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The Pony Express (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 28, 2002
Newspaper from Panola College in Carthage, Texas that includes news of interest to the college community along with advertising.
Date:
February 28, 2002
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 28, 2002
Weekly newspaper from Port Aransas, Texas on Mustang Island that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
February 28, 2002
Creator:
Judson, Mary
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Prefabrication and HPC to Improve Constructibility and Minimize Traffic Disruptions
This paper addresses Texas' use of prefabricated bridge elements and systems.
Date:
February 28, 2002
Creator:
Pruski, Kevin R.; Medlock, Ronald D. & Ralls, Mary Lou
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Private Health Insurance: Access to Individual Market Coverage May Be Restricted for Applicants with Mental Disorders
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Five percent of adults suffer from serious mental disorders. Although health insurance carriers in a few states guarantee coverage for mental health treatment, in most states individuals with mental disorders face restrictions in purchasing private health insurance for themselves and their families. Eleven states require carriers to accept all applicants regardless of health status, but coverage options vary. Eight of these 11 states require all carriers to guarantee access to coverage sold in this market. In three states, laws apply only to some carriers, such as Blue Cross and Blue Shield, or certain periods of the year. Carriers in nine of the 11 states are also required to limit the extent to which premium rates vary between healthy and unhealthy individuals. In states without guaranteed coverage in the individual market, the seven carriers GAO reviewed would likely deny coverage more frequently for applicants with mental disorders than for applicants with other chronic health conditions. Specifically, for six mental disorders of generally moderate severity, carriers said that they would likely decline applicants 52 percent of the time. State-sponsored high-risk pools are the primary coverage option available to …
Date:
February 28, 2002
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Quality Assurance Plan for Field Activities at the Natural and Accelerated Bioremediation Research (NABIR) Field Research Center (FRC), Oak Ridge, Tennessee
The Environmental Sciences Division (ESD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has established a Natural and Accelerated Bioremediation Research (NABIR) program Field Research Center (FRC) for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Biological and Environmental Research. The FRC is located in Bear Creek Valley within the Y-12 Plant area of responsibility on DOE's Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee. The NABIR program is a long-term effort designed to increase the understanding of fundamental biogeochemical processes that would allow the use of bioremediation approaches for cleaning up DOE's contaminated legacy waste sites. The FRC provides a site for investigators in the NABIR program to conduct research and obtain samples related to in situ bioremediation. The FRC is integrated with existing and future laboratory and field research and provides a means of examining the biogeochemical processes that influence bioremediation under controlled small-scale field conditions. This Quality Assurance Plan (QAP) documents the quality assurance protocols for field and laboratory activities performed by the FRC staff. It supplements the requirements in the ORNL Nuclear Quality Assurance Program and the ESD Quality Assurance Program. The QAP addresses the requirements in Title 10 CFR, Part 830 Subpart A, ''Quality Assurance Requirements'', using a graded approach …
Date:
February 28, 2002
Creator:
Brandt, C.C.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Radiation dose measurements of the insertion devices
None
Date:
February 28, 2002
Creator:
Alderman, J & Job, P. K.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 28, 2002
Weekly student newspaper from Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas that includes campus and local news along with advertising.
Date:
February 28, 2002
Creator:
Manning, Melanie
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Replacement of HEPA Filters at the LANL CMR Facility: Risks Reduced by Comprehensive Waste Characterization
In March 2001, the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) completed the replacement of 720 radioactively contaminated HEPA filters for $5.7M. This project was completed five months ahead of schedule and $6.0M under budget with no worker injuries or contaminations. Numerous health and safety, environmental, and waste disposal problems were overcome, including having to perform work in a radioactively contaminated work environment, that was also contaminated with perchlorates (potential explosive). High waste disposal costs were also an issue. A project risk analysis and government cost estimate determined that the cost of performing the work would be $11.8M. To reduce risk, a $1.2M comprehensive condition assessment was performed to determine the degree of toxic and radioactive contamination trapped on the HEPA filters; and to determine whether explosive concentrations of perchlorates were present. Workers from LANL and personnel from Waldheim International of Knoxville, TN collected hundreds of samples wearing personnel protective gear against radioactive, toxic, and explosive hazards. LANL also funded research at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology to determine the explosivity of perchlorates. The data acquired from the condition assessment showed that toxic metals, toxic organic compounds, and explosive concentrations of perchlorates were absent. The data also showed that …
Date:
February 28, 2002
Creator:
Corpion, J.; Barr, A.; Martinez, P. & Bader, M.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Resource Conservation Title: Comparison of Current Law with Farm Bills Passed by the House and Senate
None
Date:
February 28, 2002
Creator:
Zinn, Jeffrey A.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 28, 2002
Weekly newspaper from Rio Grande City, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
February 28, 2002
Creator:
Roberts, Kenneth
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Russian Containers for Transportation of Solid Radioactive Waste
The Russian Shipyard ''Zvyozdochka'' has designed a new container for transportation and storage of solid radioactive wastes. The PST1A-6 container is cylindrical shaped and it can hold seven standard 200-liter (55-gallon) drums. The steel wall thickness is 6 mm, which is much greater than standard U.S. containers. These containers are fully certified to the Russian GOST requirements, which are basically identical to U.S. and IAEA standards for Type A containers. They can be transported by truck, rail, barge, ship, or aircraft and they can be stacked in 6 layers in storage facilities. The first user of the PST1A-6 containers is the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy, under a program sponsored jointly by the U.S. DoD and DOE. This paper will describe the container design and show how the first 400 containers were fabricated and certified.
Date:
February 28, 2002
Creator:
Petrushenko, V. G.; Baal, E. P.; Tsvetkov, D. Y.; Korb, V. R.; Nikitin, V. S.; Mikheev, A. A. et al.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Sanger Courier (Sanger, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 28, 2002
Weekly newspaper from Sanger, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
February 28, 2002
Creator:
Norris, Caleb
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 87, No. 144, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 28, 2002
Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
February 28, 2002
Creator:
Quinnelly, Lorrie J.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Science Based Policies: How Can Scientist Communicate their Points Across?
With the complexity of environmental problems faced today, both scientists and policymakers are striving to combine policy and administration with the physical and natural sciences in order to mitigate and prevent environmental degradation. Nevertheless, communicating science to policymakers has been difficult due to many barriers. Even though scientists and policymakers share the blame in the miscommunication. This paper will provide recommendations targeted to the scientific arena. Establishing guidelines for the cooperation of scientists and policymakers can be an unattainable goal due to the complexity and diversity of political policymaking and environmental issues. However, the recommendations provided in this paper are simple enough to be followed by a wide variety of audiences and institutions in the scientific fields. This will aid when trying to fill the gap that has prevented the enhancement of scientific policymaking strategies, which decide on the critical issue s such as the disposal, transportation and production of hazardous waste.
Date:
February 28, 2002
Creator:
Elnakat, A. C.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Selection of technical risk responses for efficient contingencies
The primary goal of good project risk management should be to successfully deliver projects for the lowest cost at an acceptable level of risk. This requires the systematic development and implementation of a set of Risk Response Actions (RRA) that achieves the lowest total project cost for a given probability of success while meeting technical performance and schedule. We refer to this set as the ''efficient RRA set''. This work presents a practical and mathematically sound approach for determining the efficient RRA set. It builds on some of Markowitz's portfolio selection principles and introduces several conceptual and modeling differences to properly treat project technical risks. The set of RRAs is treated as whole and not just individual risks. The efficient RRA set is determined based on ''Outcome Cost Vs Probability of Success''. The risks and RRAs are characterized using scenarios, decision trees, and cumulative probability distributions. The analysis provides information that enables decision-makers to select the efficient RRA set that explicitly takes their attitude toward project risk into account. Decision-makers should find it both useful and practical for sound decision-making under uncertainty/risk and efficiently optimizing project success. The computations are readily performed using commercially available Monte Carlo simulation tools. The …
Date:
February 28, 2002
Creator:
Kujawski, Edouard
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Software in the DOE: The Hidden Overhead of''The Build''
''The Build'' is the infrastructure needed to convert software from source code to usable form. It is intimately tied to the software it supports, knowing about every file and automating every transformation needed to produce a working program. Every developer knows that a project spends some labor overhead on ''the build.'' How big is this hidden overhead? According to 34 scientific software developers we surveyed at Lawrence Livermore National Labs, among colleagues at other DOE labs, and a handful of academics the ''perceived'' overhead averages around 12%. Individual cases of 20% to 30% were not uncommon. In one project claiming a 20% overhead, we found supporting evidence by combing through their CVS repository.
Date:
February 28, 2002
Creator:
Kumfert, G & Epperly, T
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Stamford American (Stamford, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 28, 2002
Weekly newspaper from Stamford, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
February 28, 2002
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
''Substantial Margin of Safety'': A New Approach to HLW Disposition
In the Spring of 2001, the National Research Council published ''Disposition of High-Level Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel: The Continuing Societal and Technical Challenges.'' (1) While finding the technical case for deep geologic disposal of high-level waste and spent fuel robust, the report focused new attention on societal issues and decision-making. The report appeared against a backdrop of heightened controversy about the development of a geologic repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. This paper identifies three principal reasons for the National Research Council committee's finding that ''Difficulties in achieving public support have been seriously underestimated in the past, and opportunities to gain public trust have been missed.''
Date:
February 28, 2002
Creator:
Power, M. S.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Summary of Results for Expanded Macrobatch 3 Variability Study
This study addresses the extended processing region for the use of Frit 320 and also considered changes in the processing region due to updates in the sludge composition.
Date:
February 28, 2002
Creator:
Herman, C. C.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Survey of Mixed-Waste HEPA Filters in the DOE Complex
A brief investigation was made to determine the quantities of spent, mixed-waste HEPA filters within the DOE Complex. The quantities of both the mixed-waste filters that are currently being generated, as well as the legacy mixed-waste filters being stored and awaiting disposition were evaluated. Seven DOE sites representing over 89% of the recent HEPA filter usage were identified. These sites were then contacted to determine the number of these filters that were likely destined to become mixed waste and to survey the legacy-filter quantities. Inquiries into the disposition plans for the filters were also made. It was determined that the seven sites surveyed possess approximately 500 m3 of legacy mixed-waste HEPA filters that will require processing, with an annual generation rate of approximately 25 m3. No attempt was made to extrapolate the results of this survey to the entire DOE Complex. These results were simply considered to be the lower bound of the totality of mixed-waste HEPA filters throughout the Complex. The quantities determined encourage the development of new treatment technologies for these filters, and provide initial data on which an appropriate capacity for a treatment process may be based.
Date:
February 28, 2002
Creator:
Felicione, F. S.; Barber, D. B. & Carney, K. P.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Technical Status Report on the Applicability of the Homogeneity Contraint for Sludge-Only Processing
In this report, initial assessments (via computational evaluations relative to acceptable property limits) are made as to whether the homogeneity constraint has the potential to restrict composition regions of projected sludge-only processing. The compositional region covered by this study included five individual waste types and two specific sludge batches (SB3 and SB4)-the latter of which defines sludge-only processing based on Revision 12 of the high-level waste (HLW) System Plan (WSRC 2001).
Date:
February 28, 2002
Creator:
Peeler, D.K.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Testing of the CANDU Spent Fuel Storage Basket Package
The paper described the results of testing for a CANDU Spent Fuel Storage Basket Package Prototype intended to be used for transport and storage of the CANDU spent fuel bundles within NPP CANDU Cernavoda, Romania. The results obtained proved that the objectives of those tests were achieved
Date:
February 28, 2002
Creator:
Vieru, G.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Texas Historically Underutilized Business Semi-Annual Report: 2002
Semi-annual report documenting statistics and analysis of contracts awarded to historically underutilized business (HUBs) by Texas state agencies, including statewide analysis, analysis summary.
Date:
February 28, 2002
Creator:
Texas. General Services Commission.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 28, 2002
Weekly Jewish newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
February 28, 2002
Creator:
Wisch, Rene
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History