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There is an ongoing effort to replace high activity radioactive sources that could pose a risk for use as terrorist weapons with non-radioisotope based technologies. Currently radioactive sources serve a number of critical needs including the treatment and diagnosis of disease, inspection and certification of critical mechanical structures, the sterilization of food and medical products, ...

70558 The control and dynamic operation of Fuel Cell/Turbine Hybrid power plants will require a synergy of operation between subsystems, increased reliability of operation, and reduction in maintenance and downtime. Futhermore, the control strategy of the power plant will play a significant role in system stability and in ensuring the protection of equipment to promote maximum life. T ...

70702 High energy physics research continues to require higher flux rates and radiation levels to probe the nature of matter. Advanced scintillating materials are needed as an important tool in this research. The materials must be able to sustain high count rates and be highly resistant to radiation damage. This project will investigate and develop a new generation of scintillating fluors ...

70725 It is important to reduce the quantity of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, being discharged into the atmosphere. This project seeks to eliminate carbon dioxide discharges by injecting the carbon dioxide into geologic reservoirs (coal beds). There, the carbon dioxide will be bioconverted into methane by microorganisms that are either indigenous or added to the coal formation along wit ...

65438 Large particles must be efficiently removed from powders used to fabricate superconducting wire. The presence of even a trace amount of large particles can ruin the superconducting properties of a large batch of wire, and limit the performance of all wire made with the powder-in-tube process. This project will apply an aerosol sorting technology to remove this limitation to supercon ...