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Rheological properties of kaolin and chemically simulated waste

The Savannah River Laboratory is conducting tests to determine the best operating conditions of pumps used to transfer insoluble radioactive sludges from old to new waste tanks. Because it is not feasible to conduct these tests with real or chemically simulated sludges, kaolin clay is being used as a stand-in for the solid waste. The rheology tests described herein were conducted to determine whether the properties of kaolin were sufficiently similar to those of real sludge to permit meaningful… more

Date: December 1, 1981

Creator: Selby, C.L.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Greater confinement disposal program at the Savannah River Plant

A demonstration Greater Confinement Disposal facility, consisting of twenty GCD boreholes, began accepting solid low-level radioactive waste at the Savannah River Plant in 1984. Three of the boreholes have been filled with the higher activity fraction of SRP solid waste. They have been stabilized with grout to prevent subsidence and reduce water infiltration. Closure will take place when all twenty boreholes have been filled. A Greater Confinement Disposal trench project is underway, with const… more

Date: September 1, 1985

Creator: Towler, O. A. & Cook, J. R.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Analysis of soil and water at the Four Mile Creek seepline near the F H Areas of SRS

Until 1988, solutions containing sodium hydroxide, nitride acid, low levels of radionuclides (mostly tritiated water) and some metals were discharged to unlined seepage basins at the F and H Areas of the Savannah River Site (SRS) as part of normal operations (Killian et al, 1987a,b). The basins are now being closed according to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). As part of the closure, a Part B Post-Closure Care Permit is being prepared. The information included in this report w… more

Date: June 20, 1990

Creator: Haselow, J. S.; Harris, M.; Looney, B. B.; Halverson, N. V. & Gladden, J. B.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Design and construction of the defense waste processing facility project at the Savannah River Plant

The Du Pont Company is building for the Department of Energy a facility to vitrify high-level radioactive waste at the Savannah River Plant (SRP) near Aiken, South Carolina. The Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) will solidify existing and future radioactive wastes by immobilizing the waste in Processing Facility (DWPF) will solidify existing and future radioactives wastes by immobilizing the waste in borosilicate glass contained in stainless steel canisters. The canisters will be sealed,… more

Date: January 1, 1986

Creator: Baxter, R G

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Correlation between predicted and observed levels of airborne tritium at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory site boundary

At the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, a computer code based on the Gaussian plume model is used to estimate radiation doses from routine or accidental release of airborne radioactive material. Routine releases of tritium have been used as a test of the overall uncertainty associated with these estimates. The ration of concentration to release rate at distances from the two principal release points to each of six site boundary sampling locations has been calcuated using local meteorological data… more

Date: February 19, 1980

Creator: Lindeken, C. L.; Silver, W. J.; Toy, A. J. & White, J. H.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Summaries of physical research in the geosciences

The summaries in this document describe the scope of the individual programs and detail the research performed during 1984-1985. The Geosciences Research Program includes research in geology, petrology, geophysics, geochemistry, hydrology, solar-terrestrial relationships, aeronomy, seismology, and natural resource analysis, including their various subdivisions and interdisciplinary areas.

Date: September 1, 1986

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Organizational cultural survey of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

At the request of the Department of Energy, an Organizational Survey (OS) was administered at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). The OS measured employees' opinions on subjects such as organizational culture, communication, commitment, group cohesion, coordination, safety, environmental issues, and job satisfaction. The result of this work was a quantitative measure of the notion of culture at the SLAC site. This report presents these results and discusses their interpretation.

Date: November 1, 1991

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Chemical treatments of soil to decrease radiostrontium leachability

The ready leachability of radiostrontium from radioactive waste is one of the most salient problems with shallow-land burial as a disposal method. The continuous leaching of buried waste at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, for periods up to thirty years, has led to contamination of significant volumes of soil with /sup 90/Sr. The goal of the present investigation was to evaluate methods to effect the in situ fixation or decrease the leachability of /sup 90/Sr from soil. Small columns of three… more

Date: January 1, 1980

Creator: Spalding, B. P.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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ORNL long-range environmental and waste management plan: Program overview and summary

The primary purpose of this report is to provide a thorough and systematic planning document to reflect the continuing process of site assessment, strategy development, and planning for the current and long-term control of environmental issues, waste management practices, and remedial action requirements. The docuemnt also provides an estimate of the resources required to implement the current plan. This document is not intended to be a budget document: it is, however, intended to provide guida… more

Date: April 1, 1988

Creator: Bates, L. D.; Berry, J. B.; Butterworth, G. E.; du Mont, S. P.; Easterday, C. A.; Geisler, A. H. et al.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Operational readiness reviews for restart of L reactor

The L Reactor at the Savannah River Plant is being restarted after being in a standby status since 1968. Operational Readiness Reviews (ORRs) were conducted by DOE-SR and contractor personnel concurrent with the restart activity. This paper summarizes the ORR activity.

Date: January 1, 1984

Creator: Finley, R H

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Mid-term report for the State of Nevada. Geothermal Commercialization Planning Project

The project purposes, objectives, technical approach, benefits to the state and DOE, summary of state project tasks, and specific task descriptions are listed. (MHR)

Date: January 1, 1980

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Processing Capabilities for the Elimination of Contaminated Metal Scrapyards at DOE/ORO-Managed Sites

Capabilities exist for reducing all the contaminated nickel, aluminum, and copper scrap to ingot form by smelting. Processing these metals at existing facilities could be completed in about 5 or 6 years. However, these metals represent only about 20% of the total metal inventories currently on hand at the DOE/ORO-managed sites. No provisions have been made for the ferrous scrap. Most of the ferrous scrap is unclassified and does not require secured storage. Also, the potential resale value of t… more

Date: January 1, 1982

Creator: Mack, J. E. & Williams, L. C.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Brookhaven integrated energy/economy modeling system and its use in conservation policy analysis

The approach used at BNL to model the impact of the introduction of advanced energy technologies in response to increased energy prices has been to link econometric, process, and input-output models. The econometric model generates growth, employment, productivity, inflation, final demand, and price-determined input-output coefficients for a ten-sector interindustry model. The outputs from the six energy sectors are used to drive a national energy process model which supplies energy prices, fue… more

Date: July 1, 1979

Creator: Groncki, P.J. & Marcuse, W.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Evaluated data collections from ENSDF. [ORNL]

For several years the Nuclear Data Project has been maintaining an Evaluated Nuclear Structure Data File (ENSDF), which is designed to include critically evaluated values for most nuclear spectroscopic quantities. The information in ENSDF is the same as in the Nuclear Data Sheets, which illustrates two particular output formats (drawings and tables). Spectroscopic information for nuclei with A < 45 is put into ENSDF from the evaluations of Aizenberg-Selove and of Endt and van der Leun. An inter… more

Date: January 1, 1979

Creator: Ewbank, W. B.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Ventilation systems analysis during tornado conditions. Progress report, October 1, 1976--April 30, 1977. [TVENT]

A computer code, TVENT, has been developed to predict the tornado-induced pressures and flows within an arbitrary nuclear facility ventilation system. Operational experience with TVENT in analyzing an ERDA facility has resulted in code modifications. Several architectural firms have agreed to use TVENT to analyze their designs. They will provide us with comments on the code and user's manual to make them more useful. Our investigation of the feasibility of scale model analysis to provide additi… more

Date: October 1, 1977

Creator: Gregory, W. S.; Andrae, R. W.; Duerre, K. H. & Dove, R. C.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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High-intensity accelerators

The design of high-intensity accelerators is described, using examples of machines being built at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The major design problem with these accelerators is associated with control of beam loss when accelerator intensity is increased. Beam dynamics, beam loss, and the radio-frequency quadrupole structure are discussed in the first part of the chapter followed by an explanation of plans to achieve high-intensity operation in three projects: the Fusion Material Irradi… more

Date: January 1, 1981

Creator: Knapp, E.A.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Draft regulatory analysis: notice of proposed rulemaking motor gasoline allocation revisions

The Draft Regulatory Analysis is prepared for those proposed regulations which either may have a major impact on the general economy, individual industries, or geographic regions and levels of government, or may be significant in that they affect important DOE policy concerns and are the object of public interest. The problems and proposed solutions for the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Public Hearings on the Motor Gasoline Allocation Program are examined. The ERA's mandate for this program… more

Date: June 1, 1980

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Metals and Ceramics Division materials science annual progress report for period ending June 30, 1977

Progress is reported for research programs in the metals and ceramics division of ORNL. In structure of materials, theoretical research, x-ray diffraction studies, studies of erosion of ceramics, preparation and synthesis of high temperature and special service materials, and studies of stabilities of microphases in high-temperature structural materials. Research into deformation and mechanical properties included physical metallurgy, and grain boundary segregation and embrittlement. Physical p… more

Date: September 1, 1977

Creator: McHargue, C.J. (comp.)

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Environmental assessment: Deaf Smith County site, Texas, Volume I

In February 1983, the US Department of Energy (DOE) identified a location in Deaf Smith County, Texas, as one of nine potentially acceptable sites for a mined geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. To determine their suitability, the Deaf Smith County site and the eight other potentially sites have been evaluated in accordance with the DOE's General Guidelines for the Recommendation of Sites for the Nuclear Waste Repositories. The Deaf Smith County site is … more

Date: May 1986

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Letter report: Media information review, 1991

The media information review, requested by the Communications Subcommittee of the Technical Steering Panel (TSP), provides a general indication of the media's areas of interests with regard to the Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction (HEDR) Project. This review briefly assesses 24 newspaper and magazine articles collected between September 1991 and January 1992 by Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL). Articles that mention the project, activities closely associated with it, or members of the… more

Date: April 1, 1992

Creator: Harvey, G. L.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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An aerial radiological survey of Pocatello and Soda Springs, Idaho and surrounding area, June--July 1986

Three aerial radiological surveys were conducted during the period 16 June through 15 July 1986 over the towns of Pocatello, Soda Springs, and Fort Hall, Idaho and the surrounding areas. The surveys were performed for the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by the United States Department of Energy's (DOE) Remote Sensing Laboratory (RSL), utilizing the Aerial Measuring System (AMS). This work was completed in cooperation with a study by the EPA to conduct a dose assessment of hu… more

Date: February 1, 1987

Creator: Berry, H. A.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Physics, computer science and mathematics division. Annual report, 1 January - 31 December 1982

Experimental physics research activities are described under the following headings: research on e/sup +/e/sup -/ annihilation; research at Fermilab; search for effects of a right-handed gauge boson; the particle data center; high energy astrophysics and interdisciplinary experiments; detector and other research and development; publications and reports of other research; computation and communication; and engineering, evaluation, and support operations. Theoretical particle physics research an… more

Date: August 1, 1983

Creator: Jackson, J.D.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Subsurface stratigraphy and structure of A/M area at the Savannah River Site, Aiken County, South Carolina

This report is a study of the stratigraphy and structure of the A/M Area Hazardous Waste Management Facility Post-Closure Care Permit process on the Savannah River Site. The data from the lithologic and geophysical logs of 93 wells is the basis of this analysis.

Date: August 1, 1991

Creator: Fallaw, W.C.; Sims, W.R. & Haselow, J.S.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Performing impact evaluations in industrial retrofit: The Energy Savings Plan Program

The Energy Savings Plan (ESP) is Bonneville Power Administration's retrofit program for the industrial sector. The program pays incentives for energy conservation measures involving electrical energy efficiency improvements in manufacturing, processing, and refining industries. This paper will describe the ESP program, recount the techniques selected to evaluate the retrofits, and report the findings from five ESP project impact evaluations completed to date. The impact evaluations provide a fr… more

Date: August 1, 1991

Creator: Riewer, S. (USDOE Bonneville Power Administration, Portland, OR (United States)) & Spanner, G.E. (Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States))

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department