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The poster that will be presented at the PATRAM conference that is based on the previously submitted DOE/NV/03624--2192.
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A historical presentation depicting the International Joint Aerial Surveys AMS has co-created and collaborative efforts that were implemented as result of those efforts.
This Use Restriction Management Plan (URMP) provides the information needed to create, modify, and manage use restrictions (URs) for sites on the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS), and sites accessed through the NNSS main gate, that were closed using the corrective action alternative (CAA) of closure in place under the Federal Facility Agreement and Consent Order (FFACO). It addresses URs established under the FFACO for releases related to the development, testing, and production of nuclear weapons that are located on the NNSS and that are accessed through the NNSS main gate. FFACO URs are established at sites where contamination remains at levels exceeding final action levels (FALs) or is forecasted to exceed Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) maximum contaminant levels (CFR, 2025a) over the next 1,000 years following completion of corrective actions. Administrative URs are established at Industrial Sites and Soils sites where contamination remains at levels exceeding industrial action levels as defined in the Soils RBCA document. All URs stipulate restrictions sufficient to ensure the protection of human health, safety, and the environment.
This revision was prepared to document changes to the data-collection activities. Specifically, the drilling and completion of the wells have been revised, and enhancements to the surface geophysics measurements have been included. Corrective action is needed because underground radioactive contamination exists in these areas resulting from historic underground nuclear testing. The PM CAUs are located in the northwestern portion of the Nevada National Security Site and comprise 82 corrective action sites. A total of 85 underground nuclear detonations took place within the area covered by the PM CAUs between 1965 and 1992 and resulted in the release of radionuclides in the subsurface in the vicinity of the test cavities.
Final technical report for the ARPA-E SHARKS project: Confinement Exploiting Arrays of Cross-Flow Turbines (ConExT). This involved collaboration by the University of Washington, University of Wisconsin, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and Oberon Insights. Cost-effective, large-scale utilization of tidal and river current resources requires turbine arrays. Most array concepts involve multiple, staggered rows of turbines analogous to wind farms. However, in water, turbines that have an appreciable projected area (i.e., the projected area over a full revolution) relative to a channel’s cross-sectional area can theoretically extract far more energy than when operating in isolation. This suggests substantial benefits to a confinement-exploiting approach to array layout, in which turbines are more densely clustered in a single row spanning a channel. The objective of this project was to move this concept from theory to practice, as well as establishing environmental and economic trade-offs. This objective was accomplished through scale-model experimentation, high-fidelity computational fluid dynamic simulation, and integrated techno-economic modeling.
The purpose of this letter report is to document the mitigation of adverse effects of a proposed undertaking in compliance with the stipulations in the Programmatic Agreement DE-GM58-22NA25554 Among the U.S. Department of Energy and the Nevada State Historic Preservation Officer and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Concerning the Protection of Historic Properties on the Nevada National Security Site, Nye County, Nevada, hereafter referred to as the NNSS PA. The proposed undertaking would demolish Buildings 12-32 (State Historic Preservation Office [SHPO] Resource No. B18291), 12-34 (SHPO Resource No. B18292), 12-35 (SHPO Resource No. B18293), and 12-37 (SHPO Resource No. B18294) in the Area 12 Camp Historic District (SHPO Resource No. D372) on the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS). The Area 12 Camp Historic District has been determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) under Criteria A and C (Reed 2021; Reno et al. 2021).
Analysis and evaluation of nuclear debris is a key component to identify forensic signatures in a post-detonation environment. Currently, methods exist and are practiced in obtaining signatures from post-detonation debris. However, efforts to reduce the timeline in obtaining signatures is continuous within nuclear forensics research and will be forwarded by this research. This education and research project will explore combined material chemistry and separations of radionuclides to provide actionable signatures in less time than standard methods. The research will use the phase distribution of radionuclides in debris to develop targeted and rapid dissolution methods. These dissolution methods will be coupled with microfluidics to achieve samples suitable for analysis within reduced timelines.