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This brochure describes updates to the BES program in FY 2019, including new awards, strategic planning activities, and recognition of BES Principal Investigators. It also describes select research highlights from the three divisions in BES.
This is a powerpoint presentation designed to update the Technical Coordination Team (TCT) associated with the AGR irradiation experiment program on operations of the AGR-5/6/7 experiment over the past six months (since the last TCT meeting). The presentation primarily deals with operational challenges to failed fuel particles in capsule 1. Specifically, how to keep fission products from capsule 1 from entering the other four capsules in the experiment.
Hydraulic property estimates for the soils, cementitious materials, and waste zones associated with the E-Area low-level radioactive waste disposal units have been provided to support the Performance Assessments (PA) for the E-Area Low-Level Waste Facility (LLWF). Nominal or “best estimate” hydraulic property values for use in the deterministic modeling are provided along with representations of the hydraulic property value uncertainty for use in sensitivity and uncertainty modeling. The hydraulic properties provided for each of the E-Area materials include: porosity ( η ), dry bulk density ( ρ b ), particle density (ρ p ), saturated hydraulic conductivity ( K sat ), characteristic curves (suction head, saturation, and relative permeability), and effective diffusion coefficient ( D e ). A representation of the uncertainty associated with each property, except for the characteristic curves, is provided for each material, except for the E-Area waste zones. These nominal parameter values for each of the E-Area soils, cementitious materials, and waste zones, and, where indicated, parameter uncertainty representations, are based upon the following in order of priority: Site-specific field data, Site-specific laboratory data, Similarity to material with site-specific field or laboratory data, and Literature data. Additionally, a methodology to represent long-term concrete degradation is provided. Finally, because much of the nominal hydraulic property values and uncertainty representations for the E-Area soils, cementitious materials, and waste zones are based on similarity to other materials or literature data, a methodology to prioritize additional work to better define these values and representations is outlined. Prioritization should be based on the importance of the material and/or property to the results of deterministic, sensitivity, and uncertainty modeling. This prioritization should be established through a process of sensitivity modeling. This report supersedes the previous hydraulic properties data package. Revision 1 contains clarifications, updates and corrections to text, figures and tables in a number of places in the report along with some minor editing.
An update is provided on the dissertation underway and what has been learned thus far. Work thus far: Developed analytic models for each region in the spent fuel cask – Used to identify and explain physical processes which create features in detailed casks; Developed simplified computational models to identify details not seen in analytic models; SC were calculated in the fuel region; The difference in SC’s between the analytic model and the simplified computational model were identified. Outstanding issues: Analysis of analytic models in stainless steel and carbon steel – These materials are thin and have few features (just the slope); Discrepancies between absorption SC’s in fuel; Create a test problem to show the effects of the high energy resonances in the fuel region. Future Work: Sensitivity analysis needs to be continued through the cask – The detailed model will be added to the remaining materials; Sensitivity analysis paper; and, Addressing outstanding issues.
An update is provided from LANL for the Material Data Management Consortium meeting.
Attached are the updated Medical Waste Management Plans and Emergency Action Plans for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) Biosafety Level 2 (BSL-2) facilities and Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3) facility. A redline version of each document has also been provided. Minor changes such as facility personnel, contact information, and titles for those that support onsite Biosafety Labs at LLNL have been made to the document. It should be noted that the most recent versions of the Medical Waste Large Quantity Generator Registration Application Form and Medical Waste Management Plan were incorporated and sourced from the Alameda County Department of Environmental Health website.
An update on the Alpha MMC Setup and Sapphire and AU Detector Pulse is provided.
A project update is provided, and various spaces, metrics, and measures are discussed.
This report summarizes the 2020 fiscal year (FY20) status of the borehole heater test in salt funded by the US Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy (DOE-NE) Spent Fuel and Waste Science & Technology (SFWST) campaign. This report satisfies SFWST level-two milestone number M2SF-20SNO10303032. This report is an update of an August 2019 level-three milestone report to present the final as-built description of the test and the first phase of operational data (BATS la, January to March 2020) from the Brine Availability Test in Salt (BATS) field test.
The goal of this transportation analysis (TA) is to update the 2008 TA in order to evaluate the impacts associated with the transportation of transuranic (TRU) waste from waste generator sites to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) facility and from waste generator sites to the Idaho National Laboratory (INL).
We report on recent progress in the design of the proposed MATHUSLA Long Lived Particle (LLP) detector for the HL-LHC, updating the information in the original Letter of Intent (LoI), see CDS:LHCC-I-031, arXiv:1811.00927. A suitable site has been identified at LHC Point 5 that is closer to the CMS Interaction Point (IP) than assumed in the LoI. The decay volume has been increased from 20 m to 25 m in height. Engineering studies have been made in order to locate much of the decay volume below ground, bringing the detector even closer to the IP. With these changes, a 100 m x 100 m detector has the same physics reach for large c$\tau$ as the 200 m x 200 m detector described in the LoI and other studies. The performance for small c$\tau$ is improved because of the proximity to the IP. Detector technology has also evolved while retaining the strip-like sensor geometry in Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC) described in the LoI. The present design uses extruded scintillator bars read out using wavelength shifting fibers and silicon photomultipliers (SiPM). Operations will be simpler and more robust with much lower operating voltages and without the use of greenhouse gases. Manufacturing is straightforward and should result in cost savings. Understanding of backgrounds has also significantly advanced, thanks to new simulation studies and measurements taken at the MATHUSLA test stand operating above ATLAS in 2018. We discuss next steps for the MATHUSLA collaboration, and identify areas where new members can make particularly important contributions.
The presentation is a progress report update to the sponsor.
The presentation, released quarterly, reviews major trends that occurred in the solar industry in 2019 and the first quarter of 2020. Major topics of focus will be global and U.S. supply & demand, module & system price, investment trends, and updates on U.S. government programs supporting the solar industry.
The GREET® (Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy use in Technologies) model has been developed by Argonne National Laboratory with the support of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). GREET is a life-cycle analysis (LCA) tool, structured to systematically examine the energy and environmental effects of a wide variety of transportation fuels and vehicle technologies in major transportation sectors (i.e., road, air, marine, and rail) and other end-use sectors, and energy systems. Argonne has expanded and updated the model in various sectors in GREET 2020, and this report provides a summary of the release.
This presentation gives an update on Cloverleaf performance on A64FX. The backend stalls we reported previously have since been found to be very sensitive to compiler optimization level, at least for CCE. The unrolling and jamming that CCE does with –O3 makes a big difference. Unfortunately we get wrong answers for some of the test cases and need to use –hflex_mp=rigorous to get the 960x960 test to pass. This compiler option disables a lot of the optimizations needed for good performance on A64FX.
In 2011, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), working as a partner in the National Advanced Biofuels Consortium, issued a report assessing the viable industrial feed system and pump options for a 2000 dry metric tons per day production-scale hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) plant (Berglin et al. 2012). This report was issued as PNNL-21981, Review and Assessment of Commercial Vendors/Options for Feeding and Pumping Biomass Slurries for Hydrothermal Liquefaction, and will be referred to as “Pump Survey” for reference. It had the following scope: • Identify relevant applications and industries operating at comparable scales • Interact with commercial vendors and pursue integration between vendors • Take advantage of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technology • Supply and support vendor needs for biomass feedstock rheology characterization • Provide vendors with process requirements to support selection of conceptual design for feedstock handing and pump system • Obtain cost data to the extent possible from equipment vendors to support the technical economic analysis (TEA) • Identify issues associated scale-up. The current document represents an update to the prior report in order to: 1. Identify advancements in vendor-reported technologies 2. List reports of new experience or trials with biomass pumping applications 3. Determine if technology/application gaps identified in the prior report have been filled 4. Capture ideas on future research.
This report provides updated estimates of the energy consumptions, energy expenditures, and energy burdens of the population eligible to be served through the US Department of Energy (DOE) Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) and by proxy, those clients actually served by the program. WAP continues to serve a population with an energy burden that is much greater than the rest of the county. The mean energy burden for the WAP-eligible population across the United States for FY 2020 is estimated to be 13.9% compared to 3.0% for households living above the 200% poverty threshold. The mean energy burden for households living below the 100% federal poverty line was estimated to be 30.9%. These energy burdens for the WAP-eligible population have remained steady at this high level over the last decade.
The C-NR Countroom analyzes gamma spectroscopy data using three codes, SAP (which is the combination of SPECANAL and RAYGUN), GAMANAL and UNISAMPO. The codes use libraries which are chosen by the user of gamma emission data to do the identification and quantification. The Countroom maintains nine unique libraries for use in analysis. Historically, the values contained in these libraries has not been consistently updated and many values are quite old and do not reflect the state-of-the-art.