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Underground Injection Control Technical Assistace Manual: Subsurface Disposal and Solution Mining (open access)

Underground Injection Control Technical Assistace Manual: Subsurface Disposal and Solution Mining

Report providing a comprehensive analysis of current injection well practices in Texas and information for the general public about current practices and how they protect the quality of water resources. It is also intended to be a general guide for persons considering or planning an underground injection project.
Date: April 1983
Creator: Greene, Charles J.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Uranium concentration monitor manual: 2300 system (open access)

Uranium concentration monitor manual: 2300 system

This manual describes the design, operation, and procedures for measurement control for the automated uranium concentration monitor on the 2300 solvent extraction system at the Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant. The nonintrusive monitor provides a near-real time readout of uranium concentration at two locations simultaneously in the solvent extraction system for process monitoring and control. Detectors installed at the top of the extraction column and at the bottom of the backwash column acquire spectra of gamma rays from the solvent extraction solutions in the columns. Pulse-height analysis of these spectra gives the concentration of uranium in the organic product of the extraction column and in the aqueous product of the solvent extraction system. The visual readouts of concentrations for process monitoring are updated every 2 min for both detection systems. Simultaneously, the concentration results are shipped to a remote computer that has been installed by Y-12 to demonstrate automatic control of the solvent extraction system based on input of near-real time process operation information. 8 refs., 13 figs., 4 tabs.
Date: April 1, 1985
Creator: Russo, P. A.; Sprinkle, J. K. Jr. & Stephens, M. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
TART input manual (open access)

TART input manual

The TART code is a Monte Carlo neutron/photon transport code that is only on the CRAY computer. All the input cards for the TART code are listed, and definitions for all input parameters are given. The execution and limitations of the code are described, and input for two sample problems are given. (WHK)
Date: April 1, 1982
Creator: Kimlinger, J.R. & Plechaty, E.F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
SES2D user's manual (open access)

SES2D user's manual

SES2D is an interactive graphics code designed to generate plots of equation of state data from the Los Alamos National Laboratory Group T-4 computer libraries. This manual discusses the capabilities of the code. It describes the prompts and commands and illustrates their use with a sample run.
Date: April 1, 1982
Creator: Johnson, J. D. & Lyon, S. P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
UCB-NE-108 user's manual (open access)

UCB-NE-108 user's manual

The purpose of this manual is to provide users of UCB-NE-108 with the information necessary to use UCB-NE-108 effectively. UCB-NE-108 is a computer code for calculating the fractional release rate of readily soluble radionuclides that are released from nuclear waste emplaced in water-saturated porous media, and transported through layers of porous media. Waste placed in such environments will gradually dissolve. For many species such as actinides and rare earths, the process of dissolution is governed by the exterior flow field, and the chemical reaction rate or leaching rate. In a spent-fuel waste package the soluble cesium and iodine accumulated in fuel-cladding gaps, voids, and grain boundaries of spent fuel rods are expected to dissolve rapidly when groundwater penetrates the fuel cladding. UCB-NE-108 is a code for calculating the release rate at the interface of two layers of porous material, such as the backfill around a high-level waste package and natural rock, to check compliance with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (USNRC) subsystem performance objective. It is an implementation of the analytic solution given below. 6 refs., 2 figs.
Date: April 1, 1989
Creator: Kang, C. H. & Lee, W. W. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Operating manual for water in hydrocarbon leak detector (open access)

Operating manual for water in hydrocarbon leak detector

This Operating Manual includes the following sections: Water Detection; Leak Detection System; Instrument Features; Installation; Set-up and Calibration; Operation; and Service and Maintenance.
Date: April 1, 1984
Creator: Robertus, R.J.; Sullivan, R.G. & Shannon, D.W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
User's manual for the FLORA equilibrium and stability code (open access)

User's manual for the FLORA equilibrium and stability code

This document provides a user's guide to the content and use of the two-dimensional axisymmetric equilibrium and stability code FLORA. FLORA addresses the low-frequency MHD stability of long-thin axisymmetric tandem mirror systems with finite pressure and finite-larmor-radius effects. FLORA solves an initial-value problem for interchange, rotational, and ballooning stability.
Date: April 1, 1985
Creator: Freis, R.P. & Cohen, B.I.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Well-logging probe for measuring tritium: construction and operating manual (open access)

Well-logging probe for measuring tritium: construction and operating manual

This document describes the as-built construction and operating procedures for a well-logging instrument capable of measuring tritium in situ in a well or borehole as small as 3-inch schedule 40 pipe. A companion document, A Design Manual for a Well-Logging Probe Capable of Measuring Tritium, PNL-4069, should be referred to for all design information and drawings. This document contains sections describing changes made between the design and construction phases, the general configuration of the instrument, and step-by-step operating procedures. The instrument can sample air or water and can purify the sample from other radionuclides or chemical contaminants. The instrument will operate satisfactorily in the presence of a moderate gamma-ray background and can measure tritium concentrations as low as 50 pCi/ml of water in normal logging operations.
Date: April 1, 1983
Creator: Menninga, C. & Brodzinski, R.L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluated nuclear structure data file: A manual for preparation of data sets (open access)

Evaluated nuclear structure data file: A manual for preparation of data sets

This manual describes the organization and structure of the Evaluated Nuclear Structure Data File (ENSDF). This computer-based file is maintained by the National Nuclear Data Center (NNDC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory for the international Nuclear Structure and Decay Data Network. For every mass number (presently, Aless than or equal to263), the Evaluated Nuclear Structure Data File (ENSDF) contains evaluated structure information. For masses Agreater than or equal to45, this information is documented in the Nuclear Data Sheets; for A<45, ENSDF is based on compilations published in the journal Nuclear Physics. The information in ENSDF is updated by mass chains with a present cycle time of approximately six years.
Date: April 1, 1987
Creator: Tuli, J.K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
User's manual for the cloud and scavenging module version 1. 2. [RADM] (open access)

User's manual for the cloud and scavenging module version 1. 2. [RADM]

This report presents a detailed description of a stable cloud model. This model was designed to characterize a steady-state scavenging environment using meteorological conditions provided by a regional scale meteorology code. The model described in this report explicitly simulates processes related to cloud microphysics. The cloud model predicts the vertical profiles of condensed water that correspond to specified surface precipitation rates, surface temperatures, and cloud top heights. The cloud model also predicts profiles of various micro-physical constituents, such as fall velocity, accretion rates, etc., that exist in conjunction with the condensed water profiles. Descriptions are presented of routines written to solve mass conservation equations for air, cloud, and precipitation water. The solutions are appropriate for precipitating or nonprecipitating clouds within a mesoscale grid with horizontal spacing on the order of 50 km. Routines are also provided for generating tables of profiles for many discrete input conditions. Once tables are generated, additional routines may be used to interpolate between the tables and to rapidly provide values different from the discrete input levels.
Date: April 1, 1987
Creator: Scott, B.C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
User's manual for the convective cloud module version 1. 0. [RADM; RSM] (open access)

User's manual for the convective cloud module version 1. 0. [RADM; RSM]

This manual describes a convective cloud model and provide guidance for users. The convective cloud model is assumed to provide a time-averaged distribution of data from a population of precipitating, convective clouds in different stages of development. This model was designed to characterize a scavenging environment using meteorological conditions provided by a regional-scale meteorological code. This meteorological code explicitly simulates processes related to cloud microphysics. The cloud model predicts the vertical profiles of condensed water that correspond to specified surface precipitation rates and cloud top and freezing level heights. The cloud model also predicts profiles of various microphysical constituents, such as fall velocity and accretion rates that exist in conjunction with the condensed water profiles. Descriptions of routines written to solve mass conservation equations for air, cloud, and precipitation water are presented. The solutions are appropriate for precipitating convective clouds with a horizontal spacing on the order of 10 km. Routines are also provided for generating tables of profiles for many discrete input conditions. Once tables are generated, additional routines may be used to interpolate between the tables and to rapidly determine values at levels other than the discrete input levels.
Date: April 1, 1987
Creator: Scott, B. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Modified hazard ranking system for sites with mixed radioactive and hazardous wastes. User manual. (open access)

Modified hazard ranking system for sites with mixed radioactive and hazardous wastes. User manual.

This document describes both the original Hazard Ranking System and the modified Hazard Ranking System as they are to be used in evaluating the relative potential for uncontrolled hazardous substance facilities to cause human health or safety problems or ecological or environmental damage. Detailed instructions for using the mHRS/HRS computer code are provided, along with instructions for performing the calculations by hand. Uniform application of the ranking system will permit the DOE to identify those releases of hazardous substances that pose the greatest hazard to humans or the environment. However, the mHRS/HRS by itself cannot establish priorities for the allocation of funds for remedial action. The mHRS/HRS is a means for applying uniform technical judgment regarding the potential hazards presented by a facility relative to other facilities. It does not address the feasibility, desirability, or degree of cleanup required. Neither does it deal with the readiness or ability of a state to carry out such remedial action, as may be indicated, or to meet other conditions prescribed in CERCLA. 13 refs., 13 figs., 27 tabs.
Date: April 1, 1986
Creator: Hawley, K. A.; Peloquin, R. A. & Stenner, R. D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of a joint-cost allocation manual for integrated community energy systems. Phase II (open access)

Development of a joint-cost allocation manual for integrated community energy systems. Phase II

The distribution of Integrated Community Energy Systems (ICES) project capital and operating costs among multiple ICES services is of prime concern for an ICES owner and/or operator. The maintenance of adequate revenues from individual services and the commercial viability of an ICES project is influenced significantly by the method chosen for cost allocation. An in-depth study is presented of the Alternative Justifiable Expenditure method (AJE). The advantages and disadvantages of the AJE are discussed and a framework is developed for application of the method to the thermal and electric services of an ICES plant. The method departs to some degree from the concepts and procedures used in the cost-of-service allocations by emphasizing the value of ICES services to ICES thermal and electric customers.
Date: April 1, 1980
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
SCAP - a Shaped Charge Analysis Program: user's manual for SCAP 1. 0 (open access)

SCAP - a Shaped Charge Analysis Program: user's manual for SCAP 1. 0

The basic modeling and format for a shaped charge analysis program, SCAP, is described. The code models the motion of liner elements due to explosive loading, jet formation, jet breakup and target penetration through application of a series of analytical approximations. The structure of the code is intended to provide flexibility in shaped charge device and target configurations and in modeling techniques. The code is designed for interactive use and produces both printed and plotted output. Examples of code output are given and compared with experimental data. 19 refs., 13 figs.
Date: April 1, 1985
Creator: Robinson, A. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Procedure manual for the estimation of average indoor radon-daughter concentrations using the radon grab-sampling method (open access)

Procedure manual for the estimation of average indoor radon-daughter concentrations using the radon grab-sampling method

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Remedial Action and Waste Technology established the Technical Measurements Center to provide standardization, calibration, comparability, verification of data, quality assurance, and cost-effectiveness for the measurement requirements of DOE remedial action programs. One of the remedial-action measurement needs is the estimation of average indoor radon-daughter concentration. One method for accomplishing such estimations in support of DOE remedial action programs is the radon grab-sampling method. This manual describes procedures for radon grab sampling, with the application specifically directed to the estimation of average indoor radon-daughter concentration (RDC) in highly ventilated structures. This particular application of the measurement method is for cases where RDC estimates derived from long-term integrated measurements under occupied conditions are below the standard and where the structure being evaluated is considered to be highly ventilated. The radon grab-sampling method requires that sampling be conducted under standard maximized conditions. Briefly, the procedure for radon grab sampling involves the following steps: selection of sampling and counting equipment; sample acquisition and processing, including data reduction; calibration of equipment, including provisions to correct for pressure effects when sampling at various elevations; and incorporation of quality-control and assurance measures. This manual describes each of the above …
Date: April 1, 1986
Creator: George, J. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Operating manual and design report of a 5000A quench switch for Energy Doubler magnets in experimental area beamlines (open access)

Operating manual and design report of a 5000A quench switch for Energy Doubler magnets in experimental area beamlines

The cryogenic west bend in Proton's enclosure H consists of five 21' Energy Doubler magnets fed from a 5000A power supply via watercooled bus. The stored energy of the magnets will be dumped in a resistor R/sub D/, when S/sub 1/, S/sub 2/, are shut off. Magnet heaters will be fired if S/sub 1/, S/sub 2/, fail to open (dump failure). These heaters are strictly used for backup protection. The interlock flow diagram is shown.
Date: April 1, 1983
Creator: Visser, A.T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Direct use of low temperature geothermal water by Aquafarms International, Inc. for freshwater aquaculture (prawns and associated species). An operations and maintenance manual (open access)

Direct use of low temperature geothermal water by Aquafarms International, Inc. for freshwater aquaculture (prawns and associated species). An operations and maintenance manual

In connection with an ongoing commercial aquaculture project in the Coachella Valley, California; a twelve month prawn growout demonstration project was conducted. This project began in August, 1979 and involved the use of low temperature (85/sup 0/F) geothermal waters to raise freshwater prawns, Macrobrachium rosenbergii (deMan), in earthen ponds. The following publication is an operations and maintenance guide which may by useful for those interested in conducting similar enterprises.
Date: April 1, 1984
Creator: Broughton, R.; Price, M.; Price, V. & Grajcer, D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
User manual for AQUASTOR: a computer model for cost analysis of aquifer thermal-energy storage oupled with district-heating or cooling systems. Volume II. Appendices (open access)

User manual for AQUASTOR: a computer model for cost analysis of aquifer thermal-energy storage oupled with district-heating or cooling systems. Volume II. Appendices

A computer model called AQUASTOR was developed for calculating the cost of district heating (cooling) using thermal energy supplied by an aquifer thermal energy storage (ATES) system. the AQUASTOR Model can simulate ATES district heating systems using stored hot water or ATES district cooling systems using stored chilled water. AQUASTOR simulates the complete ATES district heating (cooling) system, which consists of two prinicpal parts: the ATES supply system and the district heating (cooling) distribution system. The supply system submodel calculates the life-cycle cost of thermal energy supplied to the distribution system by simulating the technical design and cash flows for the exploration, development, and operation of the ATES supply system. The distribution system submodel calculates the life-cycle cost of heat (chill) delivered by the distribution system to the end-users by simulating the technical design and cash flows for the construction and operation of the distribution system. The model combines the technical characteristics of the supply system and the technical characteristics of the distribution system with financial and tax conditions for the entities operating the two systems into one techno-economic model. This provides the flexibility to individually or collectively evaluate the impact of different economic and technical parameters, assumptions, and uncertainties …
Date: April 1, 1982
Creator: Huber, H. D.; Brown, D. R. & Reilly, R. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
User manual for AQUASTOR: a computer model for cost analysis of aquifer thermal energy storage coupled with district heating or cooling systems. Volume I. Main text (open access)

User manual for AQUASTOR: a computer model for cost analysis of aquifer thermal energy storage coupled with district heating or cooling systems. Volume I. Main text

A computer model called AQUASTOR was developed for calculating the cost of district heating (cooling) using thermal energy supplied by an aquifer thermal energy storage (ATES) system. The AQUASTOR model can simulate ATES district heating systems using stored hot water or ATES district cooling systems using stored chilled water. AQUASTOR simulates the complete ATES district heating (cooling) system, which consists of two principal parts: the ATES supply system and the district heating (cooling) distribution system. The supply system submodel calculates the life-cycle cost of thermal energy supplied to the distribution system by simulating the technical design and cash flows for the exploration, development, and operation of the ATES supply system. The distribution system submodel calculates the life-cycle cost of heat (chill) delivered by the distribution system to the end-users by simulating the technical design and cash flows for the construction and operation of the distribution system. The model combines the technical characteristics of the supply system and the technical characteristics of the distribution system with financial and tax conditions for the entities operating the two systems into one techno-economic model. This provides the flexibility to individually or collectively evaluate the impact of different economic and technical parameters, assumptions, and uncertainties …
Date: April 1, 1982
Creator: Huber, H. D.; Brown, D. R. & Reilly, R. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technical specifications for the Bulk Shielding Reactor (open access)

Technical specifications for the Bulk Shielding Reactor

Technical specifications are presented concerning the safety limits and limiting safety system settings; limiting conditions for operation; surveillance requirements; design features; and administrative controls.
Date: April 1, 1982
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technical basis for internal dosimetry at Hanford (open access)

Technical basis for internal dosimetry at Hanford

The Hanford Internal Dosimetry Program, administered by Pacific Northwest Laboratory for the US Department of Energy, provides routine bioassay monitoring for employees who are potentially exposed to radionuclides in the workplace. This report presents the technical basis for routine bioassay monitoring and the assessment of internal dose at Hanford. The radionuclides of concern include tritium, corrosion products (/sup 58/Co, /sup 60/Co, /sup 54/Mn, and /sup 59/Fe), strontium, cesium, iodine, europium, uranium, plutonium, and americium. Sections on each of these radionuclides discuss the sources and characteristics; dosimetry; bioassay measurements and monitoring; dose measurement, assessment, and mitigation; and bioassay follow-up treatment. 64 refs., 42 figs., 118 tabs.
Date: April 1, 1989
Creator: Sula, M.J.; Carbaugh, E.H. & Bihl, D.E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
High flux isotope reactor technical specifications (open access)

High flux isotope reactor technical specifications

Technical specifications are presented concerning safety limits and limiting safety system settings; limiting conditions for operation; surveillance requirements; design features; administrative controls; and accidents and anticipated transients.
Date: April 1, 1982
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
LADTAP II: technical reference and user guide (open access)

LADTAP II: technical reference and user guide

This report describes the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission computer program LADTAP II, which performs environmental dose analyses for releases of radioactive effluents from nuclear power plants into surface waters. The analyses estimate radiation dose to individuals, population groups, and biota from ingestion (aquatic foods, water, and terrestrial irrigated foods) and external exposure (shoreline, swimming, and boating) pathways. The calculated doses provide information for National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) evaluations and for determining compliance with Appendix I of 10 CFR 50 (the ''ALARA'' philosophy). The report also instructs the user in preparing input to the program, describes the mathematical models that are used, and supplies detailed information on program structure and parameters used to modify the program.
Date: April 1, 1986
Creator: Strenge, D.L.; Peloquin, R.A. & Whelan, G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technical evaluation report on the proposed amendment to the technical specifications on the reactor protection system and the engineered safety features actuation system for Ft. Calhoun, Unit No. 1 (open access)

Technical evaluation report on the proposed amendment to the technical specifications on the reactor protection system and the engineered safety features actuation system for Ft. Calhoun, Unit No. 1

This report documents the technical evaluation of the application to amend the Technical Specifications for the Ft. Calhoun Unit No. 1 Nuclear Generating Plant. The review criteria are based on the Technical Specifications of St. Lucie and Calvert Cliffs, IEEE Standards, Combustion Engineering Standard Technical Specifications, and the Code of Federal Regulations. The evaluation compares the submittal made by the licensee with the NRC staff position and the review criteria and presents the reviewer's conclusion on the acceptability of the application to amend the Technical Specifications.
Date: April 9, 1982
Creator: Selan, J.C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library