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UPDATE: nuclear power program information and data, July-September 1981 (open access)

UPDATE: nuclear power program information and data, July-September 1981

UPDATE is published by the Office of Coordination and Special Projects, Office of Nuclear Reactor Programs, to provide a quick reference source on the current status of nuclear powerplant construction and operation in the United States and for information on the fuel cycle, economics, and performance of nuclear generating units. Similar information on other means of electric generation as related to nuclear power is included when appropriate. The subject matter of the reports and analyses presented in UPDATE will vary from issue to issue, reflecting changes in foci of interest and new developments in the field of commercial nuclear power generation. UPDATA is intended to provide a timely source of current statistics, results of analyses, and programmatic information proceeding from the activities of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Programs and other components of the Department of Energy, as well as condensations of topical articles from other sources of interest to the nuclear community. It also facilitates quick responses to requests for data and information of the type often solicited from this office.
Date: January 1, 1981
Creator: /NBM--6011986, DOE
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mexican-American Cooperative Program at the Cerro Prieto Geothermal Field: Recent Results of the Well-Drilling Program at Cerro Prieto (open access)

Mexican-American Cooperative Program at the Cerro Prieto Geothermal Field: Recent Results of the Well-Drilling Program at Cerro Prieto

The results of the 1980 and 1981 well drilling activities at the Cerro Prieto geothermal field are summarized. Details are given on the new series of deeper wells completed in the western (older) part of the field (Cerro Prieto I), and on the development and step-out wells drilled in the eastern part of the field (Cerro Prieto II and III). Production characteristics of on-line and standby wells are discussed. Recent changes in well completion procedures are also described.
Date: December 1, 1981
Creator: A., B. Dominguez; Lippmann, M. J. & M., Francisco Bermejo
System: The UNT Digital Library
Confinement of airborne radioactivity. Final progress report, January-December 1978 (open access)

Confinement of airborne radioactivity. Final progress report, January-December 1978

A new test method has been developed at the Savannah River Laboratory for evaluating the iodine retention capabilities of carbon used in the airborne-activity confinement system. Methyl iodide tagged with I-131 is injected into a test gas stream continuously for 5 hours with test conditions of 80/sup 0/C temperature, 95% relative humidity, and 55 feet per minute linear flow velocity. Results show that the CH/sub 3/I retention efficiency is independent of the inlet CH/sub 3/I concentration over the range of at least 0.9 to 200 ..mu..g/m/sup 3/ in the test gas stream. The method was also used to evaluate the effects of paint fumes on in-service carbons and showed that solvent exposure reduced carbon service life by 5 to 7 months. Experimental carbons both before and after service exposure in the SRP carbon test facility were also evaluated.
Date: February 1, 1980
Creator: A.G., Evans
System: The UNT Digital Library
Design of a Precast Concrete Stay-in-Place Forming System for Lock Wall Rehabilitation (open access)

Design of a Precast Concrete Stay-in-Place Forming System for Lock Wall Rehabilitation

Report describing the design of forming a system to use pre-cast concrete for rehabilitating damaged walls in locks, as a way to prevent problems with cracking in replacement air-entrained concrete used in standard methods.
Date: July 1987
Creator: ABAM Engineers Incorporated
System: The UNT Digital Library
[AIDS ARMS Network monthly service report] (open access)

[AIDS ARMS Network monthly service report]

An AIDS ARMS Network monthly service report for its sub-contractors for February 1989.
Date: February 1989
Creator: AIDS ARMS Network, Inc.
System: The UNT Digital Library
[AIDS Resource Center yearly budget breakdown] (open access)

[AIDS Resource Center yearly budget breakdown]

A yearly budget breakdown for the AIDS Resource Center, provided by the AIDS ARMS Network, Inc.
Date: [1988..1990]
Creator: AIDS ARMS Network, Inc.
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Monthly financial report, May 31, 1989] (open access)

[Monthly financial report, May 31, 1989]

A financial statement from the AIDS Resource Center for the AIDS ARMS Network, Inc., dated May 31, 1989.
Date: May 31, 1989
Creator: AIDS ARMS Network, Inc.
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Sub-contractors monthly service report, December 1988] (open access)

[Sub-contractors monthly service report, December 1988]

A monthly service report for the AIDS ARMS Network, Inc's sub-contractors dated December 1988 and revised February 20, 1989.
Date: December 1988
Creator: AIDS ARMS Network, Inc.
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Summary of affiliate survey results] (open access)

[Summary of affiliate survey results]

A 27-page survey by the AIDS ARMS Network, Inc. on its affiliates and how they served local populations which were living with HIV/AIDS.
Date: August 28, 1989
Creator: AIDS ARMS Network, Inc.
System: The UNT Digital Library
[AIDS Resource Center monthly financial report, January 31, 1989] (open access)

[AIDS Resource Center monthly financial report, January 31, 1989]

A financial report from the AIDS Resource Center to the AIDS ARMS Network, Inc. for January 1989.
Date: January 31, 1989
Creator: AIDS Resource Center
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conceptual Design of a Rapid-Cycling Synchrotron for the KFA-Juelich Spallation Neutron Source (open access)

Conceptual Design of a Rapid-Cycling Synchrotron for the KFA-Juelich Spallation Neutron Source

An accelerator group was established at ANL by the request of KFA-Juelich to carry out a conceptual design study and cost estimate for a rapid-cycling synchrotron as a possible first stage program on spallation neutron sources at KFA-Juelich. This set of notes is the individual notes which form the basis of the final report under this proposal prepared in January 1983. This document contains 37 papers/notes for Advanced Accelerator Development - Neutron Source Series Notes...numbered AAD-N-1 through AAD-N-37. Each note or paper is written by various authors.
Date: January 1983
Creator: ANL-KFA Study Group
System: The UNT Digital Library
Impacts of uranium-utilization improvements on light water reactor radionuclide releases (open access)

Impacts of uranium-utilization improvements on light water reactor radionuclide releases

This report discusses potential changes to radionuclide releases as a result of uranium-saving plant modifications and altered operating practices. Only releases to the environment from routine operation are considered; releases resulting from abnormal conditions outside the technical specifications covering plant operation are not considered.
Date: August 1981
Creator: Aaberg, R. L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hanford Dose Overview Program. Comparison of AIRDOS-EPA and Hanford Site Dose Codes (open access)

Hanford Dose Overview Program. Comparison of AIRDOS-EPA and Hanford Site Dose Codes

Radiation dose commitments for persons in the Hanford environs calculated using AIRDOS-EPA were compared with those calculated using a suite of Hanford codes: FOOD, PABLM, DACRIN, and KRONIC. Dose commitments to the population and to the maximally exposed individual (MI) based on annual releases of eight radionuclides from the N-Reactor, were calculated by these codes. Dose commitments from each pathway to the total body, lung, thyroid, and lower large intestine (LLI) are given for the population and MI, respectively. 11 refs., 25 tabs.
Date: November 1, 1985
Creator: Aaberg, R. L. & Napier, B. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aquatic pathways model to predict the fate of phenolic compounds (open access)

Aquatic pathways model to predict the fate of phenolic compounds

Organic materials released from energy-related activities could affect human health and the environment. To better assess possible impacts, we developed a model to predict the fate of spills or discharges of pollutants into flowing or static bodies of fresh water. A computer code, Aquatic Pathways Model (APM), was written to implement the model. The computer programs use compartmental analysis to simulate aquatic ecosystems. The APM estimates the concentrations of chemicals in fish tissue, water and sediment, and is therefore useful for assessing exposure to humans through aquatic pathways. The APM will consider any aquatic pathway for which the user has transport data. Additionally, APM will estimate transport rates from physical and chemical properties of chemicals between several key compartments. The major pathways considered are biodegradation, fish and sediment uptake, photolysis, and evaporation. The model has been implemented with parameters for distribution of phenols, an important class of compounds found in the water-soluble fractions of coal liquids. Current modeling efforts show that, in comparison with many pesticides and polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), the lighter phenolics (the cresols) are not persistent in the environment. The properties of heavier molecular weight phenolics (indanols, naphthols) are not well enough understood at this time to make …
Date: April 1, 1983
Creator: Aaberg, R.L.; Peloquin, R.A.; Strenge, D.L. & Mellinger, P.J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aquatic Pathways Model to predict the fate of phenolic compounds. Appendixes A through D (open access)

Aquatic Pathways Model to predict the fate of phenolic compounds. Appendixes A through D

Organic materials released from energy-related activities could affect human health and the environment. We have developed a model to predict the fate of spills or discharges of pollutants into flowing or static bodies of fresh water. A computer code, Aquatic Pathways Model (APM), was written to implement the model. The APM estimates the concentrations of chemicals in fish tissue, water and sediment, and is therefore useful for assessing exposure to humans through aquatic pathways. The major pathways considered are biodegradation, fish and sediment uptake, photolysis, and evaporation. The model has been implemented with parameters for the distribution of phenols, an important class of compounds found in the water-soluble fractions of coal liquids. The model was developed to estimate the fate of liquids derived from coal. Current modeling efforts show that, in comparison with many pesticides and polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), the lighter phenolics (the cresols) are not persistent in the environment. For the twelve phenolics studied, biodegradation appears to be the major pathway for elimination from aquatic environments. A pond system simulation of a spill of solvent-refined coal (SRC-II) materials indicates that phenol, cresols, and other single cyclic phenolics are degraded to 16 to 25 percent of their original concentrations within …
Date: April 1, 1983
Creator: Aaberg, R.L.; Peloquin, R.A.; Strenge, D.L. & Mellinger, P.L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Basic research needed for the development of geothermal energy (open access)

Basic research needed for the development of geothermal energy

Basic research needed to facilitate development of geothermal energy is identified. An attempt has been made to make the report representative of the ideas of productive workers in the field. The present state of knowledge of geothermal energy is presented and then specific recommendations for further research, with status and priorities, are listed. Discussion is limited to a small number of applicable concepts, namely: origin of geothermal flux; transport of geothermal energy; geothermal reservoirs; rock-water interactions, and geophysical and geochemical exploration.
Date: October 1, 1980
Creator: Aamodt, R. L. & Riecker, R. E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
New Concepts in Fish Ladder Design, Volume II of IV, Results of Laboratory and Field Research on New Concepts in Weir and Pool Fishways, 1982-1984 Final Project Report. (open access)

New Concepts in Fish Ladder Design, Volume II of IV, Results of Laboratory and Field Research on New Concepts in Weir and Pool Fishways, 1982-1984 Final Project Report.

A comprehensive review of fishway design practice led to new design concepts that had previously been untested. This concept was based on the observation that fish can be stimulated to leap when presented with certain hydraulic conditions. A laboratory test program was conducted to develop this concept into a new fishway configuration. Field testing revealed that components of the new design improved fish passage. Verification of the initial premise that fish can be stimulated to leap needs further study.
Date: August 1, 1985
Creator: Aaserude, Robert G. & Orsborn, John F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Measurement of the tau lepton lifetime (open access)

Measurement of the tau lepton lifetime

We report the measurement of the lifetime of the tau lepton. This measurement was made using the HRS spectrometer at PEP, operating at 29 GeV. The 3 prong decay vertices were measured using a four layer tubular cell vertex chamber. The lifetime of the tau was determined to be tau/sub tau/ = .28 +- .02 +- .02 ps. 7 refs., 3 figs.
Date: January 1, 1986
Creator: Abachi, S.; Akerlof, C.; Baringer, P.; Blockus, D.; Brabson, B.; Brom, J.M. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Search for wrong sign D/sup 0/ decays with the HRS detector (open access)

Search for wrong sign D/sup 0/ decays with the HRS detector

Using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 300pb/sup -1/ obtained at PEP with the HRS detector we have searched for the wrong sign decay of D/sup 0/ mesons in the decays D* ..-->.. D/sup 0/..pi... We obtain a 90% confidence level limit of 4.0% on the ratio of the wrong sign to the right sign decay rate in the K..pi.. mode. This is the best model independent limit on mixing currently available and constrains the nature of the wrong sign signal recently reported by the MARK III group. 10 refs., 2 figs.
Date: 1986
Creator: Abachi, S.; Akerlof, C.; Barringer, P.; Blockus, D.; Brabson, B.; Brom, J. M. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Carbon dioxide problem: DOE program and a general assessment (open access)

Carbon dioxide problem: DOE program and a general assessment

From the view of a potential national or international policy on CO/sub 2/, progress towards these goals is reported along with suggestions for additions to and implementation of the present work. After the introduction, conclusions and recommendations are presented. The third and fourth sections contain discussions of the present research programs on the carbon cycle and on climate modeling. The fifth section considers physical effects of CO/sub 2/-induced climate change that may be of social or economic importance. The last section considers some early warning signals for climate changes due to increased atmospheric CO/sub 2/.
Date: October 1, 1980
Creator: Abarbanel, H.; Chamberlain, J.; Foley, H.; MacDonald, G.; Nierenberg, W. & Ruderman, M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Regional-seasonal weather forecasting (open access)

Regional-seasonal weather forecasting

In the interest of allocating heating fuels optimally, the state-of-the-art for seasonal weather forecasting is reviewed. A model using an enormous data base of past weather data is contemplated to improve seasonal forecasts, but present skills do not make that practicable. 90 references. (PSB)
Date: August 1, 1980
Creator: Abarbanel, H.; Foley, H.; MacDonald, G.; Rothaus, O.; Rudermann, M. & Vesecky, J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
ECUT energy data reference series: high-temperature materials for advanced heat engines (open access)

ECUT energy data reference series: high-temperature materials for advanced heat engines

Information that describes the use of high-temperature materials in advanced heat engines for ground transportation applications is summarized. Applications discussed are: automobiles, light trucks, and medium and heavy trucks. The information provided on each of these modes includes descriptions of the average conversion efficiency of the engine, the capital stock, the amount of energy used, and the activity level as measured in ton-miles.
Date: July 1, 1984
Creator: Abarcar, R. B.; Hane, G. J. & Johnson, D. R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
ECUT energy data reference series: lightweight materials for ground transportation (open access)

ECUT energy data reference series: lightweight materials for ground transportation

This report summarizes information that describes the use of lightweight materials in automobiles. The information on this mode of transportation represents the largest potential energy savings for substitution of lightweight materials in the transportation sector. Included are data on energy conversion efficiency of the engine and its relationship to vehicle weight, the capital stock, the amount of energy used, and the service activity level as measured in ton-miles.
Date: July 1, 1984
Creator: Abarcar, R. B.; Hane, G. J. & Johnson, D. R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Water supply and demand in an energy supply model (open access)

Water supply and demand in an energy supply model

This report describes a tool for water and energy-related policy analysis, the development of a water supply and demand sector in a linear programming model of energy supply in the United States. The model allows adjustments in the input mix and plant siting in response to water scarcity. Thus, on the demand side energy conversion facilities can substitute more costly dry cooling systems for conventional evaporative systems. On the supply side groundwater and water purchased from irrigators are available as more costly alternatives to unappropriated surface water. Water supply data is developed for 30 regions in 10 Western states. Preliminary results for a 1990 energy demand scenario suggest that, at this level of spatial analysis, water availability plays a minor role in plant siting. Future policy applications of the modeling system are discussed including the evaluation of alternative patterns of synthetic fuels development.
Date: December 1, 1980
Creator: Abbey, D & Loose, V
System: The UNT Digital Library