Energy and Water Development Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1984: Department of Energy pt. 3. Nondepartmental witnessesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1983 |
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1984 budget request accelerator activities additional Administration Answer appropriate base Breeder Reactor centrifuge Chairman HATFIELD Chart Clinch River cobalt 60 completed components construction continue core cost deleted Department of Energy effort Electric Energy Research engineering enrichment Environmental equipment estimated evaluation facilities Federal fiscal year 1984 fuel funding fusion FY 1984 budget FY 1984 request Gas Centrifuge High Energy Physics improved increase industry initial Magnetic Fusion Energy major megawatts million monitoring National Laboratory Naval nuclear propulsion Naval Reactors nuclear propulsion Nuclear Regulatory Commission Nuclear Waste nuclear-powered ships Office percent personnel plutonium production proposed Question radiation exposure radioactive waste radioactivity reduced remedial action research and development responsibility revenues safety Savannah River schedule Senator HUDDLESTON Senator JOHNSTON Senator MCCLURE Shipyard storage studies submarine technical testing transmission tritium uranium utilities warhead weapons Western
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Page 1272 - Discharges of radioactivity from ships occur primarily when reactor coolant water expands as a result of being heated to operating temperature; this coolant passes through a purification system ion exchange resin bed prior to being transferred from the ship. The principal source of radioactivity in liquid wastes is from trace amounts of corrosion and wear products from reactor plant metal surfaces in contact with reactor cooling water. Radionuclides with half -lives greater than one day in these...
Page 665 - The interest rate to be used in plan formulation and evaluation for discounting future benefits and computing costs, or otherwise converting benefits and costs to a common time basis, shall be based upon the average yield during the preceding fiscal year on interest-bearing marketable securities of the United States which, at the time the computation is made, have terms of 15 years or more remaining to maturity: Provided, however, That in no event shall the rate be raised or lowered more than one-quarter...
Page 1295 - No increase of radioactivity above normal background levels has been detected in harbor water where US Naval nuclear-powered ships are based, overhauled, or constructed. 3.