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Uranium miner lung cancer study. Progress report, July 1, 1976--July 1, 1977

Description: This study was initiated in 1957 by the U.S. Public Health and many facets of this project are reaching final objectives. Many new studies have developed in the course of this study and will continue. The projects supported by the Energy Research and Development Administration are of utmost importance and consist of: collection of material from uranium miners known to have cancer of the lung into a tumor registry; manual on pulmonary cytology; regression study of sputum cytological findings in … more
Date: October 3, 1977
Creator: Saccomanno, G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Aquifer tests near the Idaho Falls Foothills, Idaho

Description: Ground water pumping tests were performed in two wells located in the foothills east of Idaho Falls to determine the aquifer characteristics at these locations. These data were used to differentiate this aquifer from the Snake River Plain aquifer. The wells were pumped at rates of 11 and 14 gallons per minute with 0.03 and 0.04 ft of drawdown measured in the pumping wells. The transmissivity is estimated to be 525,000 gpd/ft and 450,000 gpd/ft, respectively. The hydraulic conductivity is 925 ft… more
Date: October 3, 1991
Creator: Hubbell, J.M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Oil and Gas Leasing: Interior Could Do More to Encourage Diligent Development

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In 2007, the Department of the Interior (Interior) collected about $10.5 billion in revenues from companies that hold federal oil and gas leases. Interior's Minerals Management Service manages offshore leases, while its Bureau of Land Management manages onshore leases and leases in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. Acquiring a federal lease gives the lessee the rights to explore for and develop … more
Date: October 3, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Highway Safety: Foresight Issues Challenge DOT's Efforts to Assess and Respond to New Technology-Based Trends

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Fatalities on U.S. roads now total over 40,000 each year. Future reductions may require the Department of Transportation (DOT) to address new trends such as evolving crash-avoidance technologies and rapidly changing electronic devices that may distract drivers who use them on the road. (See figure.) GAO was asked to examine how DOT is addressing fast-moving trends such as these. This report examines how… more
Date: October 3, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Social Security Disability Programs: Clearer Guidance Could Help SSA Apply the Medical Improvement Standard More Consistently

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Social Security Act requires that the Social Security Administration (SSA) find an improvement in a beneficiary's medical condition in order to remove him or her from either the Disability Insurance (DI) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs. GAO was asked to (1) examine the proportion of beneficiaries who have improved medically and (2) determine if factors associated with the standard pos… more
Date: October 3, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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ATF: Thefts of Explosives from State and Local Government Storage Facilities Are Few but May Be Underreported

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "More than 5.5 billion pounds of explosives are used each year in the United States by private sector companies and government entities. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has authority to regulate explosives and to license privately owned explosives storage facilities. After the July 2004 theft of several hundred pounds of explosives from a state and local government storage f… more
Date: October 3, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Abstinence Education: Efforts to Assess the Accuracy and Effectiveness of Federally Funded Programs

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Reducing the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases and unintended pregnancies is one objective of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). HHS provides funding to states and organizations that provide abstinence-until-marriage education as one approach to address this objective. GAO was asked to describe the oversight of federally funded abstinence-until-marriage education programs. GAO i… more
Date: October 3, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Final Report: ASIS&T Task Force on Webinars

Description: This report was submitted to the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Board of Directors. In June 2011, an ASIS&T Task Force on Webinars was appointed. This is the final report discusses the findings of this task force and recommendations.
Date: October 3, 2011
Creator: Neal, Diane Rasmussen; Abbas, June, 1964-; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Garnett, Alex & Green, Remlee
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Facilitation of the Estuary/Ocean Subgroup for Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation, FY06 Annual Report

Description: This annual report is a deliverable for fiscal year 2006 (FY06) for Project 2002-077-00, Facilitation of the Estuary/Ocean Subgroup (EOS). The EOS is part of the research, monitoring, and evaluation (RME) effort the Action Agencies (Bonneville Power Administration, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation) developed in response to the 2000 and 2004 Biological Opinions on operation of the Federal Columbia River Power System. The goal of the EOS project is to facilitate activities… more
Date: October 3, 2006
Creator: Johnson, Gary E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Review of the margins for ASME code fatigue design curve - effects of surface roughness and material variability.

Description: The ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code provides rules for the construction of nuclear power plant components. The Code specifies fatigue design curves for structural materials. However, the effects of light water reactor (LWR) coolant environments are not explicitly addressed by the Code design curves. Existing fatigue strain-vs.-life ({var_epsilon}-N) data illustrate potentially significant effects of LWR coolant environments on the fatigue resistance of pressure vessel and piping steels. Th… more
Date: October 3, 2003
Creator: Chopra, O. K.; Shack, W. J. & Technology, Energy
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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CRITICALITY CURVES FOR PLUTONIUM HYDRAULIC FLUID MIXTURES

Description: This Calculation Note performs and documents MCNP criticality calculations for plutonium (100% {sup 239}Pu) hydraulic fluid mixtures. Spherical geometry was used for these generalized criticality safety calculations and three geometries of neutron reflection are: {sm_bullet}bare, {sm_bullet}1 inch of hydraulic fluid, or {sm_bullet}12 inches of hydraulic fluid. This document shows the critical volume and critical mass for various concentrations of plutonium in hydraulic fluid. Between 1 and 2 ga… more
Date: October 3, 2007
Creator: WD, WITTEKIND
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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MELT RATE FURNACE TESTING FOR SLUDGE BATCH 5 FRIT OPTIMIZATION

Description: Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) was requested to provide the Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) with a frit composition for Sludge Batch 5 (SB5) to optimize processing. A series of experiments were designed for testing in the Melt Rate Furnace (MRF). This dry fed tool can be used to quickly determine relative melt rates for a large number of candidate frit compositions and lead to a selection for further testing. Simulated Sludge Receipt and Adjustment Tank (SRAT) product was ma… more
Date: October 3, 2008
Creator: Miller, D.; Fox, K.; Pickenheim, B. & Stone, M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Technology Assessment and Roadmap for the Emergency Radiation Dose Assessment Program

Description: A Joint Interagency Working Group (JIWG) under the auspices of the Department of Homeland Security Office of Research and Development conducted a technology assessment of emergency radiological dose assessment capabilities as part of the overall need for rapid emergency medical response in the event of a radiological terrorist event in the United States. The goal of the evaluation is to identify gaps and recommend general research and development needs to better prepare the Country for mitigati… more
Date: October 3, 2005
Creator: Turteltaub, K W; Hartman-Siantar, C; Easterly, C & Blakely, W
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Scalable File Systems for High Performance Computing Final Report

Description: Simulations of mode I interlaminar fracture toughness tests of a carbon-reinforced composite material (BMS 8-212) were conducted with LSDYNA. The fracture toughness tests were performed by U.C. Berkeley. The simulations were performed to investigate the validity and practicality of employing decohesive elements to represent interlaminar bond failures that are prevalent in carbon-fiber composite structure penetration events. The simulations employed a decohesive element formulation that was veri… more
Date: October 3, 2007
Creator: Brandt, S A
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Interaction of High Intensity Electromagnetic Waves with Plasmas

Description: The focus of our work during the duration of this grant was on the following areas: (a) the fundamental plasma physics of intense laser-plasma interactions, including the nonlinear excitation of plasma waves for accelerator applications, as well as the recently discovered by us phenomenon of the relativistic bi-stability of relativistic plasma waves driven by a laser beatwave; (b) interaction of high power microwave beams with magnetized plasma, including some of the recently discovered by us p… more
Date: October 3, 2008
Creator: Shvets, G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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SLUDGE BATCH 5 SIMULANT FLOWSHEET STUDIES

Description: The Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) will transition from Sludge Batch 4 (SB4) processing to Sludge Batch 5 (SB5) processing in early fiscal year 2009. Tests were conducted using non-radioactive simulants of the expected SB5 composition to determine the impact of varying the acid stoichiometry during the Sludge Receipt and Adjustment Tank (SRAT) and Slurry Mix Evaporator (SME) processes. The work was conducted to meet the Technical Task Request (TTR) HLW/DWPF/TTR-2007-0007, Rev. 1 and f… more
Date: October 3, 2008
Creator: Lambert, D; Michael Stone, M; Bradley Pickenheim, B; David Best, D & David Koopman, D
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Atomic coherence created by a pulsed dye laser

Description: Level population as a function of laser pulse envelope area for an atom which could be approximated as a two level system was measured. An ideal two-level system under the action of an oscillating force is one of a few quantum mechanical systems for which the time-dependent Schroedinger equation can be solved exactly. The solution predicts that the population of the upper state, for a system which was entirely in the lower state at t = 0, varies as sin/sup 2/A, where A = ..integral../sub 0//sup… more
Date: October 3, 1979
Creator: Scarl, D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Ship tracks and velocities for WCSEX 1991

Description: Enclosed in this report are plots of the wave generating ship tracks and velocities for the West Coast Scotland Experiment (WCSEX) 1991.
Date: October 3, 1991
Creator: Yorkey, T.J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Primary system temperature limits and transient mitigation

Description: Results of a study to determine the limiting temperature conditions in a large reactor system are presented. The study considers a sodium-cooled breeder reactor system having a loop-type primary system configuration. A temperature range of 930 to 1050/sup 0/F in reactor outlet temperature is covered. Significant findings were that the use of the materials for the 930/sup 0/F reference design, i.e., a core material of 20% cold-worked 316 stainless steel, a primary piping material of 316SS, and a… more
Date: October 3, 1978
Creator: Drucker, G. S. & Bost, D. S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Small, octopole-stabilized tandem mirror reactor

Description: It is shown that the use of octopole stabilization in a tandem mirror allows a large reduction in end-cell length. A novel feature of the method proposed in this report is the placement of the minimum IBI region coonsiderably off axis, thus rendering the core plasma more axisymmetric. The region from the core to the field minimum is bridged by a mirror-confined hot-electron mantle. Low ..beta.., ideal magnetohydrodynamic stability, as evaluated with the interchange criterion, yields an upper li… more
Date: October 3, 1984
Creator: Devoto, R. S.; Baldwin, D. E.; Logan, B. G.; Hamilton, G. W. & Johnston, B. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Heat-Exchanger-Core Weights for Use With Hydrogen-Expansion Turbine

Description: Memorandum presenting an analysis of probable heat-exchanger weights for stationary and rotary regenerator heat exchangers for use in a hydrogen-expansion turbine engine. This is because rotary regenerators offer possibilities for a considerably lighter heat-exchanger core, possibly one-fourth that of the stationary regenerators.
Date: October 3, 1957
Creator: Reynolds, Thaine W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Synchronous particle and bucket dynamics

Description: In accelerator theory of particle longitudinal motion, a classical definition if a synchronous particle (synchronous energy, synchronous phase, synchronous orbit) assumes that there is a one-to-one relationship of the accelerator electrical field. In practice, that relationship may not be sustained because of errors in the magnetic field, radio frequency, or because sometimes we do not want to keep that relationship for some reason. In this report we formulate the concept of adiabatic equilibri… more
Date: October 3, 1988
Creator: Kats, J.M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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