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Deposit Summary

Description: Deposit summary of $37.50 made on September 14, 2009.
Date: September 12, 2009
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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AFCI Repository Impact Evaluation Report Systems Analysis Progress - FY03

Description: This activity will assess the waste management benefits from AFC, specifically both short and long term benefits for the U.S. geologic repository program. This includes quantitative evaluation of repository issues (heat load and thermal management, mass and volume, radiotoxicity and dose, waste form optimization, etc.) where AFC can provide the technical basis for improvements in cost, capacity and performance for a repository, and the technical potential to defer the need for additional reposi… more
Date: September 12, 2003
Creator: Halsey, W G
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Gas Generation from K East Basin Sludges - Series I Testing

Description: This report describes work to examine the gas generation behavior of actual K East (KE) Basin floor and canister sludge. The path forward for management of the K Basin Sludge is to retrieve, ship, and store the sludge at T Plant until final processing at some future date. Gas generation will impact the designs and costs of systems associated with retrieval, transportation and storage of sludge. The overall goals for this testing were to collect detailed gas generation rate and composition data … more
Date: September 12, 2000
Creator: Delegard, Calvin H.; Bryan, Samuel A.; Schmidt, Andrew J.; Bredt, Paul R.; King, Christopher M.; Sell, Rachel L. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Analysis of ultrafine TATB by ultrasonic-assisted equilibrium headspace analysis

Description: The purpose of this work was to screen different lots of ultrafine 1,3,5-triamine 2,4,6-trinitrobenzene (TATB) for chemical differences, which may include synthesis and formulation byproducts, decomposition products, and contaminants. The approach used here permits analysis of trapped species as volatile and semivolatile chemicals within a solid. This procedure involves preconcentration of species from the TATB matrix into a surrounding headspace followed by a preconcentration and collection st… more
Date: September 12, 2000
Creator: Chambers, D M
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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TDNA Monthly Office Manager's Report: August/September 2005

Description: Monthly report written by the Texas Daily Newspaper Association's (TDNA's) office manager, Darla Thompson, to Ken Whalen providing a summary of revenues and account balances, programs, meetings, and other activities in the office during the previous month and the first half of September.
Date: September 12, 2005
Creator: Thompson, Darla
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Neutron Spectrometry for Identification of filler material in UXO - Final Report

Description: Unexploded ordnance (UXO)-contaminated sites often include ordnance filled with inert substances that were used in dummy rounds. During UXO surveys, it is difficult to determine whether ordnance is filled with explosives or inert material (e.g., concrete, plaster-of-paris, wax, etc.) or is empty. Without verification of the filler material, handling procedures often necessitate that the object be blown in place, which has potential impacts to the environment, personnel, communities and survey c… more
Date: September 12, 2007
Creator: Bliss, Mary
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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2005 River Corridor Cleanup Contractor Revegetation Monitoring Report

Description: This report contains a compilation of the results of vegetation monitoring data that were collected in the spring and summer of 2005 for the Environmental Restoration Contractor's revegetation and mitigation areas on the Hanford Site.
Date: September 12, 2005
Creator: Johnson, A. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Physiological, Molecular and Genetic Mechanisms of Long-Term Habituation

Description: Work funded on this grant has explored the mechanisms of long-term habituation, a ubiquitous form of learning that plays a key role in basic cognitive functioning. Specifically, behavioral, physiological, and molecular mechanisms of habituation have been explored using a simple model system, the tail-elicited siphon-withdrawal reflex (T-SWR) in the marine mollusk Aplysia californica. Substantial progress has been made on the first and third aims, providing some fundamental insights into the mec… more
Date: September 12, 2009
Creator: Calin-Jageman, Robert J
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Measured Peak Equipment Loads in Laboratories

Description: This technical bulletin documents measured peak equipment load data from 39 laboratory spaces in nine buildings across five institutions. The purpose of these measurements was to obtain data on the actual peak loads in laboratories, which can be used to rightsize the design of HVAC systems in new laboratories. While any given laboratory may have unique loads and other design considerations, these results may be used as a 'sanity check' for design assumptions.
Date: September 12, 2007
Creator: Mathew, Paul A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Anthrax Sampling and Decontamination: Technology Trade-Offs

Description: The goal of this project was to answer the following questions concerning response to a future anthrax release (or suspected release) in a building: 1. Based on past experience, what rules of thumb can be determined concerning: (a) the amount of sampling that may be needed to determine the extent of contamination within a given building; (b) what portions of a building should be sampled; (c) the cost per square foot to decontaminate a given type of building using a given method; (d) the time re… more
Date: September 12, 2008
Creator: Price, Phillip N.; Hamachi, Kristina; McWilliams, Jennifer & Sohn, Michael D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Energetic Particle-induced Geodesic Acoustic Mode

Description: A new energetic particle-induced Geodesic Acoustic Mode (EGAM) is shown to exist. The mode frequency, mode structure, and mode destabilization are determined non-perturbatively by energetic particle kinetic effects. In particular the EGAM frequency is found to be substantially lower than the standard GAM frequency. The radial mode width is determined by the energetic particle drift orbit width and can be fairly large for high energetic particle pressure and large safety factor. These results ar… more
Date: September 12, 2008
Creator: Fu, G. Y.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The ecology and genomics of C02 fixation in oceanic river plumes

Description: The ocean/atmosphere interface is the major conduit for the entry of atmospheric CO2 into oceanic carbon pools that can lead to sequestration or recycled release. The surface layers of the temperate and tropical oceans are often too oligotrophic to result in significant primary production that might lead to carbon sequestration. However, nutrient-rich river plumes can alter the primary production schemes of oligotrophic ocean basins, resulting in increased phytoplankton biomass and carbon fixat… more
Date: September 12, 2008
Creator: Tabita, F. Robert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Remaining Sites Verification Package for the 182-F Reservoir Waste Site, Waste Site Reclassification Form 2005-025

Description: The 182-F Reservoir was a rectangular-shaped concrete basin consisting of two sections divided by a concrete wall. The reservoir provided reserve water from the Columbia River for reactor cooling water and raw water for the 100 Area and had a storage capacity of 94.6 million liters (25 million gallons). The 182-F Reservoir was later used as a landfill for decontaminated rubble from buildings that were decommissioned in the 100-F Area. The results of the 182-F Reservoir evaluation showed that re… more
Date: September 12, 2005
Creator: Carlson, R. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Cathode Effects in Cylindrical Hall Thrusters

Description: Stable operation of a cylindrical Hall thruster (CHT) has been achieved using a hot wire cathode, which functions as a controllable electron emission source. It is shown that as the electron emission from the cathode increases with wire heating, the discharge current increases, the plasma plume angle reduces, and the ion energy distribution function shifts toward higher energies. The observed effect of cathode electron emission on thruster parameters extends and clarifies performance improvemen… more
Date: September 12, 2008
Creator: Granstedt, E.M.; Raitses, Y. & Fisch, N. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Cleanup Verification Package for the 618-3 Burial Ground

Description: This cleanup verification package documents completion of remedial action for the 618-3 Solid Waste Burial Ground, also referred to as Burial Ground Number 3 and the Dry Waste Burial Ground Number 3. During its period of operation, the 618-3 site was used to dispose of uranium-contaminated construction debris from the 311 Building and construction/demolition debris from remodeling of the 313, 303-J and 303-K Buildings.
Date: September 12, 2006
Creator: Appel, M. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Use of Microarray Test Data for Toxicogenomic Prediction-Multi-Intelligent Systems for Toxicogenomic Applications (MISTA)

Description: The YAHSGS LLC and Oak Ridge National Laboratory established a CRADA to develop a computational neural network and wavelets software to facilitate providing national needs for toxicity prediction and overcome the voracious drain of resources (money and time) being directed to the development of pharmaceutical agents. The research project was supported through a STTR Phase I task by NIEHS in 2004. The research deploys state-of-the-art computational neural networks and wavelets to make toxicity p… more
Date: September 12, 2005
Creator: Wasson, J. S. & Lu, P. Y.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Lost Opportunities in the Buildings Sector: Energy-Efficiency Analysis and Results

Description: This report summarizes the results and the assumptions used in an analysis of the potential “lost efficiency opportunities” in the buildings sector. These targets of opportunity are those end-uses, applications, practices, and portions of the buildings market which are not currently being addressed, or addressed fully, by the Building Technologies Program (BTP) due to lack of resources. The lost opportunities, while a significant increase in effort and impact in the buildings sector, still repr… more
Date: September 12, 2008
Creator: Dirks, James A.; Anderson, David M.; Hostick, Donna J.; Belzer, David B. & Cort, Katherine A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Lean Burn Natural Gas Engine R&D

Description: The primary objective of this cooperative research is to develop and verify models of internal combustion engine spark ignition devices in order to improve combustion chamber fuel ignition characteristics and to improve spark plug durability. As a direct result of this joint research, a novel spark plug design was improved. A theory of spark arc motion was developed that explains experimentally observed effects not explained by other published theories. The knowledge developed by this research … more
Date: September 12, 2005
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Remaining Sites Verification Package for the 100-B-22:1 Pipelines and Associated Soils, Waste Site Reclassification Form 2005-042

Description: The 100-B-22:1 pipelines and associated soils were part of the 100-B Area water treatment facilities. The 100-B-22:1 waste site is limited to those pipelines that interconnected the 185-B Filter House, the 126-B-2 Clearwells, the 185-B Deaeration Plant, and the 190-B Process Pumphouse. None of the 100-B-22:1 pipelines carried environmentally significant contamination. In accordance with the historical information and field observations of this evaluation, the results support a reclassification … more
Date: September 12, 2006
Creator: Dittmer, L. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Design and Fabrication of a Radiation-Hard 500-MHz Digitizer Using Deep Submicron Technology

Description: The proposed International Linear Collider (ILC) will use tens of thousands of beam position monitors (BPMs) for precise beam alignment. The signal from each BPM is digitized and processed for feedback control. We proposed the development of an 11-bit (effective) digitizer with 500 MHz bandwidth and 2 G samples/s. The digitizer was somewhat beyond the state-of-the-art. Moreover we planned to design the digitizer chip using the deep-submicron technology with custom transistors that had proven to… more
Date: September 12, 2008
Creator: Gan, K.K.; Johnson, M.O.; Kass, R.D. & Moore, J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative (AFCI) Repository Impact Evaluation FY-05 Progress Report

Description: An important long-term objective of advanced nuclear fuel cycle (AFC) technologies is to provide improvement in the long-term management of radioactive waste. Compared to a once-thru fuel cycle, it is possible to generate far less waste, and potentially easier waste to manage, with advanced fuel cycles. However, the precise extent and value of these benefits are complex and difficult to quantify. This document presents a status report of efforts within AFCI Systems Analysis to define and quanti… more
Date: September 12, 2005
Creator: Halsey, W G
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Office of Science and Technology and International Science and Technology Program Plan September 2005

Description: This program plan articulates the five-year goals and objectives for the Science and Technology (S and T) Program within the Department of Energy's Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM). The S and T Program is intended to reduce the cost of the proposed Yucca Mountain repository and enhance the understanding of the processes affecting its performance through the application of new scientific understanding and technology. While the design for the proposed repository will provid… more
Date: September 12, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Energy.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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PERMEABILITY, SOLUBILITY AND DIFFUSIVITY OF HYDROGEN ISOTOPES IN STAINLESS STEELS AT HIGH GAS PRESSURES

Description: The Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) is about to process High Level Waste (HLW) Sludge Batch 4 (SB4). This sludge batch is high in alumina and nepheline can crystallize readily depending on the glass composition. Large concentrations of crystallized nepheline can have an adverse effect on HLW glass durability. Several studies have been performed to study the potential for nepheline formation in SB4. The Phase 3 Nepheline Formation study of SB4 glasses examined sixteen different glasses … more
Date: September 12, 2005
Creator: Subramanian, K & Michael Morgan, M
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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