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Geoscience research for energy security
2007
This report focuses on the nation's geoscience needs and recommends DOE activities to mitigate major problems that effect energy security. The report recommends new or redirected DOE geoscience research initiatives for oil and gas, coal, nuclear resources, structures and processes in the earth's...
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An introductory guide to uncertainty analysis in environmental and health risk assessment
Hoffman, F.O.; Hammonds, J.S. - 2008
To compensate for the potential for overly conservative estimates of risk using standard US Environmental Protection Agency methods, an uncertainty analysis should be performed as an integral part of each risk assessment. Uncertainty analyses allow one to obtain quantitative results in the form...
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An introductory guide to uncertainty analysis in environmental and health risk assessment. Environmental Restoration Program
Hoffman, F.O.; Hammonds, J.S. - 2009
To compensate for the potential for overly conservative estimates of risk using standard US Environmental Protection Agency methods, an uncertainty analysis should be performed as an integral part of each risk assessment. Uncertainty analyses allow one to obtain quantitative results in the form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435501
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Dosimetric Significance of the ICRP's Updated Guidance and Models, 1989-2003, and Implications for U.S. Federal Guidance
Leggett, R.W. - 2008
inhalation and ingestion dose coefficients of FGR 11 implied by the updated recommendations of the ICRP, both for workers and …
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Shuffler measurements of previously unverified and unconfirmed inventory items
Hurd, J.R.; Hsue, F.; Rinard, P.M. - 2009
only uranium while the second inventory had many mixtures of uranium and plutonium. The only calibration standards …The two new shufflers at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) have been used on uranium inventory items that could not … available were uniformly shaped cans of uranium oxide with no significant impurities. The inventory items had a wide variety of …
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Bias investigation of a 55-gallon drum-sized segmented gamma scanner
Hurd, J.R.; Long, S.M.; Sampson, T.E. - 2008
a 55-gallon drum-sized segmented gamma scanner to be used at the plutonium facility (TA-55) at Los Alamos. These studies …
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Sustainable nuclear energy: some reasons for optimism
Wilson, Richard - In: International Journal of Global Energy Issues 28 (2007) 2/3, pp. 138-160
This paper traces various aspects of nuclear electrical power from about 1970 when it burst on the world scene, starting in the USA and spreading rapidly to the rest of the world. Taking the US situation as typical, and perhaps dominant, I show that the cost of nuclear electricity was cheap in...
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Sustainability of light water reactor fuel cycles
Rothwell, Geoffrey; Wood, Thomas W.; Daly, Don; Weimar, … - In: Energy Policy 74 (2014) S1, pp. 16-16
-enriched uranium oxide) cycle and the twice-through MOX (Mixed Uranium-Plutonium Oxide) cycle (increasing the input efficiency of … available uranium) by assessing their probable long-term competitiveness. With the retirement of diffusion enrichment facilities …. Here, initial uranium prices are set at $90/kgU and reprocessing costs at $2500 per kilogram of heavy-metal throughput …
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A simple automated system for the routine production of (99m)Tc by methyl ethyl ketone extraction
Klopper J.F.; Van Heerden P.D.R.; Muller U.D.; Baard W.P.; … - 1974
A relatively simple, automated system for the rapid, efficient and safe routine production of 99Tc(m)O4 from 99Mo03 by the metyl ethyl ketone (MEK) extraction technique is described. The 4 phases of the extraction process (bubbling of air, phase separation, drawing off of 99Tc(m) in MEK, and...
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The Los Alamos dynamic radiation environment assimilation model (DREAM) for space weather specification and forecasting
Reeves, Geoffrey D; Friedel, Reiner H W; Chen, Yue; … - 2009
The Dynamic Radiation Environment Assimilation Model (DREAM) was developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory to assess, quantify, and predict the hazards from the natural space environment and the anthropogenic environment produced by high altitude nuclear explosions (HANE). DREAM was initially...
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