Sscience & technology review

Technical Report · Wed May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1996

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/250571· OSTI ID:250571

This monthly science and technology review features a report about Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory work on an awesome, inevitable, unpredictable, and potentially dangerous natural phenomenon, lightning. This feature article tells of the development of guidance by Laboratory engineers on how to deal with the effects of lightning on Department of Energy facilities, especially those where nuclear and high explosive materials are handled and stored. Other topics are Groundwater Modeling: More Cost Effective Cleanup by Design, Dual- Band Infrared Computed Tomography: Searching for Hidden Defects, and Plating Shop Moves to Finish Off Waste.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 250571
• Report Number(s): UCRL-52000-96-5; ON: DE96010283; TRN: 96:015072
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: May 1996
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

29 ENERGY PLANNING AND POLICY
66 PHYSICS
05 NUCLEAR FUELS
LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
LIGHTNING
SAFETY
COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY
INFRARED THERMOGRAPHY
GROUND WATER
MONITORING
NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING
PLATING
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
WASTE MANAGEMENT
DEFECTS
COMPUTER CODES