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Comparative assessment of energy-economy interactions

This analysis is concerned with the impact of energy-policy measures on the level, growth, and structure of the US economy. In particular, the nature and magnitude of the causal relationship between variations in the prices of various energy forms and economic performance, as measured by real gross national product (GNP), is studied. The combined Brookhaven National Laboratory/Dale W. Jorgenson Associates (BNL/DHA) energy-economy model system is used to determine the economic effects of three e… more

Date: December 1, 1978

Creator: Goettle, R.J. IV; Hudson, E.A. & Lukachinski, J.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Nuclear power in the Soviet Bloc

The growth of Soviet Bloc nuclear power generation to the end of the century is evaluated on the basis of policy statements of objectives, past and current nuclear power plant construction, and trends in the potential for future construction. Central to this study is a detailed examination of individual reactor construction and site development that provides specific performance data not given elsewhere. A major commitment to nuclear power is abundantly clear and an expansion of ten times in nu… more

Date: March 1, 1982

Creator: Davey, W.G.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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DOE role in nuclear policies and programs: official transcript of public briefing. Addendum December 13, 1977, Washington, D. C

A total of 24 questions were read into the official record at the public briefing on nuclear policies and programs. The answers published were researched and written by personnel of DOE's Office of Energy Research, Office of Energy Technology, and the Secretary's Office. A few questions were sent to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for review and for preparation of answers.

Date: February 1, 1978

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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State legislatures and energy policy in the Northeast: energy facility siting and legislative action

At the Federal level, a vast array of bureaucratic and legislative institutions are presently immersed in various explorations of energy policy and its national ramifications. Almost each of the 50 states has Energy offices. One element of the institutional/political equation, however, often is missed in studies of energy policy: the state legislature. This institution may well be vitally important to formulation of broad policies, and certainly is critical to successful implementation of certa… more

Date: June 1, 1977

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Energy conservation and energy decentralization: issues and prospects

Views are presented of the seemingly paradoxical nature and irrationality of the energy system and the decisions that determine its evolution. An economic approach to energy decisions, while widely espoused and generally believed to be the underpinning of our system, appears not to be functioning in very-important areas. The result is enormous waste of economic and intangible resources to produce energy that could be effectively replaced by energy conservation at low costs. This inefficiency in… more

Date: January 1, 1980

Creator: Levine, M. D. & Craig, P. P.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Energy-related doctoral scientists and engineers in the United States, 1977

Information is compiled about the number and characteristics of doctoral-level engineers and scientists in primarily energy-related activities. These data are for the year 1977 and are part of the data base for a program of continuing studies on the employment and utilization of all scientists and engineers involved in energy-related activities. Data on mathematics, physics, chemistry, environmental engineering, engineering, life sciences, psychology, and social sciences doctoral degree special… more

Date: April 1, 1980

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Exploding the myths about the fast breeder reactor

This paper discusses the facts and figures about the effects of conservation policies, the benefits of the Clinch River Breeder Reactor demonstration plant, the feasibility of nuclear weapons manufacture from reactor-grade plutonium, diversion of plutonium from nuclear plants, radioactive waste disposal, and the toxicity of plutonium. The paper concludes that the U.S. is not proceeding with a high confidence strategy for breeder development because of a variety of false assumptions.

Date: January 1, 1979

Creator: Burns, S.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Geothermal potential of the Cascade Mountain Range: exploration and development. Special report No. 10

Eighteen papers are included, one of which was previously abstracted for EDB. A separate abstract was prepared for each of the remaining seventeen papers for Energy Research Abstracts (ERA); ten of the papers are included in Energy Abstracts for Policy Analysis (EPA).

Date: May 1, 1981

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Fiscal year 1987 program plan

The Defense TRU Waste Program (DTWP) is the focal point for the Department of Energy in national planning, integration, operation, and technical development for TRU waste management. The scope of this program extends from the point of TRU waste generation through delivery to a permanent repository. The TRU program maintains a close interface with repository development to ensure program compatibility and coordination. The defense TRU program does not directly address commercial activities that … more

Date: December 1, 1986

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Support of International Waste Management Agreements in the field of TRU Waste Management

The USDOE has implemented technical information exchange agreements in the field of TRU waste management with the United Kingdom, Federal Republic of Germany, Japan, and France. This has been done in an effort to minimize research and development costs, and ensured maximum safety to man and the environment during waste handling and disposal. In this report, the technical work plan for fiscal year 1986 is presented. (JDL)

Date: January 1, 1986

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Impact of selected energy conservation technologies on baseline demands

This study is an application of the modeling and demand projection capability existing at Brookhaven National Laboratory to specific options in energy conservation. Baseline energy demands are modified by introducing successively three sets of conservation options. The implementation of improved building standards and the use of co-generation in industry are analyzed in detail and constitute the body of this report. Two further sets of energy demands are presented that complete the view of a lo… more

Date: September 1, 1977

Creator: Doernberg, A

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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The quest for greenhouse-constrained technologies amid other concerns for environment and energy

As we approach the 21st century, sentiments run high in the US for improved air quality in our cities and for a more secure energy future, hopefully to be manifest in lesser dependence on foreign supplies of oil. These sentiments are reflected in intense political activity on both the federal and state levels to enact legislation that will help alleviate both problems. At the same time though, the recent emergence of awareness of a threat of global warming due to ever increasing emissions of gr… more

Date: January 1, 1991

Creator: McGill, R.N.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Impacts of the national energy programme on solar economics

The National Energy Plan (NEP) sets as a goal the use of solar energy in two and a half million homes in 1985. A key provision of the NEP (as well as congressional alternatives) provides for the subsidization of solar equipment. The extent to which these subsidies (income tax credits) might offset the impact of continued energy-price control is examined. Regional prices and availability of conventional energy sources (oil, gas, and electricity) were compiled to obtain a current and consistent s… more

Date: January 1, 1978

Creator: Ben-David, S.; Noll, S.; Roach, F. & Schulze, W.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Geothermal environmental seminar-'78

Thirty-seven papers are included. Two were abstracted for EDB previously. Abstracts were prepared for the remaining thirty-five. (MHR)

Date: January 1, 1978

Creator: Tucker, F. L. & Tanner, L. R.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Study of federal microwave standards

Present and future federal regulatory processes which may impact the permissible levels of microwave radiation emitted by the SPS Microwave Power Transmission (MPTS) were studied. An historical development of US occupational and public microwave standards includes an overview of Western and East European philosophies of environmental protection and neurophysiology which have led to the current widely differing maximum permissible exposure limits to microwaves. The possible convergence of microw… more

Date: August 1, 1980

Creator: David, L.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Federal role in dry and wet-dry cooling tower research, development, and demonstration

It is concluded that it is appropriate for the Energy Research and Development Administration (or its successor) to sponsor a program of fiscal, technical and management support directed at providing a commercial advanced concept wet/dry (or dry) cooling technology for electric utility use within ten years. This federal role is thought to be appropriate for several reasons, including: the need for such technology, although expected to grow only slowly at first, will eventually be quite widespre… more

Date: September 1, 1977

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Geopressured-geothermal energy development: government incentives and institutional structures

The following subjects are included: a geothermal resource overview, the evolution of the current Texas geopressured-geothermal institutional structure, project evaluation with uncertainty and the structure of incentives, the natural gas industry, the electric utility industry, potential governmental participants in resource development, industrial users of thermal energy, current government incentives bearing on geopressured-geothermal development, six profiles for utilization of the geopressu… more

Date: January 1, 1979

Creator: Frederick, D.O.; Prestwood, D.C.L.; Roberts, K. & Vanston, J.H. Jr.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Managing for success: developing and exploiting international opportunities in geothermal energy

This study is designed to assist the Division of Geothermal Energy (DGE) in deciding what kind of strategy it wants and needs in order to make its international effort as cost-effective and appropriate as possible. The purpose of this study is to construct a logic base on which DGE can, in turn, establish its own strategy for international cooperation, and can begin to plan for necessary organization, procedural and policy reforms. This report will constitute a set of decision guidelines for DG… more

Date: July 1, 1981

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Political side of risk: a new approach

The resolution of many of the Nation's most-serious problems today is hampered by our apparent inability to systematically deal with the socio-political dimensions of the societal acceptance of risks in areas of technical development, decision making, and policy formulation. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the energy field. The nature of public hazards has changed drastically during the past half century or so, driving public considerations of risk into the political realm. This has given… more

Date: January 1, 1980

Creator: Sorenson, J.B. & Trauth, C.A. Jr.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Lectures notes for introduction to environmental law

This four-hour overview course is designed to briefly describe the environmental law system. The course provides an overview that managers and technical people will find useful as a beginning course or a course that puts formerly taken detailed courses in perspective. The course begins by defining environmental law and describing the legal system that establishes compliance obligations. Then, all the major Environmental Acts such as The Water Pollution Control Act, The National Environmental Po… more

Date: December 1, 1991

Creator: Cadwell, J.J.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Public opinion factors regarding nuclear power

This paper is an effort to identify, as comprehensively as possible, public concerns about nuclear power, and to assess, where possible, the relative importance of these concerns as they relate to government regulation of and policy towards nuclear power. It is based on some two dozen in-depth interviews with key communicators representing the nuclear power industry, the environmental community, and government, as well as on the parallel efforts in our research project: (1) review of federal co… more

Date: January 1, 1991

Creator: Benson, B.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Centralized processing of contact-handled TRU waste feasibility analysis

This report presents work for the feasibility study of central processing of contact-handled TRU waste. Discussion of scenarios, transportation options, summary of cost estimates, and institutional issues are a few of the subjects discussed. (JDL)

Date: December 1, 1986

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Proceedings of the US DOE/UK AEA Workshop on Facility Design

This document contains the proceeding of a Workshop on Facility Design that was held between the United States Department of Energy and the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 27--29, 1986. The intention of the workshop was to display relevant design criteria and to demonstrate for various US and UK facilities, current and projected criteria and how these criteria have been satisfied by facility design. Specific examples concern small plants, large plants, a… more

Date: November 1, 1986

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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California geothermal resource development environmental implications for ERCDC Environmental Analysis Office. Final report

The results of an analysis of the environmental implications for ERCDC Environmental Analysis Office (EAO) in relation to the development of California's geothermal resources are reported. While focusing primarily on environmental implications, particularly the natural, social, and economic elements, the report includes some ERCDC-wide policy and program considerations. The primary thrusts of the work have been in the development of an understanding of the interagency and intergovernmental envi… more

Date: February 1, 1977

Creator: Roberts, J.A.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department