Memorandum to the Premier

Memorandum To : Mayor

On June 26, 2009, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, more commonly known as ACES or the Waxman-Markey bill, after its sponsors, Representatives Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Edward Markey (D-MA). Currently, the United States Senate is beginning to work on its version of climate change legislation; it is widely understood that the En...

Transparents Du Premier Cours

A Decision Support System (DSS) to Select the Premier Fuel to Develop in the Value Chain of Natural Gas

A value chain is a series of events that takes a raw material and with each step adds value to it. Global interest in the application of natural gas (NG) in production and transportation has grown dramatically, representing a long-term, low-cost, domestic, and secure alternative to petroleum-based fuels. Many technological solutions are currently considered on the market or in development, whic...

MEMORANDUM TO : FROM : SUBJECT : Chairman Jackson

In a Commission briefing on high-bumup fuel on March 25, 1997, the staff said that they would prepare a white paper on mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel in anticipation of a DOE program to bum excess weapons plutonium in commercial reactors. This memorandum and its attachment comprise that paper and are provided to inform the Commissioners of technical issues associated with such a program. More recently,...

MEMORANDUM To : Exposure and Effects Workgroup

The 2008 RMP Status and Trends program (RMP S&T) will be collecting benthos, sediment toxicity and chemistry at 27 stations this summer in order to implement and evaluate the Sediment Quality Objectives (SQOs) assessment methods for bays and estuaries that have been approved by the State of California. The RMP S&T conducts both acute and sub-lethal sediment toxicity tests as recommended by the ...