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Analysis of alternative-fuel price trajectories

Description: Findings are presented from a study to (1) acquire, analyze, and report alternative published price projections including both oil- and coal-price trajectories, and to (2) apply the fixed-annuity formula to the updated primary source projections (Energy Information Administration; Data Resources, Inc.; and Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates, Inc.) and to the newly acquired price projections. This report also encompasses: comparisons of key assumptions underlying the price projections, a… more
Date: December 31, 1980
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Assessment of energy requirements in proven and new copper processes. Final report

Description: Energy requirements are presented for thirteen pyrometallurgical and eight hydrometallurgical processes for the production of copper. Front end processing, mining, mineral processing, gas cleaning, and acid plant as well as mass balances are included. Conventional reverberatory smelting is used as a basis for comparison. Recommendations for needed process research in copper production are presented.
Date: December 31, 1980
Creator: Pitt, C. H. & Wadsworth, M. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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District Heating System, City of Caliente, Nevada.

Description: Considerable preliminary information has been gathered on the heating requirements of Caliente. It is reported that the City consists of 320 residential buildings, 90 commercial buildings, and two industries, a total of 412. Heating is predominantly by fuel oil or LPG. Only 113 of the residential, 17 of the commercial, and 1 of the industrial buildings are heated electrically. It is also reported that the average electrically heated home consumed 13,600 KWH in the year 1978, and the average all… more
Date: December 31, 1980
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Economic Comparison of Heating Facilities: 75 Unit Apartment, Stewart-Lennox Area, Klamath Falls, Oregon.

Description: The apartment building would consist of about 75 units of about 900 square feet each. Also included would be an outdoor swimming pool and an enclosed activity wing of about 11,000 square feet. Though no deep geothermal wells have been drilled in the immediate area, opinions were obtained that 150/sup 0/F water would be present at 2500 feet and 80/sup 0/F water at about 1000 feet. Based on this information the comparative economics of using geothermal as a heat source versus conventional electri… more
Date: December 31, 1980
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Engineering and economic evaluation of direct hot-water geothermal energy applications on the University of New Mexico campus. Final technical report

Description: The potential engineering and economic feasibility of low-temperature geothermal energy applications on the campus of the University of New Mexico is studied in detail. This report includes three phases of work: data acquisition and evaluation, system synthesis, and system refinement and implementation. Detailed process designs are presented for a system using 190/sup 0/F geothermal water to substitute for the use of 135 x 10/sup 9/ Btu/y (141 TJ/y) of fossil fuels to provide space and domestic… more
Date: December 31, 1980
Creator: Kauffman, D. & Houghton, A.V.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Evaluation of the DYMAC demonstration program. Phase III report. [LASL Plutonium Processing Facility]

Description: An accountancy system based on the Dynamic Materials Accountability (DYMAC) System has been in operation at the Plutonium Processing Facility at the Los Alamos National Laboratory since January 1978. This system, now designated the Plutonium Facility/Los Alamos Safeguards System (PF/LASS), has enhanced nuclear material accountability and process control at the Los Alamos facility. The nondestructive assay instruments and the central computer system are operating accurately and reliably. As anti… more
Date: December 31, 1980
Creator: Malanify, J.J. & Bearse, R.C. (comps.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[Experimental and theoretical plasma physics program]. Technical progress [in FY 1980]

Description: This report summarizes the technical progress made in plasma physics research. Studies include: (1) plasma production by means of electric discharges; (2) formation of spheromak configuration using combined z and {theta} pinch techniques; (3) plasma instabilities and plasma diagnostics in toroidal experiments.
Date: December 31, 1980
Creator: Griem, H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Extended burnup demonstration reactor fuel program. Semi-annual progress report, January 1979-September 1979

Description: This is the first semi-annual progress report for the DOE-sponsored Extended Burnup Demonstration program. The program objectives, description, and organization are detailed. Characteristics are given for the 64 Big Rock Point fuel rods and the four 8 x 8 Oyster Creek fuel assemblies which will be driven to extended burnup. The transfer of 64 Big Rock Point fuel rods from their original assemblies into host assemblies and the results of the fuel examination of these rods are described.
Date: December 31, 1980
Creator: Woods, K.N. & van Swam, L.F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Feasibility of Recycling Thorium in a Fusion-Fission Hybrid/PWR Symbiotic System

Description: A study was made of the economic impact of high levels of radioactivity in the thorium fuel cycle. The sources of this radioactivity and means of calculating the radioactive levels at various stages in the fuel cycle are discussed and estimates of expected levels are given. The feasibility of various methods of recycling thorium is discussed. These methods include direct recycle, recycle after storage for 14 years to allow radioactivity to decrease, shortening irradiation times to limit radioac… more
Date: December 31, 1980
Creator: Josephs, John M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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GeoEnergy technology

Description: The goal of the GeoEnergy Technology Program is to improve the understanding and efficiency of energy extraction and conversion from geologic resources, hence maintaining domestic production capability of fossil energy resources and expanding the usage of geothermal energy. The GeoEnergy Technology Program conducts projects for the Department of Energy in four resource areas--coal, oil and gas, synthetic fuels and geothermal energy. These projects, which are conducted collaboratively with priva… more
Date: December 31, 1980
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Geothermal home heating facilities, Green Valley Estates, Fernley, Nevada

Description: A housing development to be located at Fernley, Nevada, about thirty miles east of Reno, is in an area of known geothermal water. The practicality of heating these homes with this water, as an alternative to heating with natural gas, has been investigated. A preliminary engineering design of a geothermal system was developed. This design permitted capital and operating cost to be estimated and a financial evaluation to be made. Two cases were investigated. The Base Case provides facilities for … more
Date: December 31, 1980
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Heating facilities for the city schools, Ephrata, Washington

Description: The City of Ephrata, Washington has an existing well that has the capability of pumping 2200 gallons per minute of 86/sup 0/F water into the City drinking water system. To determine the economic practicality of using the City water to heat the schools, one school (Middle School) was selected for evaluation. Two cases were considered. Case 1 uses a two stage water-to-water heat pump to produce a 190/sup 0/F circulating hot water steam. This would be compatible with the existing system and essent… more
Date: December 31, 1980
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Hydrogeochemical and stream sediment reconnaissance basic data for Dodge City NTMS Quadrangle, Kansas

Description: Results of a reconnaissance geochemical survey of the Dodge City Quadrangle are reported. Field and laboratory data are presented for 756 groundwater and 321 stream sediment samples. Statistical and areal distributions of uranium and possible uranium-related variables are displayed. A generalized geologic map of the survey area is provided, and pertinent geologic factors which may be of significance in evaluating the potential for uranium mineralization are briefly discussed. Groundwater data i… more
Date: December 31, 1980
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Inertial Confinement Fusion Program. Progress report FY 1980

Description: Brief description of work progress during this report period are given for: (1) acceleration of disc targets, (2) laser upgrade, (3) diagnostic development, and (4) stimulated brillouin backscatter theory.
Date: December 31, 1980
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Low alloy additions of iron, silicon, and aluminum to uranium: a literature survey

Description: A survey of the literature has been made on the experimental results of small additions of iron, silicon, and aluminum to uranium. Information is also included on the constitution, mechanical properties, heat treatment, and deformation of various binary and ternary alloys. 42 references, 24 figures, 13 tables.
Date: December 31, 1980
Creator: Ludwig, R.L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Methods of economic analysis applied to fusion research. Fourth annual report

Description: The current study reported here has involved three separate tasks. The first task deals with the development of expected utility analysis techniques for economic evaluation of fusion research. A decision analytic model is developed for the incorporation of market uncertainties, as well as technological uncertainties in an economic evaluation of long-range energy research. The model is applied to the case of fusion research. The second task deals with the potential effects of long-range energy R… more
Date: December 31, 1980
Creator: Hazelrigg, G. A., Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Municipal geothermal heat utilization plan for Glenwood Springs, Colorado

Description: A study has been made of the engineering and economic feasibility of utilizing the geothermal resource underlying Glenwood Springs Colorado, to heat a group of public buildings. The results have shown that the use of geothermal heat is indeed feasible when compared to the cost of natural gas. The proposed system is composed of a wellhead plate heat exchanger which feeds a closed distribution loop of treated water circulated to the buildings which form the load. The base case system was designed… more
Date: December 31, 1980
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Particle beam fusion

Description: Today, in keeping with Sandia Laboratories` designation by the Department of Energy as the lead laboratory for the pulsed power approach to fusion, its efforts include major research activities and the construction of new facilities at its Albuquerque site. Additionally, in its capacity as lead laboratory, Sandia coordinates DOE-supported pulsed power fusion work at other government operated laboratories, with industrial contractors, and universities. The beginning of Sandia`s involvement in de… more
Date: December 31, 1980
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Particle-beam fusion research facilities at Sandia National Laboratories

Description: Sandia research in inertial-confinement fusion (ICF) is based on pulse-power capabilities that grew out of earlier developments of intense relativistic electron-beam (e-beam) radiation sources for weapon effects studies. ICF involves irradiating a deuterium-tritium pellet with either laser light or particle beams until the center of the pellet is compressed and heated to the point of nuclear fusion. This publication focuses on the use of particle beams to achieve fusion, and on the various faci… more
Date: December 31, 1980
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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TIGER -- A technology to improve the delivery capability of nuclear bombs and the survivability of the delivery aircraft

Description: The TIGER (Terminal guided and Extended-Range) Program was initiated in 1972 to study improved delivery capabilities for stockpiled tactical nuclear bombs. The Southeast Asia conflict fostered the development of air-delivered standoff conventional weapons utilizing terminal guidance systems. SNL initiated the TIGER program to determine if current nuclear bombs could be provided with a similarly accurate standoff capabilities. These conventional weapon delivery techniques, while allowing highly … more
Date: December 31, 1980
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Volcanic hazards: Perspectives from eruption prediction to risk assessment for disposal of radioactive waste

Description: This document summarizes an oral presentation that described the potential for volcanic activity at the proposed Yucca Mountain, Texas repository site. Yucca Mountain is located in a broad zone of volcanic activity known as the Death Valley-Pancake Ridge volcanic zone. The probability estimate for the likelihood that some future volcanic event will intersect a buried repository at Yucca Mountain is low. Additionally, the radiological consequences of penetration of a repository by basaltic magma… more
Date: December 31, 1980
Creator: Crowe, B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Direct utilization of geothermal heat in cascade application to aquaculture and greenhouse systems at Navarro College. Annual report, January-December 1980

Description: Progress is reported on a project for direct use of the 130/sup 0/F central Texas geothermal resource. Well drilling and logging are reported. Work was done on a preliminary design for a heating system for a college building and a hospital. (MHR)
Date: December 30, 1980
Creator: Smith, K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Heating facilities, Blue Mountain Community College, Pendleton, Oregon

Description: Blue Mountain Community College campus consists of five major buildings totalling about 193,000 square feet in area. Four of these buildings are heated using hot water circulating systems, and the fifth by a low pressure steam system. The boilers for each of the systems are natural gas fired. A successful agricultural well was drilled adjacent to the campus, which during a twelve hour test produced 780 gallons per minute of 65/sup 0/F water. It was concluded that heating the campus utilizing a … more
Date: December 30, 1980
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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