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Evaluation of resource impact factors versus social cost estimates in determining building energy performance standard levels
Nieves, L.A.; Nesse, R.J.; Adams, R.C.; McDonald, C.L. - 2011
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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Program evaluation: Weatherization Residential Assistance Partnership (WRAP) Program
2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435563
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Guidance document on the variance propagation requirements in DOE Order 5633. 3
Sanborn, J. - 2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435582
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Two-stage decision approach to material accounting
Opelka, J.H.; Sutton, W.B. - 2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435624
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Computerized management report system for monitoring manpower and cost
Bullington, V.R.; Stephenson, R.L.; Cardwell, R.G. - 2009
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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Techniques handbook: project management. Work breakdown structures. ERDA handbook 0805. 3 part 1
2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435673
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Analysis of the implications of the USSR providing reprocessing and MOX fabrication services to other countries
2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436045
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Guidance document on the variance propagation requirements in DOE Order 5633.3
Sanborn, J. - 2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436249
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Extrinsic and intrinsic complexities of the Los Alamos Plutonium Processing Facility
Bearse, R.C.; Longmire, V.L.; Roberts, N.J. - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436309
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Shuffler measurements of previously unverified and unconfirmed inventory items
Hurd, J.R.; Hsue, F.; Rinard, P.M. - 2009
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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