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Coupled Hydrodynamic-Structural Response Analysis of Piping Systems

Description: This report describes in detail the expansion of the ICEPEL code for the coupled hydrodynamic-structural response analysis of pipe-elbow loops to general piping systems. A generalized piping-component model, a branching tce junction, and a surge-tank model are introduced and coupled with the pipe-elbow loop model so that a general piping system under the effect of internally traveling pressure pulses can be analyzed hydrodynamically, as well as structurally.
Date: 1978?
Creator: A-Moneim, M. T.
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Advanced Fuel Cell Development Progress Report: October-December 1977

Description: Quarterly report discussing fuel cell research and development work at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). This report describes work aimed at understanding and improving the performance of fuel cells having molten alkali-carbonate mixtures as electrolytes; the fuel cells operate at temperatures near 925 K.
Date: March 1978
Creator: Ackerman, J. P.; Kinoshita, K.; Finn, P. A.; Sim, J. W. & Nelson, P. A.
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Advanced Fuel Cell Development Progress Report: April-June 1978

Description: Quarterly report discussing fuel cell research and development work at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). This report describes efforts directed toward understanding and improving the components of molten-carbonate-electrolyte fuel cells operated at temperatures near 925 K.
Date: August 1978
Creator: Ackerman, J. P.; Pierce, Robert Dean; Nelson, P. A.; Arons, R. M.; Kinoshita, K.; Sim, J. W. et al.
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Addendum to a Proposal for ATLAS: a Precision-Ion Accelerator at Argonne National Laboratory, December 1978

Description: This revised proposal for the construction of the Argonne Tandem-Linac Accelerator System (ATLAS) is in all essentials the same as the proposal originally presented to NUSAC in March 1978. The only differences worth mentioning are the plan to expand the experimental area somewhat more than was originally proposed and an increased cost, brought about principally by inflation. The outline presented is the same (with minor change in wording) as in the original document, reproduced here for the con… more
Date: 1978
Creator: Argonne National Laboratory
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Community Systems Program: Its Goals and Accomplishments, 1978

Description: The Community Systems Program is concerned with conserving energy and scarce fuels through new methods of satisfying the energy needs of American communities. These programs are designed to develop innovative ways of combining current, emerging, and advanced technologies into Integrated Community Energy Systems (ICES) that could furnish any, or all, of the energy-using services of a community. The key goals of the Community System Program then, are to identify, evaluate, develop, demonstrate, a… more
Date: April 1978
Creator: Argonne National Laboratory
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Light-Water-Reactor Safety Research Program Quarterly Progress Report: January-March 1978

Description: Quarterly report summarizing research and development by Argonne National Laboratory on water-reactor-safety heat-transfer and flow problems, including: Loss-of-coolant Accident Research: Heat Transfer and Fluid Dynamics, Transient Fuel Response and Fission-product Release Program, Mechanical Properties of Zircaloy Containing Oxygen,and Steam-explosion Studies.
Date: 1978?
Creator: Argonne National Laboratory
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Light-Water-Reactor Safety Research Program Quarterly Progress Report: July-September 1977

Description: Quarterly report summarizing research and development on water-reactor-safety heat-transfer and flow problems, including: Loss-of-coolant accident research, transient fuel response and fission-product release, mechanical properties of zircaloy containing oxygen, and steam-explosion studies.
Date: January 1978
Creator: Argonne National Laboratory
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Physics of Reactor Safety, Quarterly Report: October-December 1977

Description: Quarterly progress report summarizing work done in Argonne National Laboratory's Applied Physics Division and Components Technology Division. The work in the Applied Physics Division includes reports on reactor safety program by members of the Reactor Safety Appraisals Group, Monte Carlo analysis of safety-related critical assembly experiments by members of the Theoretical Fast Reactor Physics Group, and Planning of Safety-Related (ZPR) Planning and Experiments Group. Work on reactor core therm… more
Date: March 1978
Creator: Argonne National Laboratory. Applied Physics Division.
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Chemical Engineering Division Research Highlights 1978

Description: Report of activities at Argonne Chemical Engineering Division, including lithium/metal sulfide batteries, electro-chemical project management, advanced fuel cell development, utilization of coal, magnetohydrodynamics, solar energy, fast reactor chemistry, and fuel cycles.
Date: 1978
Creator: Argonne National Laboratory. Chemical Engineering Division.
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Studies of Nuclear Waste Migration in Geologic Media, Annual Report: November 1976-October 1977

Description: Annual report of the Argonne National Laboratory Chemical Engineering Division regarding studies of nuclear waste migration in geologic media. This report discusses research regarding confinement of nuclear waste in geologic formations as a method of permanently disposing of the waste.
Date: March 1978
Creator: Argonne National Laboratory. Chemical Engineering Division.
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Materials Technology for Coal-Conversion Processes Progress Report: July-December 1977

Description: Progress report on the activities of the Argonne National Laboratory Materials Science Division regarding studies done on refractory concretes and metallic materials being used or intended for use in coal-conversion processes, erosive wear, nondestructive testing, corrosion, chemical degradation, and failure analysis.
Date: 1978?
Creator: Argonne National Laboratory. Materials Science Division.
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Radiological and Environmental Research Division Annual Report: Part 3, Ecology, January-December 1978

Description: Annual report of the Argonne National Laboratory Radiological and Environmental Research Division regarding activities related to ecology. This report includes studies on the effects of sulfur dioxide on Midwestern grain crops and the addition of the new research vessel, the Ekos.
Date: 1978?
Creator: Argonne National Laboratory. Radiological and Environmental Research Division.
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F1 Phenomenological Test on Fuel Motion : Final Report

Description: TREAT F-series tests are being conducted to provide data on fuel motion in an LMFBR during a hypothetical loss-of-flow accident. Fuel and fuel-boundary conditions in an LMFBR subassembly following sodium voiding and dryout under loss-of-flow conditions are simulated in each F-series test. Simulation is achieved with a single fuel element surrounded by an annular nuclear-heated wall in a dry (no sodium) test capsule. The area inside the heated wall was selected to represent the area inside the p… more
Date: May 1978
Creator: Argonne National Laboratory. Reactor Analysis and Safety Division.
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Domain and Surface Structures of Sodium Tungsten Bronzes, NaxWO₃ (0.4 [x [1)

Description: The domain and surface structures of metallic sodium tungsten bronzes, NaxWO₃, 0.4 < x < 1, were studied using optical microscopy, supplemented by chemical methods, photoelectron spectroscopy, electron microscopy, etc. The birefringent, multidomain structure of the bronze is exhibited by a sodium-deficient, epitaxial surface film and hence is not, as reported elsewhere, a bulk property. The film can be synthesized by anodic electrolysis in alkaline solution and can exist only epitaxially with t… more
Date: September 1978
Creator: Atoji, Masao
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Proceedings of the Third Post-Accident Heat Removal Information Exchange November 2-4, 1977, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois

Description: Papers presented at the third Post-Accident Heat Removal Information Exchange concerning heat distribution and criticality considerations, particulate-bed phenomena, pool heat transfer and melt-front phenomena, behavior of heated concrete and sodium-concrete interactions, design-related studies, gas bubbling and boiling effects, and materials interactions at high temperatures and experimental methods.
Date: 1978?
Creator: Baker, Louis, Jr. & Bingle, James D.
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Reactor Physics Studies in the Steam Flooded GCFR-Phase 2 Critical Assembly

Description: A possible accident scenario in a Gas-Cooled Fast Reactor (GCFR) is the leakage of secondary steam into the core. Considerable analytical effort has gone into the study of the effects of such an accidental steam entry. The work described in this report represents the first full scale experimental study of the steam-entry phenomenon in GCFRs. The reference GCFR model used for the study was the benchmark GCFR Phase II assembly, and polyethylene foam was used to provide a very homogeneous steam si… more
Date: August 1978
Creator: Bhattacharyya, S. K.
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Viscosity of Molten Alumina

Description: In the analysis of LMFBR core-containment and heat-removal problems associated with hypothetical core-disruptive accidents, viscosity data on molten ceramics are needed to help analyze the convective heat transfer and flow patterns within liquid pools. An oscillating cup viscometer has been used to measure the viscosity of molten alumina in the temperature range from 2400 to 2750/sup 0/K. The data are represented by the equation: log eta = 11448/T - 8.2734 where the viscosity, eta, is given in … more
Date: 1978?
Creator: Blomquist, R. A.; Fink, J. K. & Leibowitz, L.
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