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Accounting Principles, Standards, and Requirements: Title 2 Standards Not Superceded by FASAB Issuances

Description: Guidance issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This is one in a series or reports designed to help federal agencies improve or maintain effective internal control, financial management systems, and financial reporting. GAO discusses the status of the 13 remaining standards in Title 2, "Accounting," of the GAO Policy and Procedures Manual for Guidance of Federal Agencies in light of the most recent compendium of Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB) … more
Date: November 1, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Recreational Fee Demonstration Program Survey

Description: Other written product issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Recreational Fee Demonstration Program authorizes four land management agencies-- the National Park Service, the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and the Forest Service--to establish, charge, collect, and use fees at a number of sites. The program's goals are to (1) enhance visitor services, (2) address a backlog of needs for repair and maintenance, and (3) manage… more
Date: November 1, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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JFMIP: Core Financial System Requirements

Description: Other written product issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Core Financial System Requirements document is intended to assist agencies when reviewing new core financial systems and when improving or evaluating existing core financial systems. It provides the baseline functionally in order to support agency missions and comply with laws and regulations. The final issuance of this document will augment existing federal financial management system functional req… more
Date: November 1, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Contract Management: Improving Services Acquisitions

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Federal agencies spend billions of tax dollars each year to buy services, from clerical support to information technology expertise to facilities management. Agency service procurements are not always as efficient as they could be. Too often agencies are not clearly defining their requirements, fully considering alternative solutions, performing vigorous price analyses, or adequately overseeing contractor performanc… more
Date: November 1, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Retiree Health Insurance: Gaps in Coverage and Availability

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In 1999, about 10 million Americans aged 55 and older relied on employer-sponsored health benefits until they became eligible for Medicare or to pay for out-of-pocket expenses not covered by Medicare. However, the number of employers offering these benefits has declined considerably during the past decade. Despite the recent strong economy and the relatively low increases in health insurance premiums during the late… more
Date: November 1, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Environmental Protection: Improved Inspections and Enforcement Would Ensure Safer Underground Storage Tanks

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Contaminated soil or water resulting from leaks at underground storage tanks can pose serious health risks. In 1984, Congress created the Underground Storage Tank (UST) program to protect the public from potential leaks. Under the program, the Environmental Protection Agency required tank owners to install new leak detection equipment and new spill-, overfill-, and corrosion-prevention equipment. GAO found that abou… more
Date: November 1, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Highlighting High Performance: Four Times Square

Description: 4 Times Square is a 48-story environmentally responsible building in New York City. Developed by the Durst Organization, the building is the first project of its size to adopt standards for energy efficiency, indoor ecology, sustainable materials, and responsible construction, operations, and maintenance procedures. Designers used a whole-building approach--considering how the building's systems can work together most efficiently--and educated tenants on the benefits of the design.
Date: November 1, 2001
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RPM-SIM-Based Analysis of Power Converter Applications in Renewable Energy Systems: Preprint

Description: This paper briefly presents the RPM-SIM simulator and, in particular, its abilities to simulate and analyze renewable energy systems with power converters. This modular simulation system is used to study applications and cost-effective performance of renewable energy systems, analyze both static and dynamic performance, develop control strategies, and simulate autonomous renewable energy systems under different generation and load conditions (such as different wind speeds, temperature, insolati… more
Date: November 1, 2001
Creator: Bialasiewicz, J. T.; Muljadi, E. & Nix, R. G.
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Status and Recent Results for EMSP Project No.70108 Effects of Fluid Distribution on Measured Geophysical Properties for Partially Saturated, Shallow Subsurface Conditions

Description: The objective of this report is to improve geophysical imaging of the vadose zone by developing improved methods for interpreting geophysical field data. The purpose of this EMSP project is to develop relationships between laboratory measured geophysical properties and porosity, saturation, soil composition, and fluid distribution, for partially saturated soils. Algorithms for relationships between soil composition, fluids, and geophysical measurements can provide new methods to interpret geoph… more
Date: November 1, 2001
Creator: Berge, P. A.; Bonner, B. P.; Roberts, J. J.; Wildenschild, D.; Berryman, J. G. & Bertete-Aquirre, H.
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Factors Affecting the Fuel Consumption of Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles

Description: Primary Factors that Impact the Fuel Consumption of Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles RICHARD ‘BARNEY’ CARLSON, MATTHEW G. SHIRK Idaho National Laboratory 2525 N. Fremont Ave., Idaho Falls, ID 83415, USA richard.carlson@inl.gov Abstract Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV) have proven to significantly reduce petroleum consumption as compared to conventional internal combustion engine vehicles (ICE) by utilizing electrical energy for propulsion. Through extensive testing of PHEV’s, analysis ha… more
Date: November 1, 2001
Creator: Carlson, Richard "Barney"; Shirk, Matthew G. & Geller, Benjamin M.
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CHANGES IN MOISTURE, CARBON, NITROGEN, SULPHUR, VOLATILES, AND CALORIFIC VALUE OF MISCANTHUS DURING TORREFACTION

Description: Torrefaction tests were carried out on miscanthus samples in order to understand the changes in chemical composition at temperatures of 250–350°C and residence times of 30–120 minutes. The raw material chemical composition was moisture content 7.97%, moisture-free carbon (C) 47.73%, hydrogen (H) 5.85%, nitrogen (N) 0.28%, sulphur (S) 0.02%, volatiles (V) 83.29% for volatiles, and moisture and ash-free (MAF) calorific value (CV) 8423 BTU/lb (19.59 MJ/kg). Torrefaction at temperatures of 250°C an… more
Date: November 1, 2001
Creator: Tumuluru, Jaya Shankar; Boardman, Richard; Wright, Christopher & Heintzelman, John
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Review of Methods Related to Assessing Human Performance in Nuclear Power Plant Control Room Simulations

Description: With the increased use of digital systems in Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) control rooms comes a need to thoroughly understand the human performance issues associated with digital systems. A common way to evaluate human performance is to test operators and crews in NPP control room simulators. However, it is often challenging to characterize human performance in meaningful ways when measuring performance in NPP control room simulations. A review of the literature in NPP simulator studies reveals a … more
Date: November 1, 2001
Creator: Blanc, Katya L Le; Boring, Ronald L & Gertman, David I
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Hot Wire Needle Probe for In-Pile Thermal Conductivity Detection

Description: Thermal conductivity is a key property of interest for both nuclear fuel and structural materials, and must be known for proper design, test, and application of new fuels and structural materials in nuclear reactors. Thermal conductivity is highly dependent on the physical structure, chemical composition, and the state of the material. Typically, thermal conductivity changes that occur during irradiation are measured out-of-pile by Post Irradiated Examination (PIE) using a “cook and look” appro… more
Date: November 1, 2001
Creator: Daw, Joshua; Rempe, Joy; Condie, Keith; Knudson, Darrell; Wilkins, S. Curtis; Fox, Brandon S. et al.
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Total Sky Imager Model 880 Status and Testing Results

Description: The Total Sky Imager (TSI) is manufactured by Yankee Environmental Systems (YES) Incorporated, based in Turner Falls, Massachusetts. (For more information about YES, see http://www.yesinc.com/.) The TSI is a commercialized version of the Hemispheric Sky Imager prototype (Long et al. 1998). YES has now produced a more sophisticated (compared to the original model 440) model 880 of the TSI (see Figure 1). The first YES TSI 880 was deployed at the Blackwell Tonkawa Airport (BTA) as part of the Dep… more
Date: November 1, 2001
Creator: Long, CN; Slater, DW & Tooman, T
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Environmental Management Long-Term Stewardship Transition Guidance

Description: Long-term stewardship consists of those actions necessary to maintain and demonstrate continued protection of human health and the environment after the completion of facility cleanup. Long-term stewardship is administered and overseen by the U.S. Department of Energy Environmental Management Office of Science and Technology. This report describes the background of long-term stewardship and gives general guidance about considerations when ownership and/or responsibility of a site should be tran… more
Date: November 1, 2001
Creator: Kristofferson, Keith
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Handheld Device for Simultaneous Monitoring of Fast Neutrons and Gamma Rays

Description: Currently at the INEEL, a handheld device is being developed to measure fast neutrons and gamma rays using a single detector instead of a previous two detector system. The handheld detection system presented here uses a single 1/2 inch (diameter) by 1/2 inch (long) liquid scintillator detector (BC501). This means the detection system can be made smaller, lighter, less expensive, and is expected to be more sensitive than the original system. A smaller and lighter device makes it possible to be u… more
Date: November 1, 2001
Creator: Aryaeinejad, Rahmat; Reber, Edward Lawrence & Spencer, David Frazer
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Theory, Modeling and Simulation Annual Report 2000

Description: This annual report describes the 2000 research accomplishments for the Theory, Modeling, and Simulation (TM&S) directorate, one of the six research organizations in the William R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). EMSL is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national scientific user facility and is the centerpiece of the DOE commitment to providing world-class experimental, theoretical, and computational capabilities for solvi… more
Date: November 1, 2001
Creator: Dixon, David A.; Garrett, Bruce C.; Straatsma, Tp; Jones, Donald R.; Studham, Ronald S.; Harrison, Robert J. et al.
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Characteristics of laser-driven electron acceleration invacuum

Description: The interaction of free electrons with intense laser beamsin vacuum is studied using a 3D test particle simulation model thatsolves the relativistic Newton-Lorentz equations of motion inanalytically specified laser fields. Recently, a group of solutions wasfound for very intense laser fields that show interesting and unusualcharacteristics. In particular, it was found that an electron can becaptured within the high-intensity laser region, rather than expelledfrom it, and the captured electron c… more
Date: November 1, 2001
Creator: Wang, P. X.; Ho, Y. K.; Yuan, X. Q.; Kong, Q.; Sessler, A. M.; Esarey, E. et al.
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Multi-Megawatt Power System Trade Study

Description: As part of a larger task, the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL) was tasked to perform a trade study comparing liquid-metal cooled reactors having Rankine power conversion systems with gas-cooled reactors having Brayton power conversion systems. This report summarizes the approach, the methodology, and the results of that trade study. Findings suggest that either approach has the possibility to approach the target specific mass of 3-5 kg/kWe for the power system, th… more
Date: November 1, 2001
Creator: Longhurst, Glen Reed; Schnitzler, Bruce Gordon & Parks, Benjamin Travis
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TAN HOT SHOP AND SUPPORT FACILITY UTILIZATION STUDY

Description: Impacts to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) complex caused by early closure (prior to 2018) and Demolition and Dismantlement (D&D) of the Test Area North (TAN) hot shop and its support facilities are explored in this report. Various possible conditions, such as Standby, Safe Store and Lay-up, that the facility may be placed in prior to eventually being turned over to D&D are addressed. The requirements, impacts, and implications to the facility and to the DOE Complex are discussed for each c… more
Date: November 1, 2001
Creator: Phillips, Ken Crawforth
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Multi Megawatt Power System Analysis Report

Description: Missions to the outer planets or to near-by planets requiring short times and/or increased payload carrying capability will benefit from nuclear power. A concept study was undertaken to evaluate options for a multi-megawatt power source for nuclear electric propulsion. The nominal electric power requirement was set at 15 MWe with an assumed mission profile of 120 days at full power, 60 days in hot standby, and another 120 days of full power, repeated several times for 7 years of service. Of the… more
Date: November 1, 2001
Creator: Longhurst, Glen Reed; Harvego, Edwin Allan; Schnitzler, Bruce Gordon; Seifert, Gary Dean; Sharpe, John Phillip; Verrill, Donald Alan et al.
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