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Environmental assessment for the Satellite Power System (SPS) Concept Development and Evaluation Program (CDEP). [Microwave and non-microwave health and ecological assessment]

Description: In the satellite power system (SPS), satellites in geosynchronous earth orbit would collect solar energy in space, convert it to microwaves, and transmit the microwaves to receiving antennas (rectennas) on earth. At the rectennas, the microwave energy would be converted to electricity. This SPS environmental assessment considers the microwave and nonmicrowave effects on the terrestrial environment and human health, atmospheric effects, and effects on electromagnetic systems. No environmental pr… more
Date: August 1, 1980
Creator: Valentino, A.R.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Safety assessment of the liquid-fed ceramic melter process

Description: As part of its development program for the solidification of high-level nuclear waste, Pacific Northwest Laboratory assessed the safety issues for a complete liquid-fed ceramic melter (LFCM) process. The LFCM process, an adaption of commercial glass-making technology, is being developed to convert high-level liquid waste from the nuclear fuel cycle into glass. This safety assessment uncovered no unresolved or significant safety problems with the LFCM process. Although in this assessment the LFC… more
Date: August 1, 1980
Creator: Buelt, J.L. & Partain, W.L.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Seismic Safety Margins Research Program: Phase II program plan (FY 83-FY 84)

Description: The Seismic Safety Margins Research Program (SSMRP) is an NRC-funded, multiyear program conducted by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Its goal is to develop a complete, fully coupled analysis procedure (including methods and computer codes) for estimating the risk of an earthquake-caused radioactive release from a commercial nuclear power plant. The analysis procedure is based upon a state-of-the-art evaluation of the current seismic analysis and design process and explicitly incl… more
Date: August 2, 1982
Creator: Bohn, M. P.; Bernreuter, D. L.; Cover, L. E.; Johnson, J. J.; Shieh, L. C.; Shukla, S. N. et al.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Risk assessment in the DOE Assurance Program for Remedial Action

Description: This document provides information obtained during the performance of risk assessment tasks in support of the Assurance Program for Remedial Action (APRA) sponsored by the Office of Operational Safety of the Department of Energy. We have presented a method for the estimation of projected health effects at properties in the vicinity of uranium mill tailing piles due to transported tailings or emissions from the piles. Because radon and radon daughter exposure is identified as the principal facto… more
Date: August 1, 1985
Creator: Marks, S.; Cross, F. T.; Denham, D. H.; Kennedy, W. E. & Stenner, R. D.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Phase 1 of the Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project

Description: The work described in this report was prompted by the public's concern about potential effect from the radioactive materials released from the Hanford Site. The Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction (HEDR) Project was established to estimate radiation dose the public might have received from the Hanford Site since 1944, when facilities began operating. Phase 1 of the HEDR Project is a pilot'' or demonstration'' phase. The objectives of this initial phase were to determine whether enough his… more
Date: August 1, 1991
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Health and Environmental Research: summary of accomplishments. Volume 2

Description: This is an account of some of the accomplishments of the health and environmental research program performed in national laboratories, universities, and research institutes. Both direct and indirect societal benefits emerged from the new knowledge provided by the health and environmental research program. In many cases, the private sector took this knowledge and applied it well beyond the mission of supporting the defense and energy needs of the Nation. Industrial and medical applications, for … more
Date: August 1, 1986
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Energy implications of an aging population

Description: This study provides various demographic, medical, and economic information relative to energy usage on a segment of the population, the elderly, which is growing in absolute numbers and relative population percentage. This growth is expected to continue well into the twenty-first century. The US aging population numbered 3.1 million in 1900, and by 1977 it had climbed to 23.5 million. It can be stated with reasonable certainty that this figure will rise to 31 million in the year 2000 and 43 mil… more
Date: August 1, 1980
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Bibliography of the Interagency Energy/Environment R and D Program

Description: The Interagency Energy/Environment Research and Development Program, which is comprised of more than a dozen federal agencies and departments, is coordinated by the Office of Energy, Minerals and Industry within EPA's Office of Research and Development. The Interagency Program integrates research efforts in two main categories: health and environmental effects of energy systems and development of environmental control technologies. This bibliography lists publications resulting from research an… more
Date: August 1, 1979
Creator: Jacoff, F.S. (ed.)
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Final evaluation of PETC coal conversion solid and hazardous wastes. Final report, September 15, 1977-November 30, 1979. [PETC's own operations]

Description: Hazards and pollutional impacts from residuals generated at the Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center are explained in the context of hazardous waste regulations proposed by the federal government (RCRA). Nine hazard characteristics are defined and an overview of their significance to PETC is presented. Pollutional impacts on air, water and land are discussed in the energy research perspective. Legislative and statutory relationships between the Center and local, county, state and federal enforce… more
Date: August 1, 1979
Creator: Neufeld, R. D.; Shapiro, M. & Bern, J.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Coal liquefaction catalyst development. Quarterly progress report No. 1

Description: Work in Catalyst Preparation and Screening was concerned with modification of product workup procedure and elimination or reduction of uncertainties in the analysis of data from batch autoclave screening runs. Toluene was substituted for benzene as a solvent in the product workup because of the health hazard associated with the use of benzene and was added to the product prior to filtration in order to expose both liquid and solid product to the solvent. The conversion was about the same, using… more
Date: August 1, 1979
Creator: Kim, D. K.; Pellet, R. J.; Robinson, K. K. & Mahoney, J. A.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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First phase report on identification of environmental issues hybrid wood-geothermal power plant. Wendel-Amedee KGRA, Lassen County, California

Description: The following disciplines are covered: air resources; land use, vegetation, and wildlife, geotechnical environment; surface water, ground water, and waste disposal; cultural resources; health, industrial hygiene and noise; and socio-economics. The following are presented for each discipline: general comments; regulations, ordinances, statutes, and guidelines; bibliography with abstracts; and sensitive environmental issues. (MHR)
Date: August 14, 1981
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Results of the radiological survey at 205 Main Street, Lodi, New Jersey (LJ075)

Description: Maywood Chemical Works (MCW) of Maywood, New Jersey, generated process wastes and residues associated with the production and refining of thorium and thorium compounds from monazite ores from 1916 to 1956. MCW supplied rare earth metals and thorium compounds to the Atomic Energy Commission and various other government agencies from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s. Area residents used the sandlike waste from this thorium extraction process mixed with tea and cocoa leaves as mulch in their yards.… more
Date: August 1, 1989
Creator: Foley, R.D.; Carrier, R.F.; Floyd, L.M. & Crutcher, J.W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Identification of hazards in non-nuclear power plants. Volume 1. Summary report. Phase I and Phase II. Consultant report

Description: This report summarizes the first step in an evaluation of the public health and safety hazards associated with non-nuclear plants. The study was limited to hazards that could affect the general public outside the plant boundaries. Public health and safety hazards are identified for seven types of power plants: coal-fired conventional boiler, atmospheric fluidized bed boiler, pressurized fluidized bed-combined cycle, oil-fired, oil-fired steam turbine, combined cycle, combustion (gas) turbine, a… more
Date: August 1, 1979
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Indoor radiation exposures from radon and its daughters: a view of the issue

Description: Exposure to radon daughters indoors can result in significant risk to the general public, particularly those living in homes with much higher than average concentrations. This paper reviews what is known about indoor concentrations, associated risks, and the effect of measures to save energy by reducing ventilation rates. It concludes that, by employing appropriate control measures in homes having unacceptably high concentrations, the average exposure (and therefore risk) of the general public … more
Date: August 1, 1981
Creator: Nero, A.V. Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Analysis of crude oil vapor pressures at the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

Description: Crude oil storage caverns at the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) are solution-mined from subsurface salt domes along the U.S. Gulf Coast. While these salt domes exhibit many attractive characteristics for large-volume, long-term storage of oil such as low cost for construction, low permeability for effective fluids containment, and secure location deep underground, they also present unique technical challenges for maintaining oil quality within delivery standards. The vapor pressures of … more
Date: August 1, 2005
Creator: Rudeen, David Keith (GRAM, Inc., Albuquerque, NM) & Lord, David L.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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DARTAB: a program to combine airborne radionuclide environmental exposure data with dosimetric and health effects data to generate tabulations of predicted health impacts

Description: The DARTAB computer code combines radionuclide environmental exposure data with dosimetric and health effects data to generate tabulations of the predicted impact of radioactive airborne effluents. DARTAB is independent of the environmental transport code used to generate the environmental exposure data and the codes used to produce the dosimetric and health effects data. Therefore human dose and risk calculations need not be added to every environmental transport code. Options are included in … more
Date: August 1, 1981
Creator: Begovich, C. L.; Eckerman, K. F.; Schlatter, E. C.; Ohr, S. Y. & Chester, R. O.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Environmental impact of uranium mining and milling: an American view

Description: The radiation dose rates to man from uranium milling activities are discussed. The sources of radiation, the radioisotopes involved, and the environmental exposure pathways are described. Risks of cancer to exposed individuals are presented and recommendations made for mitigation of contamination. (ACR)
Date: August 18, 1981
Creator: Momeni, M. H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Proceedings of Department of Energy/Office of the Environment Workshop on Enhanced Oil Recovery: Problems, Scenarios, Risks

Description: A DOE/EV-sponsored workshop on enhanced oil recovery (EOR) was held at Montana State University, Bozeman, during August 24-27, 1980. The purpose of the workshop was to discuss the validity of scenarios for increased EOR production; to identify specific environmental, health, and safety issues related to EOR; and to identify quantitative methods for assessments of impacts. Workshop deliberations will be used by national laboratory scientists in their DOE-sponsored evaluation of the environmental… more
Date: August 1, 1980
Creator: Kaplan, E.; Garrell, M. H.; Riedel, E. F. & Sathaye, J.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Biological effects and physical safety aspects of NMR imaging and in vivo spectroscopy

Description: An assessment is made of the biological effects and physical hazards of static and time-varying fields associated with the NMR devices that are being used for clinical imaging and in vivo spectroscopy. A summary is given of the current state of knowledge concerning the mechanisms of interaction and the bioeffects of these fields. Additional topics that are discussed include: (1) physical effects on pacemakers and metallic implants such as aneurysm clips, (2) human health studies related to the … more
Date: August 1, 1985
Creator: Tenforde, T.S. & Budinger, T.F.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Health effects models for nuclear power plant accident consequence analysis: Modifications of models resulting from recent reports on health effects of ionizing radiation

Description: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has sponsored several studies to identify and quantify the potential health effects of accidental releases of radionuclides from nuclear power plants. The most recent health effects models resulting from these efforts were published in two reports, NUREG/CR-4214, Rev. 1, Part 1 (1990) and Part 2 (1989). Several major health effects reports have been published recently that may impact the health effects models presented in these reports. This addendum to the Par… more
Date: August 1, 1991
Creator: Abrahamson, S.; Bender, M. A.; Boecker, B. B.; Scott, B. R. & Gilbert, E. S.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Occidental Geothermal, Inc. , Oxy Geothermal Power Plant No. 1: draft environmental impact report

Description: The following aspects of the proposed geothermal power plant are discussed: the project description; the environment in the vicinity of project as it exists before the project begins, from both a local and regional perspective; the adverse consequences of the project, any significant environmental effects which cannot be avoided, and any mitigation measures to minimize significant effects; the potential feasible alternatives to the proposed project; the significant unavoidable, irreversible, an… more
Date: August 1, 1981
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Flood cleanup]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: August 9, 1978, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 35 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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National energy strategy: Recent studies comparing the health impacts of energy technologies

Description: The human health impacts of energy technologies arise mostly from routine emissions of pollutants and from traumatic accidents, which may also release pollutants. The natures and magnitudes of the risks differ among technologies -- they are a lot different for some -- and so the differences must be included in any evaluation of their relative merits. Based on the characteristics of their health risks, energy technologies can be classified into three groups: The fuel group, the renewable resourc… more
Date: August 1, 1990
Creator: Rowe, M.D.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Health and Safety Research Division. Progress report, October 1, 1979-March 31, 1981

Description: Research progress for the period October 1, 1979 through March 31, 1981 is reported. Research conducted by the Office of Integrated Assessments and Policy Analysis, Health Studies Section, Technology Assessments Section, Biological and Radiation Physics Section, and Chemical Physics Section is summarized. (ACR)
Date: August 1, 1981
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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