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Pacific Lamprey Research and Restoration : Annual Report 1996.

Description: The once abundant stocks of Pacific lamprey (Lampetra tridentata) above Bonneville Dam are currently depressed (Close et al. 1995). It is likely that many of the same factors that led to the decline of wild stocks of Columbia River Pacific salmon and steelhead have impacted Pacific lamprey populations. The Pacific lamprey is an important part of the food web of North Pacific ecosystems, both as predator and prey. Lamprey (a.k.a. eels) are also a valuable food and culture resource for American I… more
Date: January 1, 1997
Creator: Jackson, Aaron D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Geothermal Heat Pump Benchmarking Report

Description: A benchmarking study was conducted on behalf of the Department of Energy to determine the critical factors in successful utility geothermal heat pump programs. A Successful program is one that has achieved significant market penetration. Successfully marketing geothermal heat pumps has presented some major challenges to the utility industry. However, select utilities have developed programs that generate significant GHP sales. This benchmarking study concludes that there are three factors criti… more
Date: January 17, 1997
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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TDPP FOR THE RETRIEVABILITY STRATEGY REPORT

Description: The objective of this systems study is to produce a waste removability strategy document that contains sufficient details, recommended design alternatives, and the technical rationale (a) to support Licensing in the development of the License Application Plan, and (b) to provide input in the form of design requirements, for the FY 97 Retrieval Design & Operation activity in support of viability assessment. The intent of this systems study is to support a decision on how to proceed with design w… more
Date: January 28, 1997
Creator: Gehner, P. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Monitoring and Evaluation of Smolt Migration in the Columbia River Basin, Volume IV : Evaluation of the 1998 Predictions of the Run-timing of Wild Migrant Yearling and Subyearling Chinook and Steelhead, and Hatchery Salmon in the Snake River Basin Using Program RealTime.

Description: Program RealTime provided tracking and forecasting of the 1998 inseason outmigration via the internet for stocks of wild PIT-tagged spring/summer chinook. These stocks were from eight release sites above Lower Granite dam, including Bear Valley Creek, Catherine Creek, Elk Creek, Lake Creek, Imnaha River, Minam River, South Fork Salmon River, and Secesh River. Forecasts were also provided for a stock of hatchery-reared PIT-tagged summer-run sockeye from Redfish Lake and for the runs-at-large of … more
Date: January 1, 1997
Creator: Burgess, Caitlin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Studies in the region of enhanced nuclear stability around N = 162 and Z = 108

Description: This report describes (a) checks of data and equipment performance the authors made to assure they had discovered element 110 at the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, and (b) the authors` preparations to search for element 114, which is believed to be very stable. 3 refs.
Date: January 1, 1997
Creator: Wild, John F.; Lougheed, Ronald W.; Moody, Kenton J. & Stoyer, Nancy J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Grants Work in a Congressional Office

Description: The discussion describes some basics about the grants process and some of the approaches and techniques used by congressional offices in dealing with this type of constitutional service
Date: January 24, 1997
Creator: Gerli, Merete
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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D0 Silicon Upgrade: Control Dewar Venturi Calibration Explanation for Toshiba

Description: This document is intended to explain the calibration data for the venturi, FE-3253H, which is installed in the control dewar. Further, this document will help explain how to use the venturi to make mass flow measurements during typical operating conditions. The purpose of the calibration data enclosed from the Colorado Engineering Experiment Station Inc. is to experimentally show that the venturi follows the flow equation which is enclosed as Eq. 7-36 on page 155, from the Applied Fluid Dynamic… more
Date: January 24, 1997
Creator: Kuwazaki, Andrew
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Multigrid and Krylov Solvers for Large Scale Finite Element Groundwater Flow Simulations on Distributed Memory Parallel Platforms

Description: In this report we present parallel solvers for large linear systems arising from the finite-element discretization of the three-dimensional steady-state groundwater flow problem. Our solvers are based on multigrid and Krylov subspace methods. The parallel implementation is based on a domain decomposition strategy with explicit message passing using NX and MPI libraries. We have tested our parallel implementations on the Intel Paragon XP/S 150 supercomputer using up to 1024 parallel processors a… more
Date: January 1, 1997
Creator: Mahinthakumar, K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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THERMAL EVALUATION OF THE USE OF BWR MOX SNF IN THE WASTE PACKAGE DESIGN (SCPB: N/A)

Description: This analysis is prepared by the Mined Geologic Disposal System (MGDS) Waste Package Development Department (WPDD) as specified in the Waste Package Implementation Plan (pp. 4-8,4-11,4-24, 5-1, and 5-13; Ref. 5.10) and Waste Package Plan (pp. 3-15,3-17, and 3-24; Ref. 5.9). The design data request addressed herein is: (1) Characterize the conceptual 40 BWR and 24 BWR Multi-Purpose Canister (MPC) Waste Package (WP) design to show that the design is feasible for use in the MGDS environment when l… more
Date: January 23, 1997
Creator: Wang, H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Potentials and policy implications of energy and material efficiency improvement

Description: There is a growing awareness of the serious problems associated with the provision of sufficient energy to meet human needs and to fuel economic growth world-wide. This has pointed to the need for energy and material efficiency, which would reduce air, water and thermal pollution, as well as waste production. Increasing energy and material efficiency also have the benefits of increased employment, improved balance of imports and exports, increased security of energy supply, and adopting environ… more
Date: January 1, 1997
Creator: Worrell, Ernst; Levine, Mark; Price, Lynn; Martin, Nathan; van den Broek, Richard & Block, Kornelis
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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THE ECONOMICAL PRODUCTION OF ALCOHOL FUELS FROM COAL-DERIVED SYNTHESIS GAS

Description: Langmuir-Hinshelwood-type kinetic schemes were derived for the formation of methanol through butanol and total hydrocarbons over a Co-K-MoS{sub 2}/C catalyst. Reduced Mo-Ni-K/C materials continue to be considered as promising catalysts for HAS. A kinetic study of this catalyst has been started. TPR results on alkali-substituted Mo/C are beginning to be amenable to a systematic quantitative analysis. The characterization studies of transition-metal-oxide catalysts has ended. Consideration of var… more
Date: January 1, 1997
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Chemical decomposition of high-level nuclear waste storage/disposal glasses under irradiation. 1997 annual progress report

Description: 'The objective of this research is to use the sensitive technique of electron spin resonance (ESR) to look for evidence of radiation-induced chemical decomposition of vitreous forms contemplated for immobilization of plutonium and/or high-level nuclear wastes, to interpret this evidence in terms of existing knowledge of glass structure, and to recommend certain materials for further study by other techniques, particularly electron microscopy and measurements of gas evolution by high-vacuum mass… more
Date: January 1, 1997
Creator: Griscom, D.L. & Merzbacher, C.I.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Use of sonication for in-well softening of semivolatile organic compounds. 1997 annual progress report

Description: 'This project investigates the in-situ degradation of semivolatile organic compounds (SVOCs) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) using in-well sonication, in-well vapor stripping, and bioremediation. Pretreating groundwaters with sonication techniques in-situ would form VOCs that can be effectively removed by in-well vapor stripping and bioremediation. The mechanistic studies focus on the coupling of megasonics and ultrasonics to soften (i.e., partially degrade) the SVOCs; oxidative reaction … more
Date: January 1997
Creator: Peters, R. W.; Manning, J.; Hoffman, M. R. & Gorelick, S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Photooxidation of organic wastes using semiconductor nanoclusters. 1997 annual progress report

Description: 'The photooxidation of toxic organic chemicals to carbon dioxide and dilute mineral acids using sunlight as an energy source and nanosize semiconductors to catalyze the process. The authors efforts in the first year of this program focused on demonstration of three important attributes of nanosize: MoS{sub 2} as used to photocatalyze the oxidation of organics in solution: (1) Ability to utilize visible light to initiate photo-redox reactions in solution. (2) Successful oxidative destruc-tion of… more
Date: January 1, 1997
Creator: Wilcoxon, J. P.; Martin, J. E.; Thurston, T. R.; Kelley, D. F. & Samara, G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Assessment of California reformulated gasoline impact on vehicle fuel economy

Description: Fuel economy data contained in the 1996 California Air Resources Board (CARB) report with respect to the introduction of California Reformulated Gasoline (CaRFG) has been examined and reanalyzed by two additional statistical methodologies. Additional data has also been analyzed by these two statistical approaches. Within the assumptions of the analysis, point estimates for the reduction in fuel economy using CaRFG as compared to conventional, non-reformulated gasoline were 2-4%, with a 95% uppe… more
Date: January 1, 1997
Creator: Aceves, S., LLNL
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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