[en] This paper discusses the use of mechanical cutting methods to volume reduce and package irradiated reactor internal components. The recent completion of the removal of the Reactor Vessel Internals (RVI) from within the Sacramento Municipal Utility District's (SMUD) Rancho Seco Nuclear Power Plant demonstrates that unlike previous methods used for similar projects, mechanical cutting minimizes exposure to workers, costly water cleanup, and excessive secondary waste generation. (authors)

[en] The large scale decontamination of the concrete Hot Cells and Hot Pipe Tunnel at NASA's Plum Brook Reactor Facility demonstrates that novel management and innovative methods are crucial to ensuring that the successful remediation of the most contaminated facilities can be achieved with minimal risk to the project stakeholders. (authors)

[en] Rapidity distributions of protons from central ¹⁹⁷Au+ ¹⁹⁷Au collisions measured by the E895 Collaboration in the energy range from (2-8)A GeV at the Brookhaven AGS are presented. Longitudinal flow parameters derived using a thermal model including collective longitudinal expansion are extracted from these distributions. The results show an approximately linear increase in the longitudinal flow velocity, <βγ>_L , as a function of the logarithm of beam energy

[en] Momentum spectra of charged pions over nearly full rapidity coverage from target to beam rapidity have been extracted from 0-5% most central Au +Au collisions in the beam energy range from 2A to 8A GeV by the E895 experiment. Using a thermal parametrization to fit the transverse mass spectra, rapidity density distributions are extracted. The observed spectra are compared with predictions from the RQMD version 2.3 cascade model and also to a thermal model including longitudinal flow. The total 4π yields of the charged pions are used to infer an initial-state entropy produced in the collisions

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[en] Full text: The study of relativistic heavy-ion collisions provides information on nuclear matter under conditions of extreme pressure and energy densities. Experiment E895 at the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) used a Time Projection Chamber to measure directed and elliptic nuclear 'flow' at 2, 4, 6 and 8 AGeV and the Au+Au reaction. A 'softening' of the nuclear equation-of-state is suggested through a comparison between the differential elliptic flow and predictions from a dynamic transport model. Recent flow results from E895 for charged kaons and lambda particles will also be presented