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Facility effluent monitoring plan for the Plutonium Uranium Extraction Facility

Description: A facility effluent monitoring plan is required by the US Department of Energy in DOE Order 5400.1 for any operations that involve hazardous materials and radioactive substances that could impact employee or public safety or the environment. This document is prepared using the specific guidelines identified in A Guide for Preparing Hanford Site Facility Effluent Monitoring Plans, WHC-EP-0438-01. This facility effluent monitoring plan assesses effluent monitoring systems and evaluates whether th… more
Date: December 11, 1997
Creator: Greager, E. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Federal Restrictions on State or Local Government Officer or Employee Political Activities

Description: This report examines federal restrictions on state or local government officer or employee political activities which are regulated by the Hatch Act. In 1940, the law was amended to cover certain state (including territories or possessions) or local government officers or employees. All but three of the prohibitions on political activity by these individuals were removed in 1974. Enforcement provisions were added in 1978. Legislation is pending in the House of Representatives in the 105th Congr… more
Date: June 11, 1997
Creator: Schwemle, Barbara L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Cable Measuring Engine Operation Procedures

Description: The Cable Measuring Engine (CME) is a tool which measures and records the cable dimensions in a nondestructive fashion. It is used in-line with the superconductor cable as it is being made. The CME is intended to be used as a standard method of measuring cable by the various manufacturers involved in the cable process.
Date: July 11, 1997
Creator: Authors, Various
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Test VLPC Cryostat: Programming and Configuration of Cryogenic and Temperature Instruments

Description: Currently, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is in the midst of a site wide upgrade. Here at D-Zero, one of the components of this upgrade will be the construction of two 48 cassette VLPC cryostats which will be the heart of the new magnetic central fiber tracker. A VLPC or Visible Light Photon Counter is a device that allows physicists to more accurately calculate the origins of particles ejected during a proton - anti-proton collision in the detector. Inside the detector is an optical fib… more
Date: August 11, 1997
Creator: Zaczek, M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Shielding analysis for the 300 area light water reactor spent nuclear fuel within a modified multi-canister overpack canister in a modified multi-canister overpack cask

Description: Spent light water reactor fuel is to be moved out of the 324 Building. It is anticipated that intact fuel assemblies will be loaded in a modified Multi-Canister Overpack Canister, which in turn will be placed in an Overpack Transportation Cask. An estimate of gamma ray dose rates from a transportation cask is desired.
Date: April 11, 1997
Creator: Gedeon, S.R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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System design description for master equipment list, phase I

Description: This System Design Description (SDD) is for the Master Equipment List Phase I (MEL). It has been prepared following the WI-IC-CM-3-10, ''Software Practices,'' (Ref. 6). This SDD describes the internal design for implementation of the MEL Phase I.
Date: April 11, 1997
Creator: Sandoval, J.D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses

Description: From Summary: This report provides concise answers to a series of questions concerning Gulf War veterans' illnesses, based on currently available scientific information.
Date: April 11, 1997
Creator: Redhead, C. Stephen
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Clean Water Act and TMDLs

Description: Section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act requires states to identify waters that are impaired by pollution, even after application of pollution controls. For those waters, states must establish a total maximum daily load (TMDL) of pollutants to ensure that water quality standards can be attained. Implementation of this provision has been dormant until recently, when states and EPA were prodded by numerous lawsuits. The TMDL issue has become controversial, in part because of requirements and costs … more
Date: September 11, 1997
Creator: Copeland, Claudia
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Optimization of etching and reading procedures for the Autoscan 60 track etch system

Description: The Los Alamos National Laboratory is charged with measuring the occupational exposure to radiological workers and contractors throughout the Laboratory, which includes many different sites with multiple and varied radiation fields. Of concern here are the high energy neutrons such as those generated during accelerator operations at Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE). In 1993, the Los Alamos National Laboratory purchased an Autoscan 60 automated reader for use with chemically etched CR3… more
Date: February 11, 1997
Creator: McKeever, R.; Devine, R. & Coennen, C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Signal-to-noise ratio of intensity interferometry experiments with highly asymmetric x-ray sources

Description: We discuss the signal-to-noise ratio of an intensity interferometry experiment for a highly asymmetric x-ray source using different aperture shapes in front of the photodetectors. It is argued that, under ideal conditions using noiseless detectors and electronics, the use of slit-shaped apertures, whose widths are smaller but whose lengths are much greater than the transverse coherence widths of the beam in the corresponding directions, provides no signal-to-noise advantage over the use of pinh… more
Date: February 11, 1997
Creator: Feng, Y.P.; McNulty, I.; Xu, Z. & Gluskin, E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Radioactive air emissions notice of construction, use of a portable exhauster on 244-AR vault

Description: This document serves as a notice of construction (NOC), pursuant to the requirements of Washington Administrative Code (WAC) 246-247- 060, and as a request for approval to construct pursuant to 40 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 61.96, for the use of a portable exhauster at the 244-AR Vault during transfers or movement of radioactive waste as part of pumping of secondary containment, tank stabilization/pumping, and other activities (i.e., transfer or pumping of radioactive waste using establi… more
Date: February 11, 1997
Creator: Allen, C.P. & Fluor Daniel Hanford
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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CSER 97-004: PFP production denitration calciner system

Description: The plutonium stabilization program at the Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP) includes conversion of acidic plutonium nitrate solution into plutonium oxide. Conversion is facilitated through use of a vertical calciner installed in Glovebox HC-23OC-2, which is located in RM 230C of this facility. This evaluation supports the Criticality Prevention Specification for the calcining process inside this glovebox. As the product of the calciner is a high density plutonium oxide, a number of limits are re… more
Date: September 11, 1997
Creator: Hillesland, K.E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Clemson final report: High temperature formulations for SRS soils

Description: This study was undertaken to demonstrate the application of a DC arc melter to in-situ vitrification of SRS soils. The melter that was available at the DOE/Industrial Vitrification Laboratory at Clemson University was equipped with opposing solid electrodes. To simulate field conditions, two hollow electrode configurations were evaluated which allowed fluxes to be injected into the melter while the soils were being vitrified. the first 4 runs utilized pre-blended flux (two runs) and attempted f… more
Date: March 11, 1997
Creator: Schumacher, R. F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Refinishing contamination floors in Spent Nuclear Fuels storage basins

Description: The floors of the K Basins at the Hanford Site are refinished to make decontamination easier if spills occur as the spent nuclear fuel (SNF) is being unloaded from the basins for shipment to dry storage. Without removing the contaminated existing coating, the basin floors are to be coated with an epoxy coating material selected on the basis of the results of field tests of several paint products. The floor refinishing activities must be reviewed by a management review board to ensure that work … more
Date: July 11, 1997
Creator: Huang, F. F. & Moore, F. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Operational test report for 241-AN primary tank inlet control stations

Description: This is the operational test report for 241-AN Tank Farm primary ventilation system inlet air filter and control stations, following their installation in the field and prior to their acceptance for beneficial use.
Date: February 11, 1997
Creator: Tuck, J.A., Fluor Daniel Hanford
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Physical test report to drop test of a 9975 radioactive material shipping packaging

Description: This report presents the drop test results for the 9975 radioactive material shipping package being dropped 30 feet onto a unyielding surface followed by a 40-inch puncture pin drop. The purpose of these drops was to show that the package lid would remain attached to the drum. The 30-foot drop was designed to weaken the lid closure lug while still maintaining maximum extension of the lugs from the drum surface. This was accomplished by angling the drum approximately 30 degrees from horizontal i… more
Date: November 11, 1997
Creator: Blanton, P.S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Color separation gratings for diverting the unconverted light away from the NIF target

Description: Most of the glass laser based inertial confinement fusion systems around the world today employ non-linear frequency conversion for converting the 1.053 micrometer light at the fundamental frequency (referred to as 1{omega} light) to either its second harmonic (called 2{omega}) at 527 nm or to its third harmonic (called 3{omega}) at 351 nm. Shorter wavelengths are preferred for laser fusion because of the improved coupling of the laser light to the fusion targets due to reduced fast electron pr… more
Date: March 11, 1997
Creator: Dixit, S. N.; Rushford, M. C.; Thomas, I. M.; Herman, S. M.; Britten, J. A.; Shore, B. W. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Development of high power radio frequency components for fusion plasma heating. Final report, Revision 3

Description: The purpose of this CRADA was to develop advanced microwave heating systems for both ion cyclotron heating and electron cyclotron heating for magnetic fusion reactors. This involved low-frequency (UHF), high-power (millimeter-wave) microwave components, such as antennas, windows, and matching elements. This CRADA also involved developing conceptual designs for new microwave sources. General Atomics built and tested the distributed cooled window and provided LLNL with transmission and reflection… more
Date: September 11, 1997
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Technical assessment of BY-1 12 liquid observation well (LOW) anomalous readings

Description: This document contains a technical assessment of the cause and disposition of Interstitial Liquid Level(ILL) readings taken in February 1997 on Hanford waste tank 241-BY-112 that were below specified limits. Some readings were determined to be spurious while other readings were below the limit because of normal data scatter. The data assessment did discover that a new ILL had formed below the currently established baseline because of the normal drainage of the interstitial liquid over time. A n… more
Date: March 11, 1997
Creator: Barnes, D. A. & Reed, R. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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