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Hanford Dose Overview Program. Comparison of AIRDOS-EPA and Hanford Site Dose Codes

Description: Radiation dose commitments for persons in the Hanford environs calculated using AIRDOS-EPA were compared with those calculated using a suite of Hanford codes: FOOD, PABLM, DACRIN, and KRONIC. Dose commitments to the population and to the maximally exposed individual (MI) based on annual releases of eight radionuclides from the N-Reactor, were calculated by these codes. Dose commitments from each pathway to the total body, lung, thyroid, and lower large intestine (LLI) are given for the populati… more
Date: November 1, 1985
Creator: Aaberg, R. L. & Napier, B. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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New Concepts in Fish Ladder Design, Volume II of IV, Results of Laboratory and Field Research on New Concepts in Weir and Pool Fishways, 1982-1984 Final Project Report.

Description: A comprehensive review of fishway design practice led to new design concepts that had previously been untested. This concept was based on the observation that fish can be stimulated to leap when presented with certain hydraulic conditions. A laboratory test program was conducted to develop this concept into a new fishway configuration. Field testing revealed that components of the new design improved fish passage. Verification of the initial premise that fish can be stimulated to leap needs fur… more
Date: August 1, 1985
Creator: Aaserude, Robert G. & Orsborn, John F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Consolidation and shear failure leading to subsidence and settlement. Part I

Description: Subsidence and settlement are phenomena that are much more destructive than generally thought. In shallow land burials they may lead to cracking of the overburden and eventual exposure and escape of waste material. The primary causes are consolidation and cave-ins. Laboratory studies performed at Los Alamos permit us to predict settlement caused by consolidation or natural compaction of the crushed tuff overburden. We have also investigated the shear failure characteristics of crushed tuff that… more
Date: November 1, 1985
Creator: Abeele, W.V.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Micelle-derived catalysts for extended Schulz-Flory

Description: Our objective is to develop a catalyst for making gasoline or diesel range fuel selectively from synthesis gas. Our catalyst development approach is to provide a cut-off for the higher end of the hydrocarbon distribution by limiting the size of the active metal particle. We are using a micelle technique for preparing specific size ruthenium particles supported on [gamma]-alumina. Hydrocarbon cut-off was not observed with 40--60 [Angstrom] ruthenium particles on [gamma]-alumina. We could not det… more
Date: January 1, 1985
Creator: Abrevaya, H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Micelle-derived catalysts for extended Schulz-Flory. Technical progress report, October 1, 1985--12/31/85

Description: Our objective is to develop a catalyst for making gasoline or diesel range fuel selectively from synthesis gas. Our catalyst development approach is to provide a cut-off for the higher end of the hydrocarbon distribution by limiting the size of the active metal particle. We are using a micelle technique for preparing specific size ruthenium particles supported on {gamma}-alumina. Hydrocarbon cut-off was not observed with 40--60 {Angstrom} ruthenium particles on {gamma}-alumina. We could not det… more
Date: December 31, 1985
Creator: Abrevaya, H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Informacion Ambiental y Ecologica Sobre los Llanos del Rio Orinoco: Proyecto Orinoco-Apure: Seccion 3

Description: This report is section three of a study of the Llanos del Rio Orinoco. The aim of the study is to establish relationships between the characteristics of plant communities of the Central Plains of Venezuela and geomorfogenetica and pedogenic evolution during the Quaternary.
Date: June 1985
Creator: Acevedo, Miguel F.; Silva, Juan F. & Raventós, José
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Informacion Ambiental y Ecologica Sobre los Llanos del Rio Orinoco: Proyecto Orinoco-Apure: Secciones 1 y 2

Description: This report includes sections one and two of a study of the Llanos del Rio Orinoco. The aim of this study is to establish relationships between the characteristics of plant communities of the Central Plains of Venezuela and geomorfogenetica and pedogenic evolution during the Quaternary.
Date: June 1985
Creator: Acevedo, Miguel F.; Silva, Juan F. & Raventós, José
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Advanced Fuel Cell Development Progress Report: July-September 1984

Description: Quarterly report discussing fuel cell research and development work at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). This report describes studies directed toward seeking alternative cathode materials to NiO for molten carbonate fuel cells.
Date: June 1985
Creator: Ackerman, J. P.; Pierce, Robert Dean; Nelson, P. A. & Arons, R. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Sandia Sodium Purification Loop (SNAPL) description and operations manual

Description: Sandia's Sodium Purification Loop was constructed to purify sodium for fast reactor safety experiments. An oxide impurity of less than 10 parts per million is required by these in-pile experiments. Commercial, reactor grade sodium is purchased in 180 kg drums. The sodium is melted and transferred into the unit. The unit is of a loop design and purification is accomplished by ''cold trapping.'' Sodium purified in this loop has been chemically analysed at one part per million oxygen by weight. 5 … more
Date: August 1, 1985
Creator: Acton, R. U.; Weatherbee, R. L.; Smith, L. A.; Mastin, F. L. & Nowotny, K. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Retrospective analysis of energy use and conservation trends: 1972-1982

Description: The primary objective of the research reported here is to analyze energy use trends for the entire economy and by end-use sector (residential, commercial, and industrial, and transportation). In particular, an examination of energy trends was undertaken for the period 1972 through 1982 to determine the magnitude of ''energy savings'' attributable to: (1) changes in economic activity; (2) efficiency improvements relative to the 1972 stock (including structures and capital equipment); and (3) eff… more
Date: June 1, 1985
Creator: Adams, R. C.; Belzer, D. B.; Fang, J. M.; Imhoff, K. L.; Lax, D. H.; Moe, R. J. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Retrospective analysis of energy use and conservation trends: 1972-1982. Appendix

Description: This appendix contains the detailed documentation corresponding to the end-use sectoral analyses presented in the main report. The data and methods used to calculate alternative scenarios for estimating energy savings in four economic sectors are provided in this volume. Appendix A contains the detailed documentation for the residential sector analysis. The methodology used to prepare estimates of building energy savings in the commercial sector is provided in Appendix B. Finally, Appendices C … more
Date: June 1, 1985
Creator: Adams, R. C.; Belzer, D. B.; Fang, J. M.; Imhoff, K. L.; Lax, D. H.; Moe, R. J. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Theory, design, and operation of liquid metal fast breeder reactors, including operational health physics

Description: A comprehensive evaluation was conducted of the radiation protection practices and programs at prototype LMFBRs with long operational experience. Installations evaluated were the Fast Flux Test Facility (FFTF), Richland, Washington; Experimental Breeder Reactor II (EBR-II), Idaho Falls, Idaho; Prototype Fast Reactor (PFR) Dounreay, Scotland; Phenix, Marcoule, France; and Kompakte Natriumgekuhlte Kernreak Toranlange (KNK II), Karlsruhe, Federal Republic of Germany. The evaluation included extern… more
Date: October 1, 1985
Creator: Adams, S. R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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18t Resistive Magnet Development. Conceptual Design Second Annual Report

Description: This report documents the work performed on a normal conducting magnet during fiscal year 1985. Emphasis, during the study, was on refinement of the structural design and optimization of the coil current density distribution for either maximum field generation or minimum power consumption. The results have shown that one can generate a 4.4 tesla field using 6.14 megawatts or 3.1 tesla at 1.43 megawatts. The structural design has been modified to stiffen the outer turn of the conductor. The modi… more
Date: October 1, 1985
Creator: Agarwal, K. L.; Burgeson, J. E.; Gurol, H.; Mancuso, A. & Michels, P. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Conrail Sale: Labor Aspects

Description: This report presents the issues discussed by Congress in regard to Conrail’s sale. In examining the issues in Conrail's sale, Congress most likely will consider the welfare of Conrail employees as affected by the terms and conditions of the sale. Should negotiations on labor conditions with the final bidder fail, Congress might be asked to include labor conditions as part of any legislation related to the sale of Conrail.
Date: June 27, 1985
Creator: Ahmuty, Alice L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Nuclide migration through a planar fissure with matrix diffusion

Description: This report presents the first results of a new analytical study of the hydrological transport of a radioactive contaminant through a planar fracture in porous rock. The purpose is to predict the space-time dependent concentration of the contaminant in the groundwater, as affected by advective transport within the fracture and by molecular diffusion of the contaminant into and out of pores that intersect the fracture surfaces.
Date: April 1, 1985
Creator: Ahn, J.; Chambre, P. L. & Pigford, T. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Radionuclide migration through fractured rock: Effects of multiple fractures and two-member decay chains

Description: This report presents the results of an analytical study of the hydrological transport of a radioactive contaminant through fractured, porous rock. The purpose is to evaluate the time-, and space-dependent concentration of the contaminant in the ground-water in the fractures and in the rock pores. We propose a simplified analytical method that superposes two single-fracture solutions for the concentration in the rock matrix with a system of parallel fractures. The exact solutions require multipl… more
Date: September 1, 1985
Creator: Ahn, J.; Chambre, P. L. & Pigford, T. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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CSDP: the seismology of continental thermal regimes. Final technical report, January 1, 1975-December 31, 1984

Description: Research progress is reported in the development of new seismological tools to define and characterize the geometry, mechanical construction and mass transport process of a geothermal system, and their application to various geothermal systems including the Fenton Hill Hot Dry Rock System, New Mexico, Kilauea and Kilauea Iki, Hawaii, Mt. St. Helens, Washington, and Long Valley, California. (ACR)
Date: February 1, 1985
Creator: Aki, K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Experimental attempt to achieve microstructure variations through temperature/time permutations for a nonwrought powder metallurgy uranium-6 niobium alloy

Description: The powder metallurgical processing of uranium-6 niobium (U-6Nb) alloy has undergone 3 years of characterization at the Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant. The current structure of the powder metallurgy (P/M) alloy has been described as duplex: a mixture of two or more distinct grain sizes. An experiment was conducted to determine a gamma stabilizing heat treatment (time and temperature combination) to produce a structure consisting of one gamma grain size. Two heat treatments were found to produce an irregu… more
Date: June 7, 1985
Creator: Alexander-Morrison, G.M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Characterization of reference Umtanum and Cohassett basalt

Description: The Basalt Waste Isolation Project (BWIP) Materials Testing Group (MTG) provides large quantities of reference basalt for testing waste package materials under repository conditions, site sorption characteristics and other experimental purposes. This document describes the reference rock materials currently used in testing, namely entablature and colonnade basalt from the Umtanum and Cohassett flows. The data include sampling locations, bulk chemical composition, modal percentages of major phas… more
Date: February 1, 1985
Creator: Allen, C. C.; Johnston, R. G. & Strope, M. B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Summary of selected compressed air energy storage studies

Description: A descriptive summarily of research and development in compressed air energy storage technology is presented. Research funded primarily by the Department of Energy is described. Results of studies by other groups and experience at the Huntorf plant in West Germany are included. Feasibility studies performed by General Electric are summarized. The feasibility of air storage in dissolved salt cavities is also demonstrated. (BCS)
Date: January 1, 1985
Creator: Allen, R. D.; Doherty, T. J. & Kannberg, L. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Conversion of transuranic waste to low level waste by decontamination: a site specific update

Description: As a followup to an FY-1984 cost/benefit study, a program was conducted in FY-1985 to transfer to the relevant DOE sites the information and technology for the direct conversion of transuranic (TRU) waste to low-level waste (LLW) by decontamination. As part of this work, the economic evaluation of the various TRUW volume reduction and conversion options was updated and expanded to include site-specific factors. The results show, for the assumptions used, that size reduction, size reduction foll… more
Date: September 1, 1985
Creator: Allen, R.P. & Hazelton, R.F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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MELSAR: a mesoscale air quality model for complex terrain. Volume 1. Overview, technical description and user's guide

Description: This final report is submitted as part of the Green River Ambient Model Assessment (GRAMA) program conducted at the US Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest Laboratory for the US Environmental Protection Agency. The GRAMA program has, as its ultimate goal, the development of validated air quality models that can be applied to the complex terrain of the Green River Formation of western Colorado, eastern Utah, and southern Wyoming. The Green River Formation is a geologic formation containing l… more
Date: April 1, 1985
Creator: Allwine, K. J. & Whiteman, C. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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MELSAR: a mesoscale air quality model for complex terrain. Volume 2. Appendices

Description: This final report is submitted as part of the Green River Ambient Model Assessment (GRAMA) project conducted at the US Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest Laboratory for the US Environmental Protection Agency. The GRAMA Program has, as its ultimate goal, the development of validated air quality models that can be applied to the complex terrain of the Green River Formation of western Colorado, eastern Utah and southern Wyoming. The Green River Formation is a geologic formation containing la… more
Date: April 1, 1985
Creator: Allwine, K. J. & Whiteman, C. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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