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- Web watch. Richtmyer, Richard; Whalen, Robert // Bond Buyer;12/10/97, Vol. 322 Issue 30289, p32
Provides information on the Web sites of electric power utilities in the United States.
- Energy department's `good neighbor' policy. Ram, B.J. // Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists;Jan/Feb1988, Vol. 44 Issue 1, p35
Discusses the US Department of Energy's long-range plans to improve its safety record. It is unclear how the department will meet the costs of cleaning up the environment and improving safety while increasing production.
- The tritium follies. Albright, D.; Beard, J. // Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists;Nov1989, Vol. 45 Issue 9, p42
Discusses the shutdown of the three Savannah River reactors near Aiken, S.C., the Pentagon's panic over a reduced supply of tritium, and the steps that could be taken by the Energy Department and the Pentagon to extend the current supply of tritium for several years.
- Vitrification--how booming a business? Aiken, L. // Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists;Nov1992, Vol. 48 Issue 9, p6
Considers information from two General Accounting Office reports on the Energy Department's attempts to vitrify high-level radioactive waste (imbedding it in glass for long-term storage), a project which is currently five years behind schedule and billions of dollars over cost. Risks associated...
- New jobs for old labs? Zamora, Tom A. // Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists;Nov1992, Vol. 48 Issue 9, p14
Contends that continued spending on the nation's nuclear weapons laboratories (Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore and Sandia), each at about $1 billion per year and each with employment of about 8,000, is a waste of government resources when there is more important work to be done. Energy...
- Filling in the blanks. Norris, Robert S.; Arkin, William M. // Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists;Nov1992, Vol. 48 Issue 9, p48
Speculates the reason the Energy Department has not released the yields of 44 nuclear tests conducted in the 1950s is because the missing data would allow scholars to separate US and British tests and theorize about the date of Britain's first H-Bomb test. Operation Greenhouse: tests at...
- Stewardship: Don't claim too much or too little. Garwin, Richard L. // Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists;May/Jun1997, Vol. 53 Issue 3, p21
Comments on the creation of Stockpile Stewardship and Management Program (SSMP) by the US Energy Department. Its role on nuclear stockpile stewardship; Energy Department stewardship program on Web site; Test ban of indefinite duration effect on stewardship program.
- Energy-enhancing projects sought for awards program. // Buildings;Nov94, Vol. 88 Issue 11, p22
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- DOE--D.O.A.? // Buildings;Feb95, Vol. 89 Issue 2, p24
Reports on US Department of Energy's commercial buildings energy-efficiency research programs.
- Water heater market position study available. // Contractor Magazine;July97, Vol. 44 Issue 7, p8
Looks at the measures taken by the United States Department of Energy to save money each year due to the replacing of old water heaters with high-efficiency units. Information on the sponsoring of a water heater market disposition study; Identification of the study; Topics covered in the...
