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Status report : guard containment CFD analysis.

Description: Under the auspices of the CEA Cadarache/ANL-US I-NERI project a comprehensive investigation has been made of improvements to the Gen-IV GFR safety case over that of the GCFR safety case twenty five years ago. In particular, it has been concluded and agreed upon [1] that the GFR safety approach for the passive removal of decay heat in a protected depressurization accident with total loss of electric power needs to be different from that taken for the HTRs. The HTR conduction cooldown to the vess… more
Date: March 3, 2006
Creator: Tzanos, C. P.
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Physics division annual report 2005.

Description: This report highlights the research performed in 2005 in the Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory. The Division's programs include operation of ATLAS as a national user facility, nuclear structure and reaction research, nuclear theory, medium energy nuclear research and accelerator research and development. The mission of Nuclear Physics is to understand the origin, evolution and structure of baryonic matter in the universe--the matter that makes up stars, planets and human life itse… more
Date: March 12, 2007
Creator: Glover, J. & Physics
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Surveillance of site A and plot M, report for 2007.

Description: The results of the environmental surveillance program conducted at Site A/Plot M in the Palos Forest Preserve area for Calendar Year 2007 are presented. Based on the results of the 1976-1978 radiological characterization of the site, a determination was made that a surveillance program be established. The characterization study determined that very low levels of hydrogen-3 (as tritiated water) had migrated from the burial ground and were present in two nearby hand pumped picnic wells. The curre… more
Date: March 25, 2008
Creator: Golchert, N. W. & Oversight, ESH /QA
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Measurement of the Branching Ratio Lambda_C+ -> P Pi+ Pi-

Description: The confirmation of the Cabibbo-suppressed charm baryon decay mode {Lambda}{sub c}{sup +} {yields} p{pi}{sup +}{pi}{sup -} is reported. All data analyzed are from SELEX, a fixed target experiment at Fermilab that took data during 1996 and 1997, mainly with a 600 GeV/c {Sigma}{sup -} beam. The branching ratio of the Cabibbo-suppressed decay mode {Lambda}{sub c}{sup +} {yields} p{pi}{sup +}{pi}{sup -} relative to the Cabibbo-favored mode {Lambda}{sub c}{sup +} {yields} pK{sup -}{pi}{sup +} is mea… more
Date: March 1, 2008
Creator: Lopez-Hinojosa, Guillermo & U., /San Luis Potosi
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Implementation of nodal equivalence parameters in DIF3D-VARIANT for core analysis of prismatic Very High Temperature Reactor (VHTR).

Description: The VARIANT module of the DIF3D code has been upgraded to utilize surface-dependent discontinuity factors. The performance of the new capability is verified using two-dimensional core cases with control rods in reflector and fuel blocks. Cross sections for VHTR components were generated using the DRAGON and HELIOS codes. For rodded block cross sections, the DRAGON calculations used a single-block model or the multi-block models combined with MCNP4C flux solutions, whereas the HELIOS calculation… more
Date: March 15, 2007
Creator: Lee, C. H.; Joo, H. K.; Yang, W. S. & Taiwo, T. A.
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Results of investigation at the Miravalles Geothermal Field, Costa Rica: Part 1, Well logging. Resultados de las investigaciones en el campo geotermico de Miravalles, Costa Rica: Parte 1, Registros de pozos

Description: The well-logging operations performed in the Miravalles Geothermal Field in Costa Rica were conducted during two separate field trips. The Phase I program provided the deployment of a suite of high-temperature borehole instruments, including the temperature/rabbit, fluid sampler, and three-arm caliper in Well PGM-3. These same tools were deployed in Well PGM-10 along with an additional survey run with a combination fluid velocity/temperature/pressure instrument used to measure thermodynamic pro… more
Date: March 1, 1989
Creator: Dennis, B.R.; Lawton, R.G.; Kolar, J.D. & Alvarado, A.
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Well-to-wheels energy use and greenhouse gas emissions analysis of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.

Description: Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory expanded the Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy use in Transportation (GREET) model and incorporated the fuel economy and electricity use of alternative fuel/vehicle systems simulated by the Powertrain System Analysis Toolkit (PSAT) to conduct a well-to-wheels (WTW) analysis of energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). The WTW results were separately calculated for the blended charge-deple… more
Date: March 31, 2009
Creator: Elgowainy, A.; Burnham, A.; Wang, M.; Molburg, J.; Rousseau, A. & Systems, Energy
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Weather forecast-based optimization of integrated energy systems.

Description: In this work, we establish an on-line optimization framework to exploit detailed weather forecast information in the operation of integrated energy systems, such as buildings and photovoltaic/wind hybrid systems. We first discuss how the use of traditional reactive operation strategies that neglect the future evolution of the ambient conditions can translate in high operating costs. To overcome this problem, we propose the use of a supervisory dynamic optimization strategy that can lead to more… more
Date: March 1, 2009
Creator: Zavala, V. M.; Constantinescu, E. M.; Krause, T. & Anitescu, M.
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Optimal explicit strong-stability-preserving general linear methods : complete results.

Description: This paper constructs strong-stability-preserving general linear time-stepping methods that are well suited for hyperbolic PDEs discretized by the method of lines. These methods generalize both Runge-Kutta (RK) and linear multistep schemes. They have high stage orders and hence are less susceptible than RK methods to order reduction from source terms or nonhomogeneous boundary conditions. A global optimization strategy is used to find the most efficient schemes that have low storage requirement… more
Date: March 3, 2009
Creator: Constantinescu, E. M.; Sandu, A.; Science, Mathematics and Computer & Univ., Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State
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Structured hints : extracting and abstracting domain expertise.

Description: We propose a new framework for providing information to help optimize domain-specific application codes. Its design addresses problems that derive from the widening gap between the domain problem statement by domain experts and the architectural details of new and future high-end computing systems. The design is particularly well suited to program execution models that incorporate dynamic adaptive methodologies for live tuning of program performance and resource utilization. This new framework,… more
Date: March 16, 2009
Creator: Hereld, M.; Stevens, R.; Sterling, T.; Gao, G. R.; Science, Mathematics and Computer; Tech., California Inst. of et al.
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Validation of the G-PASS code : status report.

Description: Validation is the process of determining whether the models in a computer code can describe the important phenomena in applications of interest. This report describes past work and proposed future work for validating the Gas Plant Analyzer and System Simulator (G-PASS) code. The G-PASS code was developed for simulating gas reactor and chemical plant system behavior during operational transients and upset events. Results are presented comparing code properties, individual component models, and i… more
Date: March 12, 2009
Creator: Vilim, R. B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Model year 2010 Honda insight level-1 testing report.

Description: As a part of the US Department of Energy's Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity (AVTA), a model year 2010 Honda Insight was procured by eTec (Phoenix, AZ) and sent to ANL's Advanced Powertrain Research Facility for the purposes of vehicle-level testing in support of the Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity (AVTA). Data was acquired during testing using non-intrusive sensors, vehicle network information, and facilities equipment (emissions and dynamometer data). Standard drive cycles, performance cycl… more
Date: March 22, 2011
Creator: Rask, E.; Bocci, D.; Duoba, M. & Lohse-Busch, H. (Energy Systems)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Research proposal for development of an electron stripper using a thin liquid lithium film for rare isotope accelerator.

Description: Hydrodynamic instability phenomena in a thin liquid lithium film, which has been proposed for the first stripper in the driver linac of Rare Isotope Accelerator (RIA), were discussed. Since it was considered that film instability could significantly impair the feasibility of the liquid lithium film stripper concept, potential issues and research tasks in the RIA project due to these instability phenomena were raised. In order to investigate these instability phenomena, a research proposal plan … more
Date: March 6, 2006
Creator: Momozaki, Y.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Tensile-property characterization of thermally aged cast stainless steels.

Description: The effect of thermal aging on tensile properties of cast stainless steels during service in light water reactors has been evaluated. Tensile data for several experimental and commercial heats of cast stainless steels are presented. Thermal aging increases the tensile strength of these steels. The high-C Mo-bearing CF-8M steels are more susceptible to thermal aging than the Mo-free CF-3 or CF-8 steels. A procedure and correlations are presented for predicting the change in tensile flow and yiel… more
Date: March 3, 1994
Creator: Michaud, W. F.; Toben, P. T.; Soppet, W. K.; Chopra, O. K. & Technology, Energy
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Fast neutrons incident on rotors : - tantalum.

Description: Reports in the Argonne National Laboratory Nuclear Data and Measurement Series present results of studies in the field of microscopic nuclear data. The primary objective of the series is the dissemination of information in the comprehensive form required for nuclear technology applications. This series is devoted to: (a) measured microscopic nuclear parameters, (b) experimental techniques and facilities employed in measurements, (c) the analysis, correlation and interpretation of nuclear data, … more
Date: March 21, 2005
Creator: Smith, A. B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Impact of post-event avoidance behavior on commercial facilities sector venues-literature review.

Description: The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 (9/11), focused a great deal of interest and concern on how individual and social perceptions of risk change behavior and subsequently affect commercial sector venues. Argonne conducted a review of the literature to identify studies that quantify the direct and indirect economic consequences of avoidance behaviors that result from terrorist attacks. Despite a growing amount of literature addressing terrorism impacts, relatively little is known about t… more
Date: March 24, 2011
Creator: Samsa, M. E.; Baldwin, T. E.; Berry, M. S.; Guzowski, L. B.; Martinez-Moyano, I.; Nieves, A. L. et al.
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