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Imaging System for the Automated Determination of Microscopical Properties in Hardened Portland Concrete

Description: During this CRADA, Honeywell FM and T and MoDOT personnel designed a unique scanning system (including both hardware and software) that can be used to perform an automated scan and evaluation of a concrete sample. The specific goals of the CRADA were: (1) Develop a combined system integration, image acquisition, and image analysis approach to mimic the manual scanning and evaluation process. Produce a prototype system which can: (a) automate the scanning process to improve its speed and efficie… more
Date: March 8, 2000
Creator: Baumgart, C.W.; Cave, S.P. & Linder, K.E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Campaign Financing: Highlights and Chronology of Current Federal Law

Description: Current law governing financial activity of campaigns for federal office is based on two principal statutes: the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) of 1971, as amended in 1974, 1976, and 1979, and the Revenue Act of 1971. These laws were enacted to remedy widely perceived shortcomings of existing law, the Corrupt Practices Act of 1925, and in response to reports of campaign finance abuses over the years, culminating in the 1972-1974 Watergate scandal. This report provides a summary of major p… more
Date: March 8, 2000
Creator: Cantor, Joseph E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Statistical Evaluation of Effluent Monitoring Data for the 200 Area Treated Effluent Disposal Facility

Description: This report updates the original effluent variability study for the 200 Area Treated Effluent Disposal Facility (TEDF) and provides supporting justification for modifying the effluent monitoring portion of the discharge permit. Four years of monitoring data were evaluated and used to statistically justify changes in permit effluent monitoring conditions. As a result, the TEDF effluent composition and variability of the effluent waste stream are now well defined.
Date: March 8, 2000
Creator: Chou, Charissa J & Johnson, Vernon G
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Statistical Evaluation of Effluent Monitoring Data for the 200 Area Treated Effluent Disposal Facility

Description: This report updates the original effluent variability study for the 200 Area Treated Effluent Disposal Facility (TEDF) and provides supporting justification for modifying the effluent monitoring portion of the discharge permit. Four years of monitoring data were evaluated and used to statistically justify changes in permit effluent monitoring conditions. As a result, the TEDF effluent composition and variability of the effluent waste stream are now well defined.
Date: March 8, 2000
Creator: Chou, Charissa J. & Johnson, Vernon G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Facility Effluent Monitoring Plan for the Waste Receiving and Processing (WRAP) Facility

Description: A facility effluent monitoring plan is required by the U.S. Department of Energy in Order 5400.1 for any operations that involve hazardous materials and radioactive substances that could impact employee public safety, or the environment. This facility effluent monitoring plan assesses effluent monitoring systems and evaluates whether these systems are adequate to ensure the public health and safety as specified in applicable federal, state, and local requirements. This facility effluent monitor… more
Date: March 8, 2000
Creator: Davis, W. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Debt swapping as a tool for economic and social stabilization in Russia's closed nuclear cities

Description: The magnitude of Russian foreign debt, both official bilateral and commercial, compounded by collapse of the Russian economic system, is an obstacle in preventing the Russian Federation from effectively increasing the domestic priority of drawing down its nuclear weapons complex and providing a healthy, competitive environment to its nuclear cities. Debt-for-nature swaps, introduced in the early 1980s, provide debtor nations with a means of converting a portion of foreign debt into local curren… more
Date: March 8, 2000
Creator: Fuller, JL & Leek, KM
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Debt swapping as a tool for economic and social stabilization in Russia's closed nuclear cities (briefing paper)

Description: The next great issue on the Russian landscape will be management of its foreign debt. In the near future the United States will be called upon to lead an international program of debt restructuring to assist Russia in overcoming the burden of its debt trap. With debt service obligations equal to 50{percent} of 1999 revenues, Russia has virtually no chance of sustaining a program of economic recovery without debt relief (Hardt, 1999). With some form of debt restructuring a foregone conclusion, R… more
Date: March 8, 2000
Creator: Fuller, JL & Leek, KM
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Forest Service Accountability in Administering Its Trust Funds

Description: The USDA Forest Service has numerous permanently appropriated trust funds and special funds that provide substantial funding independent of the annual appropriations process. Critics have alleged abuse of the funds and have sought greater congressional oversight, and the General Accounting Office has testified on the agency’s management of some of these accounts. While the Administration has offered few responses to the criticisms of these funds, it has, in its FY2001 budget request, proposed c… more
Date: March 8, 2000
Creator: Gorte, Ross W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Notice of Construction for Tank Waste Remediation System Vadose Zone Characterization

Description: The following description and any attachments and references are provided to the Washington State Department of Health (WDOH), Division of Radiation Protection, Air Emissions & Defense Waste Section as a notice of construction (NOC) in accordance with Washington Administrative Code (WAC) 246-247, Radiation Protection--Air Emissions. The WAC 246-247-060, ''Applications, registration, and licensing'', states ''This section describes the information requirements for approval to construct, modify, … more
Date: March 8, 2000
Creator: HILL, J.S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Laboratory directed research and development program FY 1999

Description: The Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab or LBNL) is a multi-program national research facility operated by the University of California for the Department of Energy (DOE). As an integral element of DOE's National Laboratory System, Berkeley Lab supports DOE's missions in fundamental science, energy resources, and environmental quality. Berkeley Lab programs advance four distinct goals for DOE and the nation: (1) To perform leading multidisciplinary research in the… more
Date: March 8, 2000
Creator: Hansen, Todd & Levy, Karin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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OPEC Oil Production - Facts and Figures

Description: In light of 1999's oil production cuts by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and several other non-OPEC members, the characteristics of the world's major oil producers are an important consideration for policymakers. These countries vary in importance as direct suppliers to the U.S. Their ability to add to current world supply varies as well.
Date: March 8, 2000
Creator: Kumins, Lawrence C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Kinetics Parameters of VVER-1000 Core with 3 MOX Lead Test Assemblies To Be Used for Accident Analysis Codes

Description: The present work is a part of Joint U.S./Russian Project with Weapons-Grade Plutonium Disposition in VVER Reactor and presents the neutronics calculations of kinetics parameters of VVER-1000 core with 3 introduced MOX LTAs. MOX LTA design has been studied in [1] for two options of MOX LTA: 100% plutonium and of ''island'' type. As a result, zoning i.e. fissile plutonium enrichments in different plutonium zones, has been defined. VVER-1000 core with 3 introduced MOX LTAs of chosen design has bee… more
Date: March 8, 2000
Creator: Pavlovitchev, A.M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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NaturAnalogs for the Unsaturated Zone

Description: The purpose of this Analysis/Model Report (AMR) is to document natural and anthropogenic (human-induced) analog sites and processes that are applicable to flow and transport processes expected to occur at the potential Yucca Mountain repository in order to build increased confidence in modeling processes of Unsaturated Zone (UZ) flow and transport. This AMR was prepared in accordance with ''AMR Development Plan for U0135, Natural Analogs for the UZ'' (CRWMS 1999a). Knowledge from analog sites a… more
Date: March 8, 2000
Creator: Simmons, A.; Unger, A. & Murrell, M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Monitored Geologic Repository Life Cycle Cost Estimate Assumptions Document

Description: The purpose of this assumptions document is to provide general scope, strategy, technical basis, schedule and cost assumptions for the Monitored Geologic Repository (MGR) life cycle cost estimate and schedule update incorporating information from the Viability Assessment (VA), License Application Design Selection (LADS), 1999 Update to the Total System Life Cycle Cost (TSLCC) estimate and from other related and updated information. This document is intended to generally follow the assumptions o… more
Date: March 8, 2000
Creator: Sweeney, R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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State Department: Overseas Emergency Security Program Progressing, But Costs Are Increasing

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO described the Department of State's Overseas Emergency Security Program, focusing on: (1) progress that State has made in implementing the program funded by the emergency supplemental appropriations and the challenges State faces in completing the program; and (2) State's long-term capital construction program and its response to a study on overseas presence in follow-o… more
Date: March 8, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Hanford immobilized LAW product acceptance: Initial Tanks Focus Area testing data package

Description: The Hanford Site's mission has been to produce nuclear materials for the US Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessors. A large inventory of radioactive and mixed waste, largely generated during plutonium production, exists in 177 underground single- and double-shell tanks. These wastes are to be retrieved and separated into low-activity waste (LAW) and high-level waste (HLW) fractions. The total volume of LAW requiring immobilization will include the LAW separated from the tank waste, as … more
Date: March 8, 2000
Creator: Vienna, JD; Jiricka, A; McGrail, BP; Jorgensen, BM; Smith, DE; Allen, BR et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Decontamination and decommissioning activities photobriefing book FY 1999

Description: The Chicago Pile 5 (CP-5) Reactor, the first reactor built on the Argonne National Laboratory-East site, followed a rich history that had begun in 1942 with Enrico Fermi's original pile built under the west stands at the Stagg Field Stadium of The University of Chicago. CP-5 was a 5-megawatt, heavy water-moderated, enriched uranium-fueled reactor used to produce neutrons for scientific research from 1954--79. The reactor was shut down and defueled in 1979, and placed into a lay-up condition pen… more
Date: March 8, 2000
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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