Technology & Engineering - General

Nutrient and sediment fluxes and changes in fluxes over time are key indicators that water resource managers can use to assess the progress being made in improving the structure and function of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem. The U.S. Geological Survey collects annual nutrient (nitrogen...

Lake Maumelle, located in central Arkansas northwest of the cities of Little Rock and North Little Rock, is one of two principal drinking-water supplies for the Little Rock, and North Little Rock, Arkansas, metropolitan areas. Lake Maumelle and the Maumelle River (its primary tributary)...

The objective of this report is to describe the regulatory processes that assures that any plant-specific licensing bases will provide reasonable assurance that the operation of nuclear power plants will not be inimical to the public health and safety to the end of the...

This draft document has been prepared by staff from the Risk and Benefits Group, Health and Environmental Impacts Division, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Any findings and conclusions are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect...

This environmental impact statement (EIS) was prepared in response to an application submitted to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to renew the operating license for the National Bureau of Standards Reactor (NBSR) for a...

Revision I to NUREG-1022 clarifies the immediate notification requirements of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 50, Section 50.72 (10 CFR 50.72), and the 30-day written licensee event report (LER) requirements of 10 CFR 50.73 for nuclear power plants. This revision...

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC's) decommissioning program. Its purpose is to provide a stand-alone reference document that describes the decommissioning process and summarizes the status of decommissioning activities, under NRC jurisdiction, through September 30, 2006. This...

Based on a Policy Statement on Severe Accidents Regarding Future Designs and Existing Plants, the performance of a plant examination is requested from the licensee of each nuclear power plant. The plant examination looks for vulnerabilities to severe accidents and cost-effective safety improvements that...

An international workshop on Conceptual Model Development for Subsurface Reactive Transport Modeling of Inorganic Contaminants, Radionuclides, and Nutrients was held April 20- 24, 2004 at La Posada de Albuquerque in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The workshop was organized and convened by the Federal Working Group...

This compilation contains 30 reports issued by the Advisory Committee on Nuclear Waste (ACNW) during the sixteenth and seventeenth years of its operation. The reports were submitted to the Chairman and the Executive Director for Operations of the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)....

With the increase in the number of power reactors submitting applications for renewed licenses, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff realized that members of the public near different power reactor sites had similar questions related to the license renewal process and the risks...

NUREG-1801, "Generic Aging Lessons Learned (GALL) Report," is referenced as a technical basis document in NUREG-1800, "Standard Review Plan for Review of License Renewal Applications for Nuclear Power Plants" (SRP-LR). The GALL Report identifies aging management programs (AMP), which were determined to be acceptable...

Building stakeholders need practical metrics, data, and tools to support decisions related to sustainable building designs, technologies, standards, and codes. The Engineering Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has addressed this high priority national need by extending its metrics and...

This Standard specifies a suite of algorithms that can be used to generate a digital signature. Digital signatures are used to detect unauthorized modifications to data and to authenticate the identity of the signatory. In addition, the recipient of signed data can use a...

The Truck Carrier Tool was designed in Microsoft Excel. Microsoft Excel is an electronic spreadsheet program used for storing and manipulating data. Microsoft Excel Forms were used to enable the functional capabilities of the Tool.Author: U. S. Environmental Protection AgencyISBN-10: 1500309486ISBN-13: 9781500309480Publisher: Createspace Independent...

This document describes the OPR-PPR computer program, which evaluates the importance to model predictions of one or more existing or potential observations, or of increased knowledge about one or more system parameters. OPR-PPR accomplishes this task using linear statistical inference, and reports the results...

This document describes the air quality modeling performed by EPA in support of the Tier 3 motor vehicle emission and fuel standards. A national scale air quality modeling analysis was performed to estimate the impact of the Tier 3 standards on future year annual...

This manual provides the physical and mathematical concepts for selected models used to interpret deformation measurements near active faults and volcanic centers.Author: Peter F. Cervelli,Jessica R. Murray,Maurizio BattagliaISBN-10: 1500298115ISBN-13: 9781500298111Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/23/2014Pages: 106Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.22d

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has updated the U.S. National Report for the Convention on Nuclear Safety. This report will be submitted for peer review at the second review meeting of the Convention on Nuclear Safety at the International Atomic Energy Agency in April...

This report documents the Multi-Model Analysis (MMA) computer code. MMA can be used to evaluate results from alternative models of a single system using the same set of observations for all models. As long as the observations, the observation weighting, and system being represented...

This report is designed to calculate simulated equivalents for observations related to advective groundwater transport that can be represented in a quantitative way by using simulated particle tracking data.Author: L. K. Kauffman,M. C. Hill,J. E. DickinsonISBN-10: 1500296538ISBN-13: 9781500296537Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/23/2014Pages:...

The Stochastic Empirical Loading and Dilution Model (SELDM) is designed to transform complex scientific data into meaningful information about the risk of adverse effects of runoff on receiving waters, the potential need for mitigation measures, and the potential effectiveness of such management measures for...

A new analytical method has been developed and implemented at the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Quality Laboratory that determines a suite of 20 steroid hormones and related compounds in filtered water (using laboratory schedule 2434) and in unfiltered water (using laboratory schedule 4434)....

Interest in the use and development of our Nation's surface - and ground-water resources has increased significantly during the past 50 years. This work discusses field techniques for estimating water fluxes.Author: James W. Lebaugh,Donald O. RosenberryISBN-10: 150022281XISBN-13: 9781500222819Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/16/2014Pages:...

The NRC Performance and Accountability Report presents the agency's program performance and financial management information during Fiscal Year 2006.Author: U. S. Nuclear Regulatory CommissionISBN-10: 1500202266ISBN-13: 9781500202262Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/14/2014Pages: 182Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.39d

The techniques and standards for making discharge mea- surements at streamflow gaging stations are described in this publication. The vertical axis rotating-element current meter, principally the Price current meter, has been traditionally used for most measurements of discharge; however, advancements in acoustic technology have...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Performance and Accountability Report presents the agency's program performance and financial manage- ment information for fiscal year (FY) 2010. The annual report provides the public with an opportunity to as- sess how effectively the NRC uses its funds...

The safety evaluation report documents the technical review of the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Units 1 and 2 license renewal application by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff.Author: U. S. Nuclear Regulatory CommissionISBN-10: 1500153753ISBN-13: 9781500153755Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/10/2014Pages: 118Format: PaperbackWeight:...

This safety evaluation report documents the technical review of the Beaver Valley Power Station, Units 1 and 2, license renewal application by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff.Author: U. S. Nuclear Regulatory CommissionISBN-10: 1500154083ISBN-13: 9781500154080Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/10/2014Pages: 182Format: PaperbackWeight:...

This document is a safety evaluation report (SER) on the license renewal application (LRA) for Columbia Generating Station (Columbia), as filed by Energy Northwest (the applicant). By letter dated January 19, 2010, Energy Northwest submitted its application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)...

This Recommendation provides cryptographic key management guidance. It consists of three parts. Part 1 provides general guidance and best practices for the management of cryptographic keying material. Part 2 provides guidance on policy and security planning requirements for U.S. government agencies. Finally, Part 3...

The City of Baltimore, Maryland, and parts of five sur- rounding counties obtain their water from Loch Raven and Liberty Reservoirs. A third reservoir, Prettyboy, is used to resupply Loch Raven Reservoir. Management of the water- shed conditions for each reservoir is a shared...

Roughly two thirds of all deaths resulting from enclosure fires can be attributed to the presence of carbon monoxide which is known to be the dominate toxicant in fire deaths. The mechanisms responsible for the generation of high concentrations of CO in fires are...

This document provides information on the location and coverage of each photograph returned by the Lunar Orbitar series of spacecraft. Small-scale maps show the overall coverage of each mission and the areas of common coverage among sites of different states.Author: Thomas P. HansenISBN-10: 1499161085ISBN-13:...

A series of new reduced-scale compartment fire experiments were conducted, which included local measurements of temperature and species composition. The measurements are unique to the compartment fire literature. By design, the experiments provided a comprehensive and quantitative assessment of major and minor carbonaceous gaseous...

This Recommendation specifies mechanisms for the generation of random bits using deterministic methods. The methods provided are based on either hash functions, block cipher algorithms or number theoretic problems.Author: John Kelsey,Elaine BarkerISBN-10: 1499160305ISBN-13: 9781499160307Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/15/2014Pages: 140Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 11.02h...

The Intelligent and Automated Construction Job Site (IACJS) Testbed is a large laboratory facility that was established at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2011. The creation of the testbed was motivated by the need for such testbeds that was identified...

Wireless technologies for technical and business communications have been available for over a century and are widely used for many popular applications. The use of wireless technologies in the power system is also not new. Its use for system monitoring, metering and data gathering...

The ability to automatically collect more and better measurements of roadway assets (e.g., existence, condition, location, type) and to accurately map both geometry and elements of roadway assets is an important mitigating factor in roadway safety. This information serves numerous purposes including verification of...

The workshop is a tutorial on introductory geospatial semantics with hands-on exercises using standard Web browsers. The workshop is divided into two sections, general semantics on the Web and specific examples of geospatial semantics using data from The National Map of the U.S. Geological...

Fifteen years in the making, this meticulously researched book, provides startling ultra-technology challenges to real contenders. With full color illustrations and lively discussion, it gives specific Headstarts for achieving Huge Transparent Domes, Three-Dimensional Software, the Magnetic Cell, Super-Medicine, Re-Growing Arms and Legs, Anti-Gravity, Invention...

This report documents a model to represent the true stress-strain behavior of structural steel. It is based on combination of data from the NIST World Trade Center collapse investigation and many other evaluated literature sources.Author: U. S. Department of CommerceISBN-10: 1495300498ISBN-13: 9781495300493Publisher: Createspace Independent...

Cloud computing has been perceived as risky strategy, as if an organization were outsourcing its very soul. But Dan Griffin explains that the bigger risk is to ignore the benefits of cloud computing-particularly for high-growth businesses. He demonstrates both how to make the technology...

Like any information technology (IT), radio frequency identification (RFID) presents security and privacy risks that must be carefully mitigated through management, operational, and technical controls in order to realize the numerous benefits the technology has to offer. When practitioners adhere to sound security engineering...

Intrusion detection is the process of monitoring the events occurring in a computer system or network and analyzing them for signs of possible incidents, which are violations or imminent threats of violation of computer security policies, acceptable use policies, or standard security practices. Intrusion...

The Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) is dedicated to coordinating, facilitating and reviewing the Department of Transportation's (DOT) Research Development and Technology (RD&T) activities, and to advancing the development and deployment of innovative technologies and concepts that will improve our mobility, promote economic...

RITA's FY 2012 budget request is $52.6 million, an increase of $12.6 million over the FY 2010 level. This request reflects RITA's Surface Transportation Reauthorization proposal to greatly enhance the data collection and statistical analysis program in support of data-driven decision-making across the USDOT.Author:...

Since 1984, wildland fires have burned an average of 850 homes each year in the United States, according to the National Fire Protection Association, but because more people are moving to areas in or near fire-prone wildlands, the number of homes at risk is...

According to OMB, the federal executive branch plans to spend at least $75 billion on information technology (IT) investments in fiscal year 2012. In response to a statute which mandates that GAO identify duplicative activities within federal agencies, GAO previously identified enterprise architecture as...

This book contains the concepts of 19 new inventions: These inventions may require some R&D but, the concepts are good. angular electric storage and battery combination, smart grid gyro Power, improved electric motors, hybrid car that uses 3 means of storage, retractable wheel studs,...