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Two listed toxic chemicals were used at the Hanford Site above established activity thresholds: phosphoric acid and chlorine. Because total combined quantities of chlorine released, disposed, treated, recovered through recycle operations, co-combusted for energy recovery, and transferred to off-site locations for the purpose of recycle, energy recovery, treatment, and/or disposal, amounted to less than 500 pounds, the Hanford Site qualified for the alternate one million pound threshold for chlorine. Accordingly, this Toxic Chemical Release Inventory includes a Form A for chlorine, and a Form B for phosphoric acid.

This document was previously referred to as the Draft 2006 Plan. As part of the DOE`s national strategy, the Richland Operations Office`s Paths to Closure summarizes an integrated path forward for environmental cleanup at the Hanford Site. The Hanford Site underwent a concerted effort between 1994 and 1996 to accelerate the cleanup of the Site. These efforts are reflected in the current Site Baseline. This document describes the current Site Baseline and suggests strategies for further improvements in scope, schedule and cost. The Environmental Management program decided to change the name of the draft strategy and the document describing it in response to a series of stakeholder concerns, including the practicality of achieving widespread cleanup by 2006. Also, EM was concerned that calling the document a plan could be misconstrued to be a proposal by DOE or a decision-making document. The change in name, however, does not diminish the 2006 vision. To that end, Paths to Closure retains a focus on 2006, which serves as a point in time around which objectives and goals are established.

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This report focuses on discussions held with both Chinese and U.S. officials and business leaders in China during 1997 which covered three major policy areas: technology, trade, and security.

The major technical objectives of this program are threefold: (1) to develop the design tools and a fundamental understanding of the fluid dynamics of a slurry bubble column rector to maximize reactor productivity, (2) to develop the mathematical reactor design models and gain an understanding of the hydrodynamic fundamentals under industrially relevant process conditions, and (3) to develop an understanding of the hydrodynamics and their interaction with the chemistries occurring in the bubble column reactor. Successful completion of these objectives will permit more efficient usage of the reactor column and tighter design criteria, increase overall reactor efficiency, and ensure a design that leads to stable reactor behavior when scaling up to large diameter reactors.

A computer implemented information extraction process that locates and identifies eddy current signal features in digital point-ordered signals, said signals representing data from inspection of test materials, by enhancing the signal features relative to signal noise, detecting features of the signals, verifying the location of the signal features that can be known in advance, and outputting information about the identity and location of all detected signal features.

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Over this grant period we have studied extensively zirconia and alumina aerogels doped with a wide variety of dopants including silica, sulfate, phosphate, tungstate and combinations thereof. These results have deepened our understanding of the effects of dopants on acidic properties, which is the main goal of the project, and in particular led to the development of a hierarchy with which the Broensted acid strength of different samples can be meaningfully compared. We provide a more detailed description of several specific systems.

The principal objective of this project is to perform an analysis of basin-centered gas occurrence in the U.S. and analyze its potential significance to future natural gas exploration and development. This project shall utilize state-of-the-art procedures and knowledge of basin-centered gas systems, including, stratigraphic analysis, organic geochemistry, basin thermal dynamics and reservoir and pressure analyses. All information will be stored in database format, and products will be fully digital.

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The determination of low levels of actinides from water samples and aqueous waste streams involves a lengthy and complicated process which is characterized by low recoveries and poor precision. The objective of this work was to evaluate the use of a Photon Electron Rejecting Alpha Liquid Scintillation Spectrometer (PERALS{reg_sign}), in combination with extractive scintillators, for the detection of actinides. The results of the application of this method to aqueous samples containing uranium, thorium, plutonium, and americium, both individually and in mixtures showed promising results. Using a commercially available extractant, ALPHAEX{reg_sign}, recoveries of plutonium and americium were > 98.4% in individual samples and in mixtures with activities ranging from 6 pci to 500 pci. The separation of these two elements was accomplished by selective extraction after adjusting the acidity of the aqueous sample. The application of this technique to a raw waste sample showed reasonable recoveries when combined with classical anion exchange separation techniques. Efforts to develop an extractive scintillator using a recently synthesized tetradentate extractant were only moderately successful since solubility problems limit the extractant's efficiency in the scintillator. The application of a curve fitting program, PEAKFIT{reg_sign}, to spectra obtained using the PERALS{reg_sign} spectrometer provided useful isotropic information.

This paper describes a new two-dimensional (2-D) cylindrical geometry to three-dimensional (3-D) rectangular x-y-z splice option for multi-dimensional discrete ordinates solutions to the neutron (photon) transport equation. Of particular interest are the simple transformations developed and applied in order to carry out the required spatial and angular interpolations. The spatial interpolations are linear and equivalent to those applied elsewhere. The angular interpolations are based on a high order spherical harmonics representation of the angular flux. Advantages of the current angular interpolations over previous work are discussed. An application to an intricate streaming problem is provided to demonstrate the advantages of the new method for efficient and accurate prediction of particle behavior in complex geometries.

This research focused on determining the importance of non-degradative tolerance (NDT) to pisatin for the virulence of N. haematococca MPVI on pea. An attempt was also made to determine the importance of pda for virulence of F. oxysporum f.sp.pisi,A. pisi and M. pinodes. This research aided in refining the author's understanding of those characteristics of the pda genes that contribute to virulence and the role of non-degradative tolerance in the virulence of other pea pathogens.