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Addendum to the Composite Analysis for the E-Area Vaults and Saltstone Disposal Facilities

Description: Revision 1 of the Composite Analysis (CA) Addendum has been prepared to respond to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Low-Level Waste Disposal Facilities Federal Review Group review of the CA. This addendum to the composite analysis responds to the conditions of approval. The composite analysis was performed on the two active SRS low-level radioactive waste disposal facilities. The facilities are the Z-Area Saltstone Disposal Facility and the E-Area Vaults Disposal Facility. The analysis calcu… more
Date: December 19, 2002
Creator: Cook, J. R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Applicability of International and DOE Target Values to ALD Destructive Measurement Applications

Description: International Target values and target value applicability are a function of the nuclear material processing campaign or application for which the accountability measurement method is being applied. Safeguarding significant quantities of nuclear-grade materials requires that accountability measurements be as accurate, precise, and representative as practically possible. In general, the ITV provides a benchmark for determining generic acceptability of the performance of the various accountabilit… more
Date: December 19, 2002
Creator: Holland, M.K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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B physics, BTeV, and all that

Description: The status of ''flavor physics'' in our pursuit of knowledge in elementary particle physics is discussed. Then, the BTeV experiment, planned for the Fermilab Tevatron collider, is described briefly and its physics reach is discussed. Comparisons are made to the current B physics experiments at e{sup +}e{sup -} facilities and to the LHCb experiment, planned for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
Date: December 19, 2002
Creator: Butler, Joel N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Biological and Chemical Security

Description: The LLNL Chemical & Biological National Security Program (CBNP) provides science, technology and integrated systems for chemical and biological security. Our approach is to develop and field advanced strategies that dramatically improve the nation's capabilities to prevent, prepare for, detect, and respond to terrorist use of chemical or biological weapons. Recent events show the importance of civilian defense against terrorism. The 1995 nerve gas attack in Tokyo's subway served to catalyze and… more
Date: December 19, 2002
Creator: Fitch, P J
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Campaign Finance: Constitutional and Legal Issues of Soft Money

Description: Soft money is a major issue in the campaign finance reform debate because these generally unregulated funds are perceived as resulting from a loophole in the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA). Generally, soft money is funds that are raised and spent according to applicable state laws, which FECA prohibits from being spent directly on federal elections, but that may have an indirect influence on federal elections. This Issue Brief discusses three major types of soft money: political party sof… more
Date: December 19, 2002
Creator: Whitaker, L. Paige
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Crossflow Filter Check Out Test Report

Description: As part of the reconstitution of 512-S, a functional test of the Crossflow Filter located in the North Cell of Building 512-S was conducted from July 22 through August 14, 2002. This test was performed in two parts. The first part used water as the process feed. The second part used simulant salt solution, simulant sludge, and monosodium titanate (MST) at various solids loadings as the process feed. The test was designed to demonstrate the cross-flow filter's ability to perform solid-liquid sep… more
Date: December 19, 2002
Creator: Jones, R.T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Detrimental Effects of Natural Vertical Head Gradients on Chemical and Water Level Measurements in Observation Wells: Identification and Control

Description: It is well known that vertical head gradients exist in natural aquifer systems, and borehole flowmeter data have shown that such gradients commonly set up spontaneous vertical flows in monitoring wells, often called ambient flows. What has not been fully appreciated until recently is the serious detrimental effects such flows can have on solute concentration and hydraulic head measurements in monitoring wells. This communication explores the possibilities of diminishing ambient flows by increas… more
Date: December 19, 2002
Creator: Flach, G. P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Development of the LBNL positron emission mammography camera

Description: We present the construction status of the LBNL Positron Emission Mammography (PEM) camera, which utilizes a PET detector module with depth of interaction measurement consisting of 64 LSO crystals (3x3x30 mm3) coupled on one end to a single photomultiplier tube (PMT) and on the opposite end to a 64 pixel array of silicon photodiodes (PDs). The PMT provides an accurate timing pulse, the PDs identify the crystal of interaction, the sum provides a total energy signal, and the PD/(PD+PMT) ratio dete… more
Date: December 19, 2002
Creator: Huber, Jennifer S.; Choong, Woon-Seng; Wang, Jimmy; Maltz, Jonathon S.; Qi, Jinyi; Mandelli, Emanuele et al.
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Echo Meadows Project Winter Artificial Recharge.

Description: This report discusses the findings of the Echo Meadows Project (BPA Project 2001-015-00). The main purpose of this project is to artificially recharge an alluvial aquifer, WITH water from Umatilla River during the winter high flow period. In turn, this recharged aquifer will discharge an increased flow of cool groundwater back to the river, thereby improving Umatilla River water quality and temperature. A considerable side benefit is that the Umatilla River should improve as a habitat for migra… more
Date: December 19, 2002
Creator: Ziari, Fred
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Efficient Video Similarity Measurement and Search

Description: The amount of information on the world wide web has grown enormously since its creation in 1990. Duplication of content is inevitable because there is no central management on the web. Studies have shown that many similar versions of the same text documents can be found throughout the web. This redundancy problem is more severe for multimedia content such as web video sequences, as they are often stored in multiple locations and different formats to facilitate downloading and streaming. Similar… more
Date: December 19, 2002
Creator: Cheung, Sen-Cheng S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Enhancing the Atomic-Level Understanding of co2 Mineral Sequestration Mechanisms via Advanced Computational Modeling

Description: Fossil fuels currently provide 85% of the world's energy needs, with the majority coming from coal, due to its low cost, wide availability, and high energy content. The extensive use of coalfired power assumes that the resulting CO{sub 2} emissions can be vented to the atmosphere. However, exponentially increasing atmospheric CO{sub 2} levels have brought this assumption under critical review. Over the last decade, this discussion has evolved from whether exponentially increasing anthropogenic … more
Date: December 19, 2002
Creator: Chizmeshya, A. V. G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Exempting Food and Agriculture Products from U.S. Economic Sanctions: Status and Implementation

Description: Falling agricultural exports and declining commodity prices led farm groups and agribusiness firms to urge the 106th Congress to pass legislation exempting foods and agricultural commodities from U.S. economic sanctions against certain countries. In completing action on the FY2001 agriculture appropriations bill, Congress codified the lifting of unilateral sanctions on commercial sales of food, agricultural commodities, medicine, and medical products to Iran, Libya, North Korea, and Sudan, and … more
Date: December 19, 2002
Creator: Jurenas, Remy
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Finite Element Analysis Enhancement or B-25 Container Dynamic Compaction

Description: The document describes initial structural finite element modeling for dynamic compaction of B-25 containers buried in Engineered Trench number 1 at the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River Site (SRS), Aiken, South Carolina. Dynamic compaction is the practice of dropping a heavy weight to compact material that has been placed in the subsurface for disposal. B-25s placed in Engineered Trench number 1 contain low-level radioactive waste. Dynamic compaction of buried B-25s is an option that c… more
Date: December 19, 2002
Creator: Jones, W. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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First CDF II heavy flavor physics results with the silicon vertex trigger

Description: The renewed CDF II experiment recently re-started data taking. The data collected lately already provides insight in the heavy flavor capabilities of this p{bar p} experiment. As a benchmark of these possibilities we present two preliminary results: the measurement of the branching fractions BR(D{sup o} {yields} {pi}{sup +}{pi}{sup -}) and BR(D{sup o} {yields} K{sup +}K{sup -}) relative to BR(D{sup o} {yields} K{sup {+-}} {pi}{sup {-+}}) and the measurement of the invariant mass difference betw… more
Date: December 19, 2002
Creator: Cerri, A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Haiti: Issues for Congress

Description: Congress continues to express concern about a number of developments in Haiti, especially the stalled democratic process there and increased violence and human rights violations.
Date: December 19, 2002
Creator: Taft-Morales, Maureen
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Low Dose Studies with Focused X-rays in Cell and Tissue Models: Mechanisms of Bystander and Genomic Instability Responses

Description: The management of the risks of exposure of people to ionizing radiation is important in relation to its uses in industry and medicine, also to natural and man-made radiation in the environment. The vase majority of exposures are at a very low level of radiation dose. The risks are of inducing cancer in the exposed individuals and a smaller risk of inducing genetic damage that can be transmitted to children conceived after exposure. Studies of these risks in exposed population studies with any a… more
Date: December 19, 2002
Creator: Michael, Barry D.; Held, Kathryn & Prise, Kevin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Military Personnel: Joint Officer Development Has Improved, but a Strategic Approach Is Needed

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "DOD has increasingly engaged in multiservice and multinational operations. Congress enacted the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986, in part, so that DOD's military leaders would be better prepared to plan, support, and conduct joint operations. GAO assessed DOD actions to implement provisions in the law that address the development of officers in joint matters and evaluated impe… more
Date: December 19, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at
Date: December 19, 2002, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 17 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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