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DOE OSTI2017

Factors influencing moisture analysis in the 3013 destructive examination surveillance program

Thermogravimetric analysis of a solid sample with mass spectrometry (TGA-MS) of the evolved gas is used in the destructive examination (DE) portion of the Integrated Surveillance Program to quantify the moisture content of the material stored in a 3013 container. As with any measurement determined from a small sample, the collection, storage, transportation, and handling of the sample can affect its ability to represent the properties of the bulk material. During the course of the DE program, questions have periodically arisen concerning the ability of the moisture sample to reflect reliably the actual moisture content of the entire material stored in the 3013 container. Most concerns are related to the ability to collect a representative sample and to preserve the moisture content of the sample between collection and analysis. Recent delays in analysis caused by maintenance issues with the TGA-MS instrument presented a unique opportunity to document and quantify the effects various factors have on the TGA-MS moisture measurement. This report will use recent data to document the effects that current sample collection and handling practices have on the TGA-MS moisture measurement. Some suggestions will be made which could improve the current sample collection and handling practices for the TGA-MS moisture measurement so that the analytical results more accurately reflect the moisture content of the material stored in the 3013 container.

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DOE OSTI2017

Energy Systems Training Programs and Certifications Survey White Paper

Compressed air system, industrial refrigeration system, chilled water system, pump system, fan system, steam system, process heating system, and combined heat and power system are the major industrial energy systems. By helping enhance knowledge and skills of workforce, training and certification programs on these systems are essential to improve energy efficiency of manufacturing facilities. A literature survey of currently available training and certification programs on these systems was conducted.

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DOE OSTI2017

Uranium Holdup Survey Program (UHSP) Lean Improvement Project

This report discusses the UHSP monitoring program, a radioactive material accounting process and its purpose. The systematic approach to implementing Lean principles, determining key requirements, root causes of variation and disruption that interfere with program efficiency and effectiveness. Preexisting issues within the UHSP are modeled to illustrate the impact that they have on the large and extensive systems.

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DOE OSTI2017

2016 Annual Progress Report: DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program

The 2016 Annual Progress Report summarizes fiscal year 2016 activities and accomplishments by projects funded by the DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program. It covers the program areas of hydrogen production; hydrogen delivery; hydrogen storage; fuel cells; manufacturing R&D; technology validation; safety, codes and standards; systems analysis; market transformation; and Small Business Innovation Research projects.

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DOE OSTI2017

Coding a Weather Model: DOE-FIU Science & Technology Workforce Development Program.

DOE Fellow, Andres Cremisini, completed a 10-week internship with Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Under the management of Kristopher Klingler and the mentorship of Jon Bradley, he was tasked with conceiving and coding a realistic weather model for use in physical security applications. The objective was to make a weather model that could use real data to accurately predict wind and precipitation conditions at any location of interest on the globe at any user-determined time. The intern received guidance on software design, the C++ programming language and clear communication of project goals and ongoing progress. In addition, Mr. Cremisini was given license to structure the program however he best saw fit, an experience that will benefit ongoing research endeavors.

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DOE OSTI2017

Quality Assurance Program Plan for SFR Metallic Fuel Data Qualification

This document contains an evaluation of the applicability of the current Quality Assurance Standards from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Standard NQA-1 (NQA-1) criteria and identifies and describes the quality assurance process(es) by which attributes of historical, analytical, and other data associated with sodium-cooled fast reactor [SFR] metallic fuel and/or related reactor fuel designs and constituency will be evaluated. This process is being instituted to facilitate validation of data to the extent that such data may be used to support future licensing efforts associated with advanced reactor designs. The initial data to be evaluated under this program were generated during the US Integral Fast Reactor program between 1984-1994, where the data includes, but is not limited to, research and development data and associated documents, test plans and associated protocols, operations and test data, technical reports, and information associated with past United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission reviews of SFR designs.

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DOE OSTI2018

DEGAS: Dynamic Exascale Global Address Space Programming Environments

The Dynamic, Exascale Global Address Space programming environment (DEGAS) project will develop the next generation of programming models and runtime systems to meet the challenges of Exascale computing. The Berkeley part of the project concentrated on communication-optimal code generation to optimize speed and energy efficiency by reducing data movement. Our work developed communication lower bounds, and/or communication avoiding algorithms (that either meet the lower bound, or do much less communication than their conventional counterparts) for a variety of algorithms, including linear algebra, machine learning and genomics. The Berkeley part of the project concentrated on communication-optimal code generation to optimize speed and energy efficiency by reducing data movement. Our work developed communication lower bounds, and/or communication avoiding algorithms (that either meet the lower bound, or do much less communication than their conventional counterparts) for a variety of algorithms, including linear algebra, machine learning and genomics.

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DOE OSTI2018

WM-SVS-TP-003, Rev. 0, effective date 10/15/2015, WM-SVS Characterization Services User-Performed Calibration (UPC) Program

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Procedure P330-2, Control and Calibration of Measuring and Test Equipment (M&TE), requires the establishment of a Measurement Assurance Program and/or a User-Performed Calibration (UPC) Process, as applicable. This UPC has been developed in accordance with the authorization provided in QPA-VAR-2013. This program ensures that qualified individuals perform measurement control and develop measurement control and calibration procedures. Nondestructive analysis (NDA) instruments used for accountability, confirmation, and verification measurements are maintained by the Waste Management Services (WM-SVS) Characterization Services Team. NDA reference standards used for instrument control and calibration are certified for use by the Standards and Calibration Laboratory (S&CL) before use. The Characterization Services Team performs the measurements, develops procedures for performing instrument UPC, and ensures the measurement systems’ control before measurements are performed.

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DOE OSTI2016

Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program Assessment (FY 2015)

Each year, Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) is required to provide a program description and overview of its Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program (LDRD) to the Department of Energy in accordance with DOE Order 413.2B, and this report fulfills that requirement. DOE Order 413.2C was issued in October, 2016.

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DOE OSTI2017

L Basin Corrosion Surveillance Program – Evaluation of 2014 Surveillance Coupons

The L Basin Corrosion Surveillance Program is performed in conjunction with the Spent Fuel Storage Basin Water Chemistry Control Program to evaluate the corrosion of aluminum coupons as an indicator of the degradation of the aluminum-clad spent nuclear fuel stored in L Basin. The latest set of coupons were removed in 2014 after 15 years of exposure. The water quality throughout the exposure period has been within the parameter limits established for basin operation that are consistent with international guidelines for aluminum fuel storage. The 2014 corrosion characterization utilized a new protocol involving a laser confocal microscope for improved characterization of pitting corrosion. This report trends these results with those of previous coupons (2005 – 2010), which were placed in L Basin in 1999.

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DOE OSTI2018

Nuclear Nonproliferation and Security Program Office - HIGHLIGHTS 2017

The Nuclear Nonproliferation and Security (NNS) Program Office within the Global Security Directorate at Los Alamos supports the Laboratory’s mission of strategic deterrence through activities aimed at detecting and preventing nuclear proliferation and improving nuclear and radiological security. The program portfolio includes research and development, deployment activities, and policy support. In FY17, work for NNSA’s Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation office (DNN, or “NA-20”) made up 80% of the NNS portfolio; therefore, most of our work is aligned with DNN’s mission.

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DOE OSTI2017

Status Summary of Chemical Processing Development in Plutonium-238 Supply Program

This document summarizes the status of development of chemical processing in the Plutonium-238 Supply Program (PSP) near the end of Demonstration 1. The objective of the PSP is “to develop, demonstrate, and document a production process that meets program objectives and to prepare for its operation” (Frazier et al. 2016).

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DOE OSTI2017

Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program Assessment for FY 2016

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DOE OSTI2018

Program Incubation and Commercialization Best Practices Report

As a reminder, the primary task of the 4C Program is to increase the commercialization rate of cleantech companies in California. Commercialization, broadly defined, is the innovation continuum of developing and introducing a new product or service into the market. For measurability, the 4C Program defines commercialization as encompassing a startup’s: (a) preparation, (b) incubation, (c) commercial-scale pilot / demonstration, and (d) first customer.

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DOE OSTI2015

Energy from Biomass Research and Technology Transfer Program

The purpose of CPBR is to foster and facilitate research that will lead to commercial applications. The goals of CPBR’s Energy from Biomass Research and Technology Transfer Program are to bring together industry, academe, and federal resources to conduct research in plant biotechnology and other bio-based technologies and to facilitate the commercialization of the research results to: (1) improve the utilization of plants as energy sources; (2) reduce the cost of renewable energy production; (3) facilitate the replacement of petroleum by plant-based materials; (4) create an energy supply that is safer in its effect on the environment, and (5) contribute to U.S. energy independence. CPBR brings together the resources of member organizations to address the problems and the future of U.S. plant-derived energy resources and plant-based energy industries through a program of industrially relevant, scientifically meritorious basic, applied, and scale-up research. The process of selecting projects is highly competitive. It insures that the work carried out through CPBR has technical merit, commercial relevance, and high potential for the transfer of new technologies from the academic research laboratory to the marketplace.

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DOE OSTI2017

Status and Update of the RaDIATE Collaboration R&D Program

The Radiation Damage In Accelerator Target Environments (RaDIATE) collaboration was founded in 2012 and currently consists of over 50 participants and 11 institutions globally. Due to the increasing power of future proton accelerator sources on target facilities, there is a critical need to further the understanding of the physical and thermo-mechanical radiation response of target facility materials. Thus, the primary objective of the RaDIATE collaboration is to draw on existing expertise in the nuclear materials and accelerator targets fields to generate new and useful materials data for application within the accelerator and fission/fusion communities. Current research activities of the collaboration include post irradiation examination (PIE) of decommissioned components from existing beamlines such as the NuMI beryllium beam window and graphite NT-02 target material. PIE of these components includes advanced microstructural analyses (SEM/TEM, EBSD, EDS) and micro-mechanic s technique such as nano-indentation, to help characterize any microstructural radiation damage incurred during operation. New irradiation campaigns of various candidate materials at both low and high energy beam facilities are also being pursued. Beryllium helium implantation studies at the University of Surrey as well as high energy proton irradiation of various materials at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s BLIP facility have been initiated. The program also extends to beam-induced thermal shock experiments using high intensity beam pulses at CERN’s HiRadMat facility, followed by advanced PIE activities to evaluate thermal shock resistance of the materials. The continuing research activities with preliminary results, as well as the future plans of the RaDIATE Collaboration R&D program will be discussed.

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DOE OSTI2018

Annual Radioactive Waste Tank Inspection Program – 2017

The Department of Energy (DOE) requires that Savannah River Remediation LLC (SRR), the Liquid Waste contractor, maintain a robust and timely Structural Integrity Program for waste tanks that are leak-tight and for waste tanks that have leaked or are suspect. These requirements are promulgated in DOE Manual 435.1-1, Section II.Q.(2). A key aspect of SRR’s implementation of these requirements is its annual tank inspection program.

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DOE OSTI2017

Feasibility Study of a Interlaboratory Exchange Program for Safeguards Professional Development

In FY2017, the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Office of International Nuclear Safeguards (NA-241) assigned Brookhaven National Laboratory’s (BNL’s) Nonproliferation and National Security Department to investigate the feasibility of interlaboratory exchanges to promote the sharing of specialized skills and expertise across the lab complex and to provide opportunities for safeguards professionals to access facilities and activities not locally available. Such exchanges would give safeguards professionals who work at laboratories without operating nuclear facilities the opportunity to get hands-on experience with the management of such facilities or handling of nuclear material. Other laboratory professionals could get the opportunity to contribute to policy analysis. As originally envisioned, an interlaboratory exchange program would enable selected safeguards professionals in the national laboratory network to work at another national laboratory for a period of two weeks to six months to offer their expertise and gain experience in programs to which they would not otherwise be exposed.

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