Community Correspondence - 50 letters from citizens upset by the recommendation to close the Niagara Falls Air Force Reserve and Guard Base

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, county, and state news along with extensive advertising.

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

It has been predicted that world energy demand will soon put enormous pressure on the currently available energy sources. Fusion energy is a potential solution to this problem if it can be controlled and converted into electricity in an economically feasible manner. One type of potential fusion energy plant uses heavy-ion beam drivers for inertial fusion energy. As part of the High Current Experiment (HCX), we seek to understand the injection, transport and focusing of high-current ion beams, by investigating the interactions of background gas and electrons (which can deteriorate the beam quality) with the primary K{sup +} beam. We present here a method of analyzing the electrostatic potential distribution due to the beam space charge within the grounded conducting vacuum pipe. This method enables tracking of ions arising from the ionization of background gas atoms by the incident K{sup +} beam. The beam intensity distribution is obtained from images gathered using a scintillator placed in the beam path. These data are used to calculate the expelled ion energy distribution, which is then compared to data collected from a Retarding Potential Analyzer (RPA). The comparison of the image analysis with RPA measurements is in fair agreement, given model and experimental …

Weekly newspaper from Holliday, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Archer City, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Community Correspondence - Article sent in by an individual: "War Games Seen as 'Message' "

In an extensive molecular dynamics (MD) study of shock compression of aluminum containing such microscopic defects as found in aged plutonium, LLNL scientists have demonstrated that ASC supercomputers live up to their promise as powerful tools to predict aging phenomena in the nuclear stockpile. Although these MD investigations are carried out on material samples containing only about 10 to 40 million atoms, and being not much bigger than a virus particle, they have shown that reliable materials properties and relationships between them can be extracted for density, temperature, pressure, and dynamic strength. This was proven by comparing their predictions with experimental data of the Hugoniot, with dynamic strength inferred from gas-gun experiments, and with the temperatures behind the shock front as calculated with hydro-codes. The effects of microscopic helium bubbles and of radiation-induced dislocation loops and voids on the equation of state were also determined and found to be small and in agreement with earlier theoretical predictions and recent diamond-anvil-cell experiments. However, these microscopic defects play an essential role in correctly predicting the dynamic strength for these nano-crystalline samples. These simulations also prove that the physics involved in shock compression experiments remains the same for macroscopic specimens used in gas-gun …

The purpose of this model report is to provide documentation of the conceptual and mathematical model for atmospheric dispersion and subsequent depositions of ash on the land surfaces from a potential volcano eruptions at Yucca Mountain Nevada.

This report presents average marginal income tax rates by filling status and detailed adjusted gross income(AGI) class for the 2001 tax year.

Base Input - Naval Air Station Pensacola FL - Briefing Slides

Base Input - U.S. Army Garrison-Presidio of Monterrey - CA - Presentation

Base Input - U.S. Army Garrison-Presidio of Montery - Executive Summary, Organizational Profile, Command Brief, BOS Structure, and Information Papers

Base Visit Trip Report - Former NAS Cecil Field - 2nd Visit - 8/19/05

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We have received CDAC allotments of beam time at HPCAT that were used to carryout investigations that included angle-dispersive x-ray diffraction of beryllium at high pressures and inelastic x-ray scattering (x-ray Raman) of high pressure phases of water. These CDAC beam time allotments have permitted us to broaden and supplement the scope of our research. The beam time has also been used in experiments that had graduate student participants (Z Jenei and A Lazicki) and thus the experiments also incorporated a component of training and education. Water (H{sub 2}O) is a major constituent of terrestrial systems, and furthering our understanding of this ubiquitous system and hydrogen bonding structures impacts a broad range of systems; including geophysics, life sciences, the environment and technology development. Our inelastic x-ray scattering studies (x-ray Raman spectroscopy) of high-pressure phases of water and ice are aimed at addressing controversies regarding the high-pressure structure of water. Using the inelastic x-ray scattering system at HPCAT we have measured x-ray Raman spectra of water at 1 and 17 GPa. X-Ray Raman is a relatively new technique that provides data that is equivalent to x-ray absorption, but utilizes a hard x-ray to avoid short absorption lengths and surface effects to …

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Congress has required the administration to report annually on federal spending on climate change. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) reports funding in four categories: technology (to reduce greenhouse gas emissions), science (to better understand the climate), international assistance (to help developing countries), and tax expenditures (to encourage reductions in emissions). The Climate Change Science Program (CCSP), which coordinates many agencies' activities, reports only on science. To measure funding, OMB and CCSP use budget authority, the authority provided in law to enter into financial obligations that will result in government outlays. GAO was asked to examine federal climate change funding for 1993 through 2004, as reported by both agencies, including (1) how total funding and funding by category changed and whether funding data are comparable over time and (2) how funding by agency changed and whether funding data are comparable over time."

Coalition Correspondence – Letter dtd 08/22/2005 to Chairman Principi from Ronald Merritt, President DeTect, Inc. regarding safety issues at NAS Oceana and NAS Cecil Field.

Coalition Correspondence – Letter dtd 08/23/05 to Chairman Principi from Rhett Flater, Executive Director of AHS International—The Vertical Flight Society, stating that the Technical Cross Service Group’s response to the Commission on 07/25/05 relating to several of the Commission’s questions on the proposed relocation of the NASA Glenn based Army researchers is misleading and not based on fact. Mr. Flater discusses these issues in detail.

Coalition Correspondence - Letter from Frederick R. Nance, Chairman of Cleveland Defense Industry Alliance in regards to DFAS Cleveland

Coalition Correspondence - Letter from Rhett Flater, Executive Director of AHS International, The Vertical Flight Society, in regards to the relocation of Army Research Laboratory Personnel from NASA Glenn and NASA Langley Research Centers to Aberdeen Proving Ground

Weekly newspaper from Comanche, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Community Correspondence – 300+ signatures supporting DFAS Cleveland