EPRI Journal articles from January 1995

EPRI Journal archives from January 1995

Assessing the risks of utility hazardous air pollutants. (includes related articles)
January 1, 1995... A recently released EPRI assessment concludes that the trace emissions of chemical substances from fossil-fired power plants appear to pose no significant health risks to humans. The assessment brings together the results of a decade of Institute...

Grabbing a lane on the information superhighway. (includes related article)
January 1, 1995... Forty years ago, the completion of the nation's interstate highway system transformed daily life and commerce in the United States, offering unprecedented mobility and speeding the movement of goods across the country. Today, the construction of...

Counting on fish protection.
January 1, 1995... When many of the great U.S. dams went up during the Depression and after World War II, they brought jobs, flood control, and cheap power that turned sleepy regional economies into bustling urban centers practically overnight. Observers from a...

Small-punch testing for assessing thick-section components.
January 1, 1995... Because of embrittlement phenomena that occur during service, the material toughness of thick-section power plant components like turbine rotors and pressure vessels can decrease over time. As toughness is lost, tolerance to intrinsic and...

Tropospheric ozone research.
January 1, 1995... Title I of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) includes an aggressive program to bring the historically resistant urban ozone problem under control. For nonattainment areas - that is, areas that do not meet the National Ambient Air Quality...