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Community Briefing - General - Idaho - Bureau of Homeland Security

Purpose and scope: The purpose of the study was to determine whether a thin layer of volcanic ash measurably affects aquatic environments. Study objectives were to: (1) Determine the amount of ash initially deposited in Big Creek basin and the amount remaining 1 year after the eruption, and (2) describe the impact of ash on water quality and benthic invertebrate communities.

The geothermal resource of southern Idaho as assessed by the U.S. Geological Survey in 1978 is large. Most of the known hydrothermal systems in southern Idaho have calculated reservoir temperatures of less than 150 C. Water from many of these systems is valuable for direct heat applications. A majority of the known and inferred geothermal resources of southern Idaho underlie the Snake River Plain. However, major uncertainties exist concerning the geology and temperatures beneath the plain. The largest hydrothermal system in Idaho is in the Bruneau-Grang View area of the western Snake River Plain with a calculated reservoir temperature of 107 C and an energy of 4.5 x 10 to the 20th power joules. No evidence of higher temperature water associated with this system was found. Although the geology of the eastern Snake River Plain suggests that a large thermal anomaly may underlie this area of the plain, direct evidence of high temperatures was not found. Large volumes of water at temperatures between 90 and 150 C probably exist along the margins of the Snake River Plain and in local areas north and south of the plain.

Report describing four different methods of measuring the total radially averaged fission energy deposited in PBF (Power Burst Facility) fuel rods, as well as a summary evaluation of each method.

Report presenting the results of nondestructive and destructive examinations of four fuel rods from Test RIA 1-2.

Report detailing the computer code used to calculate the cladding temperatures (WIZARD code) from the observed oxidation of the cladding for Test RIA 1-2.

This report presents and discusses the results from the Reactivity Initiated Accident Test RIA1-2 conducted in the Power Burst Facility at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory.

Report listing the table of contents for appendices and figures included with the report: "Reactivity Initiated Accident Test Series Test RIA 1-2 Fuel Behavior Report'

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of 75 independent truckers who spent the night at two truck stops to drive into Washington to protest fuel prices. Most of the pacific northwest returned to normal after a week of flooding.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Photograph of Gerald and Carol Hatch on their wedding day, posing on the stairs outside a building, which is partially visible behind them. Carol is wearing a white dress and Gerald is wearing a dark colored suit and they are hugging one another. An unidentified person's face is visible at the left side of the image, walking in front of the camera.

From abstract: The Garm-Lamoreaux property, Lemhi County, Idaho is known to have uraninite and zippeite on two of its dumps. The property has been explored by five adits, two of which are now caved, and one of which is partly caved. The country rock is schistose micaceous quartzite and argillaceous quartzite of Belt age. An east-west fault cuts the quartzite, and the Lamoreaux vein, a gold-sulfide-quartz veins occurs in the fault. The uranium minerals are believed to have core from the vein, on the now inaccessible No. 3 level.

From abstract: Uranium-bearing carbonaceous shale and lignite beds are exposed in the Goose Creek district of southern Cassia County, Idaho. The district includes about 150 square miles in Tps. 14 to 16 So, Rs, 20 to 22 E., Boise meridian.

From introduction: The Bear Valley district is situated in southwestern Idaho, in the drainage of the Middle Fork of the Salmon River (see fig. 1). The placer deposits were drilled by the U. S. Bureau of Mines in 1951 and 1952 to determine their content of monazite and "radioactive black minerals" (here referred to loosely as "radioactive blacks"). The purpose of the study outlined here was to provide a geologic background for an understanding of the origin and distribution of the placer minerals.

Abstract: A radiometric reconnaissance, using a portable beta-gamma survey meter, of some geologic formations ranging in age from Cambrian to Cretaceous, and springs in southeastern Idaho, western Wyoming, and northern Utah, has shown that none of them are sufficiently radioactive to warrant further examination of them in the area.

Report discussing investigation of the relation of uranium and phosphate in the Phosphoria formation and its close stratigraphic equivalents.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

A photograph print showing the Spokane International (SI) 21, 2-8-0, standing at the Sandpoint water tank, Sandpoint, ID. (Note: SI has 3 engines of this class: #21, 23, 25)

A photograph print showing the Spokane International (SI) 101, 4-6-0, standing at the Sandpoint water tank, Sandpoint, ID. (Note: SI originally had 4 engines of this class: #101, 102, 103, & 104)

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on energy consumption in the western United States. A focus on coal as the primary energy source is presented. This report includes tables, graphs, maps, and illustrations.