Technology & Engineering

Technology is available to reduce diesel vehicle and engine emissions in a cost-effective way. The ability to use diesel emission reductions for state implementation plan (SIP) and conformity...

The Truck Carrier Tool was designed in Microsoft Excel. Microsoft Excel is an electronic spreadsheet program used for storing and manipulating data. Microsoft Excel Forms were used to enable the...

This draft document has been prepared by staff from the Risk and Benefits Group, Health and Environmental Impacts Division, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, U.S. Environmental Protection...

This draft document has been prepared by staff from the Risk and Benefits Group, Health and Environmental Impacts Division, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, U.S. Environmental Protection...

In November 1996, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Law Enforcement Standards Office (OLES), and the American Society of Crime...

The E-Government Act, Public Law 107-347, passed by the 107th Congress and signed into law by the President in December 2002, recognized the importance of information security to the economic and...

This Certification Report documents the procedures used to develop certified values of maximum force (Fm) and absorbed energy (KV) for miniaturized verification Charpy V-notch impact specimens, at...

This Standard specifies a suite of algorithms that can be used to generate a digital signature. Digital signatures are used to detect unauthorized modifications to data and to authenticate the...

Homeland Security Presidential Directive HSPD-12, Policy for a Common Identification Standard for Federal Employees and Contractors [HSPD-12], called for Homeland Security Presidential Directive...

A best practices guide is developed from a synthesis of recent research on high-volume fly ash (HVFA) concrete mixtures. These best practices can be applied by the concrete construction industry to...

This Framework for Designing Cryptographic Key Management Systems (CKMS) contains topics that should be considered by a CKMS designer when developing a CKMS design specification. For each topic,...

This study benefited from the contributions of many individuals and organizations. The authors wish to thank the many staff at the Internal Revenue Service who provided information on current IRS...

The NIST Dietary Supplement Laboratory Quality Assurance Program (DSQAP) was established in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) in 2007 to...

To interact with various services in the cloud and to store the data generated/processed by those services, several security capabilities are required. Based on a core set of features in the three...

Building stakeholders need practical metrics, data, and tools to support decisions related to sustainable building designs, technologies, standards, and codes. The Engineering Laboratory of the...

The NRC contracted with LLNL to compile the supplement to NUREG-1609 to incorporate additional information specific to tritium-producing burnable absorber rods.Author: U. S. Nuclear Regulatory...

With the increase in the number of power reactors submitting applications for renewed licenses, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff realized that members of the public near different...

An international workshop on Conceptual Model Development for Subsurface Reactive Transport Modeling of Inorganic Contaminants, Radionuclides, and Nutrients was held April 20- 24, 2004 at La Posada...

The Performance and Accountability Report provides performance results and audited financial statements that enable Congress, the President, and the public to assess the performance of the agency in...

Based on a Policy Statement on Severe Accidents Regarding Future Designs and Existing Plants, the performance of a plant examination is requested from the licensee of each nuclear power plant. The...

Based on a Policy Statement on Severe Accidents, the licensee of each nuclear power plant is requested to perform an individual plant examination. The plant examination systematically looks for...

Actuation of Fire Protection Systems (FPS) in Nuclear Power Plants have resulted in adverse interactions with equipment important to safety. Precursor operational experience has shown that 37% of all...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has received numerous requests to provide a summary glossary for our publications and other relevant sources, and to make the glossary...

The research and test reactor operator licensing (RTROL) examiner standards establish the procedures and practices for administering initial and requalification written examinations and operating...

The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission has updated NUREG-1650, Rev. 1, "The - United States Third National Report for the Convention on Nuclear Safety," issued September 2004, and will...

This workbook is designed to teach you how to use RASCAL through hands-on problem solving. The problems described within were developed using the December 2006 release of RASCAL v3.0.5. The workbook...

This environmental impact statement (EIS) was prepared in response to an application submitted to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) by the National Institute of Standards and Technology...

In this NUREG, the staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) discusses the applicable regulations for the inservice testing of pumps and valves and the examination and testing of dynamic...

This Standard Review Plan is intended for use by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) reviewer. It provides guidance for the safety review of license (specific or general) and certificate of...

Supplement 3, "Guidance for Protective Action Strategies," to NUREG-0654/FEMA-REP-1, "Criteria for Preparation and Evaluation of Radiological Emergency Response Plans and Preparedness in Support of...