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Appropriations for FY2000: An Overview

Description: Appropriations are one part of a complex federal budget process that includes budget resolutions, appropriations (regular, supplemental, and continuing) bills, rescissions, and budget reconciliation bills. This report is a guide to one of the 13 regular appropriations bills that Congress passes each year.
Date: February 29, 2000
Creator: Bley, Mary Frances
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Benchmarking the Remote-Handled Waste Facility at the West Valley Demonstration Project

Description: ABSTRACT Facility decontamination activities at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP), the site of a former commercial nuclear spent fuel reprocessing facility near Buffalo, New York, have resulted in the removal of radioactive waste. Due to high dose and/or high contamination levels of this waste, it needs to be handled remotely for processing and repackaging into transport/disposal-ready containers. An initial conceptual design for a Remote-Handled Waste Facility (RHWF), completed in J… more
Date: February 29, 2000
Creator: Mendiratta, O. P. & Ploetz, D. K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Data Foundry: Data Warehousing and Integration for Scientific Data Management

Description: Data warehousing is an approach for managing data from multiple sources by representing them with a single, coherent point of view. Commercial data warehousing products have been produced by companies such as RebBrick, IBM, Brio, Andyne, Ardent, NCR, Information Advantage, Informatica, and others. Other companies have chosen to develop their own in-house data warehousing solution using relational databases, such as those sold by Oracle, IBM, Informix and Sybase. The typical approaches include f… more
Date: February 29, 2000
Creator: Musick, R.; Critchlow, T.; Ganesh, M.; Fidelis, Z.; Zemla, A. & Slezak, T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Budget: Analysis of Real Property Maintenance and Base Operations Fund Movements

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the extent to which the Department of Defense (DOD) has moved funds that directly affect readiness to pay for real property maintenance and base operations, focusing on: (1) the net differences between the initial congressional designations of operation and maintenance (O&M) funding for real property maintenance and base operations and the amount… more
Date: February 29, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Evaluation of design and operation basis of the smear test station

Description: The purpose of the WTC-STS is to provide final verification that the external canister surface is free of transferable contamination before transporting the canister to the Glass Waste Storage Building for onsite storage.
Date: February 29, 2000
Creator: Hutsell, D.J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Final Report Sustained Spheromak Physics Project FY 1997 - FY 1999

Description: This is the final report on the LDRD SI-funded Sustained Spheromak Physics Project for the years FY1997-FY1999, during which the SSPX spheromak was designed, built, and commissioned for operation at LLNL. The specific LDRD project covered in this report concerns the development, installation, and operation of specialized hardware and diagnostics for use on the SSPX facility in order to study energy confinement in a sustained spheromak plasma configuration. The USDOE Office of Fusion Energy Scie… more
Date: February 29, 2000
Creator: Hooper, E.B. & Hill, D.N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Financial Audit: IRS' Fiscal Year 1999 Financial Statements

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO audited the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) fiscal year (FY) 1999 financial statements."
Date: February 29, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Gun Control: Implementation of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on a wide variety of topics related to the permanent provisions (phase II) of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, focusing on: (1) statistics on background checks, denials, and appeals; (2) enforcement actions; (3) the National Instant Criminal Background Check System's (NICS) operations; and (4) pawnshop issues."
Date: February 29, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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How well do we need to know the beam properties at a neutrino factory?

Description: In principle, a neutrino factory can produce a beam with a well known {nu}{sub e} and {nu}{sub {mu}} flux. In practice, the uncertainties on the muon beam properties will introduce uncertainties into the calculated neutrino fluxes. The authors explore the relationship between the beam systematics and the systematic uncertainties on predicted event rates at a far site. The desired precision with which they must know the beam momentum, direction, divergence, momentum spread, and polarization are … more
Date: February 29, 2000
Creator: Geer, S. & Crisan, C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Intercity Passenger Rail: Amtrak Needs to Improve Its Accountability for Taxpayer Relief Act Funds

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the National Railroad Passenger Corporation's (Amtrak) use of funds, focusing on: (1) how much Amtrak has spent in Taxpayer Relief Act (TRA) funds and what types of activities it has funded; (2) whether Amtrak has used TRA funds in accordance with the act; (3) what the roles of the Amtrak Reform Council and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have been in monito… more
Date: February 29, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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LATIS3D: The Gold Standard for Laser-Tissue-Interaction Modeling

Description: The goal of this LDRD project has been to create LATIS3D--the world's premier computer program for laser-tissue interaction modeling. The development was based on recent experience with the 2D LATIS code and the ASCI code, KULL. With LATIS3D, important applications in laser medical therapy were researched including dynamical calculations of tissue emulsification and ablation, photothermal therapy, and photon transport for photodynamic therapy. This project also enhanced LLNL's core competency i… more
Date: February 29, 2000
Creator: London, R. A.; Makarewicz, A. M.; Kim, B. M.; Gentile, N. A.; Yang, Y. B.; Brlik, M. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Multi Canister Overpack (MCO) Design Report [SEC 1 Thru 3]

Description: The MCO is designed to facilitate the removal, processing and storage of the spent nuclear fuel currently stored in the East and West K-Basins. The MCO is a stainless steel canister approximately 24 inches in diameter and 166 inches long with cover cap installed. The shell and the collar which is welded to the shell are fabricated from 304/304L dual certified stainless steel for the shell and F304/F304L dual certified for the collar. The shell has a nominal thickness of 1/2 inch. The top closur… more
Date: February 29, 2000
Creator: GOLDMANN, L.H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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National Ignition Facility monthly status report--February 2000

Description: The Project provides for the design, procurement, construction, assembly, installation, and acceptance testing of the National Ignition Facility (NIF), an experimental inertial confinement fusion facility intended to achieve controlled thermonuclear fusion in the laboratory by imploding a small capsule containing a mixture of the hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium. The NIF will be constructed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, California as determined by the R… more
Date: February 29, 2000
Creator: Moses, Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Nickel based superalloy with improved weldability and oxidation resistance. Fifth quarterly report for the period November 1999 - January 2000

Description: This program is part of the US Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Related Inventions Program (ERIP). The purpose of ERIP is to promote and facilitate the development of energy saving technologies that may not otherwise be developed solely by commercial enterprises. The program has been highly successful in achieving its mission. The aim of this project is to determine and provide technical and economic data to a commercial end user of the alloy so that a full-scale alloy qualification program ca… more
Date: February 29, 2000
Creator: Simkovich, George & Whitney, Eric
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A proposal for the development of techniques for the implementation of control to experimental chaotic systems. Final technical report

Description: This is the final report on a research project that explored (a) controlling complex dynamical systems; (b) using controlled chaotic signals for communication (c) methods of controlling chaos via targeting; (d) deterministic modeling; and miscellaneous work on the interface between chaotic and stable periodic behavior as system parameters vary, bifurcations of non-smooth systems that describe impact oscillators; phenomena that occur in quasiperiodically forced systems, and the fractal and topol… more
Date: February 29, 2000
Creator: Grebogi, Celso
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Quarterly Report, Dec. 1, 1999-Feb. 29, 2000, Novel, Integrated Reactor

Description: The basic core design requirements were defined in the previous reporting period. During the second quarter, several series of neutronic calculations were performed. Monte Carlo BOL (Beginning-of-Life) simulations were performed to evaluate the impact of various design alternatives on key core parameters. Fuel design alternatives that were examined by these studies included: fuel form (oxide, carbide and nitride) (note that due to the AMTEC high temperature requirement, metal fuel was eliminate… more
Date: February 29, 2000
Creator: Paramono, D. V.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Regulation of cell division in higher plants. Final technical report

Description: Research in the latter part of the grant period was divided into two parts: (1) expansion of the macromolecular tool kit for studying plant cell division; (2) experiments in which the roles played by plant cell cycle regulators were to be cast in the light of the emerging yeast and animal cell paradigm for molecular control of the mitotic cycle. The first objectives were accomplished to a very satisfactory degree. With regard to the second part of the project, we were driven to change our objec… more
Date: February 29, 2000
Creator: Jacobs, Thomas W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Tennessee Valley Authority: Problems With Irrevocable Trust Raise Need for Additional Oversight

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) creation of the Center for Rural Studies (CRS) Trust, focusing on: (1) the significant events pertaining to the creation, funding, and operation of CRS as well as any investigations of CRS; (2) how TVA accounted for the funds returned to TVA; and (3) the oversight of TVA activities."
Date: February 29, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Acceptance Test Plan for the Sludge Pickup Adaptor

Description: This test plan documents the acceptance testing of the sludge pickup adapter for potential use during PSI Phases 3 and 4 fuel cleanliness inspection activities. The adaptex is attached to the strainer tip of the vacuum wand and used to suction up residual sludge captured in a sludge collection tray. The material is vacuumed into a chamber of known volume in the sludge pickup adapter. The device serves as an aid in helping to determine whether the observed quantity of sludge is within allowable … more
Date: March 29, 2000
Creator: Pitner, A. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Automated {sup 99}Tc analysis in AW-101 and AN-107 ``diluted feed'' matrixes

Description: A process monitor is needed by British Nuclear Fuels Limited, Inc. (BNFL Inc.) to measure total {sup 99}Tc levels in column effluents during technetium removal from the aqueous fraction of the Hanford high-level tank wastes. The monitor must achieve detection limits of 1 x 10{sup {minus}8}Ci/mL (0.6 {micro}g/mL). Measurements must be done in near real time, with an analysis frequency of {approximately}15 min. The monitoring technology must be sufficiently simple and robust for unattended contin… more
Date: March 29, 2000
Creator: Egorov, O. B. & Kurath, D. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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