Children with Special Health Care Needs: Newsletter for Families, April 2013 (open access)

Children with Special Health Care Needs: Newsletter for Families, April 2013

Newsletter from the Texas Department of State Health Services providing information on health care for children with special needs, including resources for medical help and community services.
Date: March 2013
Creator: Texas. Department of Health.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Your ERS Connection, Volume 18, Number 1, Spring 2013 (open access)

Your ERS Connection, Volume 18, Number 1, Spring 2013

Newsletter of the Employees Retirement System of Texas discussing news, policy changes, and other information about retirement and benefits.
Date: March 2013
Creator: Employees Retirement System of Texas
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Eye on Nature, Spring 2013 (open access)

Eye on Nature, Spring 2013

Newsletter of the Texas Wildlife Division discussing news, events, programs, and other topics of interest related to wildlife management in Texas, and Texas Parks and Wildlife activities.
Date: March 2013
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
CAPCOG Connections, March, 2013 (open access)

CAPCOG Connections, March, 2013

Monthly newsletter of the Capital Area Council of Governments discussing news , upcoming events, and other information of relevance for regional planningi n the Austin, Texas area.
Date: March 2013
Creator: Capital Area Council of Governments (Austin, Tex.)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
U.S. Immigration Policy: Chart Book of Key Trends (open access)

U.S. Immigration Policy: Chart Book of Key Trends

This report is a chart book, displaying immigration trends, such as historical, permanent and temporary immigration, that touch on the elements of comprehensive immigration reform. It displays and analyzes figures made with time series data, and contains summaries highlighting specific trends.
Date: March 7, 2013
Creator: Wasem, Ruth Ellen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay in $^{136}$Xe with EXO-200 (open access)

Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay in $^{136}$Xe with EXO-200

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Date: March 26, 2013
Creator: Auger, M.; Auty, D. J.; Barbeau, P. S.; Beauchamp, E.; Belov, V.; Benitez-Medina, C. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Hispanic Journal of Law & Policy, Volume 19, Spring 2013 (open access)

Texas Hispanic Journal of Law & Policy, Volume 19, Spring 2013

Journal containing articles, notes, book reviews, and other analyses of law and legal cases.
Date: March 2013
Creator: University of Texas at Austin. School of Law.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
New Fuel Alloys Seeking Optimal Solidus and Phase Behavior for High Burnup and TRU Burning (open access)

New Fuel Alloys Seeking Optimal Solidus and Phase Behavior for High Burnup and TRU Burning

Recent modifications to metallic fuels have been d
Date: March 1, 2013
Creator: Mariani, R. D.; Porter, D. L.; Blackwood, V. S.; Jones, Z. S.; Olson, D. L.; Mishra, B. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Degradation Of Cementitious Materials Associated With Saltstone Disposal Units (open access)

Degradation Of Cementitious Materials Associated With Saltstone Disposal Units

The Saltstone facilities at the DOE Savannah River Site (SRS) stabilize and dispose of low-level radioactive salt solution originating from liquid waste storage tanks at the site. The Saltstone Production Facility (SPF) receives treated salt solution and mixes the aqueous waste with dry cement, blast furnace slag, and fly ash to form a grout slurry which is mechanically pumped into concrete disposal cells that compose the Saltstone Disposal Facility (SDF). The solidified grout is termed “saltstone”. Cementitious materials play a prominent role in the design and long-term performance of the SDF. The saltstone grout exhibits low permeability and diffusivity, and thus represents a physical barrier to waste release. The waste form is also reducing, which creates a chemical barrier to waste release for certain key radionuclides, notably Tc-99. Similarly, the concrete shell of an SDF disposal unit (SDU) represents an additional physical and chemical barrier to radionuclide release to the environment. Together the waste form and the SDU compose a robust containment structure at the time of facility closure. However, the physical and chemical state of cementitious materials will evolve over time through a variety of phenomena, leading to degraded barrier performance over Performance Assessment (PA) timescales of thousands to …
Date: March 19, 2013
Creator: Flach, G. P. & Smith, F. G., III
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Suitability of Selected Set of Coal Plant Sites for Repowering with Small Modular Reactors (open access)

Evaluation of Suitability of Selected Set of Coal Plant Sites for Repowering with Small Modular Reactors

This report summarizes the approach that ORNL developed for screening a sample set of small coal stations for possible repowering with SMRs; the methodology employed, including spatial modeling; and initial results for these sample plants. The objective in conducting this type of siting evaluation is to demonstrate the capability to characterize specific sample coal plant sites to identify any particular issues associated with repowering existing coal stations with SMRs using OR-SAGE; it is not intended to be a definitive assessment per se as to the absolute suitability of any particular site.
Date: March 1, 2013
Creator: Belles, Randy; Copinger, Donald A; Mays, Gary T; Omitaomu, Olufemi A & Poore, Willis P., III
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Suitability of Selected Set of Department of Defense Military Bases and Department of Energy Facilities for Siting a Small Modular Reactor (open access)

Evaluation of Suitability of Selected Set of Department of Defense Military Bases and Department of Energy Facilities for Siting a Small Modular Reactor

This report summarizes the approach that ORNL developed for screening a sample set of US Department of Defense (DOD) military base sites and DOE sites for possible powering with an SMR; the methodology employed, including spatial modeling; and initial results for several sample sites. The objective in conducting this type of siting evaluation is demonstrate the capability to characterize specific DOD and DOE sites to identify any particular issues associated with powering the sites with an SMR using OR-SAGE; it is not intended to be a definitive assessment per se as to the absolute suitability of any particular site.
Date: March 1, 2013
Creator: Poore, Willis P., III; Belles, Randy; Mays, Gary T & Omitaomu, Olufemi A
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Intelligence Authorization Legislation: Status and Challenges (open access)

Intelligence Authorization Legislation: Status and Challenges

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Date: March 25, 2013
Creator: Erwin, Marshall Curtis
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Intensive Cultural Resources Survey of the Proposed CPS Energy Tri-County Substation, Comal and Guadalupe Counties, Texas (open access)

An Intensive Cultural Resources Survey of the Proposed CPS Energy Tri-County Substation, Comal and Guadalupe Counties, Texas

An archaeological survey report of the proposed site of the CPS Energy Tri-County Substation in Comal and Guadalupe Counties, Texas to determine whether there were any cultural resources in the area.
Date: March 2013
Creator: Atkins North America, Inc.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History