B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Students at Crescent Elementary School listen as Randal Mapes, playing Patrick Henry; Wayne McGuire, as a British soldier; and Charles Hoskins, as George Washington, discuss whether the 13 Colonies should be free and independent of British rule."

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Kim Boaz, a diabetes educator and screening coordinator at Children's Hospital, demonstrates how blood is tested for antibodies."

This document establishes the procedure for performing the acceptance test on the two isolation barriers being installed in K West basin. This acceptance test procedure shall be used to: First establish a basin water loss rate prior to installation of the two isolation barriers between the main basin and the discharge chute in K-Basin West. Second, perform an acceptance test to verify an acceptable leakage rate through the barrier seals.

This report describes the progress achieved during the first six months of the program. The different subjects studied were: zone refining experiments of mercuric iodide to establish optimum refining parameters and produce purified material; development of surface reflection spectroscopy as a method to measure crystal surface temperatures, with emphasis on investigation the potential of using optical multichannel analysis; optical methods for measuring iodine vapor during physical vapor transport of HgI{sub 2}; and atomic force microscopy studies.

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tracy Slate, manufacturing manager at United Design Corp., arranges angel figurines for a display in the company's gift shop."

Photocopy of a letter from Benny Hickerson, Vice President of Programs for the Texas Council of Teachers Of English to Bill McCarter, co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. In regards to a proposal by McCarter that has been selected for the annual state conference of the Texas Council, February 1 - 4, 1995 at the Loews Anatole Hotel in Dallas. The letter goes into details about McCarter's schedule panel time and materials he'll need to collect before the conference dates.

Weekly student newspaper from McMurry University in Abilene, Texas that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.

This document assesses the consequences if the isolation barrier plate is dropped and falls over on the fuel stored in the water-filled K-East basin. The water slows the rate of fall and some canister bending is expected but only a few rods, if any, would get crushed. The basin criticality calculations will not be affected.

The purpose of the Trench 31 & 34 Mixed Waste Disposal Facility Compliance Matrix is to provide objective evidence of implementation of all regulatory and procedural-institutional requirements for the disposal facilities. This matrix provides a listing of the individual regulatory and procedural-institutional requirements that were addressed. Subject matter experts reviewed pertinent documents that had direct or indirect impact on the facility. Those found to be applicable were so noted and listed in Appendix A. Subject matter experts then extracted individual requirements from the documents deemed applicable and listed them in the matrix tables. The results of this effort are documented in Appendix B.

The Receiving Basin for Off-Site Fuels/Resin Regeneration Facility (RBOF/RRF) currently generates approximately 50,000 gallons of wastewater per month. This waste is sent to the 211-H General Purpose (GP) evaporator and/or the 241-H Tank Farm (HTF). The primary criteria for selecting the destination of the waste are solids content and radioactively.The waste is typically sent to the GP evaporator if it has low solids content and low activity. Currently, approximately 70% of the waste water produced at RBOF/RRF meets the criteria for acceptance by the GP evaporator. In June 1993, High Level Waste Engineering opened a Technical Issue (TI) related to processing of RBOF/RRF directly through the 1H Cesium Removal Column (CRC) to the F/H Effluent Treatment Facility (ETF). In March 1994, additional emphasis was placed on this effort after it was determined that the 1H evaporator had a failed tube bundle. As a result, The TI was expanded to include evaluations of methods to increase the acceptance rate of wastewater at the GP (i.e., to ensure that the 70% of RBOF/RRF wastewater that currently meets the GP acceptance criteria is actually processed at the GP). Since March 1994, waste receipts from RBOF/RRF have averaged less than the 30,000 gallons/month allotted …

The purpose of Phase 2 of the Investigation of Properties and Performance of Ceramic Composite Components has been to build on and extend the work completed during Phase 1 to further advance the transition from properties of ceramic composite materials to performance of ceramic composite components used in fossil energy environments. The specific tasks of Phase 2 were: (1) develop and validate reliable and accurate high temperature, biaxial mechanical tests methods for structural ceramic composite components; (2) test and evaluate ceramic composite components, specifically tubes; (3) characterize long-term, mechanical performance of ceramic composite tubes at high temperatures; (4) develop a fundamental understanding of the mechanical degradation and performance limitations of ceramic composite components under service conditions; (5) develop predictive models for damage tolerance and reliability; and (6) relate component performance to microstructure and, thereby, provide feedback to the associated process-development effort, to improve performance. Accomplishments for each task are given.

The Automation & Robotics Research Institute (ARRI) and the Texas Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) were funded by the U.S. Department of Energy to determine the feasibility of a regional industrial technology institute to be located at the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) Central Facility in Waxahachie, Texas. In response to this opportunity, ARRI and TEEX teamed with the DOE Kansas City Plant (managed by Allied Signal, Inc.), Los Alamos National Laboratory (managed by the University of California), Vought Aircraft Company, National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS), SSC Laboratory, KPMG Peat Marwick, Dallas County Community College, Navarro Community College, Texas Department of Commerce (TDOC), Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center (TMAC), Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology, Arkansas Science and Technology Authority, Louisiana Productivity Center, and the NASA Mid-Continent Technology Transfer Center (MCTTC) to develop a series of options, perform the feasibility analysis and secure industrial reviews of the selected concepts. The final report for this study is presented in three sections: Executive Summary, Business Plan, and Technical Plan. The results from the analysis of the proposed concept support the recommendation of creating a regional technology alliance formed by the states of Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana through the …

A number of chemical phenomena that occur at the boundaries between insulating solids and liquids (adsorption, partition, monolayer self-assembly, catalysis, and chemical reactions) are important to energy-related analytical chemistry. These phenomena are central to the development and understanding of chromatographic methods, solid-phase extraction techniques, immobilized analytical reagents, and optical sensors. The goal of this program, therefore, is to develop surface-sensitive spectroscopies by which chemical kinetics at liquid/solid interfaces can be observed on time-scales from nanoseconds to seconds. In the second year of this program, the authors have used temperature-jump relaxation measurements to monitor adsorption/desorption kinetics at liquid/solid interfaces using Joule heating to compare the adsorption of ions from solution onto C1- and C4-derivatized silica surfaces. They completed a study of rate of migration of covalently-attached ligands on silica surfaces; from the temperature-dependence of the migration, the large energy barrier to migration was estimated. Surface heterogeneity of adsorption sites on silica was characterized by time-resolve fluorescence, and the chemical origins investigated by Si{sup 29} NMR spectroscopy. Surface-enhance Raman and fluorescence spectroscopies were modified to study adsorption and binding to silica surfaces. Molecular dynamics simulations were started to help better understand kinetic barriers to adsorption; ESR probe measurements were launched to measure …

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The subsurface environment is an important national resource that is utilized for construction, waste disposal and groundwater supply. Conflicting and unwise use has led to problems of groundwater contamination. Cleanup is often difficult and expensive, and perhaps not even possible in many cases. Construction projects often encounter unanticipated difficulties that increase expenses. Many of the difficulties of predicting mechanical behavior and fluid flow and transport behavior stem from problems in characterizing what cannot be seen. An underground research laboratory, such as can be developed in the nearly 14 miles of tunnel at the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) site, will provide a unique opportunity to advance scientific investigations of fluid flow, chemical transport, and mechanical behavior in situ in weak and fractured, porous rock on a scale relevant to civil and environmental engineering applications involving the subsurface down to a depth of 100 m. The unique element provided by underground studies at the SSC site is three-dimensional access to a range of fracture conditions in two rock types, chalk and shale. Detailed experimentation can be carried out in small sections of the SSC tunnel where different types of fractures and faults occur and where different rock types or contacts are exposed. …

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Letter to Alan Levi from Michael Garbarino about meeting materials and agendas.

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Letter from Michael Garbarino to Alan Levi discussing the list of payroll tax deposits within the Texas Human Rights Foundation.

Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

The particle sizes of the insoluble solids from two of the Tank 41H saltcake samples have been determined by scanning electron microscopy. Settling velocities of the solids have been calculated using Stokes Law. Thus, it is concluded that the formation of a solid phase consisting of uranium without significant amounts of Cr, Fe, Mn, and Zn is not possible during the dissolution of saltcake.