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  Experimental Breeder Reactor I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The design purpose of EBR-I was not to produce electricity but instead to validate nuclear physics which suggested that a breeder reactor should be possible.
EBR-I was deactivated in 1964 and replaced with a new reactor, EBR-II.
EBR-I was followed by Experimental Breeder Reactor II in 1964.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/EBR-1   (456 words)

  
 A Guide To and Update On Ontario's EBR
The EBR was implemented at a particularly challenging juncture for a number of the ministries.  Between 1996 and 1999,  MOE and MNR sustained budget cuts in the range of 40 to 50 per cent and experienced dramatic changes in structure and function.
1.  A declaration that the defendants are unlawfully caused, permitted, or failed to stop the actual or imminent contamination of the plaintiffs’ properties by contaminants emanating from the illegal waste dump.
The EBR whistleblower provisions have not resulted in any applications to the OLRB.  However, between 1983 and 2000, the OLRB has dealt with at least five whistleblower applications under the EPA.  In two cases, the employers were ordered to pay lost earnings to employees who had provided information about their employers’ improper activities to MOE.
www.lacieg2s.ca /law/canapp01.htm   (10470 words)

  
 3323e THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL BILL OF RIGHTS FOR PRESCRIBED INSTRUMENTS GUIDE FOR APPLICANTS
The EBR was proclaimed in February 1994 and it allows the residents of Ontario to participate in government decisions that have a significant effect on the environment.
The EBR recognizes that there may be occasions that preclude the public participation requirements for instruments because an instrument is required as a result of an emergency situation.
The EBR recognizes that there may be occasions that preclude the public participation requirements as a result of an emergency situation (s.29, EBR) or when the environmentally significant aspects of the proposal have been considered in a process of public participation that was equivalent to the EBR [s.
www.ene.gov.on.ca /envision/gp/3323.htm   (9490 words)

  
 EBR-I - TheBestLinks.com - EBR 1, August 25, August 24, December 20, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
EBR 1, EBR-I, August 25, August 24, December 20, Glenn T. Seaborg, Lyndon...
EBR-I is a Registered National Historic Landmark in the desert about 18 miles southeast of Arco, Idaho.
Interestingly, the design purpose of EBR-I was not to produce electricity but instead to validate nuclear physics which suggested that a breeder reactor should be possible.
www.thebestlinks.com /EBR_1.html   (365 words)

  
 logos: EBR-I produced first nuclear electricity
It was barely enough to power a simple string of four, 100-watt light bulbs, but the 16 scientists and engineers - all staff members of Argonne National Laboratory, which designed and built the reactor - recorded their historic achievement by chalking their names on the wall beside the generator.
EBR-I provided the first proof that breeding is possible: On June 4, 1953, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission announced that EBR-I had become the world's first reactor to demonstrate the breeding of plutonium from uranium.
The primary goal is to restore and maintain EBR-I as a museum and to develop exhibits on the history of nuclear power.
www.anl.gov /Media_Center/logos20-1/ebr1.htm   (763 words)

  
 Atomic Heritage Foundation: The Manhattan Project and the Atomic Age   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
On December 20, 1951, a successful experiment at EBR-I conclusively proved that it was possible to harness the energy produced by a nuclear reactor as the reactor successfully generated enough electricity to power four light bulbs.
This objective led to many "firsts" in the development of the EBR-I. Construction of the EBR-I began in May 1949, and the first critical reaction was achieved two years later in December 1951.
In just twelve years of operation, the reactor achieved many firsts: it was the first breeder reactor, the first to generate usable quantities of electricity from atomic energy, the first to use liquid-metal as a coolant, and the first plutonium-fueled reactor.
www.atomicheritage.org /ebr1.htm   (480 words)

  
 INEEL - News Desk - Experimental Breeder Reactor-I (EBR-I) opens for summer tours   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Built in 1950, EBR-I produced the world's first usable amount of electricity from nuclear power Dec. 20, 1951.
EBR-I was dedicated as a Registered National Historic Landmark Aug. 25, 1966, by President Lyndon B. Johnson and Glenn T. Seaborg, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission.
EBR-I was also dedicated as a National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark in 1979 by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, an Historic Landmark for Advances in Materials Technology in 1979 by the American Society of Metals and a Nuclear Historic Landmark by the American Nuclear Society in 1987.
newsdesk.inel.gov /press_releases/2001/05-21EBR_I_summer_tours.htm   (239 words)

  
 Idaho National Laboratory - History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The first use of nuclear fission to produce a usable quantity of electricity was demonstrated at the INL's EBR-I on Dec. 20, 1951.
EBR-I is now a national historic landmark open to visitors from Memorial Day weekend to Labor Day.
Four light bulbs were lit with electricity generated from nuclear power at EBR-I. Argonne personnel load material into the core of EBR-I. President Lyndon Johnson holds one of the four light bulbs lit with the first electricity generated from nuclear power.
www.inl.gov /history/index.shtml   (865 words)

  
 Unique Reactors
Unit 1 was later joined by the World's second oldest currently operational unit (Unit 2, February 1957) and the third oldest (Unit 3, March 1958).
Beznau 1 is the oldest of Switzerland's 5 commercial reactors.
The retirement of Haddam Neck 1 (the U.S. record-holder for longevity) in 1996, reduced to 4 the number of operable U.S. reactors built during the 1960's.
eia.doe.gov /cneaf/nuclear/page/nuc_reactors/superla.html   (2883 words)

  
 Fax Advertising: What You Need to Know
However, under the amended rules, fax advertisements may be sent to recipients with whom the sender has an EBR, as long as the fax number was provided voluntarily by the recipient.
If the EBR existed before July 9, 2005, and the sender also possessed the fax number before July 9, 2005, the sender may send the fax advertisements without demonstrating how the number was obtained.
The rules require senders of permissible fax advertisements (those sent under an EBR or with the recipient’s prior express permission) to provide specified notice and contact information on the fax that allow recipients to “opt-out” of future faxes from the sender.
www.fcc.gov /cgb/consumerfacts/unwantedfaxes.html   (1239 words)

  
 NEW ATOMIC PHENOMENON - Unique interaction with core electron Coulomb field
Importantly, %UV, VIS, and NIR radiations showed dependence on ionizing radiation energy but not on (1) type of ionizing radiation whether beta, gamma or X-ray, in other words whether the source is XRF source or radioisotope and (2) atomic number.
1 scattered gamma at a fraction of a degree would be low by 6 eV (1.16 9994 MeV).
When XRF source or a radioisotope was kept directly over quartz window of PMT, UV intensity contributes to most counts detected while counts due to visible (VIS), near infrared (NIR) radiation, ionizing radiations and Bharat rays remain low.
www.geocities.com /raomap/discovery6.html   (3077 words)

  
 Program Spf   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
1 to fit EXOSAT Argon detector ident channel (J), 0 to omit.
1 to fit EXOSAT Xenon detector ident channel (J), 0 to omit.
G is the Born approximation to the Gaunt factor.
ledas-www.star.le.ac.uk /ginga/soft/spf.html   (706 words)

  
 Energy Time Line - Year 1950 to 1959   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Westinghouse Electric Corporation builds the first breeder reactor at the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission’s laboratories in Arco, Id. Known as Experimental Breeder Reactor 1, or EBR-1, it produces more plutonium than the uranium it burns of fuel.
The Experimental Breeder Reactor 1 in Arco, Id., is destroyed when an operator accidentally fails to drop the cooling rods in response to reactor overheating.
Jointly run by PGandE and General Electric Co., the 30 megawatt boiling water reactor plant operates to 1967.
www.energyquest.ca.gov /time_machine/1950ce-1960ce.html   (1116 words)

  
 EBR-1, a Novel Ambler Subclass B1 {beta}-Lactamase from Empedobacter brevis -- Bellais et al. 46 (10): 3223 -- ...
from Flavobacterium odoratum (1, 2, 4, 5, 32, 34).
grown for 1 h and 30 min in a preincubated TS broth on a rotating
Biochemical sequence analyses of GES-1, a novel class A extended-spectrum ß-lactamase, and the class 1 integron In52 from Klebsiella pneumoniae.
aac.asm.org /cgi/content/full/46/10/3223   (2628 words)

  
 Atomic Heritage Foundation: Idaho and the Atomic Age   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Atomic Heritage Foundation's first museum exhibits opened on May 24, 2005 at the Museum of Idaho at at EBR-I. To see the Museum of Idaho website, click here.
The exhibits are entitled The Race for Atomic Power and are located at the Museum of Idaho in Idaho Falls, ID, and at the location of the Experimental Breeder Reactor -I (EBR-I) at the nearby Idaho National Laboratory.
The exhibits are designed to complement one another as they tell the story of the development of nuclear power in the United States from the fifties through the seventies, focusing in particular on the contributions made by the National Reactor Testing Station (NRTS), as Idaho National Laboratory was known during that time.
www.atomicheritage.org /idaho.htm   (634 words)

  
 ebr version 1.0: Winter 1995/96
New technological achievements do not have to mean the forceful displacement of older media; their recombination is at least as likely, and the pressure of new media is sometimes necessary to push the old toward the higher complexity of a new evolutionary level.
If the Internet does indeed represent the end toward which communications media have been developing, it is preceded by a long line of technological "hopeful monsters," mutants slightly before their time that foretold new species, but never quite made it to species status themselves.
His review confirms a suspicion that is gaining ground among media theorists and textual scholars: that the materiality of text will actually become heightened as we write in electronic environments.
www.electronicbookreview.com /thread/electropoetics/manifesto   (2006 words)

  
 Effects of 4-aminopyridine on demyelinated axons, synapses and muscle tension -- Smith et al. 123 (1): 171 -- Brain
The area of the CAP on the lesioned side, in contrast to the non-lesioned side, is substantially increased during the period of cooling.
A unilateral demyelinating lesion had been induced within the conduction pathway by the injection of EBr into the left dorsal column at the T12/13 intervertebral space 28 days previously.
1 (A) Light micrograph of a transverse section through the dorsal portion of the spinal cord at vertebral level T12 orientated with the dorsal surface of the spinal cord at the top.
brain.oxfordjournals.org /cgi/content/full/123/1/171   (8480 words)

  
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In this update: [1] CDC Statement, as of 9 Jun 2003 [2] Equine (Oklahoma) [3] Birds & mosquitoes (Louisiana) [4] Bird (Illinois) [5] Cumulative statistics ex USGS Maps (as of 11 Jun 2003) ****** [1] Date: Mon 9 Jun 2003 From: ProMEDd-mail
The Sequoyah County foal was born on 1 Mar 2003, and on 26 May began displaying symptoms of equine West Nile virus infection -- wobbling, stumbling, staggering, listlessness and depression, Healey said.
This is the second dead bird in Illinois to test positive for West Nile virus since surveillance for the mosquito-transmitted virus began on 1 May 2003.
www.promedmail.org /pls/askus/f?p=2400:1001:321919229386869874::NO::F2400_P1001_BACK_PAGE,F2400_P1001_PUB_MAIL_ID:1000,21894   (1683 words)

  
 ebr
EBR Registry Number: "XB04E2003" Type of Posting: "Information" Status: "Notice" Abstract: Forest Management Plan (FMP) for the Timiskaming Forest for the 20-year period of April 1, 2006 to March 31, 2026 — Public Review of the Draft Plan File size 11.203 bytes - 15/8/2005 19:35:37
Abstract: An amendment to section 54 (1) and 69 (1) of the Crown Forest Sustainability Act to streamline provisions for the issuance of forest resource processing facility licences.
The EBR established a formal framework for notifying the public about proposed legislation, policies, regulations and other legal instruments that could have a significant effect on the environment and then considering the public's input before the government makes a final decision.
www.web.net /~nwatch/fmp/ebr.html   (8784 words)

  
 Partial Fuel Meltdown Events
EBR-1 was a small (1 MWt) breeder reactor that used a liquid Sodium-Potassium (NaK) mixture for cooling.
The fuel in the second installed core was highly enriched uranium-zirconium alloy.
To esnure that the plant equipment is maintained in accordance with that probablistic safety assessment, the NRC developed the Maintenance Rule (10 CFR 50.65).
www.nucleartourist.com /events/part-melt.htm   (610 words)

  
 Ford Foundation: Nuclear Power Issues and Choices - 339
Virtually all work was based on the uranium/plutonium cycle, probably because highly enriched uranium and plutonium were the materials available and about which the most was known.
The beginnings of the line of fast reactor development dominant in the world today, the liquid metal fast breeder reactor (LMFBR), can be traced to the successful operation of the Experimental Breeder Reactor 1 (EBR-1) at the AEC laboratory in Idaho in 1951.
This reactor, which was fueled with highly enriched uranium metal and cooled by liquid sodium and potassium, actually generated the first electricity from the fission process.
www.fordfound.org /elibrary/documents/0335/344.cfm   (656 words)

  
 EBR-1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Argonne has always been at the forefront of nuclear power research.
Argonne’s EBR-I, also known as Chicago Pile-4, was the fourth in the series of Chicago Pile reactors, which started with Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago.
EBR-1 was the first nuclear reactor to generate electricity, powering these four 200-watt light bulbs on Dec. 20, 1951.
www.anl.gov /Media_Center/Frontiers/2002/d1ee2.html   (69 words)

  
 IN-VITRO DIFFERENTIATION BETWEEN AIR AND SOLID EMBOLI USING DOPPLER ULTRASOUND -- Rodriguez et al. 50 (Supplement 1): ...
and detected in the phantom by TCD using 1, 2 and 4 MHz transducers.
The EBR was calculated as the ratio between the signal-intensity
The EBR was the best discriminator followed by the SVL, signal-duration
www.cja-jca.org /cgi/content/full/50/suppl_1/A68   (320 words)

  
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IMB 1: Material Balance Around a Single Unit
EBR 2: Heat of Reaction from Heats of Formation
EBR 3: Heat of Reaction as a Function of Temperature
www.etsi-inc.com /mat-nrg.htm   (60 words)

  
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XEBR-6: SAME AS EBR EXCEPT BEET MOLASSES FOR SUGAR.
C C-- BATCo document for Province of British Columbia 26 October 1999 1.
POSSIBLE AREAS FOR FUTURE STUDIES (Leaf Research Group) BATCo document for Province of British Columbia 26 October 1999 A.
www.library.ucsf.edu /tobacco/batco/OCR/10100/10135.txt   (1599 words)

  
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For example, (a) 65% more students passed the Learn-to-Learn Program writing posttest in April, 2003 with Cogetics than passed the LTL writing pretest in November, 2002 without Cogetics; and (b) 60% more students passed the state English Language Arts exam in 2003 with Cogetics than passed in 2002 without Cogetics.
Such movement, which is the most difficult to attain, sets the stage for students to move into the passing levels of 3 and 4.
All exam results show that the longer students are exposed to Cogetics the greater is the movement from Level 1 to Level 2, and from levels 1 and 2 into levels 3 and 4.
www.rosebrooke.com /EBR1_SUMMARY_10-15-2003UL.doc   (1518 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for EBR-1
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Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "EBR-1" at HighBeam.
More information is at your fingertips at HighBeam Research:
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=EBR-1   (89 words)

  
 Deloitte - United Kingdom - Corporate Governance Update Part 1 of 3 (17/03/2006) from Mondaq
Deloitte - United Kingdom - Corporate Governance Update Part 1 of 3 (17/03/2006) from Mondaq
United Kingdom: Corporate Governance Update Part 1 of 3
View summary of all information contributed by Deloitte
www.mondaq.com /article.asp?articleid=38362&lastestnews=1   (244 words)

  
 Early US and Russian Power Reactors
During the 1960's, a number of smaller prototype reactors were designed and operated by utilities and/or government agencies.
Subsequently, larger reactors were designed and operated starting with the San Onofre 1 and Connecticut Yankee PWRs in 1967 and Oyster Creek and Nine Mile Point 1 BWRs in 1969.
These newer reactors were rated at 400 to 600 MWe.
www.nucleartourist.com /basics/early.htm   (355 words)

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