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[Letter from James J. Muro to Val Wilkie, Jr., September 10, 1987] (open access)

[Letter from James J. Muro to Val Wilkie, Jr., September 10, 1987]

Letter from James J. Muro to Val Wilkie of the Sid W. Richardson Foundation, on September 10, 1987, requesting a grant of $100,000 to be used to open the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science. A short summary of the concept of the Academy is included.
Date: September 10, 1987
Creator: Muro, James J.
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from James R. Miller to Orbry Holden, February 10, 1987] (open access)

[Letter from James R. Miller to Orbry Holden, February 10, 1987]

Letter from James R. Miller to Orbry Holden, on February 10, 1987, sending Holden a proposal for the Academy of Mathematics and Science, with a budget. The proposal, the original concept paper, and budgets are included.
Date: February 10, 1987
Creator: Miller, James R.
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Understanding and accepting fusion as an alternative energy source (open access)

Understanding and accepting fusion as an alternative energy source

Fusion, the process that powers our sun, has long promised to be a virtually inexhaustible source of energy for mankind. No other alternative energy source holds such bright promise, and none has ever presentd such formidable scientific and engineering challenges. Serious research efforts have continued for over 30 years in an attempt to harness and control fusion here on earth. Scientists have made considerable progress in the last decade toward achieving the conditions required for fusion power, and recent experimental results and technological progress have made the scientific feasibility of fusion a virtual certainty. With this knowledge and confidence, the emphasis can now shift toward developing power plants that are practical and economical. Although the necessary technology is not in hand today, the extension to an energy producing system in 20 years is just as attainable as was putting a man on the moon. In the next few decades, the world's population will likely double while the demand for energy will nearly quadruple. Realistic projections show that within the next generation a significant fraction of our electric power must come from alternative energy sources. Increasing environmental concerns may further accelerate this timetable in which new energy sources must be introduced. …
Date: December 10, 1987
Creator: Goerz, D.A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from James J. Muro to Val Wilkie, September 10, 1987] (open access)

[Letter from James J. Muro to Val Wilkie, September 10, 1987]

Photocopy of a letter from James J. Muro, Vice President for Development, Office of Advancement, North Texas State University to Val Wilkie of the Sid W. Richardson Foundation. The letter is in regards to Wilkie, Muro and Rogers Redding discussing the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science and the request for financial assistance from the Sid W. Richardson Foundation for $100,000 to be used for the expenditures associated with the Academy. The money will be used to increase the supply of talented scientists, engineers, and mathematicians. Attached to the letter is the introduction to The Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science at North Texas State University.
Date: September 10, 1987
Creator: Muro, James J.
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from James J. Muro to Val Wilkie, September 10, 1987] (open access)

[Letter from James J. Muro to Val Wilkie, September 10, 1987]

Photocopy of a letter from James J. Muro, Vice President for Development, Office of Advancement, North Texas State University to Val Wilkie of the Sid W. Richardson Foundation. The letter is in regards to Wilkie, Muro and Rogers Redding discussing the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science and the request for financial assistance from the Sid W. Richardson Foundation for $100,000 to be used for the expenditures associated with the Academy. The money will be used to increase the supply of talented scientists, engineers, and mathematicians. Attached to the letter is the introduction to The Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science at North Texas State University.
Date: September 10, 1987
Creator: Muro, James J.
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Minutes: Math & Science Academy Committee, June 10, 1987] (open access)

[Minutes: Math & Science Academy Committee, June 10, 1987]

Handwritten committee meeting minutes related to the creation of the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science.
Date: June 10, 1987
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 10, 1987 (open access)

The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 10, 1987

Weekly newspaper from Canadian, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 10, 1987
Creator: Ezzell, Ben & Ezzell, Nancy
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 10, 1987 (open access)

The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 10, 1987

Weekly newspaper from Canadian, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 10, 1987
Creator: Ezzell, Ben & Ezzell, Nancy
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 10, 1987 (open access)

The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 10, 1987

Weekly newspaper from Tulia, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 10, 1987
Creator: Tooley, Wendell
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 10, 1987 (open access)

The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 10, 1987

Weekly newspaper from Tulia, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 10, 1987
Creator: Tooley, Wendell
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 10, 1987 (open access)

The North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 10, 1987

Daily student newspaper from North Texas State University in Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: September 10, 1987
Creator: Dowlearn, Laura
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Actinide removal from aqueous solution with activated magnetite (open access)

Actinide removal from aqueous solution with activated magnetite

An actinide aqueous waste treatment process using activated magnetite has been developed at Rocky Flats. The use and effectiveness of various magnetites in lowering actinide concentrations in aqueous solution are described. Experiments indicate that magnetite particle size and pretreatment (activation of the magnetite surface with hydroxyl ions greatly influence the effective use of magnetite as an actinide adsorbent. With respect to actinide removal, Ba(OH)/sub 2/-activated magnetite was more effective over a broader pH range than was NaOH-activated magnetite. About 50% less Ba(OH)/sub 2/-activated magnetite was required to lower plutonium concentration from 10/sup -4/ to 10/sup -8/ g/l. 7 refs., 8 tabs.
Date: August 10, 1987
Creator: Kochen, R.L. & Thomas, R.L. (ed.)
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Magnetic mirror fusion systems: Characteristics and distinctive features (open access)

Magnetic mirror fusion systems: Characteristics and distinctive features

A tutorial account is given of the main characteristics and distinctive features of conceptual magnetic fusion systems employing the magnetic mirror principle. These features are related to the potential advantages that mirror-based fusion systems may exhibit for the generation of economic fusion power.
Date: August 10, 1987
Creator: Post, Richard F.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Bogata News (Bogata, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 10, 1987 (open access)

The Bogata News (Bogata, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 10, 1987

Weekly newspaper from Bogata, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 10, 1987
Creator: Nichols, Nanalee & Nichols, Thomas
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Bogata News (Bogata, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 10, 1987 (open access)

The Bogata News (Bogata, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 10, 1987

Weekly newspaper from Bogata, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 10, 1987
Creator: Nichols, Nanalee & Nichols, Thomas
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
VFI: VME/FASTBUS Interface routines (open access)

VFI: VME/FASTBUS Interface routines

This documents describes the VME/FASTBUS Interface routines (VFI). These routines where designed to enable programs written in PILS running on a MVME 101 under Valet-plus to control a VME/FASTBUS Interface. The routines fall into two general types, control and transaction. The control routines, such as vmec-reset, work directly with the interface's registers. These routines set up and monitor operations between VME and FASTBUS. The transaction routines, such as vfi-write-dat, use the control routines to carry out complete functions on FASTBUS. Most FASTBUS operations are implemented except for the compound routines and some low level routines. This document is divided into seven sections, the first is the introduction. The remaining sections detail the interface's registers, the structure of operation codes, polling and interrupts, status reporting, the control routines, and the transaction routines.
Date: September 10, 1987
Creator: Alleva, D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Summary of the report of the Senior Committee on Environmental, Safety, and Economic Aspects of Magnetic Fusion Energy (open access)

Summary of the report of the Senior Committee on Environmental, Safety, and Economic Aspects of Magnetic Fusion Energy

The Senior Committee on Environmental, Safety, and Economic Aspects of Magnetic Fusion Energy (ESECOM) has assessed magnetic fusion energy's prospects for providing energy with economic, environmental, and safety characteristics that would be attractive compared with other energy sources (mainly fission) available in the year 2015 and beyond. ESECOM gives particular attention to the interaction of environmental, safety, and economic characteristics of a variety of magnetic fusion reactors, and compares them with a variety of fission cases. Eight fusion cases, two fusion-fission hybrid cases, and four fission cases are examined, using consistent economic and safety models. These models permit exploration of the environmental, safety, and economic potential of fusion concepts using a wide range of possible materials choices, power densities, power conversion schemes, and fuel cycles. The ESECOM analysis indicates that magnetic fusion energy systems have the potential to achieve costs-of-electricity comparable to those of present and future fission systems, coupled with significant safety and environmental advantages. 75 refs., 2 figs., 24 tabs.
Date: September 10, 1987
Creator: Holdren, J. P.; Berwald, D. H.; Budnitz, R. J.; Crocker, J. G.; Delene, J. G.; Endicott, R. D. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Theory of multiphoton ionization of atoms by strong, short pulsed lasers (open access)

Theory of multiphoton ionization of atoms by strong, short pulsed lasers

A numerical technique for investigating the behavior of many electron atoms in intense laser fields is presented. A description of the method is followed by results of an illustrative, application to helium for a number of wavelengths and intensities. A discussion of high order ionization dynamics for this system based on these calculations is provided. 10 refs.
Date: July 10, 1987
Creator: Kulander, K.C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geothermal programs at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (open access)

Geothermal programs at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has a number of geothermal programs supported through two offices in the Department of Energy: the Office of Renewable Technologies, Geothermal Technologies Division, and the Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Engineering, Mathematics and Geosciences. Within these programs, we are carrying out research in injection monitoring, optical instrumentation for geothermal wells, seismic imaging methods, geophysical and drilling investigations of young volcanic systems in California, and fundamental studies of the rock and mineral properties.
Date: July 10, 1987
Creator: Kasameyer, P.W. & Younker, L.W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
High resolution seismic attenuation tomography at Medicine Lake Volcano, California (open access)

High resolution seismic attenuation tomography at Medicine Lake Volcano, California

Medicine Lake Volcano, a broad shield volcano about 50km east of Mount Shasta in northern California, produced rhylotic eruptions as recently as 400 years ago. Because of this recent activity it is of considerable interest to producers of geothermal energy. In a joint project sponsored by the Geothermal Research Program of the USGS and the Division of Geothermal and Hydropower Division of the US-DOE, the USGS and LLNL conducted an active seismic experiment designed to explore the area beneath and around the caldera. The experiment of eight explosions detonated in a 50 km radius circle around the volcano recorded on a 11 x 15 km grid of 140 seismographs. The travel time data from the experiment have been inverted for structure and are presented elsewhere in this volume. In this paper we present the results of an inversion for 1/Q structure using t* data in a modified Aki inversion scheme. Although the data are noisy, we find that in general attenuative zones correlate with low velocity zones. In particular, we observe a high 1/Q zone roughly in the center of the caldera at 4 km depth in between two large recent dacite flows. This zone could represent the still molten …
Date: July 10, 1987
Creator: Zucca, J. J. & Kasameyer, P. W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
ATF experimental plans (open access)

ATF experimental plans

The Program is directed at better understanding and improvement of toroidal confinement through studies of: ..beta.. limit; 2nd stability region; low nu* transport; role of E-field; effects of magnetic configurations (externally controlled) on ..beta.. and transport; and issues critical to steady state operation (energy and particle handling, ICRF).
Date: November 10, 1987
Creator: Murakami, M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of fiber optics sensors for temperature measurement and chemical analysis in geothermal wells (open access)

Development of fiber optics sensors for temperature measurement and chemical analysis in geothermal wells

In this paper the results of research on high temperature optical fiber sensors will be presented. We have shown that these sensors (optrodes) can be made to work in very high temperature water for long periods and that it is possible to measure pH using fluorescent inorganic ions doped into solid matrices. A high temperature pH optrode can be made using these techniques, however, more research is needed into the chemistry of the carrier matrices and fluorescent dopants.
Date: July 10, 1987
Creator: Angel, S.M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Smoke clearing by high energy laser beams (open access)

Smoke clearing by high energy laser beams

We describe the clearing phenomenon that occurs when a continuous wave (CW) high energy laser beam, incident upon a cloud of hygroscopic droplets, vaporizes these droplets. We consider the case when the incident wavelength is greater than the average droplet radius. Williams' model is used to describe the vaporization of a single droplet. The propagation of the laser beam is described by the radiative transfer equation in a slab geometry. The radiative transfer equation is solved using the method of successive orders of scattering.
Date: April 10, 1987
Creator: Chitanvis, S.M.; Gerstl, S.A.W. & Zardecki, A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tactical Vulnerability Assessment Training Program (open access)

Tactical Vulnerability Assessment Training Program

The Department of Energy sponsors a 9-day training program for individual who are responsible for evaluating and planning safeguards systems and for preparing DOE Master and Security Agreements (MSSAs). These agreements between DOE headquarters and operations offices establish required levels of protection. The curriculum includes: (1) the nature of potential insider and outsider threats involving theft or diversion of special nuclear material, (2) use of computerized tools for evaluating the effectiveness of physical protection and material control and acoountability systems, and (3) methods for analyzing the benefits and costs of safeguards improvements and for setting priorities among proposed upgrades. The training program is varied and highly interactive. Presentations are intermixed with class discussions and ''hands-on'' analysis using computer tools. At the end of the program, participants demonstrate what they have learned in a two-and-one-half day ''field excercise,'' which is conducted on a facility scale-model. The training programs has been conducted six times and has been attended by representatives of all DOE facilities. Additional sessions are planned at four-month intervals. This paper describes the training program, use of the tools in preparing MSSAs for various DOE sites, and recent extensions and refinements of the evaluation tools.
Date: July 10, 1987
Creator: Al-Ayat, R. A.; Judd, B. R.; Renis, T. A.; Paulus, W. K.; Winblad, A. E. & Graves, B. R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library