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Oral History Interview with Thomas Stevenson, December 8, 2009 transcript

Oral History Interview with Thomas Stevenson, December 8, 2009

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Thomas Stevenson. Stevenson joined the Navy around 1942. He completed Naval Communications training. Beginning mid-1944, he served aboard the USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413). He shares his experiences through the Battle of Samar, and the sinking of the Roberts in October. Stevenson was then assigned on staff to the Command Transport Division 107, working with converted destroyer escorts. He traveled to Midway, Guam, Okinawa and the Philippines. After the war ended, he assisted with transported troops for occupation forces in Japan. Stevenson returned to the US and received his discharge in late 1945.
Date: December 8, 2009
Creator: Stevenson, Thomas
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Thomas Stevenson, December 8, 2009 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Thomas Stevenson, December 8, 2009

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Thomas Stevenson. Stevenson joined the Navy around 1942. He completed Naval Communications training. Beginning mid-1944, he served aboard the USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413). He shares his experiences through the Battle of Samar, and the sinking of the Roberts in October. Stevenson was then assigned on staff to the Command Transport Division 107, working with converted destroyer escorts. He traveled to Midway, Guam, Okinawa and the Philippines. After the war ended, he assisted with transported troops for occupation forces in Japan. Stevenson returned to the US and received his discharge in late 1945.
Date: December 8, 2009
Creator: Stevenson, Thomas
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 117, No. 238, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 8, 2009 (open access)

Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 117, No. 238, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Daily newspaper from Perry, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 8, 2009
Creator: Brown, Gloria
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Rail Transit: Observations on FTA's State Safety Oversight Program and Potential Change in Oversight Role (open access)

Rail Transit: Observations on FTA's State Safety Oversight Program and Potential Change in Oversight Role

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Rail transit generally has been one of the safest forms of public transportation. However, several recent notable accidents are cause for concern. For example, a July 2009 crash on the Washington Metro Red Line resulted in nine deaths. The federal government does not directly regulate the safety of rail transit. Through its State Safety Oversight program, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) requires states to designate an oversight agency to directly oversee the safety of rail transit systems. In 2006, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report that made recommendations to improve the program. The Department of Transportation (DOT) is planning to propose legislation that, if passed, would result in a greater role for FTA in regulating and overseeing the safety of these systems. This statement (1) summarizes the findings of GAO's 2006 report and (2) provides GAO's preliminary observations on key elements DOT has told us it will include in its legislative proposal for revamping rail transit safety oversight. It is based primarily on GAO's 2006 report, an analysis of the Administration's proposal through review of documents and interviews with DOT officials, and GAO's previous work on …
Date: December 8, 2009
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rains County Leader (Emory, Tex.), Vol. 123, No. 26, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 8, 2009 (open access)

Rains County Leader (Emory, Tex.), Vol. 123, No. 26, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Weekly newspaper from Emory, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 8, 2009
Creator: Hill, Earl Clyde, Jr.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

Reliability Challenges for Solar Energy

Presentation that reviews reliability issues related to various types of photovoltaic tecnnologies, including crystalline silicon, thin films, and concentrating PV.
Date: December 8, 2009
Creator: Kurtz, S.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
THE RETRIEVAL KNOWLEDGE CENTER EVALUATION OF LOW TANK LEVEL MIXING TECHNOLOGIES FOR DOE HIGH LEVEL WASTE TANK RETRIEVAL 10516 (open access)

THE RETRIEVAL KNOWLEDGE CENTER EVALUATION OF LOW TANK LEVEL MIXING TECHNOLOGIES FOR DOE HIGH LEVEL WASTE TANK RETRIEVAL 10516

The Department of Energy (DOE) Complex has over two-hundred underground storage tanks containing over 80-million gallons of legacy waste from the production of nuclear weapons. The majority of the waste is located at four major sites across the nation and is planned for treatment over a period of almost forty years. The DOE Office of Technology Innovation & Development within the Office of Environmental Management (DOE-EM) sponsors technology research and development programs to support processing advancements and technology maturation designed to improve the costs and schedule for disposal of the waste and closure of the tanks. Within the waste processing focus area are numerous technical initiatives which included the development of a suite of waste removal technologies to address the need for proven equipment and techniques to remove high level radioactive wastes from the waste tanks that are now over fifty years old. In an effort to enhance the efficiency of waste retrieval operations, the DOE-EM Office of Technology Innovation & Development funded an effort to improve communications and information sharing between the DOE's major waste tank locations as it relates to retrieval. The task, dubbed the Retrieval Knowledge Center (RKC) was co-lead by the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) …
Date: December 8, 2009
Creator: Fellinger, A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retrieval of Cloud Properties and Direct Testing of Cloud and Radiation Parameterizations Using ARM Observations (open access)

Retrieval of Cloud Properties and Direct Testing of Cloud and Radiation Parameterizations Using ARM Observations

The problems addressed by this work include cloud optical depth retrieval from satellite and surface data and 3D radiative transfer in dynamical models.
Date: December 8, 2009
Creator: Cober, Stewart G. & Barker, Howard
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 95, No. 60, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 8, 2009 (open access)

Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 95, No. 60, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 8, 2009
Creator: Shance, Brenda
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
SUMMARY OF 2009 RHEOLOGY MODIFIER PROGRAM (open access)

SUMMARY OF 2009 RHEOLOGY MODIFIER PROGRAM

The overall objective of the EM-31 Rheological Modifiers and Wetting Agents program is to utilize commercially available rheology modifiers to increase the solids fraction of radioactive sludge based waste streams, resulting in an increase in throughput and decreasing the overall processing time. The program first investigates the impact of rheology modifiers on slurry simulants and then utilizes the most effective rheology modifiers on radioactive slurries. The work presented in this document covers the initial investigation of rheology modifier testing with simulants. This task is supported by both the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). The SRNL EM-31 task, for this year, was to investigate the use of rheology modifiers on simulant Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) melter feeds. The task is to determine, based on the impact of the rheology modifier, if there are rheology modifiers that could reduce the water content of the slurry going to the DWPF melter, hence increasing the melt rate by decreasing the water loading. The rheology modifier in essence would allow a higher solids content slurry to have the same type of rheology or pumpability of a lower solids slurry. The modifiers selected in this report were determined based …
Date: December 8, 2009
Creator: Hansen, E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 21, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 8, 2009 (open access)

Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 21, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Daily newspaper from Sweetwater, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 8, 2009
Creator: Rodriguez, Tatiana
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas State Office of Risk Management Operating Budget: 2010 (open access)

Texas State Office of Risk Management Operating Budget: 2010

Proposed budget for the Texas State Office of Risk Management outlining projected income and expenditures, with supporting documentation.
Date: December 8, 2009
Creator: Texas. State Office of Risk Management.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Thermo-Mechanical Response of a TRISO Fuel Particle in a Fusion/Fission Engine for Incineration of Weapons Grade Plutonium (open access)

Thermo-Mechanical Response of a TRISO Fuel Particle in a Fusion/Fission Engine for Incineration of Weapons Grade Plutonium

The Laser Inertial Fusion-based (LIFE) engine is an advanced energy concept under development at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). LIFE engine could be used to drive a subcritical fission blanket with fertile or fissile fuel. Current LIFE engine designs envisages fuel in pebble bed form with TRISO (tristructural isotropic) particles embedded in a graphite matrix, and pebbles flowing in molten salt Flibe (2LiF+BeF{sub 2}) coolant at T {approx} 700C. Weapons-grade plutonium (WGPu) fuel is an attractive option for LIFE engine involving the achievement of high fractional burnups in a short lifetime frame. However, WGPu LIFE engine operating conditions of high neutron fast fluence, high radiation damage, and high Helium and Hydrogen production pose severe challenges for typical TRISO particles. The thermo-mechanical fuel performance code HUPPCO (High burn-Up fuel Pebble Performance COde) currently under development accounts for spatial and time dependence of the material elastic properties, temperature, and irradiation swelling and creep mechanisms. In this work, some aspects of the thermo-mechanical response of TRISO particles used for incineration of weapons grade fuel in LIFE engine are analyzed. Preliminary results show the importance of developing reliable high-fidelity models of the performance of these new fuel designs and the need of new experimental …
Date: December 8, 2009
Creator: Caro, M.; DeMange, P.; Marian, J. & Caro, A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The UNESCO World Heritage Convention: Congressional Issues (open access)

The UNESCO World Heritage Convention: Congressional Issues

This report provides background information on the World Heritage Convention, outlines U.S. participation and funding, and highlights criteria for adding and removing sites from the World Heritage Lists. It also discusses possible issues for the 111th Congress.
Date: December 8, 2009
Creator: Blanchfield, Luisa
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The University News (Irving, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 12, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 8, 2009 (open access)

The University News (Irving, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 12, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Weekly student newspaper from the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas that includes campus news and commentaries along with advertising.
Date: December 8, 2009
Creator: Nelson, Heather
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History