Emissions of greenhouse gases in the United States, 1987--1994 (open access)

Emissions of greenhouse gases in the United States, 1987--1994

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) is required by the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to prepare a report on aggregate US national emissions of greenhouse gases for the period 1987--1992, with annual updates thereafter. This is the third annual update report,covering national emissions over the period 1987--1993, with preliminary estimates of US carbon dioxide and halocarbon emissions for 1994. Calculating national aggregate emissions(or ``national inventories``) of greenhouse gases is a recently developed form of intellectual endeavor. Greenhouse gas emissions are rarely measured directly or reported to statistical agencies. Thus, to prepare emissions inventories usually requires inferring emissions indirectly from information collected for other purposes. Both the available information and the inferences drawn may be of varying reliability. Chapter 1 of this report briefly recapitulates some background information about global climate change and the greenhouse effect and discusses important recent developments in global climate change activities. Chapters 2 through 6 cover emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, halocarbons, and criteria pollutants, respectively. Chapter 7 describes potential sequestration and emissions of greenhouse gases as a result of land use changes.
Date: September 25, 1995
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Monthly energy review, September 1995 (open access)

Monthly energy review, September 1995

An ``energy snapshot`` article is included on housing characteristics in 1993 (survey of 7,111 households). The rest of the document is divided into: energy overview, energy consumption, petroleum, natural gas, oil and gas resource development, coal, electricity, nuclear energy, energy prices, international energy, and appendices (conversion factors, CO2 emission factors from coal, index, glossary).
Date: September 25, 1995
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
High charge short electron bunches for wakefield accelerator structures development. (open access)

High charge short electron bunches for wakefield accelerator structures development.

The Argonne Wakefield Accelerator group develops accelerating structures based on dielectric loaded waveguides. We use high charge short electron bunches to excite wakefields in dielectric loaded structures, and a second (low charge) beam to probe the wakefields left behind by the drive beam. We report measurements of beam parameters and also initial results of the dielectric loaded accelerating structures. We have studied acceleration of the probe beam in these structures and we have also made measurements on the RF pulses that are generated by the drive beam. Single drive bunches, as well as multiple bunches separated by an integer number of RF periods have been used to generate the accelerating wakefields.
Date: September 25, 1998
Creator: Conde, M. E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
PNC in hydrogen. different prospects using heliumlike ions. (open access)

PNC in hydrogen. different prospects using heliumlike ions.

The motivation for parity experiments in simple atomic systems is that the atomic physics is known precisely so they directly test the weak interactions. We review the status of the parity experiments that have been done in atomic hydrogen and suggest some possibilities for experiments in helium like ions.
Date: September 25, 1998
Creator: Dunford, R. W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Imprinting artificial magnetic structures. (open access)

Imprinting artificial magnetic structures.

Recently we created La/Fe multilayers with a helical magnetic structure imprinted from the conditions of growth rather than by the magnetic interactions between layers. Each sublayer was 30{angstrom} thick, and during deposition the sample was rotated in an external field of 3 Oe. a field strong enough to magnetize the Fe layer being deposited but not sufficient to perturb the magnetization of the Fe layers already grown. As a result adjacent Fe layers formed a helical structure with a chirality and periodicity determined by the rotational direction and speed of the substrate and the rate of deposition. Following this discovery, an extensive set of experiments (mainly using Kerr effect magnetometry and polarized neutron reflectivity) was undertaken to ascertain the stability of imprinted magnetic structures, and to understand the onset of magnetization during growth. La/Fe imprinted helical magnetic structures (of different La and Fe thicknesses) were found to be stable in time and to be permanently erased only by magnetic fields larger than 90 Oe.
Date: September 25, 1998
Creator: Lohstroh, W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Magnetic spiral structures in La/Fe multilayers. (open access)

Magnetic spiral structures in La/Fe multilayers.

The magnetic properties of La/Fe multilayers were tested by magneto-optical Kerr effect and polarized neutron reflectometry. The experiments indicated that above a layer thickness t{sub la} = 25{angstrom} the magnetic state of the virgin sample is represented by a spiral-like arrangement of magnetizations of subsequent Fe layers, whereas each Fe layer itself is ferromagnetic. Polarized neutron reflectometry shows that the helix has predominantly one chirality over the entire surface area of several cm{sup 2}. Tine magnetic spiral structure is imprinted during the growth process by rotating the sample in a small residual magnetic field. External magnetic field of 90 Oe are sufficient to erase the magnetic structure irreversibly.
Date: September 25, 1998
Creator: Lohstroh, W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Broadening of the scrape-off-layer by a plasma convection induced by toroidal asymmetries of the divertor plates and the gas-puff (open access)

Broadening of the scrape-off-layer by a plasma convection induced by toroidal asymmetries of the divertor plates and the gas-puff

In the open field line region of the scrape-off layer (SOL), plasma potential is to a considerable degree determined by the boundary conditions on the divertor plates. By introducing toroidal asymmetries of the surface relief of the divertor plates or of their chemical composition, one can create toroidally asymmetric potential variations over the whole SOL and thereby induce convective plasma motion. This motion should lead to a broadening of the SOL and to reduction of beat load on the divertor plates. Convective motion can be induced also by a toroidally asymmetric gas-puff. In the present paper the authors consider all these techniques and evaluate the possible increase in the cross-field transport.
Date: September 25, 1995
Creator: Cohen, R. H. & Ryutov, D. D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Borehole Miner - Extendible Nozzle Development for Radioactive Waste Dislodging and Retrieval from Underground Storage Tanks (open access)

Borehole Miner - Extendible Nozzle Development for Radioactive Waste Dislodging and Retrieval from Underground Storage Tanks

This report summarizes development of borehole-miner extendible-nozzle water-jetting technology for dislodging and retrieving salt cake, sludge} and supernate to remediate underground storage tanks full of radioactive waste. The extendible-nozzle development was based on commercial borehole-miner technology.
Date: September 25, 1998
Creator: Enderlin, C. W.; Alberts, D. G.; Bamberger, J. A. & White, M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The statistical efficiency of filtered backprojection in emission tomography (open access)

The statistical efficiency of filtered backprojection in emission tomography

While there has been much interest in developing tomographic reconstruction algorithms that are more statistically efficient than filtered backprojection (FB), the degree of improvement possible has not been well understood. We present an algorithm-independent theory of statistical accuracy attainable in emission tomography that provides a geometrical interpretation of the statistical efficiency of FB. Our analysis shows that, in general, one can build unbiased estimators with smaller variance than FB. The improvement in performance is obtained by exploiting the range properties of the Radon transform.
Date: September 25, 1995
Creator: Kuruc, A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Public/private key certification authority and key distribution. Draft (open access)

Public/private key certification authority and key distribution. Draft

Traditional encryption, which protects messages from prying eyes, has been used for many decades. The present concepts of encryption are built from that heritage. Utilization of modern software-based encryption techniques implies much more than simply converting files to an unreadable form. Ubiquitous use of computers and advances in encryption technology coupled with the use of wide-area networking completely changed the reasons for utilizing encryption technology. The technology demands a new and extensive infrastructure to support these functions. Full understanding of these functions, their utility and value, and the need for an infrastructure, takes extensive exposure to the new paradigm. This paper addresses issues surrounding the establishment and operation of a key management system (i.e., certification authority) that is essential to the successful implementation and wide-spread use of encryption.
Date: September 25, 1995
Creator: Long, J.P.; Christensen, M.J.; Sturtevant, A.P. & Johnston, W.E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Laser system for a subpicosecond electron linac. (open access)

Laser system for a subpicosecond electron linac.

At the Argonne Chemistry Division efforts are underway to develop a sub-picosecond electron beam pulse radiolysis facility for chemical studies. The target output of the accelerator is to generate electron pulses that can be adjusted from 3nC in .6ps to 100nC in 45ps. In conjunction with development of the accelerator a state-of-the-art ultrafast laser system is under construction that will drive the linac's photocathode and provide probe pulses that are tunable from the UV to IR spectral regions.
Date: September 25, 1998
Creator: Crowell, R. A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The History of the 200 Area Burial Ground Vacilities Volume 2 (open access)

The History of the 200 Area Burial Ground Vacilities Volume 2

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Date: September 25, 1996
Creator: Anderson, J. D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The role of selected f ions in the suppression of high-Tc superconductivity. (open access)

The role of selected f ions in the suppression of high-Tc superconductivity.

The initial observations of superconductivity at temperatures above 77 K in copper-oxide based materials was surprising from a variety of different perspectives. Among the unexpected findings were reports of superconductivity for the series RBa{sub 2}Cu{sub 3}O{sub 7} where R is a rare earth (Y, Nd-Tm), which may carry a large, local magnetic moment. Superconductivity was subsequently demonstrated for all 4f analogs in this series except Ce, Pr, and Tb. In addition to the RBa{sub 2}Cu{sub 3}O{sub 7} series, there are several other CuO based series of superconductors that are formed by substituting R ions. The most studied of these are listed in Table 1, together with the f ions that form isostructural compounds and their superconducting critical temperatures (T{sub c}). The presence of an R ion with a large magnetic moment does not significantly influence the superconductivity. In contrast, even the presence of small concentrations of magnetic impurity ions in a conventional superconductor inhibits superconductivity by interfering with the formation of Cooper pairs. Most R ions substitute into an isostructural series with no observable effect on the superconducting properties of the material. As can be seen from Table 1, there are notable exceptions to this observation. In particular, the rare-earth …
Date: September 25, 1998
Creator: Soderholm, L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Resonant excitation of plasma wakefields using multiple electron bunches. (open access)

Resonant excitation of plasma wakefields using multiple electron bunches.

We plan to resonantly excite plasma wakefields using a train of electron bunches separated by an-integer number of plasma wavelengths. The multiple electron bunches are generated by a photocathode based RF gun by splitting the laser beam into temporally separated pulses. The amplitude of the wakefields generated by the sequence of bunches is expected to be higher than that generated if all charge had been in only one bunch, because this single bunch would be considerably longer than the individual sub-bunches due to space charge effects in our gun.
Date: September 25, 1998
Creator: Conde, M. E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tank 241-TX-105 headspace gas and vapor characterization results for samples collected in December 1995 (open access)

Tank 241-TX-105 headspace gas and vapor characterization results for samples collected in December 1995

Significant changes have been made to all of the original vapor characterization reports. This report documents specific headspace gas and vapor characterization results for all vapor sampling events to date. In addition, changes have been made to the original vapor reports to qualify the data based on quality assurance issues associated with the performing laboratories
Date: September 25, 1995
Creator: Huckaby, J.L. & Bratzel, D.R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Managing in an environmentally constrained world (open access)

Managing in an environmentally constrained world

In thinking about this issue, one comes to fundamental question: Why are we concerned at all? Why have all of us gathered here, rather than simply continue to clean up what we should from the past and control our emissions for the present and the future? The answer, I think, may be hinted at by several scenarios (which, although plausible given current trends, are intended to be hypothetical).
Date: September 25, 1995
Creator: Allenby, B.R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Vapor and gas sampling of single-shell tank 241-BY-108 using the vapor sampling system (open access)

Vapor and gas sampling of single-shell tank 241-BY-108 using the vapor sampling system

This document presents sampling data resulting from the October 27, 1994, sampling of SST 241-BY-108 using the vapor sampling system.
Date: September 25, 1995
Creator: Caprio, G.S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Microbial activity at Yucca Mountain (open access)

Microbial activity at Yucca Mountain

The U.S. Department of Energy is engaged in a suitability study for a potential geological repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, for the containment and storage of commercially generated spent fuel and defense high-level nuclear waste. There is growing recognition of the role that biotic factors could play in this repository, either directly through microbially induced corrosion (MIC), or indirectly by altering the chemical environment or contributing to the transport of radionuclides. As a first step toward describing and predicting these processes, a workshop was held on April 10-12, 1995, in Lafayette, California. The immediate aims of the workshop were: (1) To identify microbially related processes relevant to the design of a radioactive waste repository under conditions similar to those at Yucca Mountain. (2) To determine parameters that are critical to the evaluation of a disturbed subterranean environment. (3) To define the most effective means of investigating the factors thus identified.
Date: September 25, 1995
Creator: Horn, J.M. & Meike, A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Vapor and gas sampling of single-shell tank 241-BX-104 using the vapor sampling system (open access)

Vapor and gas sampling of single-shell tank 241-BX-104 using the vapor sampling system

This document presents sampling data resulting from the December 30, 1994, sampling of SST 241-BX-104 using the vapor sampling system.
Date: September 25, 1995
Creator: Caprio, G.S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
ISOSHLD Analysis for storing transuranic ion exchange columns (open access)

ISOSHLD Analysis for storing transuranic ion exchange columns

The objective of the ISOSHLD Analysis is to estimate the thickness of concrete shielding necessary to store the KE Fuel Storage Basin transuranic ion exchange columns above ground. The quantity of radioactive material was taken from the tables in PNL-IX-IR-0004, ``Best Estimate of Radionuclide Inventories by Canister.`` The cesium activity was based on a mass balance. The exposure rate (R/hr) was slightly higher in the resulting ISOSHLD model than actually measured due to possible measurement errors and conservative assumptions in the computer model
Date: September 25, 1995
Creator: Mills, W.C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hanford site sodium management plan (open access)

Hanford site sodium management plan

The Hanford Site Sodium Management Plan, Revision 1, provides changes to the major elements and management strategy to ensure an integrated and coordinated approach for disposition of the more than 350,000 gallons of sodium and related sodium facilities located at the DOE`s Hanford Site
Date: September 25, 1995
Creator: Guttenberg, S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Vapor and gas sampling of single-shell tank 241-C-108 using the vapor sampling system (open access)

Vapor and gas sampling of single-shell tank 241-C-108 using the vapor sampling system

This document presents sampling data resulting from the August 5, 1994, sampling of SST 241-C-108 using the vapor sampling system.
Date: September 25, 1995
Creator: Caprio, G.S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Vapor and gas sampling of single-shell tank 241-BY-103 using the vapor sampling system (open access)

Vapor and gas sampling of single-shell tank 241-BY-103 using the vapor sampling system

This document presents sampling data resulting from the November 1, 1994, sampling of SST 241-BY-103 using the vapor sampling system.
Date: September 25, 1995
Creator: Caprio, G.S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Atomistic simulations for multiscale modeling in bcc metal (open access)

Atomistic simulations for multiscale modeling in bcc metal

Quantum-based atomistic simulations are being used to study fundamental deformation and defect properties relevant to the multiscale modeling of plasticity in bcc metals at both ambient and extreme conditions. Ab initio electronic-structure calculations on the elastic and ideal-strength properties of Ta and Mo help constrain and validate many-body interatomic potentials used to study grain boundaries and dislocations. The predicted C(capital Sigma)5 (310)[100] grain boundary structure for Mo has recently been confirmed in HREM measurements. The core structure, (small gamma) surfaces, Peierls stress, and kink-pair formation energies associated with the motion of a/2(111) screw dislocations in Ta and Mo have also been calculated. Dislocation mobility and dislocation junction formation and breaking are currently under investigation.
Date: September 25, 1998
Creator: Belak, J.; Moriarty, J.A.; Soderlind, P.; Xu, W.; Yang, L.H. & Zhu
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library