Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the year 2000 readiness of the nation's nuclear power industry, focusing on: (1) the year 2000 status of the nation's nuclear power industry; (2) the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) oversight of the industry's year 2000 readiness; (3) an overview of the industry's contingency planning; and (4) the international readiness of nuclear power plants."

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the effect of improper restraint and seclusion on some of the country's most vulnerable citizens--people with serious mental illness or mental retardation."

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the Department of Defense's (DOD) maintenance of its real property, focusing: (1) whether DOD has a comprehensive strategy to address its real property maintenance needs; (2) how the services determine and prioritize maintenance needs and allocate resources to them; (3) promising practices in facilities maintenance by non-military entities that GAO identified; (4) some barriers that the services face in implementing such practices; and (5) GAO's recommendations on how DOD could improve the management of its real property maintenance to assure that the military's assets are maintained adequately and cost-effectively."

In this paper, we will describe the modelling, measurement and construction of the stripline kickers for the Tevatron transverse dampers. We will show that the odd/even impedances calculated using Poisson gave very good results when compared to the measured odd/even impedances of a stripline prototype. Using the prototype, we will show how we had adjusted the launch impedance so that the reflection coefficient s₁₁ < -35 dB between 0 to 100 MHz. We will also show the final design of the kickers and point out the deficiencies of this design.

This document presents the Integrated Safety Management System (ISMS) Description for the Superblock non-reactor nuclear facilities-Tritium Facility (Building 331), Plutonium Facility (Building 332), and Building 334--at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Building 332 is a Nuclear Hazard Category 2 facility, while Buildings 331 and 334 are Category 3 facilities in accordance with DOE STD-1027, DOE STD-3009, and DOE Order 5480.23. In implementing the Superblock ISMS Description, a graded approach is used--the Category 2 nuclear facility description provides more detail than those for the Category 3 nuclear facilities.

This is a design package that documents the development of test weights used in the Spent Nuclear Fuels subproject Fuel Retrieval System. The K Basins Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF) project consists of the safe retrieval, preparation, and repackaging of the spent fuel stored at the K East (KE) and K West (KW) Basins for interim safe storage in the Canister Storage Building (CSB). Multi-Canister Overpack (MCO) scrap baskets and fuel baskets will be loaded and weighed under water. The equipment used to weigh the loaded fuel baskets requires daily calibration checks, using test weights traceable to National Institute of Standards Testing (NIST) standards. The test weights have been designated as OCRWM related in accordance with HNF-SD-SNF-RF'T-007 (McCormack).

This document identities the components, design media, procedures and defines the critical characteristics of Commercial Grade Items necessary to ensure the HVAC system provides these functions. This document lists safety class (SC) and safety significant (SS) components for the Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning (HVAC) and specifies the critical characteristics for Commercial Grade Items (CGI), as required by HNF-PRO-268 and HNF-PRO-1819. These are the minimum specifications that the equipment must meet in order to properly perform its safety function. There may be several manufacturers or models that meet the critical characteristics for any one item.

We report the results of first principles molecular dynamics simulations of the adsorption of Si and N atoms on a Si-terminated p(2 x 1) SiC(001) surface. In particular, we discuss different structural models for the Si-rich (3 x 2) surface, and the adsorption of 1/8, 1/2 and 1 monolayer nitrogen on the p(2 x 1) surface. Our simulations show that a SiC(001)-p(2 x 1) surface covered by a nitrogen monolayer is an inert substrate which inhibits growth.

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program (CSEPP) for the Oregon and Washington communities surrounding the Umatilla Chemical Depot, focusing on: (1) the progress communities have made since GAO's 1997 report on their CSEPP efforts; and (2) strategies for enhancing the program's implementation in Oregon."

The Appalachian/Illinois Basin Directors is a group devoted to increasing communication among the state oil and gas regulatory agencies within the Appalachian and Illinois Basin producing region. The group is comprised of representatives from the oil and gas regulatory agencies from states in the basin (Attachment A). The directors met to discuss regulatory issues common to the area, organize workshops and seminars to meet the training needs of agencies dealing with the uniqueness of their producing region and perform other business pertinent to this area of oil and gas producing states. The emphasis of the coordinated work was a wide range of topics related to environmental compliance for natural gas and oil exploration and production.

Minimum-time trajectory tracking of an under-actuated mechanical system called the Acrobot is presented. The success of the controller is demonstrated by the fact that the tracking error is reduced by more than an order of magnitude when compared to the open-loop system response. The control law is obtained by linearizing the system about the nominal trajectory and applying differential dynamic programming to the resulting linear time-varying system, while using a weighted sum of the state-deviation and input-deviation as the cost function.

The D0 and CDF proton-antiproton collider experiments at the Tevatron accumulated large samples of high energy jet production data during Run I (1992- 1996). Presented here are measurements of the central inclusive jet cross section at center-of-mass energies of 1800 and 630 GeV (by the D0 and CDF experiments) and a forward ( |{eta}| < 1.5) inclusive cross section measurement by the D0 experiment at 1800 GeV. Cross sections are compared to next-to-leading order QCD predictions with recent parton distribution functions. Also included is a measure of subjet multiplicity in jets produced at 1800 GeV using a successive combination type of jet algorithm.

In this paper, we will describe the modelling, measurement and construction of the stripline kickers for the Tevatron transverse dampers. We will show that the odd/even impedances calculated using Poisson gave very good results when compared to the measured odd/even impedances of a stripline prototype. Using the prototype, we will show how we had adjusted the launch impedance so that the reflection coefficient s₁₁ < -35 dB between 0 to 100 MHz. We will also show the final design of the kickers and point out the deficiencies of this design.

Funeral program for Mrs. Margaret P. Adams, born July 12, 1920 and died October 21, 1999. The funeral was held October 26, 1999 at West End Baptist Church, officiated by Dr. A. B. Dever's I. The funeral arrangements were made through Mission Park Funeral Chapels South and she was buried in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery near San Antonio, Texas.

We present results from a four-port Michelson interferometer built to demonstrate imaging Fourier transform spectroscopy for astronomical applications.

This report describes the basic standards of decorum that govern remarks made in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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The use of thick-walled composite cylinders in structural applications has seen tremendous growth over the last decade. Applications include pressure vessels, flywheels, drive shafts, spoolable tubing, and production risers. In these applications, the geometry of a composite cylinder is axisymmetric but in many cases the applied loads are non-axisymmetric and more rigorous analytical tools are required for an accurate stress analysis. A closed-form solution is presented for determining the layer-by-layer stresses, strains, and displacements and first-ply failure in laminated composite cylinders subjected to non-axisymmetric loads. The applied loads include internal and external pressure, axial force, torque, axial bending moment, uniform temperature change, rotational velocity, and interference fits. The formulation is based on the theory of anisotropic elasticity and a state of generalized plane deformation along the axis of the composite cylinder. Parametric design trade studies can be easily and quickly computed using this closed-form solution. A computer program that was developed for performing the numerical calculations is described and results from specific case studies are presented.

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We use liner-scaling tight-binding molecular dynamics to generate three structural models of bulk amorphous carbon with different atomic density. Amorphous carbon surfaces are then obtained by imposing tensile strain on these computer generated networks until fracture occurs. Our results show that for a given density, the formation energy of surfaces obtained with different tensile strains differ by only a few 10{sup -1} eV/atom and their structural properties are qualitatively similar. The presence of sp sites at the surface is observed at all densities, but with different values of the concentration. The surface thicknesses obtained in our simulations agree with experimental data. Furthermore we find that surface roughness increases with the amount of graphitic component in the bulk sample. The same trends of the macroscopic properties are obtained when using a two-center tight-binding Hamiltonian, an environmental dependent one, and first principles calculations.

This Test Plan provides a test method to dedicate the leak detection relays used on the new Pumping and Instrumentation Control (PIC) skids. The new skids are fabricated on-site. The leak detection system is a safety class system per the Authorization Basis.