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Acceleration of electrons using an inverse free electron laser auto- accelerator

Description: We present data from our study of a device known as the inverse free electron laser. First, numerical simulations were performed to optimize the design parameters for an experiment that accelerates electrons in the presence of an undulator by stimulated absorption of radiation. The Columbia free electron laser (FEL) was configured as an auto-accelerator (IFELA) system; high power (MW's) FEL radiation at {approximately}1.65 mm is developed along the first section of an undulator inside a quasi-o… more
Date: July 1, 1992
Creator: Wernick, I.K. & Marshall, T.C.
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CGVIEW: A program to generate isometric and perspective views of combinatorial geometries

Description: The prototype of a graphical debugger for combinatorial geometry (CG) is described. The prototype debugger consists of two parts: a FORTRAN-based view'' generator and a Microsoft Windows application for displaying the geometry. This document describes the code CGVIEW, which comprises the first part of the system. User-specified options permit the selection of an arbitrary viewpoint in space and the generation of either an isometric or perspective view. Additionally, any combination of zones, ma… more
Date: July 1, 1992
Creator: Burns, T.J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Analysis of natural gas supply strategies at Fort Drum

Description: This analysis investigates strategies for Fort Drum to acquire a reliable natural gas supply while reducing its gas supply costs. The purpose of this study is to recommend an optimal supply mix based on the life-cycle costs of each strategy analyzed. In particular, this study is intended to provide initial guidance as to whether or not the building and operating of a propane-air mixing station is a feasible alternative to the current gas acquisition strategy. The analysis proceeded by defining … more
Date: July 1, 1992
Creator: Stucky, D. J.; Shankle, S. A. & Anderson, D. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Excitation of high-n toroidicity-induced shear Alfven eigenmodes by energetic particles and fusion alpha particles in tokamaks

Description: The stability of high-n toroidicity-induced shear Alfven eigenmodes (TAE) in the presence of fusion alpha particles or energetic ions in tokamaks is investigated. The TAE modes are discrete in nature and thus can easily tap the free energy associated with energetic particle pressure gradient through wave particle resonant interaction. A quadratic form is derived for the high-n TAE modes using gyro-kinetic equation. The kinetic effects of energetic particles are calculated perturbatively using t… more
Date: July 1, 1992
Creator: Fu, G. Y. & Cheng, C. Z.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Transport of radon and thoron at the earth's surface

Description: This report covers progress under the current funding period 1 Jan 1992 to 1 Jan 1993 and presents the continuation proposal for 1 Jan 1993 to 1 Jan 1994. The previous progress report was submitted in June 1991, so activities during the last half of 1991 will also be included. Our major activities over the last year have continued to focus on measurements and modeling of the disequilibrium of radon and thoron progeny outdoors, and analysis of data on indoor thoron and thoron progeny.
Date: July 1, 1992
Creator: Schery, S.D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Direct Conversion Technology

Description: The overall objective of the Direct Conversion Technology task is to develop an experimentally verified technology base for promising direct conversion systems that have potential application for energy conservation in the end-use sectors. Initially, two systems were selected for exploratory research and advanced development. These are Alkali Metal Thermal-to-Electric Converter (AMTEC) and Two-Phase Liquid Metal MD Generator (LMMHD). This report describes progress that has been made during the … more
Date: July 1, 1992
Creator: Back, L.H.; Fabris, G. & Ryan, M.A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Is There a Large Risk of Radiation? a Critical Review of Pessimistic Claims

Description: A number of situations where it has been claimed that moderate radiation doses cause leukemia or other cancers are carefully reviewed. We look at cases in the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union. Usually it can be demonstrated that there is an alternative, more probable, explanation for the effect seen. In several cases the authors of the papers have fallen into statistical traps. The most frequent is a posteriori selection of cohort boundaries in both space and time: a trap illu… more
Date: July 1992
Creator: Shihab-Eldin, Adnan; Shlyakhter, Alexander & Wilson, Richard
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Use of a Centrifugal Contactor for Component Concentration by Solvent Extraction

Description: Theoretical and experimental work was undertaken to explore the use of the Argonne design centrifugal contactor as a concentrating device for metal ions in solutions such as transuranic-containing waste streams and contaminated groundwater. First, the theoretical basis for operating the contactor as a concentrator was developed. Then, the ability of the contactor to act as a concentrating device was experimentally demonstrated with neodymium over a wide range of organic-to-aqueous (O/A) flow ra… more
Date: July 1992
Creator: Leonard, R. A.; Wygmans, D. G.; McElwee, M. J.; Wasserman, M. O. & Vandegrift, G. F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Remotely Sensed Data From Space: Distribution, Pricing, and Applications

Description: This short background paper summarizes the discussion concerning data pricing and distribution from a one-day workshop convened by OTA on May 20, 1992.
Date: July 1992
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Retiring Old Cars: Programs To Save Gasoline and Reduce Emissions

Description: This report examines the costs and benefits of vehicle retirement programs. With regulation of new vehicles above the 90 percent control level for the major pollutants and scheduled to become even stricter in the near future, emissions from older vehicles have drawn increasing attention.
Date: July 1992
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Investigations of Bull Trout (Salvelinus Confluentus), Steelhead Trout (Oncorhynchus Mykiss), and Spring Chinook Salmon (O. Tshawytscha) Interactions in Southeast Washington Streams: 1991 Annual Report.

Description: Bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) are native to many tributaries of the Snake River in southeast Washington. The Washington Department of Wildlife (WDW) and the American Fisheries Society (AFS) have identified bull trout as a species of special concern which means that they may become threatened or endangered by relatively, minor disturbances to their habitat. Steelhead trout/rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and spring chinook salmon (O.tshawytscha) are also native to several tributaries o… more
Date: July 1, 1992
Creator: Martin, Steven W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Hypothesis-based research on the causes of sick building symptoms: A design for Phases 2 and 3 of the California Healthy Building Study

Description: The California Healthy Building Study (CHBS) is a multidisciplinary research based in 12 office buildings within California. The overall goal the CHBS is to elucidate relationships between occurrences of office worker health symptoms and characteristics of the workers' buildings, ventilation systems, work spaces, jobs, and indoor environments. A Phase-1 study was completed during 1990. The California Institute for Energy Efficiency (CIEE), through its Exploratory Research Program, supported the… more
Date: July 1, 1992
Creator: Fisk, W. J.; Hodgson, A. T.; Daisey, J. M.; Faulkner, D.; Macher, J. M. & Mendell, M. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The electrostatic wake of a superthermal test electron in a magnetized plasma

Description: The electrostatic potential is determined for a test electron with {upsilon}{sub {parallel}} {much gt} {upsilon}{sub Te}, in a uniform magnetized plasma ({omega}{sub ce} {much gt} {omega}{sub pe}). In the frame of the test electron, part of the spatially oscillatory potential has spherical symmetry over the hemisphere to the rear of the electron and is zero ahead of the electron. A second part of different character, which makes the potential continuous at the plane containing the electron, is … more
Date: July 1, 1992
Creator: Ware, A.A. & Wiley, J.C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Northeast Regional Biomass Program ninth year, third quarter report, April--June 1992

Description: The Northeast Regional Biomass Program (NRBP) operates using a state grant component that provides funds (with a 50 percent matching requirement) to each of the states in the region to strengthen and integrate the work of state agencies involved in biomass energy; a series of technical reports and studies in areas that have been identified as being of critical importance to the development of biomass energy in the region; and a continuous long range planning component with heavy private sector … more
Date: July 1, 1992
Creator: Lusk, P.D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Native American fishery issues: Hanford involvement in evaluation of the Zone 6 fishery

Description: Native American fishers are concerned about the deteriorating quality of salmon and other fish caught from the Columbia River. They fear salmon are not healthy and that eating the fish could Jeopardize the health of Native Americans. In 1991, the Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL). with the assistance of the Yakima Indian Nation (YIN). monitored the salmon and steelhead fishery in the lower Columbia River (Zone 6 fishery). PNL biologists set up a hot-line'' for Native American fishers to call i… more
Date: July 1, 1992
Creator: Abernethy, C.S.; Neitzel, D.A. (Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States)) & Strom, G. (Yakima Indian Nation, Toppenish, WA (United States))
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Fundamental studies of fluid mechanics and stability in porous media

Description: We have been active in four areas: Numerical and analytical studies of viscous fingering in miscible displacements, including non- monotonic mobility profiles; numerical and analytical studies of the effect of non-Newtonian fluid characteristics on instabilities; experimental studies of instabilities of moving contact lines for Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids; and studies of natural convective energy transport due to time-dependent body forces.
Date: July 1, 1992
Creator: Homsy, G.M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Corrosion of aluminum cladding under optimized water conditions

Description: Experience at SRS, ORNL, BNL, and Georgia Institute of Technology involving irradiated aluminum clad fuel and target elements, as well as studies of non-irradiated aluminum indicate that some types of aluminum assemblies can be kept in a continually well-deionized water atmosphere for up to 25 years without problems. SRS experience ranges from 2.75 years for the L-1.1 charge kept in deionized D[sub 2]O[sup 1] to greater than 10 years for assemblies stored in the Receiving Basin for Off-site Fue… more
Date: July 8, 1992
Creator: Gibbs, A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Mitigation action plan for remedial action at the Uranium Mill Tailing Sites and Disposal Site, Rifle, Colorado

Description: The Estes Gulch disposal site is approximately 10 kilometers (6 miles) north of the town of Rifle, off State Highway 13 on Federal land administered by the Bureau of Land Management. The Department of Energy (DOE) will transport the residual radioactive materials (RRM) by truck to the Estes Gulch disposal site via State Highway 13 and place it in a partially below-grade disposal cell. The RRM will be covered by an earthen radon barrier, frost protection layers, and a rock erosion protection lay… more
Date: July 1992
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Geothermal : Economic Impacts of Geothermal Development in Skamania County, Washington.

Description: This report estimates the local economic impacts that could be anticipated from the development of a 100 megawatt (MW) geothermal power plant in eastern Skamania County, Washington, near Mt. Adams, as shown in Figure 1. The study was commissioned by the Bonneville Power Administration to quantify such impacts as part of regional confirmation work recommended by the Northwest Power Planning Council. Skamania County was chosen due to both identified geothermal resources and developer interest. Th… more
Date: July 1, 1992
Creator: Lesser, Jonathan A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Coolside waste management research

Description: The project objective is to produce sufficient information on the physical and chemical nature of Coolside waste to design and construct physically stable and environmentally safe landfills. No additional swell on samples reported last month has been observed. The permeability of a specimen remolded near 100% of standard dry density and optimum moisture content and aged 14 days was 7.43 [times] 10[sup [minus]6] cm/sec. Unconfined compressive strength tests and unconsolidated undrained triaxial … more
Date: July 23, 1992
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Compatibility of refrigerants and lubricants with motor materials

Description: During this last quarter, evaluations were complete on the motor materials after 500-hr exposures to refrigerants CFC-123, HFC-134a and HCFC-22 at 90{degrees}C. Materials were also evaluated after exposure to nitrogen at 127{degrees}C to determine effect of the thermal exposure. Other exposures were started during this quarter with refrigerants HCFC-124, HFC-125, HFC-143a, HFC-32 and HFC-152a. One 500 hr exposure is set up per week and one is analyzed the same week. This will enable Trane to co… more
Date: July 23, 1992
Creator: Doerr, R. & Kujak, S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Frequency spectrum generated by AGS Booster power swing, heavy ion cycle

Description: LILCO is studying the effects of the AGS Booster power swing on its power grid. The study is being conducted by GE systems Development and Engineering, Schenectady, New York. In notes, dates November 10, 1987, prepared for a GE-LILCO Progress Review Meeting, the author notes LILCO system resonances that are excited by the heavy ion cycle. The data used by GE for their study, is the power flow required for continuous operation of the Booster, namely a continuous 13MW Power swing and a period of … more
Date: July 17, 1992
Creator: Meth, M. & Ratti, A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A feasibility study of oil shale fired pulse combustors with applications to oil shale retorting

Description: The results of the experimental investigation performed to determine the feasibility of using pulverized Colorado oil shale to fuel a bench scale pulse combustor reveal that oil shale cannot sustain pulsations when used alone as fuel. Trace amounts of propane mixed with the oil shale enabled the pulsations, however. Up to 80% of the organic material in the oil shale was consumed when it was mixed with propane in the combustor. Beyond the feasibility objectives, the operating conditions of the c… more
Date: July 1, 1992
Creator: Morris, G. J.; Johnson, E. K.; Zhang, G. Q. & Roach, R. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Tidd PFBC Demonstration Project

Description: This is the 21st Technical Progress Report submitted to the Department of energy in connection with the Cooperative Agreement between the DOE and the Ohio Power Company for the Tidd PFBC Demonstration Plant. This report covers the period from April 1, 1992--June 30, 1992.
Date: July 1, 1992
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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