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[Comments on Whether a Federal Employee Can Use Government Resources To Support Reserve Activities]

Description: Other written product issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO provided information on whether a federal employee on official duty, who is also a member of the National Guard or the armed forces Reserves, may conduct, and use agency office equipment to support, Guard or Reserve business. GAO held that: (1) agencies may permit their employees to use a limited amount of official time and agency resources to support the Guard or Reserves; (2) employees who are not … more
Date: January 4, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Inspectors General: Information on Operational and Staffing Issues

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO surveyed inspectors general (IG) to obtain: (1) information on their organizational structure, staffing, and workload; and (2) their views on current policy issues affecting them."
Date: January 4, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Appropriations for FY1999: An Overview

Description: This is a funding level summary of each of the 13 annual appropriation acts for FY1999 appears in the summaries of annual appropriations spending section of this report.
Date: January 4, 1999
Creator: Anderson, J. Michael
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THERMAL EVALUATION OF DIFFERENT DRIFT DIAMETER SIZES

Description: The purpose of this calculation is to estimate the thermal response of a repository-emplaced waste package and its corresponding drift wall surface temperature with different drift diameters. The case examined is that of a 21 pressurized water reactor (PWR) uncanistered fuel (UCF) waste package loaded with design basis spent nuclear fuel assemblies. This calculation evaluates a 3.5 meter to 6.5 meter drift diameter range in increments of 1.0 meters. The time-dependent temperatures of interest, … more
Date: January 4, 1999
Creator: Wade, H.M.
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Fabrication of a simple materials system for study of Hg in a stainless steel.

Description: The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), currently under construction at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is expected to employ a Hg target encased in a stainless steel. Little is known about the metallurgical behavior of this materials engineering system, which will occur in a service environment involving elevated temperatures and intense radiation. Under normal equilibrium conditions, however, Hg is known to be insoluble in and non-reactive with solid Fe and Cr but to form one or more intermetalli… more
Date: January 4, 1999
Creator: Allen, C. W.
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Neutron production enhancements for the Intense Pulsed Neutron Source.

Description: The Intense Pulsed Neutron Source (IPNS) was the first high energy spallation neutron source in the US dedicated to materials research. It has operated for sixteen years, and in that time has had a very prolific record concerning the development of new target and moderator systems for pulsed spallation sources. IPNS supports a very productive user program on its thirteen instruments, which are oversubscribed by more than two times, meanwhile having an excellent overall reliability of 95%. Altho… more
Date: January 4, 1999
Creator: Iverson, E. B.
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Foreign and Defense Policy: Key Issues in the 106th Congress

Description: This report lays out foreign and defense policy issues likely to receive attention in the 106th Congress, either in oversight or in enacting legislation. The report discusses the U.S. role in the world, and addresses tools available to Members to affect foreign and defense policy, including: the use of military force, foreign assistance, foreign policy sanctions, export controls, participation in the United Nations, and oversight of the State Department.
Date: January 4, 1999
Creator: Rennack, Dianne E.
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Final report on initial samples supplied by LLNL for task 3.3 binder burnout and sintering schedule optimisation

Description: Sixteen of the twenty-one samples have been investigated using the scanning laser dilatometer. This includes all three types of samples with different preparation routes and organic content. Cracks were observed in all samples, even those only heated to 300 C. It was concluded that the cracking was occurring in the early part of the heat treatment before the samples reached 300 C. Increase in the rate of dilation of the samples occurred above 170 C which coincided with the decomposition of the … more
Date: January 4, 1999
Creator: Walls, P.
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Final Report on Initial Samples Supplied by LLNL for Task 3.3 Binder Burnout and Sintering Schedule Optimisation

Description: Sixteen of the twenty-one samples have been investigated using the scanning laser dilatometer. This includes all three types of samples with different preparation routes and organic content. Cracks were observed in all samples, even those only heated to 300 C. It was concluded that the cracking was occurring in the early part of the heat treatment before the samples reached 300 C. Increase in the rate of dilation of the samples occurred above 170 C which coincided with the decomposition of the … more
Date: January 4, 1999
Creator: Walls, P.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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K Basin Sludge Conditioning Process Testing Fate of PCBs During K Basin Sludge Dissolution in Nitric Acid and with Hydrogen Peroxide Addition

Description: The work described in this report is part of the studies being performed to address the fate of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in K Basin sludge before the sludge can be transferred to the Tank Waste Remediation System (TWRS) double shell tanks. One set of tests examined the effect of hydrogen peroxide on the disposition of PCBs in a simulated K Basin dissolver solution containing 0.5 M nitric acid/1 M Fe(NO{sub 3}){sub 3}. A second series of tests examined the disposition of PCBs in a much s… more
Date: January 4, 1999
Creator: Mong, G. M.; Schmidt, A. J.; Hoppe, E. W.; Pool, K. H.; Silvers, K. L. & Thornton, B. M.
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Public Interest Obligations Advisory Committee Home Page

Description: By Executive Order No. 13038, President Clinton established the Advisory Committee on Public Interest Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters (PIAC). The Committee studied and recommended the public interest responsibilities that should accompany the broadcasters' receipt of digital television licenses. NTIA serves as the Secretariat for the Advisory Committee.
Date: January 4, 1999
Creator: Advisory Committee on Public Interest Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters
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Air Quality and Vehicle Emission Standards: An Overview of the National Low Emission Vehicle Program and Related Issues

Description: This report provides background information on federal emission standards for motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act and stricter standards originally developed to address the severity of air quality problems in California, explains the low emission standards and flexible compliance mechanisms to which states and manufacturers have voluntarily agreed under the National Low Emission Vehicle (LEV) Program, discusses the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) estimates of the program's air qualit… more
Date: January 4, 1999
Creator: Bearden, David M.
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Managing Regional Growth: Is There a Role for Congress?

Description: Regional growth management is largely addressed at he local and state levels, driven by a myriad of concerns. Many of these concerns re driven by the concept of sprawl, and pit expansion of suburban development against protection of open space, agricultural activities, and amenity values. Local and state policies to these concerns are also diverse.
Date: January 4, 1999
Creator: Zinn, Jeffrey A.
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Impact of radioactive waste heat on soil temperatures

Description: Consideration of the impact of radioactive waste heat is necessary for many aspects of potential repository design. Waste heat will alter the mineralogy of the host rock, and may change the character of the zeolitic units below the potential repository that are likely to be the primary natural barriers to radionuclide migration. The impact of waste heat on the near-surface temperature within the soil zone is the focus of the present study. Since 1990, the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (N… more
Date: January 4, 1999
Creator: Robinson, B. A.; Gable, C. W. & Lowman, J. P.
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Accident Sequence Precursor Program Large Early Release Frequency Model Development

Description: The objectives for the ASP large early release frequency (LERF) model development work is to build a Level 2 containment response model that would capture all of the events necessary to define LERF as outlined in Regulatory Guide 1.174, can be directly interfaced with the existing Level 1 models, is technically correct, can be readily modified to incorporate new information or to represent another plant, and can be executed in SAPHIRE. The ASP LERF models being developed will meet these objecti… more
Date: January 4, 1999
Creator: Brownson, Douglas A.; Brown, Thomas D.; Duran, Felicia A.; Gregory, Julie J. & Rodrick, Edward G.
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An Approach for the Analysis of Regulatory Analytes in High Level Radioactive Waste Stored at Hanford, Richland, Washington

Description: Radiation levels, salt concentration, and the oxidizing nature of the waste dictates modifications to the SW-846 methods. Modified methods will be used to meet target EQLs and QC currently in SW-846. Method modifications will be validated per SW-846 and HASQARD and will be documented consistent with WAC 173-303-910. The affect of modifications to holding times and storage conditions will be evaluated using techniques developed by Maskarinec and Bayne (1996). After validating the methods and per… more
Date: January 4, 1999
Creator: Wiemers, K. D.; Miller, M. & Lerchen, M. E.
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Wire Array Z-Pinch Insights for Enhanced X-Ray Production

Description: Comparisons of measured total radiated x-ray power from annular wire-array z-pinches with a variety of models as a function of wire number, array mass, and load radius are reviewed. The data, which are comprehensive, have provided important insights into the features of wire-array dynamics that are critical for high x-ray power generation. Collectively, the comparisons of the data with the model calculations suggest that a number of underlying dynamical mechanisms involving cylindrical asymmetr… more
Date: January 4, 1999
Creator: Apruzese, J. P.; Chittenden, J. P.; Greenly, J. B.; Haines, M. G.; Mock, R. C.; Mosher, D. et al.
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Recent Developments in Thin-Film Lithium and Lithium-Ion Batteries

Description: This report on recent developments in thin-film lithium and lithium-ion batteries displays experimental data related to high-rate deposition and annealing, metal foil substrates, tin and zinc nitride anodes, lithium plating (``lithium-free'' lithium cells), manufacturing and applications. Challenges and future work include improving the yield of batteries on metal foils by electrical isolation of anode current collector from substrate, and lowering manufacturing costs by increasing deposition a… more
Date: January 4, 1999
Creator: Bates, J. B.; Dudney, N. J. & Neudecker, B. J.
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Laboratory Simulation of Response to a Shock Environment

Description: The focus of this work will be to simulate a harsh, blast environment on a space structure. Data from a reverse Hopkinson bar (RHB) test is used to generate the response to a symmetric, distributed load. The RHB generates a high-amplitude, high-frequency content, concentrated pulse that excites components at near-blast levels. The transfer functions generated at discrete points, with the RHB, are used to generate an experimental model of the structure, which is then used in conjunction with the… more
Date: January 4, 1999
Creator: Benham, R.; Duggins, B.; Mayes, R. & Simmermacher, T.
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