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

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mustang Police officer Monte James and his personable partner, Elvis, the department's K-9 unit, show off the trophies Elvis won at a variety of competitions both locally and nationally."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Jo Ann Sterling, Lawton; Lt. Col. Tom Howell, Edmond; and Patricia Molloy, Muskogee, from left, at the banquet."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Classen High School drama teacher Debi Hall welcomes, from left, students Rhett Chapman, Jeb McCoy and Brian Gaeddert back to school."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Pam Conger, Claremore, Billie Hunter and Frances Young, from left, attend a recent Oklahoma Society Daughters of the American Revolution workshop banquet."

Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.

Building complex meshes for large-scale numerical simulations presents immense difficulties in exploiting high-performance computers. Industry and research leaders will describe the current state of the art for generating meshes for such large scientific problems. This will be followed by a panel and general audience discussion of the algorithmic and architectural issues surrounding the generation of meshes with10{sup 7} to 10{sup 9} grid points. (Note: The terms ``mesh`` and ``grid`` are used interchangeably in the literature.)

The objective of the Mined Geologic Disposal System (MGDS) Thermal Loading Systems Study being conducted by the is to identify a thermal strategy that will meet the performance requirements for waste isolation and will be safe and licensable. Specifically, both postclosure and preclosure performance standards must be met by the thermal loading strategy ultimately selected. In addition cost and schedule constraints must be considered. The Systems Engineering approach requires structured, detailed analyses that will ultimately provide the technical basis for the development, integration, and evaluation of the overall system, not just a subelement of that system. It is also necessary that the systems study construct options from within the range that are allowed within the current legislative and programmatic framework. For example the total amount of fuel that can legally be emplaced is no more than 70,000 metric tons of uranium (MTU) which is composed of 63,000 MTU spent fuel and 7,000 MTU of defense high level waste. It is the intent of this study to begin the structured development of the basis for a thermal loading decision. However, it is recognized that to be able to make a final decision on thermal loading will require underground data on the …

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: "Southeast High School students in Kristy Stewart's freshman English class begin their first assignments Monday while cooling themselves with "I'm a S.E. Fan" hand fans provided by the school alumni association."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Bill Larwig, Southwestern Bell Telephone technician, works to fuse a broken fiber-optic line in Moore that disrupted telephone service to much of southern Oklahoma on Monday."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Kindergartener Audrey Johnston,5, helps first-year kindergarten teacher Sheila Ridley Monday morning with the first monthly calendar of the school year."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tonya Sims, Amber Thompson, and Carrie Cook, from left."

Laboratory testing was completed on chemical stabilization and physical encapsulation methods that are applicable (to comply with federal and state regulations) to the final disposal of both hazardous and mixed hazardous elemental mercury waste that is in either of the following categories: (1) waste generated during decontamination and decommissioning (D and D) activities on mercury-contaminated buildings, such as Building 9201-4 at the Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant, or (2) waste stored and regulated under either the Federal Facilities Compliance Agreement or the Federal Facilities Compliance Act. Methods were used that produced copper-mercury, zinc-mercury, and sulfur-mercury materials at room temperature by dry mixing techniques. Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure (TCLP) results for mercury on batches of both the copper-mercury and the sulfur-mercury amalgams consistently produced leachates with less than the 0.2-mg/L Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) regulatory limit for mercury. The results clearly showed that the reaction of mercury with sulfur at room temperature produces black mercuric sulfide, a material that is well suited for land disposal. The results also showed that the copper-mercury and zinc-mercury amalgams had major adverse properties that make them undesirable for land disposal. In particular, they reacted readily in air to form oxides and liberate elemental mercury. …

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

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Order 5500.3A, Emergency Planning and Preparedness for Operational Emergencies, requires that a facility specific hazards assessment be performed to support Emergency Planning activities. The Hazard Assessment establishes the technical basis for the Emergency Action Levels (EALs) and the Emergency Planning Zone (EPZ). Emergency Planning activities are provided under contract to DOE through the Westinghouse Hanford Company (WHC). This document represents the facility specific hazards assessment for the Hanford Site 222-S Laboratories. The primary mission of 222-S is to provide analytic chemistry support to the Waste Management, Chemical Processing, and Environmental programs at the Hanford Site.

This study is designed to clarify the integration of genetic knowledge into the lived experience of high-risk family members. A major focus is elucidation of the social and cultural barriers and bridges to the use of genetic information to increase reproductive options and improve the quality of family life. They study focuses on families at risk for cystic fibrosis and sickle cell disease. These two disease groups were selected because they are among the most common potentially lethal genetic diseases and because while each has a similar pattern of inheritance and raises similarly serious bio-medical challenges and issues of information management, they primarily affect different racial and ethno-cultural groups permitting a naturally occurring experiment. In the variable penetration and meaning of genetic medicine in two populations. We have conducted intensive interviews with more than 300 individuals in approximately 88 families. We have attempted to balance the effort equally between the two groups, but have found we are able to penetrate the family systems of the cystic fibrosis families more easily than the sickle cell families.

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The TMACS Software Project Test Procedures translate the projects acceptance criteria into test steps. Software releases are certified when the affected Test Procedures are successfully performed and the customers authorize installation of these changes.

The TMACS Software Project Test Procedures translate the project`s acceptance criteria into test steps. Software releases are certified when the affected Test Procedures are successfully performed and the customers authorize installation of these changes. This Test Procedure tests the TMACS Trending functions.

The COBRA-1A experiment was originally designed for irradiations up to 350 effective full power days (EFPD) in EBR-II. Three of the seven B7A test capsules were discharged after 88.6 EFPD (COBRA-1A1; EBR-II designation X516), while the remaining four capsules continued to be irradiated to a goal exposure of 300 EFPD (COBRA-1A2; EBR-II designation X516A). However, it was recently decided that COBRA-1A2 was to remain in the reactor during Run 170, giving and nominal end-of-life (EOL) exposure of 375 EFPD. Since the revised test exposure exceeds the design basis given in supporting analyses, amended analyses are provided herein, giving the technical bases for the extended irradiation. This report describes the safety analysis for the extension of the COBRA-1A2 test (X516A) to 400 effective full power days in FBR-II.

Fuel storage basins associated with the 105-KE and 105-KW reactor buildings are currently being used to store irradiated fuel rods from past operations. Each reactor building contains a basin that holds approximately 1.3 million gal of water. The water provides a radiation shield, as well as a thermal sink for heat generated by the stored fuel. Some of the fuel rods stored in the K-East basin have damaged cladding and are stored in open canisters, allowing contact between the metallic uranium fuel and basin water. The interaction results in radionuclides being released to the basin water. Various exchange columns and filters associated with a closed-circuit circulation system are in place to reduce radionuclide concentrations in basin water. Tritium cannot be removed by these methods and is present in K-East basin water at a concentration of several million pCi/L. In contrast, K-West basin, where only fully encapsulated, undamaged fuel is stored, exhibits tritium concentrations at much lower levels--several hundred thousand pCi/L. The water budget for the basins includes water losses resulting from evaporation and possibly leakage, and the addition of make-up water to maintain a specific level. Water loss calculations are based on water level decreases during time intervals when no …

Energy production during May 1994 totaled 5.6 quadrillion Btu, a 2.4-percent increase from the level of production during May 1993. Coal production increased 13.3 percent, natural gas production rose 1.7 percent, and petroleum production decreased 2.5 percent. All other forms of energy production combined were down 8.3 percent from the level of production during May 1993. Energy consumption during May 1994 totaled 6.6 quadrillion Btu, 3.6 percent above the level of consumption during May 1993. Natural gas consumption increased 8.7 percent, coal consumption rose 4.6 percent, and petroleum consumption was up 3.6 percent. Consumption of all other forms of energy combined decreased 5.8 percent from the level 1 year earlier. Net imports of energy during May 1994 totaled 1.5 quadrillion Btu, 14.3 percent above the level of net imports 1 year earlier. Net imports of petroleum increased 8.4 percent, and net imports of natural gas were up 23.2 percent. Net exports of coal fell 16.8 percent from the level in May 1993.