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Occupational dose reduction at Department of Energy contractor facilities: Bibliography of selected readings in radiation protection and ALARA

Description: This bibliography contains abstracts relating to various aspects of ALARA program implementation and dose reduction activities, with a focus on DOE facilities. Abstracts included in this bibliography were selected from proceedings of technical meetings, journals, research reports, searches of the DOE Energy, Science and Technology Database (in general, the citation and abstract information is presented as obtained from this database), and reprints of published articles provided by the authors. … more
Date: December 1, 1993
Creator: Dionne, B. J.; Sullivan, S. G. & Baum, J. W.
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Fisheries Habitat Evaluation on Tributaries of the Coeur d`Alene Indian Reservation : Annual Report [1991].

Description: The purpose of this study was to conduct physical and biological surveys of streams located on the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation. Surveys were designed to collect information on improving spawning habitat, rearing habitat, and access to spawning tributaries for bull trout and cutthroat trout and to evaluate the existing fish stocks. The objectives of the second year of the study were to: (1) Develop a stream ranking system to select the five streams of primary fisheries potential; (2) Conduc… more
Date: February 1, 1993
Creator: Woodward-Lillengreen, Kelly L.; Johnson, D. Chad & Scholz, Allan T.
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Biodiesel from Microalgae: Complementarity in a Fuel Development Strategy

Description: Biodiesel produces fewer pollutants than petroleum diesel, and is virtually free of sulfur. These properties make biodiesel an attractive candidate to facilitate compliance with the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 (CAAA). This fuel is ordinarily considered to be derived from oilseeds, but an essentially identical biodiesel can be made from microalgae.
Date: August 1, 1993
Creator: Brown, L. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Genetic Variation in DNA of Coho Salmon from the Lower Columbia River : Final Report 1993.

Description: The goal of this project was to develop techniques to provide the information needed to determine if Lower Columbia River coho salmon represent a 'species' under the Endangered Species Act. Our report features two new nuclear DNA approaches to the improved detection of genetic variation: (1) Studies of DNA-level genetic variation for two nuclear growth hormone genes; (2) Use of arbitrary DNA primers (randomly amplified polymorphic DNA, or 'RAPD' primers) to detect variation at large numbers of … more
Date: April 1, 1993
Creator: Fobes, Stephen; Knudsen, Kathy & Allendorf, Fred
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Shielding and Criticality Analyses of Phase I Reference Truck and Rail Cask Designs for Spent Nuclear Fuel

Description: This work was performed in support of the planned Phase I request for proposals (RFP) for spent nuclear fuel (SNF) transportation cask designs. The funding for this work was provided by the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) through its M&O contractor, TRW Environmental Safety Systems (TESS). The objective of this work was to prepare for the criticality and shielding evaluation of the Phase I cask design proposals by investigating the effect of SNF and design variables … more
Date: January 1, 1993
Creator: Broadhead, B.L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Alternative Feedstocks Program Technical and Economic Assessment: Thermal/Chemical and Bioprocessing Components

Description: This resource document on biomass to chemicals opportunities describes the development of a technical and market rationale for incorporating renewable feedstocks into the chemical industry in both a qualitative and quantitative sense. The term "renewable feedstock?s" can be defined to include a huge number of materials such as agricultural crops rich in starch, lignocellulosic materials (biomass), or biomass material recovered from a variety of processing wastes.
Date: July 1, 1993
Creator: Bozell, J. J. & Landucci, R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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ELISA-Based Segregation of Adult Spring Chinook Salmon for Control of Bacterial Kidney Disease: Annual Report 1991.

Description: Bacterial kidney disease (BKD), caused by Renibacterium salmoninarum (RS), a serious disease of salmonid fish worldwide. The disease has a major impact on spring chinook salmon populations in the Columbia River system. There is strong evidence that RS can be transmitted from parent to progeny, and segregation of progeny based on levels of antigen detected in adult fish may obviate this mode of transmission. Results are presented from the third year of a four year study to investigate segregatio… more
Date: February 1, 1993
Creator: Kaattari, Stephen L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Umatilla River Basin Anadromous Fish Habitat Enhancement Project : 1993 Annual Report.

Description: The Umatilla Basin Anadromous Fish Habitat Enhancement Project is funded under the Northwest Power Planning Council's Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program Measure 704 (d) (1) 34.02 and targets the improvement of water quality and restoration of riparian areas, holding, spawning and rearing habitats of steelhead, spring and fall chinook and coho salmon. The project focused on implementing instream and riparian habitat improvements on private lands on the Umatilla Indian Reservation (he… more
Date: April 1, 1993
Creator: Shaw, R. Todd
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Geomorphology of plutonium in the Northern Rio Grande

Description: Nearly all of the plutonium in the natural environment of the Northern Rio Grande is associated with soils and sediment, and river processes account for most of the mobility of these materials. A composite regional budget for plutonium based on multi-decadal averages for sediment and plutonium movement shows that 90 percent of the plutonium moving into the system is from atmospheric fallout. The remaining 10 percent is from releases at Los Alamos. Annual variation in plutonium flux and storage … more
Date: March 1, 1993
Creator: Graf, William L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Pilot study risk assessment for selected problems at the Nevada Test Site (NTS)

Description: The Nevada Test Site (NTS) is located in southwestern Nevada, about 105 km (65 mi) northwest of the city of Las Vegas. A series of tests was conducted in the late 1950s and early 1960s at or near the NTS to study issues involving plutonium-bearing devices. These tests resulted in the dispersal of about 5 TBq of [sup 239,24O]Pu on the surficial soils at the test locations. Additionally, underground tests of nuclear weapons devices have been conducted at the NTS since late 1962; ground water bene… more
Date: June 1, 1993
Creator: Daniels, J.I. (ed.)
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The development of in vitro mutagenicity testing systems using T-lymphocytes

Description: This annual report describes progress in studies on hprt mutations induced by radon or Indium 111 along with the corresponding mutation frequency, cloning and molecular spectra in human T-lymphocytes. Parallel studies on the mutation susceptibility between individuals is being investigated by hprt mutation studies on ataxia telangiectasia and xeroderma pigmentosum.
Date: May 1, 1993
Creator: Albertini, R.J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Recovery and purification of nickel-63 from HFIR-irradiated targets

Description: The production of large quantities of high-specific-activity [sup 63]Ni (>10 Ci/g) requires both a highly enriched [sup 62]Ni target and a long irradiation period at high neutron flux. Trace impurities in the nickel and associated target materials are also activated and account for a significant fraction of the discharged activity and essentially all of the gamma activity. While most of these undesirable activation products can be removed as chloride complexes during anion exchange, chromium, p… more
Date: June 1, 1993
Creator: Williams, D. F.; O'Kelley, G. D.; Knauer, J. B.; Porter, C. E. & Wiggins, J. T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Monthly research and development topical report, March--April 1993

Description: This report covers progress made by Gilbert/Commonwealth at the Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center of the U. S. Department of Energy in the provision of research and development support services under Task Orders 30.00 and 32.00 to contract No. DE-AC22-89PC88400 as well as Subtask 3.04, safety activities provided under that contract, and Subtask 7.01, Coal Conversion/Bench Scale Design. The report period runs from March 1 to April 30, 1993.The objective of the R D Support Services and Ancillar… more
Date: January 1, 1993
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Structure and damping of toroidal drift waves (and their implications for anomalous transport)

Description: The conventional theory of high-n toroidal drift waves, based on the ballooning representation, indicates that shear-damping is generally reduced in a torus compared to its plane-slab value. It therefore describes the most unstable class of toroidal drift waves. However, modes of this type occur only i f the diamagnetic frequency [omega]*(r) has a maximum in r, and they affect only a small fraction, [Omicron](1/n[sup l/2]), of the plasma radius around this maximum. Consequently they may produce… more
Date: May 1, 1993
Creator: Taylor, J.B. (Texas Univ., Austin, TX (United States). Inst. for Fusion Studies); Connor, J. & Wilson, H.R. (Euratom/UKAEA Fusion Association, Abingdon (United Kingdom). Culham Lab.)
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Femtosecond growth dynamics of an underdense ionization front measured by spectral blueshifting

Description: A comprehensive report of time-resolved spectral blue shifts of 100-femtosecond laser pulses caused by ionization of atmospheric density N[sub 2] and noble gases subjected to high (10[sup 14] W/cm[sup 2] - 10[sup 16] W/cm[sup 2]) light intensities is presented. Included are data for two experiments: (1) self-shifting of the ionizing laser pulses for varying peak intensities, pressures (1-5 atm.), and gas species; and (2) time-resolved blueshifts of a weak copropagating probe pulse for the same … more
Date: January 1, 1993
Creator: Wood, W. M.; Siders, C. W. & Downer, M. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Hydronic Radiant Cooling: Overview and Preliminary Performance Assessment

Description: A significant amount of electrical energy used to cool non-residential buildings is drawn by the fans used to transport the cool air through the thermal distribution system. Hydronic systems reduce the amount of air transported through the building by separating ventilation and thermal conditioning. Due to the physical properties of water, hydronic distribution systems can transport a given amount of thermal energy using less than 5% of the otherwise necessary fan energy. This savings alone sig… more
Date: May 1, 1993
Creator: Feustel, H. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Coal Reburning for Cyclone Boiler NO[sub x] Control Demonstration

Description: The project involves retrofitting/testing the reburning technology at Wisconsin Power Light's 100 MWe Nelson Dewey Unit [number sign]2 in Cassville, Wisconsin to determine the commercial applicability of this technology to reduce NO[sub x] emission levels. Based upon the data collected and evaluated f or reburn No[sub x] reduction performance with the Lamar Indiana bituminous coal f or boiler loads of 110 MW, 82 MW, and 60 MW, average NO[sub x] reductions of 52.4%, 50.1% and 35.8%, respectively… more
Date: January 1, 1993
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Wood Storks of the Birdsville Colony and swamps of the Savannah River Site: General overview of research findings, 1983--1990

Description: The population of Wood Storks (Mycteria americana) that breeds in the United States has decreased from an estimated 20,000 breeding pairs in 1930 to just under 5,000 pairs in 1980. Since 1980, the number has remained relatively stable, fluctuating between 3,500 and 5,500 breeding pairs. The decline prompted the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to list the United States population of Wood Storks as endangered in 1984. When the US Department of Energy (USDOE) decided to restart L-Reactor on t… more
Date: February 1, 1993
Creator: Coulter, M.C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Pacific Northwest Laboratory Annual Report for 1992 to the DOE Office of Energy Research

Description: This report summarizes progress in OHER biological research and general life sciences research programs conducted at PNL in FY 1992. The research develops the knowledge and fundamental principles necessary to identify, understand, and anticipate the long-term health consequences of energy-related radiation and chemicals. Our continuing emphasis is to decrease the uncertainty of health risk estimates from energy-related technologies through an increase understanding of the ways in which radiatio… more
Date: June 1, 1993
Creator: Kreml, S. A. (ed.) & Park, J. F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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K-Area Acid/Caustic Basin groundwater monitoring report

Description: During fourth quarter 1992, samples from the KAC monitoring wells at the K-Area Acid/Caustic Basin were analyzed for indicator parameters, groundwater quality parameters, parameters indicating suitability as drinking water, and other constituents. New wells KAC 8 and 9 also were sampled for GC/MS VOA (gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer volatile organic analyses). Monitoring results that exceeded the final Primary Drinking Water Standards (PDWS) or the Savannah River Site (SRS) flagging criteri… more
Date: March 1, 1993
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Lower hybrid wave coupling in PBX-M

Description: The coupling of the waves launched from a 4.6 GHz lower hybrid system into PBX-M plasmas has been studied for both L-mode and H-mode plasmas. The characteristics of the plasma in front of the LH coupler have been measured with a fast Langmuir probe. The reflected power of the coupler has been measured across the transition to H-mode as a function of phase and the distance between the coupler and the separatrix. A transient rise in the LH reflection coefficient was observed near the L-H transiti… more
Date: July 1, 1993
Creator: Bell, R.E.; Bernabei, S.; Greenough, N.; Lagin, L.; Leblanc, B.; Okabayashi, M. et al.
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Infrared detection with high-[Tc] bolometers and response of Nb tunnel junctions to picosecond voltage pulses

Description: Oxide superconductors with high critical temperature [Tc] make sensitive thermometers for several types of infrared bolometers. The authors built composite bolometers with YBa[sub 2]Cu[sub 3]O[sub 7[minus][delta]] thermometers on sapphire substrates which have higher sensitivity than competing thermal detectors which operate at temperatures above 77 K. A 1 x 1 mm bolometer with gold black serving as the radiation absorber has useful sensitivity for wavelengths 20--100 [mu]m. A 3 x 3 mm bolomete… more
Date: May 1, 1993
Creator: Verghese, S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Computation and graphics in mathematical research

Description: Current research is described on: grain boundaries and dislocations in compound polymers, boundary value problems for hypersurfaces constant Gaussian curvature, and discrete computational geometry. 19 refs, 4 figs.
Date: June 1, 1993
Creator: Hoffman, D.A. & Spruck, J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Field Review of Fish Habitat Improvement Projects in Central Idaho.

Description: The goal of this field review was to provide information to the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) regarding previous and ongoing fish habitat improvement projects in central Idaho. On July 14, 1992, the review team met at the Sawtooth National Recreation Area office near Ketchum, Idaho, for a slide presentation illustrating several habitat projects during their construction phases. Following the slide presentation, the review team inspected fish habitat projects that have been implemented i… more
Date: May 1, 1993
Creator: Beschta, Robert L.; Griffith, Jack & Wesche, Thomas A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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