Coal Reserves Data Base report. Final report on the Demonstrated Reserve Base (DRB) of coal in Wyoming (open access)

Coal Reserves Data Base report. Final report on the Demonstrated Reserve Base (DRB) of coal in Wyoming

The Coal Reserves Data Base (CRDB) Program is a cooperative data base development program sponsored by the Energy Information Administration (EIA). The objective of the CRDB Program is to involve knowledgeable coal resource authorities from the major coal-bearing regions in EIA`s effort to update the Nation`s coal reserves data. This report describes one of two prototype studies to update State-level reserve estimates. The CRDB data are intended for use in coal supply analyses and to support analyses of policy and legislative issues. They will be available to both Government and non-Government analysts. The data also will be part of the information used to supply United States energy data for international data bases and for inquiries from private industry and the public. (VC)
Date: December 5, 1991
Creator: Jones, R. W. & Glass, G. B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Heavy fermions and other highly correlated electron systems (open access)

Heavy fermions and other highly correlated electron systems

In this paper I given a brief summary of the achievements grouped under three main headings, namely (1) heavy-fermion, mixed-valence and Kondo systems, (2) the n-channel Kondo problem and applications, and (3) one-dimensional conductors and antiferromagnets. The list of published papers and preprints is attached to the report, as well as a list of abstracts submitted to Conferences. All these papers are new in the sense that none of them was listed in the final technical report of grant DE-FG02-87ER45333.
Date: December 5, 1991
Creator: Schlottmann, P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Heavy fermions and other highly correlated electron systems. Technical progress report, March 15, 1991--March 14, 1992 (open access)

Heavy fermions and other highly correlated electron systems. Technical progress report, March 15, 1991--March 14, 1992

In this paper I given a brief summary of the achievements grouped under three main headings, namely (1) heavy-fermion, mixed-valence and Kondo systems, (2) the n-channel Kondo problem and applications, and (3) one-dimensional conductors and antiferromagnets. The list of published papers and preprints is attached to the report, as well as a list of abstracts submitted to Conferences. All these papers are new in the sense that none of them was listed in the final technical report of grant DE-FG02-87ER45333.
Date: December 5, 1991
Creator: Schlottmann, P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Radioecological implications of the Par Pond drawdown (open access)

Radioecological implications of the Par Pond drawdown

The drawdown of the Par Pond reservoir created dramatic alterations in this formerly stable lentic ecosystem. In addition, the radiation environment at Par Pond has changed significantly because of the exposure of Cesium 137-contaminated sediments and the appearance of new transport pathways to the terrestrial environment. In response to this situation, SREL was asked to study the radioecological implications of the reservoir drawdown. This report contains the objectives, methods, and results of the SREL study.
Date: December 5, 1991
Creator: Hickey, H. & Whicker, F. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reactor Operations Management Plan (open access)

Reactor Operations Management Plan

The K-Reactor last operated in April 1988. At that time, K-Reactor was one of three operating reactors at the Savannah River Site (SRS). Following an incident in P-Reactor in August 1988, it was decided to discontinue SRS reactor operation and conduct an extensive program to upgrade operating practices and plant hardware prior to restart of any of the reactors. The K-reactor was the first of three reactors scheduled to resume production. At the present time, it is the only reactor with planned restart. WSRC assumed management of SRS on April 1, 1989. WSRC established the Safety Basis for Restart and a listing of the actions planned to satisfy the Safety Basis. In consultation with DOE, it was determined that proper management of the restart activities would require a single plan that integrated the numerous activities. The plan was entitled the Reactor Operations Management Plan and is referred to simply as the ROMP. The initial version of ROMP was produced in July of 1989. Subsequent modifications led to Revision 3 which was approved by DOE in May, 1990. Other changes were made in a formal change process, resulting in the latest version, Revision 5, being issued in October, 1990. The ROMP …
Date: December 5, 1991
Creator: Rice, P.D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Star-disk collisions in active galactic nuclei and the origin of the broad line region (open access)

Star-disk collisions in active galactic nuclei and the origin of the broad line region

Stars of a cluster surrounding the central black hole in an AGN will collide with the accretion disk. For a central black hole of 10{sup 8} M{circle dot} and a cluster with 10{sup 7} {minus} 10{sup 8} stars within a parsec, one estimates that {approximately}10{sup 4} such collisions will occur per year. Collisions are hypersonic (Mach number M {much gt} 1). Some of the wake of the star -- the disk material shocked by its passage -- will follow it out of the disk. Such star tails'' with the estimated masses {delta}m {approximately} 10{sup 25} {minus} 10{sup 27} g subsequently expand, cool and begin to recombine. We propose that -- when illuminated by the ionizing flux from the central source -- they are likely to be the origin of the observed broad emission lines.
Date: December 5, 1991
Creator: Zurek, W.H.; Colgate, S.A. (Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)) & Siemiginowska, A. (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA (United States))
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Star-disk collisions in active galactic nuclei and the origin of the broad line region (open access)

Star-disk collisions in active galactic nuclei and the origin of the broad line region

Stars of a cluster surrounding the central black hole in an AGN will collide with the accretion disk. For a central black hole of 10{sup 8} M{circle_dot} and a cluster with 10{sup 7} {minus} 10{sup 8} stars within a parsec, one estimates that {approximately}10{sup 4} such collisions will occur per year. Collisions are hypersonic (Mach number M {much_gt} 1). Some of the wake of the star -- the disk material shocked by its passage -- will follow it out of the disk. Such ``star tails`` with the estimated masses {delta}m {approximately} 10{sup 25} {minus} 10{sup 27} g subsequently expand, cool and begin to recombine. We propose that -- when illuminated by the ionizing flux from the central source -- they are likely to be the origin of the observed broad emission lines.
Date: December 5, 1991
Creator: Zurek, W. H.; Colgate, S. A. & Siemiginowska, A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Summary of the Exploratory Studies Facility Alternatives Study; Draft (open access)

Summary of the Exploratory Studies Facility Alternatives Study; Draft

This paper presents a summary of the conduct and findings of the Exploratory Studies Facility Alternatives Study (ESF-AS). The Exploratory Studies Facility (ESF) is being planned for use in the characterization of a site for a potential high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, NV. The purpose of the ESF-AS were to identify and rank order ESF-repository options and to improve understanding of the favorable or unfavorable features of the ESF design. The analysis resulted in the ranking of 34 options, in accordance with the extent to which each option could achieve the objectives. Additional findings regarding design features that were identified as key elements in an option`s ability to provide good overall performance are also discussed.
Date: December 5, 1991
Creator: Costin, L.S.; Dennis, A.W. & Stevens, A.L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library