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MODELING ATMOSPHERIC RELEASES OF TRITIUM FROM NUCLEAR INSTALLATIONS (open access)

MODELING ATMOSPHERIC RELEASES OF TRITIUM FROM NUCLEAR INSTALLATIONS

Tritium source term analysis and the subsequent dispersion and consequence analyses supporting the safety documentation of Department of Energy nuclear facilities are especially sensitive to the applied software analysis methodology, input data and user assumptions. Three sequential areas in tritium accident analysis are examined in this study to illustrate where the analyst should exercise caution. Included are: (1) the development of a tritium oxide source term; (2) use of a full tritium dispersion model based on site-specific information to determine an appropriate deposition scaling factor for use in more simplified, broader modeling, and (3) derivation of a special tritium compound (STC) dose conversion factor for consequence analysis, consistent with the nature of the originating source material. It is recommended that unless supporting, defensible evidence is available to the contrary, the tritium release analyses should assume tritium oxide as the species released (or chemically transformed under accident's environment). Important exceptions include STC situations and laboratory-scale releases of hydrogen gas. In the modeling of the environmental transport, a full phenomenology model suggests that a deposition velocity of 0.5 cm/s is an appropriate value for environmental features of the Savannah River Site. This value is bounding for certain situations but non-conservative compared to …
Date: January 17, 2007
Creator: Okula, K
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Models for Gamma-Ray Bursts and Diverse Transients (open access)

Models for Gamma-Ray Bursts and Diverse Transients

The observational diversity of ''gamma-ray bursts'' (GRBs) has been increasing, and the natural inclination is a proliferation of models. We explore the possibility that at least part of this diversity is a consequence of a single basic model for the central engine operating in a massive star of variable mass, differential rotation rate, and mass loss rate. Whatever that central engine may be--and here the collapsar is used as a reference point--it must be capable of generating both a narrowly collimated, highly relativistic jet to make the GRB, and a wide angle, sub-relativistic outflow responsible for exploding the star and making the supernova bright. To some extent, the two components may vary independently, so it is possible to produce a variety of jet energies and supernova luminosities. We explore, in particular, the production of low energy bursts and find a lower limit, {approx} 10{sup 48} erg s{sup -1} to the power required for a jet to escape a massive star before that star either explodes or is accreted. Lower energy bursts and ''suffocated'' bursts may be particularly prevalent when the metallicity is high, i.e., in the modern universe at low redshift.
Date: January 17, 2007
Creator: Woosley, S.E.; /UC, Santa Cruz; Zhang, Weiqun & /KIPAC, Menlo Park
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
NASA Procurement: Use of Award Fees for Achieving Program Outcomes Should Be Improved (open access)

NASA Procurement: Use of Award Fees for Achieving Program Outcomes Should Be Improved

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Cost-plus-award-fee contracts accounted for almost half of the National Aeronautic and Space Administration's (NASA) obligated contract dollars for fiscal years 2002-2004. Since 1990, we have identified NASA's contract management as a high-risk area--in part because of a lack of emphasis on end results. Congress asked us to examine (1) the extent NASA's guidance on award fees addresses problems previously identified with the use of award-fee contracts and (2) whether NASA follows its guidance in using award fees to achieve desired outcomes. We reviewed the top 10 dollar value award-fee contracts active from fiscal years 2002 through 2004."
Date: January 17, 2007
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Budget for FY2007: President’s Request, Congressional Appropriations, and Related Issues (open access)

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Budget for FY2007: President’s Request, Congressional Appropriations, and Related Issues

This report tracks congressional appropriation action on the President's FY2007 funding request for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Issues of possible concern are summarized, including decreases in funding for ocean research and consideration of an act to authorize all NOAA programs under a single law.
Date: January 17, 2007
Creator: Morrissey, Wayne A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Natural Resources Policy: Management, Institutions, and Issues (open access)

Natural Resources Policy: Management, Institutions, and Issues

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Date: January 17, 2007
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Korean Counterfeiting of U.S. Currency (open access)

North Korean Counterfeiting of U.S. Currency

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Date: January 17, 2007
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 55, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 17, 2007 (open access)

North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 55, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Daily student newspaper from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.
Date: January 17, 2007
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 91, No. 78, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 17, 2007 (open access)

The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 91, No. 78, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Student newspaper of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma that includes national, local, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: January 17, 2007
Creator: Savage, William W., III
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Oral History Interview with Charles Liapes, January 17, 2007 transcript

Oral History Interview with Charles Liapes, January 17, 2007

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents and oral interview with Charles Liapes. Liapes was born in Newburg, New York 27 November 1921. Five of his brothers were in the service during World War II. Three were wounded and all returned home. In November 1942, Liapes volunteered for the Army and went to Fort McClelland for basic training. Upon completion of basic he traveled to England aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth (R-08) to attend a British Commando school. Completing the commando training he returned to the United States and volunteered for the paratroopers. He was assigned to the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. In May 1944 he made five jumps on three successive days to quickly qualify as a paratrooper. On 6 June 1944 he participated in Operation Overlord by jumping over France. He describes the action during and after the jump, seeing comrades and German soldiers killed. He also describes destroying a German tank during the battle of Sainte-Mere-Eglise. He was wounded but recovered prior to participating in Operation Market Garden. Soon after landing he was seriously wounded and sent to a hospital in England. From there he went to the military hospital in Framingham, Massachusetts and …
Date: January 17, 2007
Creator: Liapes, Charles
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Charles Liapes, January 17, 2007 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Charles Liapes, January 17, 2007

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents and oral interview with Charles Liapes. Liapes was born in Newburg, New York 27 November 1921. Five of his brothers were in the service during World War II. Three were wounded and all returned home. In November 1942, Liapes volunteered for the Army and went to Fort McClelland for basic training. Upon completion of basic he traveled to England aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth (R-08) to attend a British Commando school. Completing the commando training he returned to the United States and volunteered for the paratroopers. He was assigned to the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. In May 1944 he made five jumps on three successive days to quickly qualify as a paratrooper. On 6 June 1944 he participated in Operation Overlord by jumping over France. He describes the action during and after the jump, seeing comrades and German soldiers killed. He also describes destroying a German tank during the battle of Sainte-Mere-Eglise. He was wounded but recovered prior to participating in Operation Market Garden. Soon after landing he was seriously wounded and sent to a hospital in England. From there he went to the military hospital in Framingham, Massachusetts and …
Date: January 17, 2007
Creator: Liapes, Charles
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Panola Watchman (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 135, No. 5, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 17, 2007 (open access)

The Panola Watchman (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 135, No. 5, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Semiweekly newspaper from Carthage, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 17, 2007
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Patent Reform: Innovation Issues (open access)

Patent Reform: Innovation Issues

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Date: January 17, 2007
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Patents and Drug Importation (open access)

Patents and Drug Importation

This report explores the intellectual property laws and policies concerning the parallel importation of patented pharmaceuticals into the United States.
Date: January 17, 2007
Creator: Thomas, John R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Payment Limits for Farm Commodity Programs: Issues and Proposals (open access)

Payment Limits for Farm Commodity Programs: Issues and Proposals

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Date: January 17, 2007
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 115, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 17, 2007 (open access)

Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 115, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Daily newspaper from Perry, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 17, 2007
Creator: Brown, Gloria
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Pharmaceutical Costs: A Comparison of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Medicaid, and Medicare Policies (open access)

Pharmaceutical Costs: A Comparison of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Medicaid, and Medicare Policies

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Date: January 17, 2007
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pretest Predictions for Ventilation Tests (open access)

Pretest Predictions for Ventilation Tests

The objective of this calculation is to predict the temperatures of the ventilating air, waste package surface, concrete pipe walls, and insulation that will be developed during the ventilation tests involving various test conditions. The results will be used as input to the following three areas: (1) Decisions regarding testing set-up and performance. (2) Assessing how best to scale the test phenomena measured. (3) Validating numerical approach for modeling continuous ventilation. The scope of the calculation is to identify the physical mechanisms and parameters related to thermal response in the ventilation tests, and develop and describe numerical methods that can be used to calculate the effects of continuous ventilation. Sensitivity studies to assess the impact of variation of linear power densities (linear heat loads) and ventilation air flow rates are included. The calculation is limited to thermal effect only.
Date: January 17, 2007
Creator: Sun, Y.; Yang, H. & Kalia, H.N.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Properties of Ellipticity Correlation with Atmospheric Structure From Gemini South (open access)

Properties of Ellipticity Correlation with Atmospheric Structure From Gemini South

Cosmic shear holds great promise for a precision independent measurement of {Omega}{sub m}, the mass density of the universe relative to the critical density. The signal is expected to be weak, so a thorough understanding of systematic effects is crucial. An important systematic effect is the atmosphere: shear power introduced by the atmosphere is larger than the expected signal. Algorithms exist to extract the cosmic shear from the atmospheric component, though a measure of their success applied to a range of seeing conditions is lacking. To gain insight into atmospheric shear, Gemini South imaging in conjunction with ground condition and satellite wind data were obtained. We find that under good seeing conditions Point-Spread-Function (PSF) correlations persist well beyond the separation typical of high-latitude stars. Under these conditions, ellipticity residuals based on a simple PSF interpolation can be reduced to within a factor of a few of the shot-noise induced ellipticity floor. We also find that the ellipticity residuals are highly correlated with wind direction. Finally, we correct stellar shapes using a more sophisticated procedure and generate shear statistics from stars. Under all seeing conditions in our data set the residual correlations lie everywhere below the target signal level. For good …
Date: January 17, 2007
Creator: Asztalos, Stephen J.; de Vries, W. H.; Rosenberg, L. J.; Treadway, T.; Burke, D.; Claver, C. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
R&D of Accelerator Structures at SLAC (open access)

R&D of Accelerator Structures at SLAC

The research activities for accelerator structures at SLAC are reviewed including the achievement via the main linac design for the Next Linear Collider (NLC), the program adjustment after the decision of the International Linear Collider (ILC) to be based on superconducting technology, and the work progress for the ILC, photon science at SLAC and basic accelerator structure studies.
Date: January 17, 2007
Creator: Wang, J.W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 92, No. 58, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 17, 2007 (open access)

Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 92, No. 58, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 17, 2007
Creator: Mattox, Jami
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Searches for Rare Leptonic and Semileptonic Charm Decays at BaBar (open access)

Searches for Rare Leptonic and Semileptonic Charm Decays at BaBar

Recent results from leptonic and semi-leptonic charm decays at the BABAR B-factory are presented. The measurement of f{sub D{sub s}} from the D{sub s}{sup +} {yields} {mu}{sup +}{nu} channel is presented. Form-factor studies from the D{sup 0} {yields} K{sup +}e{sup -}{bar {nu}}{sub e} channel are described along with a search for flavor-changing neutral-current X{sub c}{sup +} {yields} h{sup +}{ell}{sup +}{ell}{prime}{sup -} decays.
Date: January 17, 2007
Creator: Jackson, Paul D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Silsbee Bee (Silsbee, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 3, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 17, 2007 (open access)

The Silsbee Bee (Silsbee, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 3, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Weekly newspaper from Silsbee, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 17, 2007
Creator: Dickert, Gerry
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Specialty Crops: 2007 Farm Bill Issues (open access)

Specialty Crops: 2007 Farm Bill Issues

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Date: January 17, 2007
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Strategic Energy Efficiency and Renewables Reserve Fund in the CLEAN Energy Act of 2007 (H.R. 6) (open access)

The Strategic Energy Efficiency and Renewables Reserve Fund in the CLEAN Energy Act of 2007 (H.R. 6)

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Date: January 17, 2007
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library