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FY 2008 Miniature Spherical Retroreflectors – Final Report
Through the duration of the NNSA Office of Nuclear Nonproliferation Research and Development (NA-22) Miniature Spherical Retroreflectors lifecycle project, our research team focused on developing solutions to the fabrication bottleneck that has inhibited development and deployment of wide-angle optically interrogated chemical and radiological remote sensing technology. Our team advanced the concept of step-index clad retroreflectors to approximate an optimized, but yet unrealized spherical gradient index design. An intensive numerical simulation effort was undertaken that resulted in optimized step-index optical designs for mid-infrared applications. Geometric optics ray trace modeling was performed to better understand the geometrical dependencies of the miniature spherical retroreflector application. We adopted and advanced the concept of optical cross section, a metric that provides relative performance comparisons between different retroreflector designs and our cross-section analysis demonstrated that our step-index design provided 90% of the range capacity of the ideal spherical index design.
Date:
February 1, 2009
Creator:
Anheier, Norman C.; Bernacki, Bruce E.; Klymyshyn, Nicholas A.; Krishnaswami, Kannan & Rodriguez, Carmen P.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
FY07-08 Implementation Plan Volume 2, Rev. 0.5
The Stockpile Stewardship Program (SSP) is a single, highly integrated technical program for maintaining the safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear stockpile. The SSP uses past nuclear test data along with current and future nonnuclear test data, computational modeling and simulation, and experimental facilities to advance understanding of nuclear weapons. It includes stockpile surveillance, experimental research, development and engineering programs, and an appropriately scaled production capability to support stockpile requirements. This integrated national program will require the continued use of current facilities and programs along with new experimental facilities and computational enhancements to support these programs. The Advanced Simulation and Computing Program (ASC) is a cornerstone of the SSP, providing simulation capabilities and computational resources to support the annual stockpile assessment and certification, to study advanced nuclear-weapons design and manufacturing processes, to analyze accident scenarios and weapons aging, and to provide the tools to enable Stockpile Life Extension Programs (SLEPs) and the resolution of Significant Finding Investigations (SFIs). This requires a balanced resource, including technical staff, hardware, simulation software, and computer science solutions. In its first decade, the ASC strategy focused on demonstrating simulation capabilities of unprecedented scale in three spatial dimensions. In its second decade, ASC is focused …
Date:
September 6, 2006
Creator:
Baron, A. L.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Safeguards Envelope Progress FY08
The Safeguards Envelope Project met its milestones by creating a rudimentary safeguards envelope, proving the value of the approach on a small scale, and determining the most appropriate path forward. The Idaho Chemical Processing Plant’s large cache of reprocessing process monitoring data, dubbed UBER Data, was recovered and used in the analysis. A probabilistic Z test was used on a Markov Monte Carlo simulation of expected diversion data when compared with normal operating data. The data regarding a fully transient event in a tank was used to create a simple requirement, representative of a safeguards envelope, whose impact was a decrease in operating efficiency by 1.3% but an increase in material balance period of 26%. This approach is operator, state, and international safeguards friendly and should be applied to future reprocessing plants. Future requirements include tank-to-tank correlations in reprocessing facilities, detailed operations impact studies, simulation inclusion, automated optimization, advanced statistics analysis, and multi-attribute utility analysis.
Date:
September 1, 2008
Creator:
Bean, Robert; Metcalf, Richard & Bevill, Aaron
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Fiscal Year 2008 Phased Construction Completion Report for EU Z2-33 in Zone 2, East Tennessee Technology Park, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
The Record of Decision for Soil, Buried Waste, and Subsurface Structure Actions in Zone 2, East Tennessee Technology Park, Oak Ridge, Tennessee (DOE/OR/01-2161&D2) (Zone 2 ROD) acknowledged that most of the 800 acres in Zone 2 were contaminated, but that sufficient data to confirm the levels of contamination were lacking. The Zone 2 ROD further specified that a sampling strategy for filling the data gaps would be developed. The Remedial Design Report/Remedial Action Work Plan for Zone 2 Soils, Slabs, and Subsurface Structures, East Tennessee Technology Park, Oak Ridge, Tennessee (DOE/OR/01-2224&D3) (Zone 2 RDR/RAWP) defined the sampling strategy as the Dynamic Verification Strategy (DVS), generally following the approach used for characterization of the Zone 1 exposure units (EUs). The Zone 2 ROD divided the Zone 2 area into seven geographic areas and 44 EUs. To facilitate the data quality objectives (DQOs) of the DVS process, the Zone 2 RDR/RAWP regrouped the 44 EUs into 12 DQO scoping EU groups. These groups facilitated the DQO process by placing similar facilities and their support facilities together and allowing identification of data gaps. The EU groups were no longer pertinent after DQO planning was completed and characterization was conducted as areas became accessible. …
Date:
September 11, 2008
Creator:
Bechtel Jacobs
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Energy and Water Development: FY2008 Appropriations
None
Date:
July 13, 2007
Creator:
Behrens, Carl E.; Andrews, Anthony; Bearden, David M.; Carter, Nicole T.; Holt, Mark; Lane, Nic et al.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Energy and Water Development: FY2008 Appropriations
None
Date:
June 18, 2007
Creator:
Behrens, Carl E.; Andrews, Anthony; Bearden, David M.; Carter, Nicole T.; Holt, Mark; Lane, Nic et al.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Energy and Water Development: FY2008 Appropriations
None
Date:
January 31, 2008
Creator:
Behrens, Carl E.; Andrews, Anthony; Bearden, David M.; Carter, Nicole T.; Holt, Mark; Lane, Nic et al.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Intelligence Authorization Legislation: Status and Challenges
This report assesses the effects of the absence of intelligence authorization legislation since FY2005. Since FY2005, no annual intelligence authorization bill has been enacted. Although the National Security Act requires intelligence activities to be specifically authorized, this requirement has been satisfied in recent years by one-sentence catch-all provisions in defense appropriations acts authorizing intelligence activities.
Date:
August 26, 2009
Creator:
Best, Richard A., Jr.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Intelligence Authorization Legislation: Status and Challenges
This report assesses the effects of the absence of intelligence authorization legislation since FY2005. Since FY2005, no annual intelligence authorization bill has been enacted. Although the National Security Act requires intelligence activities to be specifically authorized, this requirement has been satisfied in recent years by one-sentence catch-all provisions in defense appropriations acts authorizing intelligence activities.
Date:
February 24, 2009
Creator:
Best, Richard A., Jr.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The FY2008 National Defense Authorization Act: Selected Military Personnel Policy Issues
None
Date:
September 17, 2007
Creator:
Burrelli, David F.; Best, Richard A., Jr.; Henning, Charles A. & Kapp, Lawrence
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The FY2008 National Defense Authorization Act: Selected Military Personnel Policy Issues
None
Date:
December 11, 2007
Creator:
Burrelli, David F.; Best, Richard A., Jr.; Henning, Charles A. & Kapp, Lawrence
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The FY2008 National Defense Authorization Act: Selected Military Personnel Policy Issues
None
Date:
February 6, 2008
Creator:
Burrelli, David F.; Best, Richard A., Jr.; Henning, Charles A. & Kapp, Lawrence
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The FY2008 National Defense Authorization Act: Selected Military Personnel Policy Issues
None
Date:
September 7, 2007
Creator:
Burrelli, David F.; Best, Richard A., Jr.; Henning, Charles A. & Kapp, Lawrence
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program Annual Report, 2008
Annual report of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program documenting activities and research, goals for the upcoming year, proposed budget considerations, and other information about the organization for fiscal year 2008.
Date:
2007
Creator:
Climate Change Science Program (U.S.)
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Water Quality Issues in the 110th Congress: Oversight and Implementation
This report discusses issues surrounding the Clean Water Act (CWA) of 1972 and programs set up to meet the water quality standards that it outlined. The report focuses specifically on the legislative issues for the 110th Congress in relation to the CWA. It also includes a brief comparison of the expected appropriations for FY2007 and FY2008.
Date:
March 15, 2007
Creator:
Copeland, Claudia
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Second FY2008 Supplemental Appropriations for Military Operations, International Affairs, and Other Purposes
This report discusses supplemental appropriations for fiscal years 2008 and 2009. During its first session, the 110th Congress approved fiscal year 2008 emergency supplemental appropriations of $86.8 billion for the Department of Defense and $2.4 billion for international affairs.
Date:
June 25, 2008
Creator:
Daggett, Stephen; Epstein, Susan B.; Margesson, Rhoda & Loane, Shannon S.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
FY2008 Supplemental Appropriations for Global War on Terror Military Operations, International Affairs, and Other Purposes
None
Date:
December 19, 2007
Creator:
Daggett, Stephen; Epstein, Susan B.; Margesson, Rhoda; Tarnoff, Curt & Veillette, Connie
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
FY2008 Supplemental Appropriations for Global War on Terror Military Operations, International Affairs, and Other Purposes
None
Date:
December 10, 2007
Creator:
Daggett, Stephen; Epstein, Susan B.; Margesson, Rhoda; Tarnoff, Curt; Towell, Pat & Veillette, Connie
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
FY2008 Spring Supplemental Appropriations and FY2009 Bridge Appropriations for Military Operations, International Affairs, and Other Purposes (P.L. 110-252)
None
Date:
July 15, 2008
Creator:
Daggett, Stephen; Epstein, Susan B.; Margesson, Rhoda; Tarnoff, Curt; Towell, Pat; Dale, Catherine et al.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2008
None
Date:
September 20, 2007
Creator:
Davey, Michael E.; Matthews, Christine M.; Moteff, John D.; Morgan, Daniel; Esworthy, Robert; Schacht, Wendy H. et al.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2008
None
Date:
June 6, 2007
Creator:
Davey, Michael E.; Matthews, Christine M.; Moteff, John D.; Morgan, Daniel; Esworthy, Robert; Schacht, Wendy H. et al.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2008
None
Date:
July 26, 2007
Creator:
Davey, Michael E.; Matthews, Christine M.; Moteff, John D.; Morgan, Daniel; Esworthy, Robert; Schacht, Wendy H. et al.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
FY08 VPP Program Evaluation
The Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) is a recognized third-party certification of worker safety and health program excellence, based on industry best practices that focus on management leadership and employee involvement, as well as other safety and health program elements. This Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) VPP Program Evaluation is the FY-2008 report of the PNNL VPP Steering Committee regarding the status of VPP at PNNL. It is an update of the previous annual report dated January, 2007 and was completed in January 2008. An annual evaluation of the status of VPP is required of all sites that participate in the DOE-VPP. This report provides a detailed summary of the PNNL VPP Steering Committee’s evaluation of program performance and documents both strengths and improvement opportunities related to the various aspects of the VPP model.
Date:
January 1, 2008
Creator:
Dossett, Sharon D.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
FY2008 Emergency Supplemental Request for International Affairs
None
Date:
December 7, 2007
Creator:
Epstein, Susan B.; Margesson, Rhoda; Tarnoff, Curt & Veillette, Connie
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library