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In order to increase the welfare of society through the implementation of a building energy-performance standard, a method is required by which the least-cost means of obtaining the desired space conditioning of a building can be estimated. In other words, a life-cycle cost model must be...
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The Connecticut low income weatherization program was developed in response to a 1987 rate docket order from the Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control (DPUC) to Connecticut Light Power Co., an operating subsidiary of Northeast Utilities (NU). (Throughout this report, NU is referred to...
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aspects of nuclear material accounting. In particular, it requires that control limits be calculated for nuclear material … creation of a variance propagation model of the nuclear material accounting system, the validation of the model, the … addressed include: the mathematics of variance propagation, the structure of nuclear material accounting systems, sources of …
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of a diverter. For large facilities, the material accounting system inherently appears not to be a particularly useful …sigma. For small facilities, reduction of the threshold to 2sigma or 3sigma is a cost effective change for the accounting …
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Although most cost systems offer complete detail and traceability, not all provide timely detail in a concise form useful to senior management. This system was developed for a multifunction research organization funded from many sources. It extracts cost and manpower data from the general cost...
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The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) technique is primarily a project management planning technique which is aimed at defining, within an overall conceptual framework, the detailed products and work effort to be accomplished for successful achievement of the project objective(s). The WBS technique...
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This brief analysis, which is based on unclassified sources, seeks to identify what some of the implications would be if the Soviets started to move actively to try to provide reprocessing and MOX fabrication services to the US and other countries. While information on Soviet intentions is...
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aspects of nuclear material accounting. In particular, it requires that control limits be calculated for nuclear material … creation of a variance propagation model of the nuclear material accounting system, the validation of the model, the … addressed include: the mathematics of variance propagation, the structure of nuclear material accounting systems, sources of …
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Analysis of the data obtained in one year of plutonium accounting at Los Alamos reveals significant complexity. Much of … accounting in the plant. We have been analyzing transaction data from fiscal year 1983 processing. This study involved 62 … understand the global features of the TA-55 accounting data. This project has underscored several of the system's complexities …
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The two new shufflers at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) have been used on uranium inventory items that could not be previously verified or confirmed because of the lack of a suitable assay instrument. A third shufflers at the Westinghouse Savannah River Site (SRS) is currently measuring...
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