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Federal Farm Promotion ("Check-off") Programs

Description: This report discusses legislation establishing national generic promotion ("check-off') programs for 20 specified farm commodities. Thirteen of the 20 authorized programs are now in effect.
Date: May 3, 1996
Creator: Becker, Geoffrey S.
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Grazing Fees: An Overview

Description: This report briefly discusses charging fees for grazing private livestock on federal lands, which is a long-standing but contentious practice. Generally, livestock producers who use federal lands want to keep fees low, while conservation groups and others believe fees should be raised to approximate "fair market value."
Date: May 21, 1996
Creator: Cody, Betsy A.
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The Convention on Nuclear Safety - A Fact Sheet

Description: Until the catastrophic accident with the former Soviet Union's Chernobyl nuclear power plant showed that radioactivity from a major nuclear accident could reach neighboring nations, nuclear safety was held to be an exclusively sovereign responsibility of each nation. Now it is recognized that a nuclear accident in one state can release radioactivity dangerous to another. As a result, many now view international cooperation as one way to help to assure safe operation of each nation's civil nucle… more
Date: May 16, 1996
Creator: Behrens, Carl E. & Donnelly, Warren H.
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The China-U.S. Intellectual Property Rights Dispute: Background and Implications for China-U.S. Economic Relations

Description: The United States has pressed China over the past several years to improve its protection of U.S. intellectual property rights (IPR) and to afford greater market access to intellectual property-related products, such as computer software, compact disks (CDs), and audio-visual products. U.S. threats of trade sanctions against Chinese products helped produce trade agreements in January 1992 and February 1995 that pledged China to improve its IPR enforcement regime and expand market access for IPR… more
Date: May 24, 1996
Creator: Morrison, Wayne M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Legislative Procedure for Disapproving the Renewal of China's Most-Favored-Nation Status

Description: The continuation in effect of China's most-favored-nation status with the United States is contingent principally on the maintenance in force of the waiver of full compliance with the requirements of the freedom-of-emigration ("Jackson-Vanik") amendment of the Trade Act of 1974. Waivers and their underlying authority must be extended annually.
Date: May 31, 1996
Creator: Pregelj, Vladimir N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Great Lakes Water Quality: Current Issues

Description: This is a html page with a report on the great lakes water quality.
Date: May 17, 1996
Creator: Copeland, Claudia
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System Definition and Analysis: Power Plant Design and Layout

Description: This is the Topical report for Task 6.0, Phase 2 of the Advanced Turbine Systems (ATS) Program. The report describes work by Westinghouse and the subcontractor, Gilbert/Commonwealth, in the fulfillment of completing Task 6.0. A conceptual design for critical and noncritical components of the gas fired combustion turbine system was completed. The conceptual design included specifications for the flange to flange gas turbine, power plant components, and balance of plant equipment. The ATS engine … more
Date: May 1, 1996
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Hanford Well Remediation and Decommissioning Plan

Description: This plan provides the requirements for conducting well remediation and decommissioning activities.
Date: May 17, 1996
Creator: Skoglie, D. E.
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Correlated Forward-Backward Coulomb Dissociation and Luminosity Monitoring at Heavy Ion Colliders

Description: We present an expression for the rate of correlated Coulomb dissociation of both colliding nuclei at a heavy-ion collider. For the case of Au + Au at RHIC, the cross section for mutual correlated dissociation is about 3 barns. This process should be cleanly measured with very forward (zero degree) calorimeters proposed for RHIC. We also discuss prospects for luminosity monitoring using this process.
Date: May 13, 1996
Creator: Baltz, A. J. & White, S. N.
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Bounce Averaged Trapped Electron Fluid Equations for Plasma Turbulence

Description: A novel set of nonlinear fluid equations for mirror-trapped electrons is developed which differs from conventional fluid equations in two main respects: (1) the trapped-fluid moments average over only two of three velocity space dimensions, retaining the full pitch angle dependence of the traped electron dynamics, and (2) closure approximations include the effects of collisionless wave-particle resonances with the toroidal precession drift. By speeding up calculations by at least {radical} m{su… more
Date: May 1, 1996
Creator: Beer, M. A. & Hammett, G.
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Dense ceramic membranes for methane conversion

Description: This report focuses on a mechanism for oxygen transport through mixed- oxide conductors as used in dense ceramic membrane reactors for the partial oxidation of methane to syngas (CO and H{sub 2}). The in-situ separation of O{sub 2} from air by the membrane reactor saves the costly cryogenic separation step that is required in conventional syngas production. The mixed oxide of choice is SrCo{sub 0.5}FeO{sub x}, which exhibits high oxygen permeability and has been shown in previous studies to pos… more
Date: May 1, 1996
Creator: Balachandran, U.; Mieville, R. L.; Ma, B. & Udovich, C. A.
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Measurements of mean flow and eddy transport over a film cooling surface

Description: Results of an experimental study of the effects of blowing Velocity Ratio (VR = 0.5 and 1.0) and Free-Stream Turbulence Intensity (FSTI = 0.5% and 12%) on turbulent transport over a film-cooling test surface are presented. The surface has a single lateral row of streamwise-oriented holes angled 35{degree} from the surface and separated from one another by three hole diameters. The film cooling flow and mainstream flow are at the same temperature and the film cooling is supplied through long del… more
Date: May 1, 1996
Creator: Wang, L.; Tsang, H.; Simon, T. & Eckert, E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Smart Gun Technology project. Final report

Description: The goal of the Smart Gun Technology project is to eliminate the capability of an unauthorized user form firing a law officer`s firearm by implementing user-recognizing-and-authorizing (or {open_quotes}smart{close_quotes}) surety technologies. This project was funded by the National Institute of Justice. This report lists the findings and results of the project`s three primary objectives. First, to find and document the requirements for a smart firearm technology that law enforcement officers w… more
Date: May 1, 1996
Creator: Weiss, D. R.
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Safety handling characteristics of LX-04-1

Description: LX-04-1 is DOE`s safest ``creep resistant`` conventional high explosive (CHE) with excellent thermal and long term compatibility properties. Because LX-04-1 contains 15% Viton by weight, it exhibits outstanding resistance to mechanical stimuli such as could be encountered in an accident scenario at the Pantex Plant. A large energy fluence is required to initiate LX-04-1. The most likely methods to generate this energy into the individual cracked W70 HE is via dropping the unit onto the floor (o… more
Date: May 1, 1996
Creator: Humphrey, James R.
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Facilitating Submetering Implementation. Final Report

Description: Residential submetering is the measurement and billing of electric use in individual apartments in master-metered buildings. In master-metered building situations, residents do not bear electricity costs in proportion to consumption levels. As a result, studies have confirmed that residents in master-metered buildings tend to consume more electricity than residents with individual apartment metering, and have established electrical submetering as an effective energy conservation measure. The Ne… more
Date: May 1, 1996
Creator: Bowers, Mary Ann
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Waste form development for use with ORNL waste treatment facility sludge

Description: A sludge that simulates Water Softening Sludge number 5 (WSS number 5 filtercake) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory was prepared and evaluated for its thermal behavior, volume reduction, stabilization, surface area and compressive strength properties. Compaction of the surrogate waste and the calcium oxide (produced by calcination) in the presence of paraffin resulted in cylindrical molds with various degrees of stability. This work has demonstrated that surrogate WSS number 5 at ORNL can be suc… more
Date: May 1996
Creator: Abotsi, G.M.K. & Bostick, W.D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Guide to good practices for lockouts and tagouts: DOE standard

Description: (Lockout/tagout ensures the protection of personnel and equipment by installing tagout and/or lockout devices.) This guide has the purpose of providing direction for Lockouts and Tagouts, Chapter IX of DOE Order 5480.19 (Conduct of Operations Requirements for DOE Facilities). (However, OSHA requirements and good practices take precedence.) Primary purpose of the lockout/tagout programs is to protect employees from exposure to potential hazardous energy sources.
Date: May 1, 1996
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Robotics and remote systems applications

Description: This article is a review of numerous remote inspection techniques in use at the Savannah River (and other) facilities. These include: (1) reactor tank inspection robot, (2) californium waste removal robot, (3) fuel rod lubrication robot, (4) cesium source manipulation robot, (5) tank 13 survey and decontamination robots, (6) hot gang valve corridor decontamination and junction box removal robots, (7) lead removal from deionizer vessels robot, (8) HB line cleanup robot, (9) remote operation of a… more
Date: May 1, 1996
Creator: Rabold, D. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Licensed fuel facility status report: Inventory difference data, July 1, 1994--June 30, 1995. Volume 15

Description: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is committed to the periodic publication of licensed fuel facility inventory difference data, following agency review of the information and completion of any related NRC investigations. Information in this report includes inventory difference data for active fuel fabrication facilities possessing more than one effective kilogram of special nuclear material.
Date: May 1, 1996
Creator: Joy, D.R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Monthly Energy Review

Description: This publication presents an overview of the Energy information Administration`s recent monthly energy statistics. The statistics cover the major activities of US production, consumption, trade, stocks, and prices for petroleum, natural gas, coal, electricity, and nuclear energy. Also included are international energy and thermal and metric conversion factors. Two brief ``energy plugs`` (reviews of EIA publications) are included, as well.
Date: May 28, 1996
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Conceptual design of a novel instrument for producing intense pulses of 10 ps X-rays for ultra-fast fluorescence measurements

Description: A novel bench-top device for producing intense, fast pulses of x-rays has been designed with 10 ps fwhm (full-width at half-maximum) x-ray pulse width, 120 keV maximum energy, 100 kHz repetition rate, and 1 A peak current onto the x-ray anode. The device includes three sections: (1) an electron gun that generates 5 ns wide pulses of 120 keV electrons at 100 kHz; (2) solenoidal magnetic lenses and deflection plates that focus the electrons onto an aperture plate and sweep the pulsed beam past th… more
Date: May 1, 1996
Creator: Gruber, G. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Float zone silicon sheet growth. Quarterly report number 10, January 1--March 31, 1996

Description: During this period special attention has been paid to task number 8 as cited in the proposed statement of work. While the water cooling and power feed to the heaters and the primary and secondary electrodes has been completed and are functional, vacuum leaks developed during testing of the system. A multitude of stress induced pinhole vacuum leaks have seriously delayed the final system assembly. Progress has been extremely slow since the system has been completely disassembled and reassembled … more
Date: May 1, 1996
Creator: Bleil, C.E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Ground-water characterization field activities for 1995--1996 Laboratory for Energy-Related Health Research, University of California, Davis

Description: This report documents ground-water characterization field activities completed from August to December 1995 and in January 1996 at the Laboratory for Energy-Related Health Research (LEHR) in Davis, California. The ground water at LEHR is one of several operable units under investigation by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for the US Department of Energy. The purpose of this work was to further characterize the hydrogeology beneath the LEHR site, with the primary focus on ground water. The … more
Date: May 1, 1996
Creator: Liikala, T.L.; Lanigan, D.C. & Last, G.V.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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