Development of MMC Gamma Detectors for Nuclear Analysis (open access)

Development of MMC Gamma Detectors for Nuclear Analysis

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Date: January 23, 2014
Creator: Bates, C. R.; Pies, C.; Kempf, S.; Gastaldo, L.; Fleischmann, A.; Enss, C. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hadron Spectroscopy and Dynamics from Light-Front Holography and Conformal Symmetry (open access)

Hadron Spectroscopy and Dynamics from Light-Front Holography and Conformal Symmetry

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Date: January 23, 2014
Creator: de Teramond, Guy F.; Brodsky, Stanley J. & Dosch, Hans Gunter
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
LDRD HPC4Energy Wrapup Report - LDRD 12-ERD-074 (open access)

LDRD HPC4Energy Wrapup Report - LDRD 12-ERD-074

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Date: January 23, 2014
Creator: Dube, E & Grosh, J
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Verification of the CENTRM Module for Adaptation of the SCALE Code to NGNP Prismatic and PBR Core Designs (open access)

Verification of the CENTRM Module for Adaptation of the SCALE Code to NGNP Prismatic and PBR Core Designs

The generation of multigroup cross sections lies at the heart of the very high temperature reactor (VHTR) core design, whether the prismatic (block) or pebble-bed type. The design process, generally performed in three steps, is quite involved and its execution is crucial to proper reactor physics analyses. The primary purpose of this project is to develop the CENTRM cross-section processing module of the SCALE code package for application to prismatic or pebble-bed core designs. The team will include a detailed outline of the entire processing procedure for application of CENTRM in a final report complete with demonstration. In addition, they will conduct a thorough verification of the CENTRM code, which has yet to be performed. The tasks for this project are to: Thoroughly test the panel algorithm for neutron slowing down; Develop the panel algorithm for multi-materials; Establish a multigroup convergence 1D transport acceleration algorithm in the panel formalism; Verify CENTRM in 1D plane geometry; Create and test the corresponding transport/panel algorithm in spherical and cylindrical geometries; and, Apply the verified CENTRM code to current VHTR core design configurations for an infinite lattice, including assessing effectiveness of Dancoff corrections to simulate TRISO particle heterogeneity.
Date: January 23, 2014
Creator: Ganapol, Barry & Maldonado, Ivan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Building America's Low-e Storm Window Adoption Program Plan (FY2014) (open access)

Building America's Low-e Storm Window Adoption Program Plan (FY2014)

Low emissivity (low-e) storm windows/panels appear to hold promise for effectively reducing existing home heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) consumption. Due to the affordability of low-e storm windows and the large numbers of existing homes that have low-performing single-pane or double-pane clear windows, a tremendous opportunity exists to provide energy savings by transforming the low-e storm window market and increasing market adoption. This report outlines U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Building America’s planned market transformation activities in support of low-e storm window adoption during fiscal year (FY) 2014.
Date: December 23, 2013
Creator: Cort, Katherine A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Final Report: Super Instruction Architecture for Scalable Parallel Computations (open access)

Final Report: Super Instruction Architecture for Scalable Parallel Computations

The most advanced methods for reliable and accurate computation of the electronic structure of molecular and nano systems are the coupled-cluster techniques. These high-accuracy methods help us to understand, for example, how biological enzymes operate and contribute to the design of new organic explosives. The ACES III software provides a modern, high-performance implementation of these methods optimized for high performance parallel computer systems, ranging from small clusters typical in individual research groups, through larger clusters available in campus and regional computer centers, all the way to high-end petascale systems at national labs, including exploiting GPUs if available. This project enhanced the ACESIII software package and used it to study interesting scientific problems.
Date: December 23, 2013
Creator: Sanders, Beverly Ann; Bartlett, Rodney & Deumens, Erik
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Level-2 Milestone 4797: Early Users on Max, Sequoia Visualization Cluster (open access)

Level-2 Milestone 4797: Early Users on Max, Sequoia Visualization Cluster

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Date: December 23, 2013
Creator: Cupps, K C
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Survival and Passage of Yearling and Subyearling Chinook Salmon and Juvenile Steelhead at McNary Dam, 2012 (open access)

Survival and Passage of Yearling and Subyearling Chinook Salmon and Juvenile Steelhead at McNary Dam, 2012

The study was designed to evaluate the passage and survival of yearling and subyearling Chinook salmon and juvenile steelhead at McNary Dam as stipulated by the 2008 Biological Opinion and Fish Accords and to assess performance measures including route-specific fish passage proportions, travel times, and survival based upon a virtual/paired-release model. This study supports the USACE’s continual effort to improve conditions for juvenile anadromous fish passing through Columbia River dams.
Date: December 23, 2013
Creator: Hughes, James S.; Weiland, Mark A.; Woodley, Christa M.; Ploskey, Gene R.; Carpenter, Scott M.; Hennen, Matthew J. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Final Report to B&W Y-12 for MPO4300089700, Rev. 1 (open access)

Final Report to B&W Y-12 for MPO4300089700, Rev. 1

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Date: October 23, 2013
Creator: Mok, G C
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Novel Molten Salts Thermal Energy Storage for Concentrating Solar Power Generation (open access)

Novel Molten Salts Thermal Energy Storage for Concentrating Solar Power Generation

The explicit UA program objective is to develop low melting point (LMP) molten salt thermal energy storage media with high thermal energy storage density for sensible heat storage systems. The novel Low Melting Point (LMP) molten salts are targeted to have the following characteristics: 1. Lower melting point (MP) compared to current salts (<222ºC) 2. Higher energy density compared to current salts (>300 MJ/m3) 3. Lower power generation cost compared to current salt In terms of lower power costs, the program target the DOE's Solar Energy Technologies Program year 2020 goal to create systems that have the potential to reduce the cost of Thermal Energy Storage (TES) to less than $15/kWh-th and achieve round trip efficiencies greater than 93%. The project has completed the experimental investigations to determine the thermo-physical, long term thermal stability properties of the LMP molten salts and also corrosion studies of stainless steel in the candidate LMP molten salts. Heat transfer and fluid dynamics modeling have been conducted to identify heat transfer geometry and relative costs for TES systems that would utilize the primary LMP molten salt candidates. The project also proposes heat transfer geometry with relevant modifications to suit the usage of our molten salts …
Date: October 23, 2013
Creator: Reddy, Ramana G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Program Notes (open access)

Program Notes

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Date: October 23, 2013
Creator: Xu, H
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
ALTERNATE PADDLE CONFIGURATION FOR IMPROVED WEAR RESISTANCE IN THE SALTSTONE MIXER (open access)

ALTERNATE PADDLE CONFIGURATION FOR IMPROVED WEAR RESISTANCE IN THE SALTSTONE MIXER

The Saltstone Production Facility has a 10-inch Readco-Kurimoto continuous mixer that mixes the premix dry feeds and low-level waste salt solution to make fresh (uncured) saltstone. Inspection of the mixer in January 2013 showed significant wear on the third, fourth and fifth paddle pairs after the conveying augers. A 2-inch Readco-Kurimoto continuous mixer was used to test alternate paddle configurations for use in the 10-inch mixer to decrease the wear rate on the paddles. Two wear tests were conducted to investigate a method of reducing wear on the mixer paddles. The first test (wear test 2a) had a paddle configuration similar to the currently installed 10-inch mixer in the SPF. This test established baseline wear. The second test (wear test 2b) had a reconfigured paddle arrangement that replaced the flat paddles with helical paddles for paddle pairs 2 � 6 and aligned paddle pair 1 with the augers. The intent of the reconfiguration was to more effectively convey the partially wetted dry feeds through the transition region and into the liquid feed where paddle wear is reduced due to dry feeds and salt solution being mixed at the intended water to premix ratio. The design of the helical paddles provides …
Date: September 23, 2013
Creator: Reigel, M. & Fowley, M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Site Environmental Report: 2012 (ASER) (open access)

Annual Site Environmental Report: 2012 (ASER)

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Date: September 23, 2013
Creator: Sabba, D
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Automatic parallel #12;finite elements (open access)

Automatic parallel #12;finite elements

This is a project report for an Early Career PI grant on automated software for finite elements.
Date: September 23, 2013
Creator: Robert, Kirby
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Characterization of superconducting samples with SIC system for thin film developments: status and recent results (open access)

Characterization of superconducting samples with SIC system for thin film developments: status and recent results

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Date: September 23, 2013
Creator: G., Eremeev; B., Xiao; Reece, C. & Valente-Feliciano, A.-M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Compact Higher Order Mode Filter for Crab Cavities in the Large Hadron Collider (open access)

Compact Higher Order Mode Filter for Crab Cavities in the Large Hadron Collider

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Date: September 23, 2013
Creator: Xiao, B. P.; Belomestnykh, S.; Ben-Zvi, Ilan; Calaga, R.; Skaritka, J.; Verdu-Andres, S. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
COMPARISON OF RESULTS FOR QUARTER 5 SURFACE WATER SPLIT SAMPLES COLLECTED AT THE NUCLEAR FUEL SERVICES SITE ERWIN TENNESSEE (open access)

COMPARISON OF RESULTS FOR QUARTER 5 SURFACE WATER SPLIT SAMPLES COLLECTED AT THE NUCLEAR FUEL SERVICES SITE ERWIN TENNESSEE

Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU), under the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) contract, collected split surface water samples with Nuclear Fuel Services (NFS) representatives on August 21, 2013. Representatives from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation were also in attendance. Samples were collected at four surface water stations, as required in the approved Request for Technical Assistance number 11-018. These stations included Nolichucky River upstream (NRU), Nolichucky River downstream (NRD), Martin Creek upstream (MCU), and Martin Creek downstream (MCD). Both ORAU and NFS performed gross alpha and gross beta analyses, and the comparison of results using the duplicate error ratio (DER), also known as the normalized absolute difference, are tabulated. All DER values were less than 3 and results are consistent with low (e.g., background) concentrations.
Date: September 23, 2013
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Critical Issues in High End Computing - Final Report (open access)

Critical Issues in High End Computing - Final Report

High-End computing (HEC) has been a driver for advances in science and engineering for the past four decades. Increasingly HEC has become a significant element in the national security, economic vitality, and competitiveness of the United States. Advances in HEC provide results that cut across traditional disciplinary and organizational boundaries. This program provides opportunities to share information about HEC systems and computational techniques across multiple disciplines and organizations through conferences and exhibitions of HEC advances held in Washington DC so that mission agency staff, scientists, and industry can come together with White House, Congressional and Legislative staff in an environment conducive to the sharing of technical information, accomplishments, goals, and plans. A common thread across this series of conferences is the understanding of computational science and applied mathematics techniques across a diverse set of application areas of interest to the Nation. The specific objectives of this program are: Program Objective 1. To provide opportunities to share information about advances in high-end computing systems and computational techniques between mission critical agencies, agency laboratories, academics, and industry. Program Objective 2. To gather pertinent data, address specific topics of wide interest to mission critical agencies. Program Objective 3. To promote a continuing discussion …
Date: September 23, 2013
Creator: Corones, James
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Design and vertical test of double quarter wave crab cavity for LHC luminosity upgrade (open access)

Design and vertical test of double quarter wave crab cavity for LHC luminosity upgrade

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Date: September 23, 2013
Creator: P., Xiao B.; S., Belomestnykh; Ben-Zvi, Ilan; Calaga, R.; Cullen, C.; Hammons, L. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
International Linear Collider Technical Design Report - Volume 2: Physics (open access)

International Linear Collider Technical Design Report - Volume 2: Physics

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Date: September 23, 2013
Creator: Baer, Howard; Barklow, Tim; Fujii, Keisuke; Gao, Yuanning; Hoang, Andre; Kanemura, Shinya et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Light-Front Holographic Quantum Chromodynamics (open access)

Light-Front Holographic Quantum Chromodynamics

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Date: September 23, 2013
Creator: Brodsky, Stanley J.; de Teramond, Guy F. & Dosch, Hans Gunter
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Long-Term Testing of Rhodium-Based Catalysts for Mixed Alcohol Synthesis – 2013 Progress Report (open access)

Long-Term Testing of Rhodium-Based Catalysts for Mixed Alcohol Synthesis – 2013 Progress Report

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been conducting research since 2005 to develop a catalyst for the conversion of synthesis gas (carbon monoxide and hydrogen) into mixed alcohols for use in liquid transportation fuels. Initially, research involved screening possible catalysts based on a review of the literature, because at that time, there were no commercial catalysts available. The screening effort resulted in a decision to focus on catalysts containing rhodium and manganese. Subsequent research identified iridium as a key promoter for this catalyst system. Since then, research has continued to improve rhodium/manganese/iridium-based catalysts, optimizing the relative and total concentrations of the three metals, examining baseline catalysts on alternative supports, and examining effects of additional promoters. Testing was continued in FY 2013 to evaluate the performance and long-term stability of the best catalysts tested to date. Three tests were conducted. A long-term test of over 2300 hr duration at a single set of operating conditions was conducted with the best carbon-supported catalyst. A second test of about 650 hr duration at a single set of operating conditions was performed for comparison using the same catalyst formulation on an alternative carbon support. A third test of about 680 …
Date: September 23, 2013
Creator: Gerber, Mark A.; Gray, Michel J. & Thompson, Becky L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Measurement of CP-violating asymmetries in B^0 \to (rho-pi)^0 Decays using a Time-dependent Daltiz Plot Analysis (open access)

Measurement of CP-violating asymmetries in B^0 \to (rho-pi)^0 Decays using a Time-dependent Daltiz Plot Analysis

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Date: September 23, 2013
Creator: Lees, J. P.; Poireau, V.; Tisserand, V.; /Annecy, LAPP; Grauges, E.; /Barcelona U., ECM et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Melt Processed Single Phase Hollandite Waste Forms For Nuclear Waste Immobilization: Ba{sub 1.0}Cs{sub 0.3}A{sub 2.3}Ti{sub 5.7}O{sub 16}; A = Cr, Fe, Al (open access)

Melt Processed Single Phase Hollandite Waste Forms For Nuclear Waste Immobilization: Ba{sub 1.0}Cs{sub 0.3}A{sub 2.3}Ti{sub 5.7}O{sub 16}; A = Cr, Fe, Al

Cs is one of the more problematic fission product radionuclides to immobilize due to its high volatility at elevated temperatures, ability to form water soluble compounds, and its mobility in many host materials. The hollandite structure is a promising crystalline host for Cs immobilization and has been traditionally fabricated by solid state sintering methods. This study presents the structure and performance of Ba{sub 1.0}Cs{sub 0.3}A{sub 2.3}Ti{sub 5.7}O{sub 16}; A = Cr, Fe, Al hollandite fabricated by melt processing. Melt processing is considered advantageous given that melters are currently in use for High Level Waste (HLW) vitrification in several countries. This work details the impact of Cr additions that were demonstrated to i) promote the formation of a Cs containing hollandite phase and ii) maintain the stability of the hollandite phase in reducing conditions anticipated for multiphase waste form processing.
Date: September 23, 2013
Creator: Brinkman, Kyle; Marra, James; Amoroso, Jake; Conradson, Steven D. & Tang, Ming
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library