Texas Register, Volume 48, Number 23, Pages 3367-3468 June 23, 2023 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 48, Number 23, Pages 3367-3468 June 23, 2023

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: June 23, 2023
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Newsletter of Texas State Representative Cecil Bell, Jr.: June 23, 2014 (open access)

Newsletter of Texas State Representative Cecil Bell, Jr.: June 23, 2014

Newsletter of Cecil Bell, Jr. for his constituents in district 3 discussing news, activities, and various updates related to work in the Texas legislature.
Date: June 23, 2014
Creator: Bell, Cecil Ivan, Jr.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gamma Heating in PRTR Gas Loop (open access)

Gamma Heating in PRTR Gas Loop

It is being considered that the in-reactor portion of the test section of the PRTR Gas-Cooled Loop Facility consist, in part, of two concentric Inconel-X tubes. The outer tube is the main stress member, with 3.5 O.D. and a wall thickness of 0.065. The inner tube is 3.0 O.D. and has a wall thickness of 0.030. The inner tube provides an annular gas space to serve as thermal insulation.
Date: June 23, 1959
Creator: Reginbel, J.J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Decay Modes Of Charged [Sigma] Hyperons (open access)

Decay Modes Of Charged [Sigma] Hyperons

Apparent [Sigma] hyperon decay events in a large emulsion stack of 240 9" x 12" pellicles have been classified into those judged to have occurred at rest and those in flight. Of 36 decay events at rest, 21 secondaries were observed to be protons of about 1675 microns range. Of the events decaying in flight, 23 were decays into protons and 46 were decays into near-minimum secondaries. Attempts have been made to trace the tracks of 35 of the lightly ionizing secondaries; the results of this effort are summarized in a table.
Date: June 23, 1958
Creator: Barkas, Walter H. (Walter Henry), 1912-1969; Dyer, J. N.; Giles, P. C.; Heckman, Harry H.; Mason, C. J.; Nickols, N. A. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Jacket Temperature Near End of Slug (open access)

Jacket Temperature Near End of Slug

Some situations which give rise to a hot ring around the slug near the end are considered; namely rounded slug ends in the long cartridge design, and the Wilkins effect in the current unbonded short slug design.
Date: June 23, 1944
Creator: Young, Gale Jay
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Resilient Wheel. (open access)

Resilient Wheel.

Patent for improvements in the structure of wheels.
Date: June 23, 1916
Creator: Avery, John M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Display-Stand. (open access)

Display-Stand.

Patent for incorporating vertical shaft in display stands for posters advertising motion pictures and merchandise, with illustrations.
Date: June 23, 1921
Creator: Gates, Norwood
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Possible Process Alternatives for Converting Recovered Uranyl Nitrate to Uranium Hexafluoride (open access)

Possible Process Alternatives for Converting Recovered Uranyl Nitrate to Uranium Hexafluoride

The uranium recovery processes which are in operation or under construction at the present time--TBP, Redox and Purex--yield an aqueous uranyl nitrate solution as the recovered uranium product. For conversion of this recovered uranium to UF6 for feed to the gaseous diffusion plants, the uranyl nitrate in the solution is concentrated with or without prior organic stripping, calcined to UC3, reduced to UO2 with hydrogen, hydro-fluorinated to UF4 with RF, and finally fluorinated to UF6 with elemental fluorine.
Date: June 23, 1953
Creator: Clagett, F. & Harmon, M. K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mass resolved resonance ionization spectroscopy of combustion radicals (open access)

Mass resolved resonance ionization spectroscopy of combustion radicals

This report discusses the following topics: REMPI spectroscopy of HCO and DCO; Rempi spectroscopy of the ethynyl radical; REMPI spectroscopy of new electronic states of C{sub 2}; and a flame sampling laser ionization mass spectrometer.
Date: June 23, 1992
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Three-phase region of D/sub 2/-DT-T/sub 2/ (open access)

Three-phase region of D/sub 2/-DT-T/sub 2/

Analogous to the triple point of a pure substance are a binary mixture's triple line and a ternary mixture's three-phase surface, where pressure, temperature, and composition must all be considered. The first three-phase study on a ternary hydrogen system, D/sub 2/-DT-T/sub 2/, is reported.
Date: June 23, 1977
Creator: Souers, P. C.; Kelly, E. M.; Roberts, P. E.; Fearon, D. & Tsugawa, R. T.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Current technology of particle physics detectors (open access)

Current technology of particle physics detectors

A brief discussion is given of the characteristics required of new accelerator facilities, leading into a discussion of the required detectors, including position sensitive detectors, particle identification, and calorimeters. (LEW)
Date: June 23, 1986
Creator: Ludlam, T. W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
X-ray instrumentation in the LLL Laser-Fusion Program (open access)

X-ray instrumentation in the LLL Laser-Fusion Program

The LLL Laser-Fusion Program includes an active experimental effort to measure the distributions in energy, space and time of pulses of soft x-rays (.2 to 10 keV) radiated by laser-induced plasmas. Requirements for high resolution in these measurements clearly preclude the use of conventional x-ray diagnostic techniques. The following examples from our program of advanced x-ray instrument development are described. (1) Wavelength-dispersive spectrographs with fractional-electron volt resolution at several keV and imaging systems with 3 micron resolution over a 100 micron source. (2) Advanced solid state x-ray sensors that recover data from these instruments in a more expedient manner than photographic film. (3) Microcomputer-controlled stand-alone spectrograph data systems and minicomputer-based integrated systems that can deal with the large array of data generated by the high resolution instruments. (4) An electrostatically-deflected x-ray streak camera with moderate spectral and spatial resolution and a timing resolution of better than 15 ps.
Date: June 23, 1976
Creator: Koppel, L. N.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Data collected by the Shock Wave Data Center (open access)

Data collected by the Shock Wave Data Center

The Shock Wave Data Center of the Lawrence Livermore Lab collects and disseminates P.V.E. data obtained with shock waves. It has been in existence since 1964. An extensive number of papers reporting shock data had become available by that time. This was so in spite of the fact that the technology was developed only during the 2nd World War. Collection and partial evaluation of this data was therefore of value to facilitate its use by our laboratory and others who were involved with science and engineering in the high pressure field. The pressure range of the data collected is quite extensive and extends from 1 MPa to 1 TPa. One very important difference between shock wave compression data and those obtained with static presses must be emphasized, since it is often not fully appreciated. The pressure-volume locus of shock wave states (Hugoniot), which is obtained by passing increasingly stronger shocks into samples with the same initial state, rapidly increases in temperature as the shocks get stronger and the pressure and compression get higher. As a consequence, this Hugoniot locus must have a lower compressibility than isotherms obtained under static conditions. In fact, if porous or otherwise expanded samples are used, …
Date: June 23, 1976
Creator: Van Thiel, M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Stemming options and their effect on containment (open access)

Stemming options and their effect on containment

In more than 17 years of studying underground nuclear explosions, LLL has developed containment procedures that include a stemming plan. Stemming plans can be divided into either layered or continuous forms. There are marked differences between standards for these forms. The materials used in the continuous plan must meet more stringent specifications; as a consequence, they are more expensive. Both plans have been successful since the Baneberry Event. Both plans must meet the following requirements: provide a plug sufficient to match the overburden density of earth; contain radioactive gases at the lowest possible depth; minimize the generation of noncondensable gases (such as CO/sub 2/); minimize gas flow rates during the early post-detonation stages when cavity pressure is high; and be compatible with the experiment and its diagnostics. LLL experience in developing containment procedures is reviewed, and the reasons for the adoption of LLL's continuous stemming plan are reported. (LCL)
Date: June 23, 1976
Creator: Day, J. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Calorimeter based detectors for high energy hadron colliders (open access)

Calorimeter based detectors for high energy hadron colliders

The work was directed in two complementary directions, the D0 experiment at Fermilab, and the GEM detector for the SSC. Efforts have been towards the data taking and analysis with the newly commissioned D0 detector at Fermilab in the [bar p]p Collider run that started in May 1992 and ended on June 1, 1993. We involved running and calibration of the calorimeter and tracking chambers, the second level trigger development, and various parts of the data analysis, as well as studies for the D0 upgrade planned in the second half of this decade. Another major accomplishment was the delivery'' of the Technical Design Report for the GEM SSC detector. Efforts to the overall detector and magnet design, design of the facilities, installation studies, muon system coordination, muon chamber design and tests, muon system simulation studies, and physics simulation studies. In this document we describe these activities separately.
Date: June 23, 1993
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rapidity distributions of K sub s and. Lambda. 's produced by 14. 6 GeV/c Si beams on Si and Pb targets (open access)

Rapidity distributions of K sub s and. Lambda. 's produced by 14. 6 GeV/c Si beams on Si and Pb targets

Excess strangeness production is an expected signal for formation of a Quark-Gluon Plasma and therefore we have been searching for it. We present the first measurements at AGS energies of rapidity distributions of K{sub s} and {Lambda} production with silicon beams on Silicon and Lead targets. The measurements cover the lab rapidity region of 2.0 < y < 3.5 for K{sub s} and 1.4 < y< 3.2 for {Lambda}'s. the gross features of our observation are explainable with a nuclear cascade model including N* (isobaric nucleon) as a significant source of strangeness. The various models used to compare with the data are discussed in the paper.
Date: June 23, 1992
Creator: Lindenbaum, S. J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chemically separating transplutonium elements from rare earth fission products (open access)

Chemically separating transplutonium elements from rare earth fission products

The existing technology of lanthanide-actinide separations is discussed with emphasis on the difficulties to be expected if the currently practiced separation methods were to be applied to waste partitioning. All of the workable methods known are noted, and three out of the four have seen many applications for the last 20 to 25 years at our Laboratory and elsewhere. The fourth, developed at ORNL 16 to 17 years ago, has been applied to waste partitioning in Germany. Each of these methods depends upon complexing the actinides to a slightly greater extent than the lanthanides with either Cl/sup -/, SCN/sup -/, or aminocarboxylic acids. The separation of the complexed ions is accomplished with either liquid or solid ion-exchangers and, in principle, either can be used interchangeably.
Date: June 23, 1976
Creator: Hulet, E. K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mass spectrometric analytical services and research activities to support coal-liquid characterization research. Quarterly report, March 9, 1976--June 8, 1976 (open access)

Mass spectrometric analytical services and research activities to support coal-liquid characterization research. Quarterly report, March 9, 1976--June 8, 1976

Medium- and low-resolution field-ionization and high-resolution 70-eV electron-impact mass spectral data were obtained for thirty-eight gel permeation chromatographic (GPC) fractions obtained from a coal-derived liquid. Empirical formulas were deduced from the high-resolution electron-impact data. The field-ionization data were acquired for eventual calculation of quantitative distributions for the coal-derived liquid. The field-ionization mass-spectral data obtained for the GPC fractions from a Synthoil sample are being converted into quantitative compositional data. In conjunction with subcommittee ASTM D-2, a blend of aromatic hydrocarbons obtained from twelve crude oils was analyzed.
Date: June 23, 1976
Creator: Scheppele, Stuart E
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Disease Prevention News, Volume 57, Number 13, June 1997 (open access)

Texas Disease Prevention News, Volume 57, Number 13, June 1997

Newsletter of the Texas Department of Health discussing the news, activities, and events of the organization and other information related to health in Texas. This 1997 edition contains information on the "A, B, Seeds of an Outbreak of Foodborne Illnesses" and Endemic Arboviral Activity.
Date: June 23, 1997
Creator: Texas. Department of Health.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Preventable Disease News, Volume 44, Number 25, June 23, 1984 (open access)

Texas Preventable Disease News, Volume 44, Number 25, June 23, 1984

Newsletter of the Texas Bureau of Disease Control and Epidemiology discussing the news, activities, and events of the organization and other information related to health in Texas.
Date: June 23, 1984
Creator: Texas. Bureau of Disease Control and Epidemiology.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Measurements of Plutonium-bearing Oxide in DOE-STD-3013-2000 Containers Using Calorimetry and Gamma Isotopic Analyses (open access)

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Measurements of Plutonium-bearing Oxide in DOE-STD-3013-2000 Containers Using Calorimetry and Gamma Isotopic Analyses

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) routinely uses calorimetry and gamma isotopic analyses (Cal/Iso) for the accountability measurement of plutonium (Pu) bearing items. In the past 15 years, the vast majority of those items measured by Cal/Iso were contained in a thin-walled convenience can enclosed in another thin-walled outer container. However, LLNL has recently begun to use DOE-STD-3013-2000 containers as well. These DOE-STD-3013-2000 containers are comprised of a stainless steel convenience can enclosed in welded stainless steel primary and secondary containers. In addition to the fact that the wall thickness of the DOE-STD-3013-2000 containers is much greater than that of other containers in our experience, the DOE-STD-3013-2000 containers appear to have larger thermal insulation characteristics. To date, we have derived Pu-mass values from Cal/Iso measurements of 74 different DOE-STD-3013-2000 containers filled with Pu-bearing oxide or mixed uranium-plutonium (U-Pu) oxide material. Both water-bath and air-bath calorimeters were used for these measurements and both use software to predict when thermal equilibrium is attained. Our experience has shown that after apparent equilibrium has been attained, at least one more complete cycle, and sometimes two or three more complete cycles, is required to gain a measure of true thermal equilibrium. Otherwise, the derived Pu-mass values …
Date: June 23, 2004
Creator: Dearborn, D M & Keeton, S C
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chemical stimulation of geothermal injection wells (open access)

Chemical stimulation of geothermal injection wells

Various types of chemical stimulation methods have been considered. High pH fluids seem to be a logical choice for some wellbore and/or reservoir stimulations. However, forming of secondary deposits and creating of new reservoir damages due to chemical reactions between the rock material and these stimulation fluids make it advisable not to consider any of these high pH fluids in high temperature geothermal reservoirs. Fluids having a neutral pH can be successfully used in chemical stimulation methods only in a very few and rare instances. Low pH fluids, i.e. acids, have by far the best chance to be used for these chemical stimulation jobs. The major part of this report is concerned with acidizing techniques for geothermal injection wells. The acidizing techniques to be used for an experimental and the routine stimulation of injection wells are described. Some recent field experiences and the results of some laboratory work are described.
Date: June 23, 1982
Creator: Vetter, O. J. & Kandarpa, V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
PROCEEDINGS OF RIKEN BNL RESEARCH CENTER WORKSHOP, VOLUME 62 NEW DESCOVERIES AT RHIC, MAY 14-15, 2004. (open access)

PROCEEDINGS OF RIKEN BNL RESEARCH CENTER WORKSHOP, VOLUME 62 NEW DESCOVERIES AT RHIC, MAY 14-15, 2004.

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Date: June 23, 2004
Creator: BUSZA,W. GYULASSY,M. MCLERRAN,L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
KE Basin Sludge Flocculant Testing (open access)

KE Basin Sludge Flocculant Testing

In the revised path forward and schedule for the K Basins Sludge Retrieval and Disposal Project, the sludge in K East (KE) Basin will be moved from the floor and pits and transferred to large, free-standing containers located in the pits (so as to isolate the sludge from the basin). When the sludge is pumped into the containers, it must settle fast enough and clarify sufficiently that the overflow water returned to the basin pool will not cloud the water or significantly increase the radiological dose rate to the operations staff as a result of increased suspended radioactive material. The approach being evaluated to enhance sludge settling and speed the rate of clarification is to add a flocculant to the sludge while it is being transferred to the containers. In February 2004, seven commercial flocculants were tested with a specific K Basin sludge simulant to identify those agents that demonstrated good performance over a broad range of slurry solids concentrations. From this testing, a cationic polymer flocculant, Nalco Optimer 7194 Plus (7194+), was shown to exhibit superior performance. Related prior testing with K Basin sludge and simulant in 1994/1996 had also identified this agent as promising. In March 2004, four …
Date: June 23, 2004
Creator: Schmidt, Andrew J.; Hallen, Richard T.; Muzatko, Danielle S. & Gano, Sue
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library