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Biological monitoring and selected trends in environmental quality. [Use of National Inventory of Selected Biological Monitoring Programs at ORNL to identify documented environmental trends]

Description: Under a contract with the President's Council on Environmental Quality, the National Inventory of Selected Biological Monitoring Programs at ORNL was used to identify documented environmental trends. Fish population trends were described for the Great Lakes and the Colorado River system. Trends in amphibian populations in the northeast were examined and correlated with acid precipitation. Increases in breeding success among large birds of prey were correlated with reductions in ambient levels o… more
Date: October 1, 1976
Creator: Suffern, J. S.; West, D. C.; Kemp, H. T. & Burgess, R. L.
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Characteristics of American coals in relation to their conversion into clean energy fuels. Quarterly technical progress report, October--December 1977

Description: The Penn State/DOE Coal Sample Bank has been expanded. A total of 54 characterized coal samples and 232 selected printouts of coal data were provided upon request to the coal research community. Work has been conducted using nitrogen as a pyrolysis medium at 808/sup 0/C and seven size grades of the Texas Darco lignite (PSOC-412) as starting material. This work was intended to extend previous work on the effects of particle size on pyrolysis. A study is being made into the effects of low tempera… more
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Spackman, W.; Davis, A.; Walker, P. L.; Lovell, H. L.; Essenhigh, R. H.; Vastola, F. J. et al.
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Testimony on coal research needs to the House Subcommittee on Energy Development and Applications

Description: Discussions of this paper and interactions with the coal research community lead to the following conclusions on the future and needs for coal research: The coal resource in the USA is immense and a plan for optimum use of the peat to anthracite supplies should be developed and evolved. Coal research efforts in industry are rapidly decreasing and work at universities, technology centers and national laboratories is directly dependent on federal funding. Industrial emphases will shift to combust… more
Date: January 1, 1982
Creator: Traeger, R. K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Assessment of pre-competitive research and development needs for industrial waste minimization

Description: This report summarizes the findings of the first phase of a study undertaken to define a role for the Advanced Industrial Concepts (AIC) Division of the Office of Industrial Technologies (OIT) in developing waste minimization technologies for the industrial sector. The report describes the results of an industrial waste characterization based mainly on the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) 1989 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) database. IN addition, it contains the results of interview… more
Date: February 1, 1992
Creator: Young, J.K.; Fassbender, L.L. (Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States)) & Sen, R.K. (Sen (R.K.) and Associates, Washington, DC (United States))
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Analysis of health impact inputs to the US Department of Energy's risk information system

Description: The US Department of Energy (DOE) is in the process of completing a survey of environmental problems, referred to as the Environmental Survey, at their facilities across the country. The DOE Risk Information System (RIS) is being used to prioritize these environmental problems identified in the Environmental Survey's findings. This report contains a discussion of site-specific public health risk parameters and the rationale for their inclusion in the RIS. These parameters are based on computed … more
Date: August 1, 1990
Creator: Droppo, Jr., J. G.; Buck, J. W.; Strenge, D. L. & Siegel, M. R.
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Description of the Structural Materials Information Center being established at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Description: The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has initiated a Structural aging Program at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to identify potential structural safety issues related to continued service of nuclear power plants and to establish criteria for evaluating and resolving these issues. One of the tasks in this program focuses on the establishment of a Structural Materials Information Center where data and information on the time variation of concrete and concrete-related material properties under … more
Date: January 1, 1990
Creator: Oland, B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Atmospheric release advisory capability pilot project at two nuclear power plants and associated state offices of emergency preparedness. Final report

Description: A project to demonstrate the feasibility of utilizing Atmospheric Release Advisory Capability (ARAC) limited service with commercial nuclear power plants and their associated state offices of emergency preparedness is discussed. Preliminary planning, installation and testing of the ARAC site facilities at Indian Point Nucler Power Station, New York State; at New York State Office of Emergency Preparedness, Albany, New York; at Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station, California; and at the State… more
Date: January 1, 1983
Creator: Rosen, Leonard C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Chemicals identified in feral and food animals: a data base. First annual report, October 1981. Volume I. Records 1-532

Description: This data file is a companion to Chemicals Identified in Human Biological Media, A Data Base, and follows basically the same format. The data base on human burden is in its third year of publication. This is the first annual report for the feral and food animal file. Data were obtained primarily from the open literature through manual searches (retrospective to 1979) of the journals listed in Appendix A. The data base now contains information on 60 different substances. Chemicals are listed by … more
Date: December 1, 1981
Creator: Cone, M. Virginia; Faust, Rosmarie A. & Baldauf, Margaret F. (comps.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Cooperation in nuclear data evaluation among the OECD countries

Description: In the fall of 1988, agreement was reached on a collaborative effort between the four nuclear data evaluation projects which exist within the OECD countries. Those projects participating in this effort are the ENDF/B project in the United States, the JENDL project in Japan and the JEF and EFF projects in Western Europe. The cooperation among these projects has been proceeding under the sponsorship of the NEA Committee on Reactor Physics and the NEA Nuclear Data Committee since 1989. The goals a… more
Date: January 1, 1991
Creator: Dunford, C.L. (Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA)); Kikuchi, Y. (Japan Atomic Energy Research Inst., Tokai, Ibaraki (Japan)) & Salvatores, M. (CEA Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Cadarache, 13 - Saint-Paul-lez-Durance (France))
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Characteristics of American coals in relation to their conversion into clean energy fuels. Quarterly technical progress report, January-March 1978

Description: The Penn State/DOE Coal Sample Bank was expanded to include seventeen lignite seams from Texas and two samples of a western Kentucky coal. A total of 253 characterized coal samples and 539 selected printouts of coal data were provided to the coal research community. Results of further coal fractionation studies confirm previous conclusions that fractions of widely differing characteristics can be developed in the laboratory, and indicate that with appropriate process development they could be p… more
Date: January 1, 1978
Creator: Spackman, W.; Davis, A.; Walker, P. L.; Lovell, H. L.; Essenhigh, R. H.; Vastola, F. J. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Hydrolysis, formation and ionization constants at 25/sup 0/C, and at high temperature-high ionic strength

Description: Thermochemical data for nuclear waste disposal are compiled. The resulting computerized database consists of critically evaluated data on Gibbs energy of formation, enthalpy of formation, entropy and heat capacity of selected substances for about 16 elements at 25/sup 0/C and zero ionic strength. Elements covered are Am, As, Br, C, Cl, F, I, Mo, Np, N, O, P, Pu, Si, Sr, S, and U. Values of these thermodynamic properties were used to calculate equilibrium quotients for hydrolysis, complexation a… more
Date: February 1, 1985
Creator: Phillips, S.L.; Phillips, C.A. & Skeen, J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Environmental/chemical thesaurus

Description: The Environmental/Chemical Thesaurus approaches scientific language control problems from a multidisciplinary view. The Environmental/Biomedical Terminology Index (EBTI) was used as a base for the present thesaurus. The Environmental/Chemical Thesaurus, funded by the Environmental Protection Agency, used as its source of new terms those major terms found in 13 Environmental Protection Agency data bases. The scope of this thesaurus includes not only environmental and biomedical sciences, but als… more
Date: June 1, 1978
Creator: Shriner, C. R.; Dailey, N. S.; Jordan, A. C.; Miller, K. C.; Owens, E. T. & Rickert, L. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Department of Energy Waste Information Network: Hazardous and mixed waste data management

Description: The Department of Energy (DOE) Waste Information Network (WIN) was developed through the efforts of the DOE Hazardous Waste Remedial Actions Program (HAZWRAP) Support Office (SO) to meet the programmatic information needs of the Director, Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management. WIN's key objective is to provide DOE Headquarters (HQ), DOE Operations Offices, and their contractors with an information management tool to support environmental restoration and waste management activ… more
Date: January 1, 1990
Creator: Fore, C.S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Estimating monthly and state-level NO sub x , SO sub 2 , VOC and CO sub 2 emissions using the MSCET database

Description: This paper describes the Month and State Current Emission Trends (MSCET) database. It describes the methodology used to estimate NO{sub x}, SO{sub 2}, VOC, and CO{sub 2} emissions and the data sources used by the methodology. Selected emissions results from the database are presented. 2 refs., 6 figs.
Date: January 1, 1992
Creator: Cilek, C.M. & Kohout, E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Characteristics of American coals in relation to their conversion into clean energy fuels. Quarterly technical progress report, July--September 1976. [15 refs]

Description: Under Facet I, 158 coal samples have been added to the Penn State/ERDA Sample Bank. Sixty-nine sets of analytical data and one characterized coal sample were provided upon request to other agencies. Facet IV-A research on reactor development and operation shows that the gasification zone of a fuel bed is not diffusionally controlled. Pyrolysis of pulverized coal occurs under essentially isothermal conditions within the laminar flow furnace. Methanol densities of chars, work on which has recentl… more
Date: December 1, 1976
Creator: Spackman, W.; Davis, A.; Walker, P. L.; Lovell, H. L.; Essenhigh, R. H.; Vastola, F. J. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Data Base Management Plan for the remedial investigation of Waste Area Grouping 5 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Description: The remedial investigation (RI) for Waste Area Grouping (WAG) 5 will involve gathering, verifying, analyzing, reporting, and archiving numerous types of field and analytical data. Field investigations will produce data documenting surficial and geophysical surveys, geologic and hydrogeologic logs, aquifer tests, water level measurements, geophysical logs, and stream and seepage flow measurements. Laboratory analyses will be performed on soil, surface water, groundwater, and sediment samples col… more
Date: July 1, 1992
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Process centrifuge operating problems and equipment failures in canyon reprocessing facilities at the Savannah River Site

Description: The Savannah River Laboratory (SRL) maintains a compilation of operating problems and equipment failures that have occurred in the fuel reprocessing areas of the Savannah River Site (SRS). At present, the data bank contains more than 230,000 entries ranging from minor equipment malfunctions to incidents with the potential for injury or contamination of personnel, or for economic loss. The data bank has been used extensively for a wide variety of purposes, such as failure analyses, trend analyse… more
Date: March 1, 1990
Creator: Durant, W. S. & Baughman, D. F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Characteristics of American coals in relation to their conversion into clean energy fuels. Quarterly technical progress report, October--December 1976. [16 references]

Description: Under Facet I, 49 coal samples have been added to the Penn State/ERDA Sample Bank. Sixty-six characterized coal samples and 734 sets of analytical data were provided upon request to other agencies. Facet IV-A research on reactor development and operation has led to the construction of a cold model for the flow of gases through the combustion pot. Flow analyses indicate that even with relatively slow flows the mainstream flow is turbulent. Methanol and water densities of a series of char samples… more
Date: March 1, 1977
Creator: Spackman, W.; Davis, A.; Walker, P. L.; Lovell, H. L.; Essenhigh, R. H.; Vastola, F. J. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Mapping our genes: The genome projects: How big, how fast

Description: For the past 2 years, scientific and technical journals in biology and medicine have extensively covered a debate about whether and how to determine the function and order of human genes on human chromosomes and when to determine the sequence of molecular building blocks that comprise DNA in those chromosomes. In 1987, these issues rose to become part of the public agenda. The debate involves science, technology, and politics. Congress is responsible for /open quotes/writing the rules/close quo… more
Date: April 1, 1988
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Annual highlights of the National Center for the Analysis of Energy Systems

Description: The National Center for Analysis of Energy Systems at Brookhaven has been in operation since January 1976. This first annual highlights report outlines the scope of activities of the Center involving the integrated analyses of technological, economic, environmental, and social aspects of energy at the regional, national, and international levels. The objectives of the Center and major accomplishments of 1976 are described along with a list of active projects and publications. The energy data ba… more
Date: November 1, 1976
Creator: Hoffman, K C
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Accelerated Leach Test(s) Program. Annual report

Description: This report summarizes the work performed for the Accelerated Leach Test(s) Program at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Fiscal Year 1985 under the sponsorship of the US Department of Energy's Low-Level Waste Management Program (LLWMP). Programmatic activities were concentrated in three areas, as listed and described in the following paragraphs. (1) A literature survey of reported leaching mechanisms, available mathematical models and factors that affect leaching of LLW forms has been compiled.… more
Date: September 1, 1985
Creator: Dougherty, D.R.; Fuhrmann, M. & Colombo, P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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PRESTO low-level waste transport and risk assessment code

Description: PRESTO (Prediction of Radiation Effects from Shallow Trench Operations) is a computer code developed under US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funding to evaluate possible health effects from shallow land burial trenches. The model is intended to be generic and to assess radionuclide transport, ensuing exposure, and health impact to a static local population for a 1000-y period following the end of burial operations. Human exposure scenarios considered by the model include normal releases … more
Date: January 1, 1981
Creator: Little, C. A.; Fields, D. E.; McDowell-Boyer, L. M. & Emerson, C. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Energy Division annual progress report for period ending September 30, 1986

Description: This report describes work done by staff of the Energy Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory during FY 1986. The work of the Division is quite diversified, but it can be divided into four research themes: (1) technology for improving the productivity of energy use; (2) technology for electric power systems; (3) analysis and assessment of energy and environmental issues, policies, and technologies; and (4) data systems research and development (R and D). The research is supported by the US D… more
Date: June 1, 1987
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Engineering Physics Division progress report, December 31, 1983

Description: Research summaries are given under the following headings: (1) nuclear data, (2) fission reactor research, (3) fusion reactor research, (4) high-energy accelerator shielding and detector research, (5) studies of nuclear weapons effects, (6) energy economics modeling and analysis, (7) analysis of CO/sub 2/ impact on climate, (8) intelligent control system research, and (9) information analysis and distribution. Publications and seminars are listed. (WHK)
Date: March 1, 1984
Creator: Maienschein, F.C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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