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Slotting Fees: Effort to Study the Use of These Payments in the Grocery Industry

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed its effort to study the use of slotting fees in the grocery industry, focusing on GAO's: (1) planned approach and methodology; and (2) reasons for not being able to perform the study."
Date: September 14, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Fish and Wildlife Service: Weaknesses in the Management of the Endangered Species Program Workload at the Carlsbad, California Field Office

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the implementation of the Endangered Species Act by the Fish and Wildlife Service's (FWS) field office in Carlsbad, California, focusing on: (1) how the Carlsbad office tracks its workload of consultations and habitat conservation plans (HCP); (2) to what extent the office is complying with FWS guidelines for completing formal consultations and HCP processing; and (… more
Date: September 14, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Fabrication of Efficient, Large Aperture Transmission Diffraction Gratings by Ion-Beam Etching

Description: The utilization of high-power short pulse laser employing chirped-pulse amplification (CPA) for material processing and inertial confinement research is widely increasing. The performance of these high-power CPA laser system continues to be limited by the ability of the pulse compression gratings to hold up to the high-average-power or high-peak-power of the laser. Pulse compression gratings used in transmission and fabricated out of bulk fused silica have intrinsically the highest laser damage… more
Date: September 14, 2000
Creator: Nguyen, H T; Bryan, S R; Britten, J A & Perry, M D
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Evaluation of SAFT/T-SAFT Technology for the Inspection of Hanford's Double Shell Waste Tank Knuckle Regions

Description: Results of the examinations conducted at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory provided a firm engineering basis for establishing the proof-of-principle effectiveness for utilizing a combination of pulse-echo Synthetic Aperture Focusing Technique (SAFT) and tandem-SAFT (T-SAFT) inspection methodologies as applied to the problem of flaw detection, localization, and sizing in Hanford's double shell waste tank knuckle region and beyond.
Date: September 14, 2000
Creator: Pardini, Allan F. & Diaz, Aaron A.
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Anarchy and hierarchy

Description: We advocate a new approach to study models of fermion massesand mixings, namely anarchy proposed in hep-ph/9911341. In this approach,we scan the O(1) coefficients randomly. We argue that this is the correctapproach when the fundamental theory is sufficiently complicated.Assuming there is no physical distinction among three generations ofneutrinos, the probability distributions in MNS mixing angles can bepredicted independent of the choice of the measure. This is because themixing angles are dis… more
Date: September 14, 2000
Creator: Haba, Naoyuki & Murayama, Hitoshi
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EQ6 Calculation for Chemical Degradation of Shippingport LWBR (TH/U Oxide) Spent Nuclear Fuel Waste Packages

Description: The Monitored Geologic Repository (MGR) Waste Package Department of the Civilian Radioactive Waste Management System Management & Operating contractor (CRWMS M&O) performed calculations to provide input for disposal of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) from the Shippingport Light Water Breeder Reactor (LWBR) (Ref. 1). The Shippingport LWBR SNF has been considered for disposal at the potential Yucca Mountain site. Because of the high content of fissile material in the SNF, the waste package (WP) desi… more
Date: September 14, 2000
Creator: Arthur, S.
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Neutron detection technique

Description: The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) has the ability to measure the total flux of all active flavors of neutrinos using the neutral current reaction, whose signature is a neutron. By comparing the rates of the neutral current reaction to the charged current reaction, which only detects electron neutrinos, one can test the neutrino oscillation hypothesis independent of solar models. It is necessary to understand the neutron detection efficiency of the detector to make use of the neutral curren… more
Date: September 14, 2000
Creator: Oblath, N.S. & Poon, A.W.P.
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The Effects of Moisture on LiD Single Crystals Studied by Temperature Programmed Reaction

Description: Temperature programmed reaction (TPR) technique was performed on LiOH powders and LiD single crystals previously exposed to different moisture levels. Our results show that the LiOH decomposition process has an activation energy barrier of 30 to 33.1 kcal/mol. The LiOH structure is stable even if kept at 320 K for 100 years. However, LiOH structures formed on the surface of LiD during moisture exposure at low dosages may have multiple activation energy barriers, some of which may be much lower … more
Date: September 14, 2000
Creator: Dinh, L.; Balooch, M.; Cecala, C. M. & Leckey, J. H.
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Immobilized High Level Waste (HLW) Interim Storage Alternative Generation and analysis and Decision Report 2nd Generation Implementing Architecture

Description: Two alternative approaches were previously identified to provide second-generation interim storage of Immobilized High-Level Waste (IHLW). One approach was retrofit modification of the Fuel and Materials Examination Facility (FMEF) to accommodate IHLW. The results of the evaluation of the FMEF as the second-generation IHLW interim storage facility and subsequent decision process are provided in this document.
Date: September 14, 2000
Creator: CALMUS, R.B.
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Novel Miniature Spectrometer For Remote Chemical Detection

Description: New chemical sensing technologies are critically important for addressing many of EM's priority needs as discussed in detail at http://emsp.em.doe.gov/needs. Many technology needs were addressed by this research. For example, improved detection strategies are needed for non-aqueous phase liquids (NAPL's), such as PCE (Cl2C=CCl2) and TCE (HClC=CCl2), which persist in the environment due their highly stable structures. By developing a miniature, ultra-sensitive, selective, and field-deployable de… more
Date: September 14, 2000
Creator: Pipino, Andrew C.R.
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Study of the effects of D{sub 2}O circulation

Description: The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) has been collecting data since November 1999. The study of whether or not the D{sub 2}O circulation affects the data is an important part of understanding how the SNO detector behaves. This report looks at several characteristics of the data to determine to what extent the D{sub 2}O circulation affects the data. We found that there is no evidence for any dependence of event rates in the cleaned data sets on the state of D{sub 2}O circulation.
Date: September 14, 2000
Creator: Oblath, N.S. & Poon, A.W.P.
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Technical Information to Support Double Shell Tank (DST) Emergency Annulus Pumping [SEC 1 and 2]

Description: This document provides the design calculations for the DST Annulus Emergency Pumping Project. This document also contains essential information relative to DST annulus emergency pumping that may not be found in other documents. This information consists of the following: Index drawing for annulus pumping; References to the Acceptance Test Report, DST Emergency Pumping Guide, Time Deployment study, etc.; Statements of work; and Reference CEIS and RMIS numbers. A Vendor Information document, VI-5… more
Date: September 14, 2000
Creator: REBERGER, D.W.
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Social Security Reform: Implications for Private Pensions

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 interactions between Social Security and private pensions, focusing on the: (1) primary linkages between Social Security and private pensions and the way they interact to provide retirement income for workers and families; (2) effects of traditional Social Security reforms on the structure of employer-sponsored pension plans through changes i… more
Date: September 14, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan: Additional Water Quality Projects May Be Needed and Could Increase Costs

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Army Corps of Engineers' Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan."
Date: September 14, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Reaction of LiD with moisture by temperature programmed reaction (TPR)

Description: The temperature programmed reaction technique was performed on LiOH powders and LiD single crystals previously exposed to different moisture levels. Our results show that the LiOH decomposition process has an activation energy barrier of 30 to 33.1 kcal/mol. The LiOH structure is stable at 320 K for 100 years. However, LiOH structures formed on the surface of LiD during moisture exposure at low dosages may have multiple activation energy barriers, some of which may be much lower than 30 kcal/mo… more
Date: September 14, 2000
Creator: Dinh, L N; Balooch, M; Cecala, C M & Leckey, J H
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Reaction of LiD with water vapor: thermogravimetric and scanning electron microscopy studies

Description: The kinetics of hydroxide film growth on LiD have been studied by the thermogravimetric method in nitrogen saturated with water vapor and by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) of samples that have been exposed to air with 50% relative humidity. The reaction probability is estimated to be 4 x 10{sup -7} for LiD exposed to ambient air with 50% relative humidity, suggesting that the diffusion through the hydroxide film is not the limiting step on the overall process at high moisture levels. The ra… more
Date: September 14, 2000
Creator: Balooch, M; Dinh, L N & LeMay, J D
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Liquid Hydrofluoric Acid Sorption Using Solid Media - Part 1

Description: The conversion of the uranium hexafluoride (UF{sub 6}) which is removed from the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE), into a stable oxide for long-term storage will produce a significant amount of slightly contaminated, concentrated aqueous hydrofluoric acid (HF). Sin&the handling of this HF is complicated and dangerous, it was decided to transform it into a stable solid fluoride (e.g., CaF{sub 2}, AlF{sub 3}, and MgF{sub 2}). Tests have been performed to identify the best media to use fo… more
Date: September 14, 2000
Creator: Osborne, P. E.
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Strengthening of Trench Cover Plates for Switchgear Building

Description: The objective of this calculation is to strengthen the existing trench cover plates of the Electrical Switchgear Building (BLDG 5010) of the Exploratory Studies Facility. A remodeling effort will change the portion of the facility that has the trenches for electrical cables to a craft/shop area. The users of the building will be using a forklift in this area (Clark CGP 30 forklift with a capacity of 3 tons). The trench covers require strengthening to support the wheel loads from the forklift. T… more
Date: September 14, 2000
Creator: Ruben, Michael S.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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