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Performance Demonstration Program Plan for Nondestructive Assay of Drummed Wastes for  the TRU Waste Characterization Program (open access)

Performance Demonstration Program Plan for Nondestructive Assay of Drummed Wastes for the TRU Waste Characterization Program

Each testing and analytical facility performing waste characterization activities for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) participates in the Performance Demonstration Program (PDP) to comply with the Transuranic Waste Acceptance Criteria for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WAC) (DOE/WIPP-02-3122) and the Quality Assurance Program Document (QAPD) (CBFO-94-1012). The PDP serves as a quality control check for data generated in the characterization of waste destined for WIPP. Single blind audit samples are prepared and distributed to each of the facilities participating in the PDP. The PDP evaluates analyses of simulated headspace gases, constituents of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and transuranic (TRU) radionuclides using nondestructive assay (NDA) techniques.
Date: April 1, 2009
Creator: /A, N
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Scaled Experimental Modeling of VHTR Plenum Flows (open access)

Scaled Experimental Modeling of VHTR Plenum Flows

Abstract The Very High Temperature Reactor (VHTR) is the leading candidate for the Next Generation Nuclear Power (NGNP) Project in the U.S. which has the goal of demonstrating the production of emissions free electricity and hydrogen by 2015. Various scaled heated gas and water flow facilities were investigated for modeling VHTR upper and lower plenum flows during the decay heat portion of a pressurized conduction-cooldown scenario and for modeling thermal mixing and stratification (“thermal striping”) in the lower plenum during normal operation. It was concluded, based on phenomena scaling and instrumentation and other practical considerations, that a heated water flow scale model facility is preferable to a heated gas flow facility and to unheated facilities which use fluids with ranges of density to simulate the density effect of heating. For a heated water flow lower plenum model, both the Richardson numbers and Reynolds numbers may be approximately matched for conduction-cooldown natural circulation conditions. Thermal mixing during normal operation may be simulated but at lower, but still fully turbulent, Reynolds numbers than in the prototype. Natural circulation flows in the upper plenum may also be simulated in a separate heated water flow facility that uses the same plumbing as the lower …
Date: April 1, 2007
Creator: 15, ICONE
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of Advanced Wear and Corrosion Resistant Systems Through Laser Surface Alloying and Materials Processing (open access)

Development of Advanced Wear and Corrosion Resistant Systems Through Laser Surface Alloying and Materials Processing

The stability of tungsten carbide particles in iron-rich and nickel-rich liquid during the laser surface alloying (LSA) process was investigated. Kinetic calculations indicate a rapid dissolution of tungsten carbide particles in iron-rich liquid, as compared with the dissolution rate in nickel-rich liquid. Optical microscopy indicated a heterogeneous microstructure around the tungsten particles that is in agreement with concentration gradients predicted by kinetic calculation. The work demonstrates the applicability of computational thermodynamics and kinetic models for the LSA process.
Date: April 1, 2002
Creator: A, Babu S S Martukanitz R P Parks K D David S
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sugar Policy Actions Since The Expiration Of The Sugar Act (open access)

Sugar Policy Actions Since The Expiration Of The Sugar Act

This report consists of sugar policy actions since the expiration of the sugar act.
Date: April 3, 1978
Creator: A. Ellen Terpstra
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pressure-induced Breaking of Equilibrium Flux Surfaces in the W7AS Stellarator (open access)

Pressure-induced Breaking of Equilibrium Flux Surfaces in the W7AS Stellarator

Calculations are presented for two shots in the W7AS stellarator which differ only in the magnitude of the current in the divertor control coil, but have very different values of experimentally attainable β (<β> ≈ 2.7% versus <β> ≈ 1.8%). Equilibrium calculations find that a region of chaotic magnetic field line trajectories fills approximately the outer 1/3 of the cross-section in each of these configurations. The field lines in the stochastic region are calculated to behave as if the flux surfaces are broken only locally near the outer midplane and are preserved elsewhere. The calculated magnetic field line diffusion coefficients in the stochastic regions for the two shots are consistent with the observed differences in the attainable β, and are also consistent with the differences in the reconstructed pressure profiles.
Date: April 24, 2007
Creator: A. Reiman, M.C. Zarnstorff, D. Monticello, A. Weller, J. Geiger, and the W7-AS Team
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Array of Virtual Frisch-Grid CZT Detectors with Common Cathode Readout for Correcting Charge Trapping and Rejecting Incomplete Charge Collection (open access)

Array of Virtual Frisch-Grid CZT Detectors with Common Cathode Readout for Correcting Charge Trapping and Rejecting Incomplete Charge Collection

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Date: April 9, 2013
Creator: A., Bolotnikov
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Projections of potential luminosity improvement for low-energy RHIC operation with electron cooling (open access)

Projections of potential luminosity improvement for low-energy RHIC operation with electron cooling

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Date: April 1, 2013
Creator: A., Fedotov
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Emittance Reduction between EBIS LINAC and Booster by Electron Beam Cooling - Is Single Pass Cooling Possible? (open access)

Emittance Reduction between EBIS LINAC and Booster by Electron Beam Cooling - Is Single Pass Cooling Possible?

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Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: A., Hershcovitch
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Direct Digital Phase Shift by DDS rf Source (open access)

Direct Digital Phase Shift by DDS rf Source

None
Date: April 13, 1993
Creator: A., Pei
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Numerically Controlled Phase Locked Loop Using Direct Digital Synthesizer (open access)

Numerically Controlled Phase Locked Loop Using Direct Digital Synthesizer

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Date: April 13, 1993
Creator: A., Pei
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Optical simulations of the ion beam emittance growth in different types of a gridded lens (open access)

Optical simulations of the ion beam emittance growth in different types of a gridded lens

N/A
Date: April 1, 2007
Creator: A., Pikin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cancellation of the Chromatic Effects with proper Field Profile (open access)

Cancellation of the Chromatic Effects with proper Field Profile

N/A
Date: April 1, 2004
Creator: A., Ruggiero
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Astrophysical Gyrokinetics: Kinetic and Fluid Turbulent Cascades In Magentized Weakly Collisional Plasmas (open access)

Astrophysical Gyrokinetics: Kinetic and Fluid Turbulent Cascades In Magentized Weakly Collisional Plasmas

This paper presents a theoretical framework for understanding plasma turbulence in astrophysical plasmas. It is motivated by observations of electromagnetic and density fluctuations in the solar wind, interstellar medium and galaxy clusters, as well as by models of particle heating in accretion disks. All of these plasmas and many others have turbulentmotions at weakly collisional and collisionless scales. The paper focuses on turbulence in a strong mean magnetic field. The key assumptions are that the turbulent fluctuations are small compared to the mean field, spatially anisotropic with respect to it and that their frequency is low compared to the ion cyclotron frequency. The turbulence is assumed to be forced at some system-specific outer scale. The energy injected at this scale has to be dissipated into heat, which ultimately cannot be accomplished without collisions. A kinetic cascade develops that brings the energy to collisional scales both in space and velocity. The nature of the kinetic cascade in various scale ranges depends on the physics of plasma fluctuations that exist there. There are four special scales that separate physically distinct regimes: the electron and ion gyroscales, the mean free path and the electron diffusion scale. In each of the scale ranges separated …
Date: April 23, 2009
Creator: A.A. Schekochihin, S.C. Cowley, W. Dorland, G.W. Hammett, G.G. Howes, E. Quataert, and T. Tatsuno
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Impact of the LHC beam abort kicker prefire on high luminosity insertion and CMS detector performance (open access)

Impact of the LHC beam abort kicker prefire on high luminosity insertion and CMS detector performance

The effect of possible accidental beam loss in LHC on the IP5 insertion elements and CMS detector is studied via realistic Monte Carlo simulations. Such beam loss could be the consequence of an unsynchronized abort or � in worst case � an accidental prefire of one of the abort kicker modules. Simulations with the STRUCT code show that this beam losses would take place in the IP5 inner and outer triplets. MARS simulations of the hadronic and electro-magnetic cascades induced in such an event indicate severe heating of the inner triplet quadrupoles. In order to protect the IP5 elements, two methods are proposed: a set of shadow collimators in the outer triplet and a prefired module compensation using a special module charged with an opposite voltage (antikicker). The remnants of the accidental beam loss entering the experimental hall have been used as input for FLUKA simulations in the CMS detector. It is shown that it is vital to take measures to reliably protect the expensive CMS tracker components.
Date: April 13, 1999
Creator: A.I. Drozhdin, N.V. Mokhov and M. Huhtinen
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
On possible use of bent crystal to improve Tevatron beam scraping (open access)

On possible use of bent crystal to improve Tevatron beam scraping

A possibility to improve the Tevatron beam halo scraping using a bent channeling crystal instead of a thin scattering primary collimator is studied. To evaluate the efficiency of the system, realistic simulations have been performed using the CATCH and STRUCT Monte Carlo codes. It is shown that the scraping efficiency can be increased and the accelerator-related backgrounds in the CDF and DØ collider detectors can be reduced by about one order of magnitude. Results on scraping efficiency versus thickness of amorphous layer of the crystal, crystal alignment and its length are presented.
Date: April 8, 1999
Creator: A.I. Drozhdin, N.V. Mokhov and V.M. Biryukov
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Radiation environment resulting from Main Injector beam extraction to the NuMI beam line (open access)

Radiation environment resulting from Main Injector beam extraction to the NuMI beam line

A 120 GeV Main Injector proton beam will be delivered to the NuMI beam line at Fermilab at the rate of 3.7x 10{sup 20} per year. Realistic Monte Carlo simulations have been performed to examine the radiation environment in the beam extraction system and NuMI beam line elements. A complete 3-D model of the 160 meter extraction region has been implemented utilizing the computer code MARS. The model includes a description of the field of the electrostatic septa and POISSON calculated field maps of the Lambertson magnets and the other lattice components in the area. The beam element alignment and the source term have been simulated using the code STRUCT. Results on beam losses in the system, energy deposition in the core elements and residual dose rates on the components are presented.
Date: April 29, 1999
Creator: A.I. Drozhdin, P.W. Lucas, N.V. Mokhov, C.D. Moore and S.I. Striganov
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Rosetta Stone Relating Conventions In Photo-Meson Partial Wave Analyses (open access)

A Rosetta Stone Relating Conventions In Photo-Meson Partial Wave Analyses

A new generation of complete experiments in pseudoscalar meson photo-production is being pursued at several laboratories. While new data are emerging, there is some confusion regarding definitions of asymmetries and the conventions used in partial wave analyses (PWA). We present expressions for constructing asymmetries as coordinate-system independent ratios of cross sections, along with the names used for these ratios by different PWA groups.
Date: April 1, 2012
Creator: A.M. Sandorfi, B. Dey, A. Sarantsev, L. Tiator, R. Workman
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced Emissions Control Development Program (open access)

Advanced Emissions Control Development Program

The objective of the Advanced Emissions Control Development Program (AECDP) is to develop practical, cost-effective strategies for reducing the emissions of air toxics from coal-fired boilers. Ideally, the project aim is to effectively control air toxic emissions through the use of conventional flue gas cleanup equipment such as electrostatic precipitators (ESPS), fabric filters (baghouse), and wet flue gas desulfurization. Development work to date has concentrated on the capture of mercury, other trace metals, fine particulate and hydrogen chloride. Following the construction and evaluation of a representative air toxics test facility in Phase I, Phase II focused on the evaluation of mercury and several other air toxics emissions. The AECDP is jointly funded by the United States Department of Energy's Federal Energy Technology Center (DOE), the Ohio Coal Development Office within the Ohio Department of Development (oCDO), and Babcock& Wilcox-a McDermott company (B&W).
Date: April 1, 1998
Creator: A.P.Evans; Redinger, K.E. & Holmes, M.J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nonforward parton distributions (open access)

Nonforward parton distributions

Applications of perturbative QCD to deeply virtual Compton scattering and hard exclusive electroproduction processes require a generalization of usual parton distributions for the case when long-distance information is accumulated in nonforward matrix elements &lt;p{prime}{vert_bar}O(0,x){vert_bar}p&gt; of quark and gluon light-cone operators. They describe two types of nonperturbative functions parameterizing such matrix elements: double distributions F(x,y;t) and nonforward distribution functions F{_}/zeta (X;t), discuss their spectral properties, evolution equations which they satisfy, basic uses and general aspects of factorization for hard exclusive processes.
Date: April 1, 1997
Creator: A.Radyushkin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Images of Quark Intrinsic Motion in Covariant Parton Model (open access)

Images of Quark Intrinsic Motion in Covariant Parton Model

We discuss the relations between TMDs and PDFs in the framework of the covariant parton model. The quark OAM and its connection to TMDs are studied as well.
Date: April 1, 2010
Creator: A.V. Efremov, P. Schweitzer, O.V. Teryaev, P. Zavada
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
EVALUATION OF TEMPORAL VARIATIONS IN HYDRAULIC CAPTURE DUE TO CHANGING FLOW PATTERNS USING MAPPING AND MODELING TECHNIQUES (open access)

EVALUATION OF TEMPORAL VARIATIONS IN HYDRAULIC CAPTURE DUE TO CHANGING FLOW PATTERNS USING MAPPING AND MODELING TECHNIQUES

Robust performance evaluation represents one of the most challenging aspects of groundwater pump-and-treat (P&amp;T) remedy implementation. In most cases, the primary goal of the P&amp;T system is hydraulic containment, and ultimately recovery, of contaminants to protect downgradient receptors. Estimating the extent of hydraulic containment is particularly challenging under changing flow patterns due to variable pumping, boundaries and/or other conditions. We present a systematic approach to estimate hydraulic containment using multiple lines of evidence based on (a) water-level mapping and (b) groundwater modeling. Capture Frequency Maps (CFMs) are developed by particle tracking on water-level maps developed for each available water level data set using universal kriging. In a similar manner, Capture Efficiency Maps (CEMs) are developed by particle tracking on water-levels calculated using a transient groundwater flow model: tracking is undertaken independently for each stress period using a very low effective porosity, depicting the 'instantaneous' fate of each particle each stress period. Although conceptually similar, the two methods differ in their underlying assumptions and their limitations: their use together identifies areas where containment may be reliable (i.e., where the methods are in agreement) and where containment is uncertain (typically, where the methods disagree). A field-scale example is presented to illustrate these …
Date: April 7, 2011
Creator: AA, SPILIOTOPOULOS; LC, SWANSON; R, SHANNON & MJ, TONKIN
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Simulation of a Production Facility with an Automated Transport System (open access)

Simulation of a Production Facility with an Automated Transport System

A model was needed to assess material throughput and validate the conceptual design of a production facility, including equipment lists and layout. The initial desire was to use a commercially available discrete event simulation package. However, the available software was found to be too limited in capability. Database interface software was used to develop autonomous intelligent manufacturing workstations and material transporters. The initial Extend model used to assess material throughput and develop equipment lists for the preconceptual design effort was upgraded with software add-ons from Simulation Dynamics, Inc. (SDI). Use of the SDI database interface allowed the upgraded model to include: 1. a material mass balance at any level of detail required by the user, and 2. a transport system model that includes all transport system movements, time delays, and transfers between systems. This model will assist in evaluating transport system capacity, sensitive time delays in the system, and optimal operating strategies. An additional benefit of using the SDI database interface is dramatically improved run time performance. This allows significantly more runs to be completed to provide better statistics for overall plant performance. The model has all system and process parameters entered into sub-component accessible tables. All information for the …
Date: April 7, 2004
Creator: ABRAMCZYK, GLENN
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Feasibility Study, Optimum Natural Uranium, Gas Cooled, Graphite Moderated Nuclear Power Plant for United States Atomic Energy Commission, Idaho Operations Office (open access)

Feasibility Study, Optimum Natural Uranium, Gas Cooled, Graphite Moderated Nuclear Power Plant for United States Atomic Energy Commission, Idaho Operations Office

Report containing "a discussion of the feasibility design and cost estimates for a gas cooled, natural uranium, graphite moderated power plant optimized for minimum power cost" (p. 3).
Date: April 1, 1958
Creator: ACF Industries Incorporated. Nuclear Products - ERCO Division.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Feasibility Study, Optimum Partially Enriched Uranium, Gas Cooled, Graphite Moderated for United States Atomic Energy Commission, Idaho Operations Office (open access)

Feasibility Study, Optimum Partially Enriched Uranium, Gas Cooled, Graphite Moderated for United States Atomic Energy Commission, Idaho Operations Office

Report that contains "a preliminary design and feasibility studies of gas cooled, graphite moderated, nuclear power plants" (p. 1).
Date: April 1, 1958
Creator: ACF Industries Incorporated. Nuclear Products - ERCO Division.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library