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Reports on the Electric Power Research Institute's (EPRI) call for papers for its Reactor Pressure Vessel Inspection Conference on June 22-24, 1998 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Calls for papers for two conferences on power engineering in the United States. Includes the 60th American Power Conference slated in Chicago from April 14-16, 1998; 1998 International Joint American Society of Mechanical Engineers/Electric Power Research Institute Power Generation Conference slated in August 1998 in Baltimore, Maryland.

The article presents information on 2004 IEEE MTT-S technical programs. Nonlinear device modeling session deals with nonlinear modeling of LDMOS devices. Papers describe formulations and results for IMD an ACPR prediction in GaN as well as electrothermal effects. Five sessions are presented in the theory and design of power dividers. The first paper covers a reconfigurable power-division tehnique using coupled lines or hybrid. The second paper describes a phase combiner for power amplifiers. The third paper presents a multiway power divider with arbitrary terminating impedences.

Reports on the process used by some electric power generation companies in converting sludge to power then to glass aggregate. Tons per year of paper mill sludge converted into tons of glass aggregate used in the patented glass aggregate technology operating in the facility in Neenah, Wisconsin; Moisture content of paper sludge; Growth of the beneficial reuse of coal combustion products from Wisconsin Energy's coal-fired power stations from 1980 to 1998.

The article discusses the white paper "Influence of a directional coupler's parameters on the results of forward and reflected power measurements," by electronics company Rohde & Schwarz. It states that the company describes how directional couplers can affect measurement results. It adds that an overview of the parameters of a directional coupler was outlined in the white paper.

The article reports that the automation of records helped the Texas Municipal Power Agency improve its performance. Topics covered include the use of smartphones and tablets by plant staff members to access data as well as use of electronic data systems to store and integrate important records of the agency. Also mentioned are the problems faced by the agency with using paper records.

The article offers information on the new documents of 2012. The documents include the book "Business Innovation in the 21st Century", by Praveen Gupta, the paper Lessons Learned from "Lessons Learned": The Evolution of Nuclear Power Safety after Accidents and Near-Accidents, and the reports from Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) including Guidelines for Replacement Materials for Service Water Systems, Identification of Critical-to-Power-Production I&C Systems.

Focuses on the development of voltage-controlled oscillators (VCO) that provide superior tuning linearity and low phase noise discussed in an application note from M/A-COM titled "Deploying M/A-COM VCOs: Buffering, Mounting and Power Supplies." Definition of the output loading process; Impact of noise power-supply lines on the output phase-noise performance of low-noise VCO; Certain design points emphasized in the white paper.

The article focuses on boiler tube cracks which could be detected by direct radiographic system. According to the author, field testing determines the best way to locate the source outside the boiler and can coordinate both detector and source. It states that laboratory test results suggest that digital radiographic system can provide the same results like conventional film radiography. Furthermore, it also involves quantifying the system's crack detection and sizing capabilities and investigating other digital radiographic boiler examination possibilities, like the detection of flow-accelerated corrosion through insulation.