar.

Description: An international Heated Crevice Seminar, sponsored by the Division of Engineering Technology, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Argonne National Laboratory, and the Electric Power Research Institute, was held at Argonne National Laboratory on October 7-11, 2002. The objective of the seminar was to provide a working forum for the exchange of information by contributing experts on current issues related to corrosion in heated crevices, particularly as it r… more
Date: August 31, 2003
Creator: Park, J. Y.; Fruzzetti, K.; Muscara, J.; Diercks, D. R.; Technology, Energy; EPRI et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Feasibility study for use of the natural convection shutdown heat removal test facility (NSTF) for VHTR water-cooled RCCS shutdown.

Description: In summary, a scaling analysis of a water-cooled Reactor Cavity Cooling System (RCCS) system was performed based on generic information on the RCCS design of PBMR. The analysis demonstrates that the water-cooled RCCS can be simulated at the ANL NSTF facility at a prototypic scale in the lateral direction and about half scale in the vertical direction. Because, by necessity, the scaling is based on a number of approximations, and because no analytical information is available on the performance … more
Date: August 31, 2007
Creator: Tzanos, C. P. & Farmer, M. T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Final report: results of the 2007 investigation of potential contamination at the former CCC/USDA facility in Powhattan, Kansas.

Description: The 2007 investigation of carbon tetrachloride and chloroform contamination at Powhattan, Kansas, was conducted at the request of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE 2006a). The Environmental Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory implemented the investigation on behalf of the Commodity Credit Corporation of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (CCC/USDA). The primary purposes of the investigation were to evaluate potential contaminant source areas on the former CCC/USD… more
Date: August 15, 2008
Creator: LaFreniere, L. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Operation of the APS photoinjector drive laser system.

Description: The APS photoinjector drive laser system has been in operation since 1999 and is achieving a performance level exceeding the requirement of stable operation of the LEUTL FEL system. One remarkable number is the UV energy stability of better than 2% rms, sometimes less than 1% rms. This report summarizes the operation experience of the laser system and the improvements made along the way. We also outline the route of upgrade of the system and some frontier laser research and development opportun… more
Date: August 4, 2008
Creator: Li, Yuelin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Final work plan for targeted investigation at Hilton, Kansas.

Description: This Work Plan outlines the scope of a targeted investigation to update the status of carbon tetrachloride contamination in groundwater associated with grain storage operations at Hilton, Kansas. The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC), an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), operated a grain storage facility in Hilton during the 1950s and 1960s. At the time of the CCC/USDA operation in Hilton, grain storage facilities (CCC/USDA and private) were located along the both sides of t… more
Date: August 28, 2007
Creator: LaFreniere, L. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Final Safety Analysis Report (FSAR) for Building 332, Increment III

Description: This Final Safety Analysis Report (FSAR) supplements the Preliminary Safety Analysis Report (PSAR), dated January 18, 1974, for Building 332, Increment III of the Plutonium Materials Engineering Facility located at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory (LLL). The FSAR, in conjunction with the PSAR, shows that the completed increment provides facilities for safely conducting the operations as described. These documents satisfy the requirements of ERDA Manual Appendix 6101, Annex C, dated April 8, 19… more
Date: August 31, 1977
Creator: Odell, B. N. & Toy, Jr., A. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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YALINA Analytical Benchmark Analyses Using the Deterministic ERANOS Code System.

Description: The growing stockpile of nuclear waste constitutes a severe challenge for the mankind for more than hundred thousand years. To reduce the radiotoxicity of the nuclear waste, the Accelerator Driven System (ADS) has been proposed. One of the most important issues of ADSs technology is the choice of the appropriate neutron spectrum for the transmutation of Minor Actinides (MA) and Long Lived Fission Products (LLFP). This report presents the analytical analyses obtained with the deterministic ERANO… more
Date: August 31, 2009
Creator: Gohar, Y. & Aliberti, G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Vehicle Technologies Program Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) Report for Fiscal Year 2012

Description: The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy has defined milestones for its Vehicle Technologies Program (VTP). This report provides estimates of the benefits that would accrue from achieving these milestones relative to a base case that represents a future in which there is no VTP-supported vehicle technology development. Improvements in the fuel economy and reductions in the cost of light- and heavy-duty vehicles were estimated by using Argonne National Lab… more
Date: August 10, 2012
Creator: Ward, J.; Stephens, T. S. & Birky, A. K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Scalability of the natural convection shutdown heat removal test facility (NSTF) data to VHTR/NGNP RCCS designs.

Description: Passive safety in the Very High Temperature Reactor (VHTR) is strongly dependent on the thermal performance of the Reactor Cavity Cooling System (RCCS). Scaled experiments performed in the Natural Shutdown Test Facility (NSTF) are to provide data for assessing and/or improving computer code models for RCCS phenomena. Design studies and safety analyses that are to support licensing of the VHTR will rely on these models to achieve a high degree of certainty in predicted design heat removal rate. … more
Date: August 7, 2007
Creator: Vilim, R .B. & Feldman, E. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Water vulnerabilities for existing coal-fired power plants.

Description: This report was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) Existing Plants Research Program, which has an energy-water research effort that focuses on water use at power plants. This study complements the Existing Plants Research Program's overall research effort by evaluating water issues that could impact power plants. Water consumption by all users in the United States over the 2005-2030 time period is projected to increase by about 7% (fro… more
Date: August 19, 2010
Creator: Elcock, D.; Kuiper, J. & Division, Environmental Science
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Feasibility analyses for HEU to LEU fuel conversion of the LAUE Langivin Institute (ILL) High Flux Reactor (RHF).

Description: The High Flux Reactor (RHF) of the Laue Langevin Institute (ILL) based in Grenoble, France is a research reactor designed primarily for neutron beam experiments for fundamental science. It delivers one of the most intense neutron fluxes worldwide, with an unperturbed thermal neutron flux of 1.5 x 10{sup 15} n/cm{sup 2}/s in its reflector. The reactor has been conceived to operate at a nuclear power of 57 MW but currently operates at 52 MW. The reactor currently uses a Highly Enriched Uranium (H… more
Date: August 19, 2010
Creator: Stevens, J.; A., Tentner.; Bergeron, A. & Division, Nuclear Engineering
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Fuel cycle analysis of once-through nuclear systems.

Description: Once-through fuel cycle systems are commercially used for the generation of nuclear power, with little exception. The bulk of these once-through systems have been water-cooled reactors (light-water and heavy water reactors, LWRs and HWRs). Some gas-cooled reactors are used in the United Kingdom. The commercial power systems that are exceptions use limited recycle (currently one recycle) of transuranic elements, primarily plutonium, as done in Europe and nearing deployment in Japan. For most of … more
Date: August 10, 2010
Creator: Kim, T. K.; Taiwo, T. A. & Division, Nuclear Engineering
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Summary of Generation-IV transmutation impacts.

Description: An assessment of the potential role of Generation IV nuclear systems in an advanced fuel cycle has been performed. The Generation IV systems considered are the thermal-spectrum VHTR and SCWR, and the fast-spectrum GFR, LFR, and SFR. This report addresses the impact of each system on advanced fuel cycle goals, particularly related to waste management and resource utilization. The transmutation impact of each system was also assessed, along with variant designs for transuranics (TRU) burning. The… more
Date: August 3, 2005
Creator: Taiwo, T. A. & Hill, R. N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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