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Hanford Seismic Annual Report and Fourth Quarter Report for Fiscal Year 1999 (open access)

Hanford Seismic Annual Report and Fourth Quarter Report for Fiscal Year 1999

Hanford Seismic Monitoring provides an uninterrupted collection of high-quality raw and processed seismic data from the Hanford Seismic Network (HSN) for the U.S. Department of Energy and its contractors. Hanford Seismic Monitoring also locates and identifies sources of seismic activity and monitors changes in the historical pattern of seismic activity at the Hanford Site. The data are compiled, archived, and published for use by the Hanford Site for waste management, Natural Phenomena Hazards assessments, and engineering design and construction. In addition, the seismic monitoring organization works with the Hanford Site Emergency Services Organization to provide assistance in the event of a significant earthquake on the Hanford Site. The HSN and the Eastern Washington Regional Network. (EWRN) consist of 40 individual sensor sites and 15 radio relay sites maintained by the Hanford Seismic Monitoring staff. A major reconfiguration of the HSN was initiated at the end of this quarter and the results will be reported in the first quarter report for next fiscal year (FY2000). For the HSN, there were 390 triggers during the fourth quarter of fiscal year(FY) 1999 on the primary recording system. With the implementation of dual backup systems during the second quarter of the fiscal year and …
Date: December 7, 1999
Creator: Rohay, A. C.; Hartshorn, D. C. & Reidel, S. P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Harper Herald (Harper, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 145, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 7, 1999 (open access)

The Harper Herald (Harper, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 145, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 7, 1999

Weekly newspaper from Harper, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 7, 1999
Creator: Bishop, Karen
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Implementing the chemical weapons convention (open access)

Implementing the chemical weapons convention

In 1993, as the CWC ratification process was beginning, concerns arose that the complexity of integrating the CWC with national law could cause each nation to implement the Convention without regard to what other nations were doing, thereby causing inconsistencies among States as to how the CWC would be carried out. As a result, the author's colleagues and the author prepared the Manual for National Implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention and presented it to each national delegation at the December 1993 meeting of the Preparatory Commission in The Hague. During its preparation, the Committee of CWC Legal Experts, a group of distinguished international jurists, law professors, legally-trained diplomats, government officials, and Parliamentarians from every region of the world, including Central Europe, reviewed the Manual. In February 1998, they finished the second edition of the Manual in order to update it in light of developments since the CWC entered into force on 29 April 1997. The Manual tries to increase understanding of the Convention by identifying its obligations and suggesting methods of meeting them. Education about CWC obligations and available alternatives to comply with these requirements can facilitate national response that are consistent among States Parties. Thus, the Manual offers …
Date: December 7, 1999
Creator: Kellman, B. & Tanzman, E. A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
In Shop Acceptance Test Report for the SY Farm Annulus Leak Detectors (open access)

In Shop Acceptance Test Report for the SY Farm Annulus Leak Detectors

The following test report was written for the SY tank farm annulus leak detectors. The test plan used was HNF-4546, Revision 1. The purpose of the test plan was to test the ENRAF series 854 ATG with SPU II card prior to installation. The test plan set various parameters and verifies the gauge and alarms functionality.
Date: December 7, 1999
Creator: Smith, S. G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Intermittent single point machining of brittle materials (open access)

Intermittent single point machining of brittle materials

A series of tests were undertaken to explore diamond tool wear in the intermittent cutting of brittle materials, specifically silicon. The tests were carried out on a plain way No. 3 Moore machine base equipped as a flycutter with a motorized Professional Instruments 4R air bearing spindle. The diamond tools were made by Edge Technologies with known crystal orientation and composition and sharpened with either an abrasive or chemical process, depending on the individual test. The flycutting machine configuration allowed precise control over the angle at which the tool engages the anisotropic silicon workpiece. In contrast, the crystallographic orientation of the silicon workpiece changes continuously during on-axis turning. As a result, it is possible to flycut a workpiece in cutting directions that are known to be easy or hard. All cuts were run in the 100 plane of the silicon, with a slight angle deliberately introduced to ensure that the 100 plane is engaged in ''up-cutting'' which lengthens the tool life. A Kistler 9256 dynamometer was used to measure the cutting forces in order to gain insight into the material removal process and tool wear during testing. The dynamometer provides high bandwidth force measurement with milli-Newton resolution and good thermal …
Date: December 7, 1999
Creator: Marsh, E
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Hector Garcia to Steve Cox about the 2000 Black Tie Dinner] (open access)

[Letter from Hector Garcia to Steve Cox about the 2000 Black Tie Dinner]

Letter to Steven Cox from Hector Garcia about the Texas Human Rights Foundation being a beneficiary of the 2000 Black Tie dinner.
Date: December 7, 1999
Creator: Garcia, Hector
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mitigated Transfer Line Leaks that Result in Surface Pools and Spray Leaks into Pits (open access)

Mitigated Transfer Line Leaks that Result in Surface Pools and Spray Leaks into Pits

This analysis provides radiological and toxicological consequence calculations for postulated mitigated leaks during transfers of six waste compositions. Leaks in Cleanout Boxes equipped with supplemental covers and leaks in pits are analyzed.
Date: December 7, 1999
Creator: Hey, B. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Cold Weather] captions transcript

[News Clip: Cold Weather]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about cold weather. This b-roll footage includes interviews with unidentified people about the weather and footage of snow falling. This footage was broadcast at 5pm.
Date: December 7, 1999
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Park dedication] captions transcript

[News Clip: Park dedication]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering an unknown news story. In this b-roll footage a group of unidentified people are seen cutting a ribbon and attending a ceremony with the Arlington Museum of Art in the background. Off-camera, an unidentified man speaks and mentions Nancy and Gene Allen, and a band plays wearing Santa hats. This footage was broadcast at 5pm.
Date: December 7, 1999
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 84, No. 74, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 7, 1999 (open access)

The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 84, No. 74, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 7, 1999

Student newspaper of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma that includes national, local, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: December 7, 1999
Creator: Wilmoth, Adam
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Performance of twist-coupled blades on variable speed rotors (open access)

Performance of twist-coupled blades on variable speed rotors

The load mitigation and energy capture characteristics of twist-coupled HAWT blades that are mounted on a variable speed rotor are investigated in this paper. These blades are designed to twist toward feather as they bend with pretwist set to achieve a desirable twist distribution at rated power. For this investigation, the ADAMS-WT software has been modified to include blade models with bending-twist coupling. Using twist-coupled and uncoupled models, the ADAMS software is exercised for steady wind environments to generate C{sub p} curves at a number of operating speeds to compare the efficiencies of the two models. The ADAMS software is also used to generate the response of a twist-coupled variable speed rotor to a spectrum of stochastic wind time series. This spectrum contains time series with two mean wind speeds at two turbulence levels. Power control is achieved by imposing a reactive torque on the low speed shaft proportional to the RPM squared with the coefficient specified so that the rotor operates at peak efficiency in the linear aerodynamic range, and by limiting the maximum RPM to take advantage of the stall controlled nature of the rotor. Fatigue calculations are done for the generated load histories using a range of …
Date: December 7, 1999
Creator: Lobitz, D. W.; Veers, P. S. & Laino, D. J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 238, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 7, 1999 (open access)

Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 238, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 7, 1999

Daily newspaper from Perry, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 7, 1999
Creator: Brown, Gloria
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
PFP Commercial Grade Food Pack Cans for Plutonium Handling and Storage Critical Characteristics (open access)

PFP Commercial Grade Food Pack Cans for Plutonium Handling and Storage Critical Characteristics

This document specifies the critical characteristics for Commercial Grade Items (CGI) procured for PFP's Vault Operations system as required by HNF-PRO-268 and HNF-PRO-1819. These are the minimum specifications that the equipment must meet in order to perform its safety function. The changes in these specifications have no detrimental effect on the descriptions and parameters related to handling plutonium solids in the authorization basis. Because no parameters or sequences exceed the limits described in the authorization bases, no accident or abnormal conditions are affected. The specifications prescribed in this critical characteristics document do not represent an unreviewed safety question.
Date: December 7, 1999
Creator: BONADIE, E.P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Pony Express (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 4, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 7, 1999 (open access)

The Pony Express (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 4, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 7, 1999

Newspaper from Panola College in Carthage, Texas that includes news of interest to the college community along with advertising.
Date: December 7, 1999
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Potential incorporation of transuranics into uranium phases (open access)

Potential incorporation of transuranics into uranium phases

The UO{sub 2} in spent nuclear fuel is unstable under moist oxidizing conditions and will be altered to uranyl oxide hydrate phases. The transuranics released during the corrosion of spent fuel may also be incorporated into the structures of secondary U{sup 6+} phases. The incorporation of radionuclides into alteration products will affect their mobility. A series of precipitation tests were conducted at either 150 or 90 C for seven days to determine the potential incorporation of Ce{sup 4+} and Nd{sup 3+} (surrogates for Pu{sup 4+} and Am{sup 3+}, respectively) into uranium phases. Ianthinite ([U{sub 2}{sup 4+}(UO{sub 2}){sub 4}O{sub 6}(OH){sub 4}(H{sub 2}O){sub 4}](H{sub 2}O){sub 5}) was produced by dissolving uranium oxyacetate in a solution containing copper acetate monohydrate as a reductant. The leachant used in these tests were doped with either 2.1 ppm cerium or 399 ppm neodymium. Inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometer (ICP-MS) analysis of the solid phase reaction products which were dissolved in a HNO{sub 3} solution indicates that about 306 ppm Ce (K{sub d} = 146) was incorporated into ianthinite, while neodymium contents were much higher, being approximately 24,800 ppm (K{sub d} = 62). Solid phase examinations using an analytical transmission electron microscope/electron energy-loss spectrometer (AEM/EELS) indicate a uniform …
Date: December 7, 1999
Creator: Kim, C. W.; Wronkiewicz, D. J. & Buck, E. C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A prototype ROI builder for the second level trigger of ATLAS implemented in FPGA's. (open access)

A prototype ROI builder for the second level trigger of ATLAS implemented in FPGA's.

In an effort to reduce data transfer and rate requirements, the Higher Level Trigger of the ATLAS Detector uses Region of Interest (ROI) information forwarded from Level 1 Partitions on a Level 1 Accept. The ROI Builder receives these ROI fragments, which may be considerably skewed in time and may be interspersed with fragments from other events, organizes and formats from these fragments a record for each event accepted by Level 1, selects a processor to manage the event, and transfers via S-link the assembled ROI record to the target processor. The ROI Builder must fulfill these requirements at the Level 1 Trigger rate of 100 kHz while accommodating S-link flow control. A design for the ROI Builder was developed emphasizing parallelism, implemented in FPGA's, and has been run in testbeds at Saclay and CERN.
Date: December 7, 1999
Creator: Blair, R. E.; Dawson, J. W.; Haberichter, W. N. & Schlereth, J. L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rains County Leader (Emory, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 26, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 7, 1999 (open access)

Rains County Leader (Emory, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 26, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 7, 1999

Weekly newspaper from Emory, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 7, 1999
Creator: Hill, Earl Clyde, Jr.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
RARE KAON DECAYS (open access)

RARE KAON DECAYS

The current status of rare kaon decay experiments is reviewed. New limits in the search for Lipton Flavor Violation are discussed, as are new measurements of the CKM matrix.
Date: December 7, 1999
Creator: Kettell, S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 84, No. 72, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 7, 1999 (open access)

Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 84, No. 72, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 7, 1999

Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 7, 1999
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Sealy News (Sealy, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 99, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 7, 1999 (open access)

The Sealy News (Sealy, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 99, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 7, 1999

Semiweekly newspaper from Sealy, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 7, 1999
Creator: Chionsini, Brandi
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Simulation of H behavior in p-GaN(Mg) at elevated temperatures (open access)

Simulation of H behavior in p-GaN(Mg) at elevated temperatures

The behavior of H in p-GaN(Mg) at temperatures >400 C is modeled by using energies and vibrational frequencies from density-functional theory to parameterize transport and reaction equations. Predictions agree semiquantitatively with experiment for the solubility, uptake, and release of the H when account is taken of a surface barrier. Hydrogen is introduced into GaN during growth by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) and subsequent device processing. This impurity affects electrical properties substantially, notably in p-type GaN doped with Mg where it reduces the effective acceptor concentration. Application of density-functional theory to the zincblende and wurtzite forms of GaN has indicated that dissociated H in interstitial solution assumes positive, neutral, and negative charge states. The neutral species is found to be less stable than one or the other of the charged states for all Fermi energies. Hydrogen is predicted to form a bound neutral complex with Mg, and a local vibrational mode ascribed to this complex has been observed. The authors are developing a unified mathematical description of the diffusion, reactions, uptake, and release of H in GaN at the elevated temperatures of growth and processing. Their treatment is based on zero-temperature energies from density functional theory. One objective is to …
Date: December 7, 1999
Creator: Myers, S. M. Jr.; Wright, A. F.; Petersen, G. A.; Seager, C. H.; Crawford, M. H.; Wampler, W. R. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tank 241-AZ-101 and Tank 241-AZ-102 Airlift Circulator Operation Vapor Sampling and Analysis Plan (open access)

Tank 241-AZ-101 and Tank 241-AZ-102 Airlift Circulator Operation Vapor Sampling and Analysis Plan

This sampling and analysis plan (SAP) identifies characterization objectives pertaining to sample collection, laboratory analytical evaluation, and reporting requirements for vapor samples obtained during the operation of the tank 241-AZ-101 and 241-AZ-102 airlift circulators (ALCs) and during the initial operation (''bump'') of the tank 241-AZ-101 mixer pumps. The purpose of the ALC operation is to support portions of the operational test procedure (OTP) for Project W-030 (OTP-W030-001) and to perform functional test in support of Project W-151. Project W-030 is the 241-A-702 ventilation upgrade project (241-142-702) and Project W-151 is the 241-AZ-101 Mixer Pump Test. The functional tests will check the operability of the tank 241-AZ-101 ALCs. Process Memo's No. 2E98-082 and No. 2E99-001 (LMHC 1999a, LMHC 1999b) direct the operation of the ALCs and the Industrial Hygiene monitoring respectively. A series of tests will be conducted in which the ALCs in tanks 241-AZ-101 and 241-AZ-102 will be operated at different air flow rates. Vapor samples will be obtained to determine constituents that may be present in the tank headspace during ALC operation at tanks 241-AZ-101 and 241-AZ-102 as the waste is disturbed. During the testing, vapor samples will be obtained from the headspace of tanks 241-AZ-101 and 241-AZ-102 via …
Date: December 7, 1999
Creator: TEMPLETON, A.M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transient Beam Dynamics in the LBL 2 MV Injector (open access)

Transient Beam Dynamics in the LBL 2 MV Injector

A driver-scale injector for the Heavy Ion Fusion Accelerator project has been built at LBL. This machine has exceeded the design goals of high voltage (> 2 MV), high current (> 0.8 A of K{sup +}) and low normalized emittance (< 1 {pi} mm-mr). The injector consists of a 750 keV gun pre-injector followed by an electrostatic quadrupole accelerator (ESQ) which provides strong (alternating gradient) focusing for the space-charge dominated beam, and simultaneously accelerates the ions to 2 MeV. A matching section is being built to match the beam to the electrostatic accelerator ELISE. The gun preinjector, designed to hold up to 1 MV with minimal breakdown risks, consists of a hot aluminosilicate source with a large curved emitting surface surrounded by a thick ''extraction electrode''. During beam turn-on the voltage at the source is biased from a negative potential, enough to reverse the electric field on the emitting surface and avoid emission, to a positive potential to start extracting the beam; it stays constant for about 1 {micro}s, and is reversed to turn-off the emission. Since the Marx voltage applied on the accelerating quadrupoles and the main pre-injector gap is a long, constant pulse (several {micro}s), the transient behavior …
Date: December 7, 1999
Creator: Henestroza, E & Grote, D
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 100, No. 197, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 7, 1999 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 100, No. 197, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 7, 1999

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 7, 1999
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History