324 Building radiochemical engineering cells, high-level vault, low-level vault, and associated areas closure plan (open access)

324 Building radiochemical engineering cells, high-level vault, low-level vault, and associated areas closure plan

The Hanford Site, located adjacent to and north of Richland, Washington, is operated by the US Department of Energy, Richland Operations Office (RL). The 324 Building is located in the 300 Area of the Hanford Site. The 324 Building was constructed in the 1960s to support materials and chemical process research and development activities ranging from laboratory/bench-scale studies to full engineering-scale pilot plant demonstrations. In the mid-1990s, it was determined that dangerous waste and waste residues were being stored for greater than 90 days in the 324 Building Radiochemical Engineering Cells (REC) and in the High-Level Vault/Low-Level Vault (HLV/LLV) tanks. [These areas are not Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (RCRA) permitted portions of the 324 Building.] Through the Hanford Federal Facility Agreement and Consent Order (Tri-Party Agreement) Milestone M-89, agreement was reached to close the nonpermitted RCRA unit in the 324 Building. This closure plan, managed under TPA Milestone M-20-55, addresses the identified building areas targeted by the Tri-Party Agreement and provides commitments to achieve the highest degree of compliance practicable, given the special technical difficulties of managing mixed waste that contains high-activity radioactive materials, and the physical limitations of working remotely in the areas within the subject …
Date: March 25, 1998
Creator: Barnett, J. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
1999 Report on Hanford Site land disposal restriction for mixed waste (open access)

1999 Report on Hanford Site land disposal restriction for mixed waste

This report was submitted to meet the requirements of Hanford Federal Facility Agreement and Consent Order (Tri-Party Agreement) Milestone M-26-011. This milestone requires the preparation of an annual report that covers characterization, treatment, storage, minimization, and other aspects of managing land-disposal-restricted mixed waste at the Hanford Facility.
Date: March 25, 1999
Creator: Black, D. G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2010 Census: Data Collection Is Under Way, but Reliability of Key Information Technology Systems Remains a Risk (open access)

2010 Census: Data Collection Is Under Way, but Reliability of Key Information Technology Systems Remains a Risk

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In March 2008, GAO designated the 2010 Census a high-risk area in part because of information technology (IT) shortcomings and uncertainty over the ultimate cost of the census, now estimated at around $15 billion. The U.S. Census Bureau (Bureau) has since made improvements to various IT systems and taken other steps to mitigate the risks to a successful census. However, last year, GAO noted that a number of challenges and uncertainties remained, and much work remained to be completed under very tight time frames. As requested, this testimony provides an update on the Bureau's readiness for an effective headcount, covering (1) the reliability of key IT systems; (2) a broad range of activities critical to an effective headcount, some of which were problematic in either earlier 2010 operations or in the 2000 Census, and (3) the quality of the Bureau's cost estimates. The testimony is based on previously issued and ongoing GAO work."
Date: March 25, 2010
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ab initio calculations of the charge state of stopping in a finite-temperature target (open access)

Ab initio calculations of the charge state of stopping in a finite-temperature target

A calculation was made of the time dependent charge state of a heavy projectile traversing a finite-temperature target. The calculation uses an average-atom model to integrate the rate equations.
Date: March 25, 1982
Creator: Bailey, D.; Lee, Y. T. & More, R. M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accelerator Based Continuous Neutron Source. (open access)

Accelerator Based Continuous Neutron Source.

Until the last decade, most neutron experiments have been performed at steady-state, reactor-based sources. Recently, however, pulsed spallation sources have been shown to be very useful in a wide range of neutron studies. A major review of neutron sources in the US was conducted by a committee chaired by Nobel laureate Prof. W. Kohn: ''Neutron Sources for America's Future-BESAC Panel on Neutron Sources 1/93''. This distinguished panel concluded that steady state and pulsed sources are complementary and that the nation has need for both to maintain a balanced neutron research program. The report recommended that both a new reactor and a spallation source be built. This complementarity is recognized worldwide. The conclusion of this report is that a new continuous neutron source is needed for the second decade of the 20 year plan to replace aging US research reactors and close the US neutron gap. it is based on spallation production of neutrons using a high power continuous superconducting linac to generate protons impinging on a heavy metal target. There do not appear to be any major technical challenges to the building of such a facility since a continuous spallation source has been operating in Switzerland for several years.
Date: March 25, 2003
Creator: Shapiro, S. M.; Ruggiero, A. G. & Ludewig, H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accurate Computer Simulation of a Drift Chamber (open access)

Accurate Computer Simulation of a Drift Chamber

A general purpose program for drift chamber studies is described. First the capacitance matrix is calculated using a Green's function technique. The matrix is used in a linear-least-squares fit to choose optimal operating voltages. Next the electric field is computed, and given knowledge of gas parameters and magnetic field environment, a family of electron trajectories is determined. These are finally used to make drift distance vs time curves which may be used directly by a track reconstruction program. Results are compared with data obtained from the cylindrical chamber in the Axial Field Magnet experiment at the CERN ISR.
Date: March 25, 1980
Creator: Killian, T J
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adiabatic surface thermometer for improved production braze quality (open access)

Adiabatic surface thermometer for improved production braze quality

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Date: March 25, 1975
Creator: Dittbenner, G.R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adult Education and Family Literacy Act, Title II of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, P.L. 105-220 (open access)

Adult Education and Family Literacy Act, Title II of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, P.L. 105-220

This report is concerned with the federal adult education and literacy programs authorized by the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA). The report covers funding and spending in the program and how it is budgeted. The report also discusses the consequences of the AEFLA repealing the Adult Education Act (AEA) but continuing some of the programs that were under it.
Date: March 25, 1999
Creator: Irwin, Paul M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Advanced Spectroscopic Portal Program: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

The Advanced Spectroscopic Portal Program: Background and Issues for Congress

This report provides an overview of the Advanced Spectroscopic Portal (ASP) program's history and outlines issues for Congress as the program moves forward. The ASP is an improved type of radiation detection device, meant to serve as part of new and existing programs to protect against terrorist nuclear or radiological attack.
Date: March 25, 2009
Creator: Shea, Dana A.; Moteff, John D. & Morgan, Daniel
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aerogels for microelectronic applications: Fast, inexpensive, and light as air (open access)

Aerogels for microelectronic applications: Fast, inexpensive, and light as air

Silica aerogel consists of bonded silicon and oxygen joined into log strands, which are randomly linked together with pockets of air between them. Discovered in the 1930s, the material was thought to have little use outside of theoretical science. However, with the advent of greatly improved processing techniques, such as those developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, aerogels are on the verge of commercialization. This document describes the need for aerogels in the high-speed microelectronics industry, and state of the art processing techniques. Collaboration is welcomed in the endeavor.
Date: March 25, 1993
Creator: Contolini, R. J.; Hrubesh, L. W. & Bernhardt, A. F.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aeroplane. (open access)

Aeroplane.

Patent for an improved rotary airplane engine patterned after the Gnome type with extra blades attached to the engine cylinders.
Date: March 25, 1913
Creator: Decker, Harry R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Afghanistan Casualties: Military Forces and Civilians (open access)

Afghanistan Casualties: Military Forces and Civilians

This report collects statistics from a variety of sources on casualties sustained during Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), which began on October 7, 2001. OEF actions took place primarily in Afghanistan; however, OEF casualties also includes American casualties in Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Guantanamo Bay (Cuba), Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, the Philippines, Seychelles, Sudan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Yemen.
Date: March 25, 2010
Creator: Chesser, Susan G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Afghanistan: Politics, Elections, and Government Performance (open access)

Afghanistan: Politics, Elections, and Government Performance

This report discusses the current political state of Afghanistan, and the Afghan government. It also discusses Afghanistan's relationship with the United States, particularly U.S. efforts to urge President Hamid Karzai to address corruption within the Afghan government.
Date: March 25, 2014
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Afghanistan: Post-Taliban Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy (open access)

Afghanistan: Post-Taliban Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy

This report discusses the current political state of Iran, focusing particularly on the influence of the Taliban and other militant groups and on the leadership of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. This report also discusses the U.S.-Iran relationship and U.S. efforts under the Obama Administration to provide military, reconstructive, and stabilization aid.
Date: March 25, 2010
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy (open access)

Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy

The United States and its allies are helping Afghanistan emerging from more than 22 years of warfare, although substantial risk to Afghan stability remains. Before the U.S. military campaign against the orthodox Islamist Taliban movement began on October 7, 2001, Afghanistan had been mired in conflict since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. The defeat of the Taliban has enabled the United States and its coalition partners to send forces throughout Afghanistan to search for Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters and leaders that remain at large, including Osama bin Laden. As the war against remaining Al Qaeda and Taliban elements winds down, the United States is shifting its military focus toward stabilizing the interim government, including training a new Afghan national army, and supporting the international security force (ISAF) that is helping the new government provide security.
Date: March 25, 2004
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aging and Radiation Effects in Stockpile Electronics (open access)

Aging and Radiation Effects in Stockpile Electronics

It is likely that aging is affecting the radiation hardness of stockpile electronics, and we have seen apparent examples of aging that affects the electronic radiation hardness. It is also possible that low-level intrinsic radiation that is inherent during stockpile life will damage or in a sense age electronic components. Both aging and low level radiation effects on radiation hardness and stockpile reliability need to be further investigated by using both test and modeling strategies that include appropriate testing of electronic components withdrawn from the stockpile.
Date: March 25, 1999
Creator: Hartman, E. F.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aging Infrastructure: Dam Safety (open access)

Aging Infrastructure: Dam Safety

To help inform discussions on the federal role in dam safety, this report provides background information on the nation’s dam safety activities and funding mechanisms.
Date: March 25, 2008
Creator: Lane, Nic
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Agricultural Conservation: A Guide to Programs (open access)

Agricultural Conservation: A Guide to Programs

This report provides a listing of federal agricultural conservation assistance programs. Each listing includes a brief description of the program, information on major amendments in the Agricultural Act of 2014 (P.L. 113-79, 2014 farm bill), national scope and availability, states with the greatest participation, the backlog of applications or other measures of continuing interest, program funding authority, FY2018 funding, FY2019 Administration budget request, statutory authority, the authorization expiration date, and a link to the program's website.
Date: March 25, 2010
Creator: Stubbs, Megan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Air Quality: Multi-Pollutant Legislation in the 109th Congress (open access)

Air Quality: Multi-Pollutant Legislation in the 109th Congress

This report discusses air pollutants (petroleum, natural gas, and coal), which account for about two-thirds of U.S. electricity generation. These gases include several pollutants that directly pose risks to human health and welfare. The report also discusses the utilities that are subject to an array of environmental regulations.
Date: March 25, 2005
Creator: Parker, Larry & Blodgett, John E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Air Traffic Control: Observations on FAA's Air Traffic Control Modernization Program (open access)

Air Traffic Control: Observations on FAA's Air Traffic Control Modernization Program

A statement of record issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Air Traffic Control Modernization Program, focusing on: (1) the causes of the problems that have plagued FAA's modernization program for nearly two decades; (2) recent agency efforts to overcome these problems; and (3) the readiness of FAA and others to meet year 2000 requirements."
Date: March 25, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Anal Speculum. (open access)

Anal Speculum.

Patent for a new and improved anal speculum. This design is "to so construct the several parts that there will be no rough or raised edges to interfere with its insertion in the anal passage; secondly, to so construct [the] improved speculum that it may be readily used as a bi-valve or dilator; thirdly, to form a locking-joint on the meeting edges of the shells forming the speculum, whereby the sections are prevented from overlapping each other to avoid pinching or injury to the walls of the anal passage while the instrument is being inserted; fourthly, to provide a plug for [the] improved speculum" (lines 17-29).
Date: March 25, 1890
Creator: Shuford, Quincy Adams
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Analysis of multipass laser amplifier systems for storage laser media (open access)

Analysis of multipass laser amplifier systems for storage laser media

The performance characteristics of single pass and multipass storage laser amplifiers are presented and compared. The effects of the multipass amplifier parameters on the extraction characteristics are examined. For a wide range of conditions the multipass amplifier is found to provide high energy gain and high efficiency simultaneously. This is a significant advantage over the single pass laser amplifier. Finally, three specific storage laser amplifier systems, flashlamp pumped V:MgF/sub 2/, XeF laser pumped Tm:Glass, and photolytically pumped Selenium, are examined. The performance characteristics for each of the three systems are calculated and compared.
Date: March 25, 1980
Creator: Harvey, James F.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of V-G records from ten types of Navy airplanes in squadron operations during the period 1949 to 1953 (open access)

Analysis of V-G records from ten types of Navy airplanes in squadron operations during the period 1949 to 1953

From Introduction: "The purpose of this paper is to present an analysis of the data for the remaining airplanes where the data were sufficient to warrant analysis. The data analyzed represent totals of 351 to 5660 hours of operations with ten types of Navy airplanes and were recorded during the period 1949 to 1953."
Date: March 25, 1955
Creator: Mayer, John P. & Harris, Agnes E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report of the Boy Scouts of America: 1937 (open access)

Annual Report of the Boy Scouts of America: 1937

Annual report submitted by the Boy Scouts of America to Congress describing highlights from 1937, activities, service reports, finance, honors, organizational leadership, and other information about scouting programs.
Date: March 25, 1938
Creator: Boy Scouts of America
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History