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An analysis of grazing incidence metal mirrors in a laser ICF reactor driver

Description: Grazing incidence metal mirrors (GIMMs) are examined to replace dielectric mirrors for the final elements in a laser beam line for an inertial confinement fusion reactor. For a laser driver with a wavelength from 250 to 500 nm in a 10-ms pulse, irradiated mirrors made of Al, Al alloys, or Mg were found to have calculated laser damage limits of 0.3--2.3 J/cm{sup 2} of beam energy and neutron lifetime fluence limits of over 5 {times} 10{sup 20} 14 MeV n/cm{sup 2} when used at grazing incidence an… more
Date: July 12, 1991
Creator: Bieri, R. & Guinan, M.
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Electric Power Monthly, September 1991. [CONTAINS GLOSSARY]

Description: This publication provides monthly statistics at the national, Census division, and state levels for net generation, fuel consumption, fuel stocks, quantity and quality of fuel, cost of fuel, electricity sales, revenue, and average revenue per kilowatthour of electricity sold. Data on net generation, fuel consumption, fuel stocks, quantity and cost of fuel are also displayed at the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) region level. Additionally, statistics at the company and plant … more
Date: September 12, 1991
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Unix version of CALOR89 for calorimeter applications

Description: CALOR89 is a system of coupled Monte Carlo particle transport computer codes which has been successfully employed for the estimation of calorimeter parameters in High Energy Physics. In the past CALOR89 has been running on various IBM machines and on CRAY X-MP at Lawrence Livermore Lab. These machines had non-unix operating systems. In this report we present a UNIX version of CALOR89, which is especially suited for the UNIX work stations. Moreover CALOR89 is also been supplemented with two new … more
Date: May 12, 1992
Creator: Handler, T. (Tennessee Univ., Knoxville, TN (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy); Job, P.K.; Price, L.E. (Argonne National Lab., IL (United States). High Energy Physics Div.) & Gabriel, T.A. (Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States))
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Department of Energy: Actions Necessary to Improve DOE's Training Program

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Department of Energy's (DOE) training program and the changes that are needed to address those problems, focusing on: (1) DOE's current process for setting its training budget; (2) opportunities to reduce the costs associated with DOE's training program; and (3) DOE's draft plan for training its employees in the future."
Date: February 12, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Private Health Insurance: Progress and Challenges in Implementing 1996 Federal Standards

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on: (1) the implementation status of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) provisions in the group insurance market; (2) the price of coverage for certain individuals losing group insurance; (3) the extent of consumer understanding of HIPAA as well as federal, state, and private efforts undertaken to educate consume… more
Date: May 12, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Infrastructure: Observations on Aviation Training Consolidation and Expansion Plans

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Department of Defense's (DOD) efforts to reduce the infrastructure that supports initial pilot training, focusing on: (1) DOD's prior efforts to reduce aircraft training infrastructure; (2) plans for expanding pilot training capacity; and (3) the likelihood of further consolidations."
Date: July 12, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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General Services Administration: STAR-PBS' New Program for Tracking and Managing Real Property

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Public Buildings Service's (PBS) System for Tracking and Administering Real Property (STAR), focusing on: (1) the functions STAR performs; (2) whether users were having problems using STAR; (3) the steps PBS had taken or is taking to address any user problems; and (4) the actions PBS had taken or plans to take to ensure that STAR data are accurate, reliable… more
Date: October 12, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Force Structure: Navy Is Complying With Battleship Readiness Requirements

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the Navy's compliance with the reporting requirements stated in section 1011 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996, focusing on whether the Navy: (1) lists and maintains at least two Iowa class battleships on the Naval Vessel Register that are in good material condition and capable of providing adequate fire support for an amphibious … more
Date: April 12, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Inventory: DOD Could Improve Total Asset Visibility Initiative With Results Act Framework

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Defense's (DOD) implementation of its Total Asset Visibility (TAV) initiative, focusing on: (1) the difficulty in determining the status of the initiative's implementation; (2) planning weaknesses that affect the initiative's implementation; and (3) strategies for addressing those weaknesses."
Date: April 12, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Performance Budgeting: Initial Experiences Under the Results Act in Linking Plans With Budgets

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed selected fiscal year (FY) 1999 federal agency performance plans, focusing on: (1) agencies' approaches to linking performance goals and budgetary resources; (2) characteristics that might be associated with different approaches to linking performance goals and budgetary resources; and (3) implications for future efforts to clarify the relationship between budge… more
Date: April 12, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Medicare Managed Care: Greater Oversight Needed to Protect Beneficiary Rights

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed Medicare's managed care beneficiary appeals process, focusing on: (1) the appeals process available to beneficiaries when managed care plans deny care or payment for services; (2) beneficiaries' use of the appeals process and the extent to which they are informed of their appeal rights; and (3) the Health Care Financing Administration's (HCFA) oversight of this… more
Date: April 12, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Homelessness: Grant Applicants' Characteristics and Views on the Supportive Housing Program

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Supportive Housing Program, focusing on the: (1) characteristics of Supportive Housing Program applicants; (2) types of programs and services for homeless people that this program supports; (3) importance of Supportive Housing Program grants to applicants' programs for the homeless; and (4) variou… more
Date: August 12, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Public-Private Competitions: Reasonable Processes Used for Sacramento Depot Maintenance Award

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the Air Force's selection of a source of repair for depot maintenance work at the closing Sacramento Air Logistics Center (ALC), focusing on whether the: (1) Air Force's procedures for conducting the Sacramento competition provided substantially equal opportunity for the public and private offerors to compete for the work without regard to performance locatio… more
Date: May 12, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Air Pollution: EPA's Actions to Resolve Concerns with the Fine Particulate Monitoring Program

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the National Academy of Sciences March 1998 report on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) plans to monitor particulate matter smaller than 2.5 microns (PM2.5), focusing on: (1) EPA's actions in response to the Academy's concerns with the planned PM2.5 monitoring program; and (2) the challenges that state and local agencies face in establishing and opera… more
Date: August 12, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Medicare + Choice: New Standards Could Improve Accuracy and Usefulness of Plan Literature

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Medicare Choice program, focusing on: (1) the extent to which managed care organizations' (MCO) member literature provides beneficiaries with accurate and useful plan information; and (2) whether the Health Care Financing Administration's (HCFA) review process ensures that beneficiaries can rely on MCOs' member literature to make informed enr… more
Date: April 12, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Supplemental Security Income: Increased Receipt and Reporting of Child Support Could Reduce Payments

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO provided information on: (1) opportunities for increasing the number of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) single-parent families receiving child support and for improving the reporting of such support to the Social Security Administration (SSA); (2) the potential for reducing SSI payments by increasing the extent to which SSI children in single-parent families are served by the Child Support Enforcement (… more
Date: January 12, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Civilian Marksmanship Program: Corporation Needs to Fully Comply With the Law on Sales of Firearms

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Corporation for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and Firearms Safety's administration of the Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP), focusing on: (1) whether CMP's conversion to a private corporation and the Corporation's subsequent firearms sales were conducted in accordance with the 1996 National Defense Authorization Act; (2) the types and value of federal s… more
Date: January 12, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Acquisitions: Evaluation of Navy's Anti-Submarine Warfare Assessment

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed: (1) the Navy's 1997 antisubmarine warfare (ASW) assessment; (2) the role and funding influence of the Navy's recently established Antisubmarine Warfare Requirements Division; and (3) whether the assessment is supported by rigorous analysis of ASW shortfalls and capabilities and establishes priorities among ASW programs, as directed by congressional conferees o… more
Date: July 12, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Aviation Safety: Research Supports Limited Use of Personal Computer Aviation Training Devices for Pilots

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) decision to allow the use of personal computer-based aviation training devices (PCATD), focusing on: (1) the process and information FAA used in deciding to approve the use of personal computer devices for 10 hours of instrument training; and (2) what is known about the training effectiveness of these devices and thei… more
Date: July 12, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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U.S. Customs Service: Efforts to Curtail the Exportation of Stolen Vehicles

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Customs Service's efforts to curtail the exportation of stolen vehicles from the United States, focusing on: (1) applicable regulations for exporting used, self-propelled vehicles from the United States; (2) Customs policies and procedures for controlling the export of these vehicles; (3) methods used to illegally export these vehicles; and (4) improvements… more
Date: May 12, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Rural Development: Rural Business--Cooperative Service's Lending and the Financial Condition of Its Loan Portfolio

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the: (1) number and dollar value of business assistance loans approved by the Department of Agriculture's Rural Business-Cooperative Service (RBS); (2) federal government's costs associated with the agency's loans; and (3) financial condition of the agency's loan portfolio, including the losses incurred."
Date: January 12, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Foreign Assistance: Treasury's Technical Assistance Program

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of the Treasury's Office of Technical Assistance (OTA) foreign aid program, focusing on: (1) the types of technical assistance OTA advisors have provided to Russia and Romania; (2) oversight by OTA of advisors' activities; (3) advisor qualifications, program cost, fund transfers between the Agency for International Development and the Treasury; a… more
Date: March 12, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Comments on FAST survey

Description: The following messages were taken from Inter-office Electronic Mail and provide perspective on the DOE FAST site survey. The key issue is that WSRC analytical groups have been unable to state when processes will be operated and what the exact requirements will be for characterizing materials from those processes when they do start. What results is a uncertainty at the site in the actual analytical work load. Although Donnan refers to the original survey data, one update was submitted to the nee… more
Date: July 12, 1991
Creator: Spencer, W. A. & Donnan, J. G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Summary report for 1990 inservice inspection (ISI) of SRS 100-L reactor tank

Description: The integrity of the SRS reactor tanks is a key factor affecting their suitability for continued service since, unlike the external piping system and components, the tanks are virtually irreplaceable. Cracking in various areas of the process water piping systems has occurred beginning in about 1960 as a result of several degradation mechanisms, chiefly intergranular stress corrosion cracking (IGSCC) and chloride-induced transgranular cracking. The primary objective of this inspection was to det… more
Date: July 12, 1991
Creator: Morrison, J. M. & Loibl, M. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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