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Beneficial uses of nuclear fission wastes

Description: Sandia is investigating the use of /sup 137/Cs from radioactive waste to reduce the pathogen levels of municipal sewage sludges so that they can be used in agriculture, either as fertilizer or as feed supplement. The Sandia Irradiator for Dried Sewage Solids (SIDSS) is a pilot plant for treating 16 tons per day to a dose of 500 krad, using 1 MCi of /sup 137/Cs. A larger (25 ton/day) demonstration plant is also planned. A cost/benefit study of this application was made. Use of /sup 99/Tc for mar… more
Date: March 31, 1978
Creator: Sivinski, H.D.
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Measurement of soil properties in-situ. Present methods: their applicability and potential

Description: The measurement of soil properties in-situ offers the advantages of minimal disturbance, retention of the in-situ state of stress, temperature, chemical, and biological environments, and cost effectiveness relative to many types of laboratory tests for evaluation of undisturbed soil properties. This report is concerned with techniques for in-situ measurement of permeability, strength, stress-deformation properties, and volume change properties; property classes which are of interest in most geo… more
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Mitchell, J.K.; Guzikowski, F. & Villet, W.C.B.
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Fast neutron gauging feasibility study. Final report

Description: A study was conducted to determine the ability of a collimated neutron beam to locate defects in polyurethane foam encapsulated between sintered-iron and stainless-steel jackets. Test results indicate that although a source can be used, an iron-filtered neutron beam provides the greatest sensitivity. Voids having a diameter of 0.2 cm, an effective area of 1 cm/sup 2/, and a volume of 0.14 cm/sup 3/ were successfully detected.
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Heckman, R.V.
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Energy impact assistance: report to the President

Description: The purpose of the report are threefold: (1) review the nature of the adverse socio-economic impacts from large new energy development projects now occurring and which are likely to occur in the future as domestic resources are developed; analyze the degree to which Federal, state, local, and private programs and efforts are meeting the current needs of communities impacted by energy development and the degree to which they are capable of meeting anticipated needs; and, set forth, for the Presi… more
Date: March 1, 1978
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Discriminant analysis of some east Tennessee forest herb niches. Environmental Sciences Division Publication No. 752

Description: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of using discriminant analysis in assessing plant niches. As a component of research by the Environmental Research Park Project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, five sites were inventoried for herbaceous species. From this inventory, four sympatric species of Galium and seventeen co-occurring herbaceous species were selected for discriminant analysis. The four species of Galium were treated as two data sets: one was composed of information col… more
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Mann, L.K.; Shugart, H.H. & Kitchings, J.T.
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Differences between LASL- and ANL-processed cross sections. [MINX/1DX vs ETOE-2/MC/sup 2/-2]

Description: As part of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (LASL) cross-section processing development, LASL cross sections and results from MINX/1DX system are compared to the Argonne National Laboratory cross sections and results from the ETOE-2/MC/sup 2/-2 system for a simple reactor problem. Exact perturbation theory is used to establish the eigenvalue effect of every isotope group cross-section difference. Cross sections, cross-section differences, and their eigenvalue effects are clearly and conveni… more
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Kidman, R. B.; MacFarlane, R. E. & Becker, M.
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Microstructural interactions of geologic media with waste radionuclides

Description: A preliminary investigation of the microstructure of four geologic media was taken to examine the interaction of Cs, Sr, Gd and U with those media. Since K/sub D/ measurements often vary by more than an order of magnitude on rocks of the same strata separated by several feet, it was probable that minor rock components play an important role in radionuclide sorption. A qualitative analysis of the rock surfaces after equilibration with solutions of Cs/sup +/, Sr/sup + +/, Gd/sup + + +/ and UO/sub… more
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Hinkebein, T. E. & Hlava, P. F.
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Sputtering and surface damage of TFTR protective plate materials (Mo, TZM, graphite) by energetic D/sup +/ ion irradiation. Final report for Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Description: Studies have been conducted in accordance with a service request from the Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) of Princeton University to determine the total sputtering yields and the surface damage of molybdenum (a candidate material for the neutral beam injector protective plate for Princeton's Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR)) caused by the impact of D/sup +/ ions at 120-keV, 60-keV and 40-keV at fluxes and total doses agreed upon between PPPL and ANL. The irradiations have been conducted in a specifi… more
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Kaminsky, M.; Das, S.K. & Dusza, P.
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Fluidized bed incineration system for U. S. Department of Energy defense waste. Status report, July--December 1976. [Defense waste]

Description: A fluidized-bed incineration facility has been designed for installation at the Rocky Flats Plant. The purpose is to develop and demonstrate the process for the combustion of transuranic waste. The unit capacity will be about 82 kg/hr of combustible waste. The combustion process will utilize in situ neutralization of acid gases generated in the process. The equipment design is based on data generated on a pilot scale unit and represents a scale-up factor of nine. Title II engineering is complet… more
Date: March 27, 1978
Creator: Richey, Lewis L.; Faccini, Peter T. & Feng, Pen K.
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LASL Controlled Thermonuclear Research Program. Progress report, January--December 1976

Description: This annual progress report is divided into the following sections: (1) Scyllac feedback sector experiments, (2) staged theta-pinch program, (3) toroidal reverse-field pinch, (4) Scylla IV-P linear theta-pinch experiments, (5) gun injection experiment, (6) Scylla I-C, laser-plasma interaction studies, (7) field reversal theta pinch, (8) Implosion Heating Experiment, (9) experimental plasma physics, (10) plasma diagnostics, (11) high-beta tokamak, (12) theory, (13) computers, (14) engineering, (… more
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Thomas, K.S. (comp.)
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Event matrix system. [To eliminate high-rate backgrounds]

Description: The number of background events in nuclear and particle physics experiments which use multiwire proportional chambers can be extremely high. Using a computer to resolve these events results in a high deadtime for the experiment. A fast matrix system for decreasing the number of background events is described in this report. 4 figures.
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Dalton, C.G.
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Application of thermal conduction models to deepsea disposal of radioacitve wastes

Description: Thermal problems associated with the emplacement of radio-active wastes in the deepsea sedimentary layer have been studied. In particular, the nature of the temperature field surrounding and the interstitial water velocity arising from a buried cask have been examined. Worst case estimates indicate that the velocity will be extremely weak and thus not likely to provide a primary transport mechanism for the radioactive material. This statement will, of course, only apply for moderately low level… more
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Schimmel, W.P. Jr. & Hickox, C.E.
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RJESTATS: a system of programs for remote job entry station accounting

Description: The RJESTATS system of programs provides accounting information on the use of the Environmental Sciences Division Remote Job Entry (RJE) facility. Summaries can be generated to display the number and kind of users, types of jobs run through the RJE facility, and the persons (or projects) that are utilizing the facility. Sample tables are presented to show certain summaries by user name, job name initials, and types of jobs run. RJESTATS is useful for managing and determining the use of an IBM-c… more
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Strand, R. H.; Raine, G. B.; Tharp, M. L. & Griffith, N. A.
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Fabrication and performance of a laminated nonvolatile nondestructive readout memory core. Final report

Description: A technique has been developed for the fabrication of 5.08 mm diameter cores using 0.025 or 0.013 mm thick magnetic sheet material. The technique uses the photoresist used in the photochemical etching process to serve as the adhesive as well. A test technique for the nondestructive readout characteristics of the cores has also been developed.
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Jordan, H.F. Jr.
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Energy transfer and utilization in biological systems. Final report, September 1, 1967--September 15, 1976. [Fluorescence studies of photosynthesis]

Description: In fluorescence studies of the photosynthetic process it was shown that the photosynthetic rate and light loss via chlorophyll fluorescence are strictly complementary. The exciplex state of matter responsible for most photochemistry was discovered and a wide variety of information about the state gained from studies of indole exciplexes. In addition to the nature of the bonding, degree of stability and general excited state behavior of indole exciplexes, their ability to lose electrons in a hig… more
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Lumry, R.W.
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New battery materials. Progress report, April 1,--September 30, 1977. [Far high-temperature Li cells]

Description: Lithium ion conductivities of solid solutions formed between Li/sub 4/SiO/sub 4/ and Li/sub 5/AlO/sub 4/ were measured. The conductivity of Li/sub 4/./sub 5/Al./sub 5/Si./sub 5/O/sub 4/ is comparable to the best previously known lithium ion conductors. The structural type is that of Li/sub 4/SiO/sub 4/, and x-ray lattice parameters were determined across the range of solid solution. No solid solutions were found which had the Li/sub 5/AlO/sub 4/ (antiflourite) structure. Thermodynamic calculati… more
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Huggins, R.A.
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Organic Photochemical Storage of Solar Energy. Progress Report, July 1, 1977--Feburary 28, 1978

Description: The prospects for driving endoergic reactions of simple, relatively abundant organic chemicals by photochemical means have been examined. Strategies for utilization of light of varying wavelength involve sensitization mechanisms which depend on the redox properties of energy storing substrates and photosensitizers. Of principal interest is valence isomerization which can be induced by electron donor-acceptor interaction between substrate and sensitizer in an excited complex or exciplex. Photoph… more
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Jones, G., II
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Kilowatt isotope power system. Phase II plan. Volume I. Phase II program plan

Description: The development of a Kilowatt Isotope Power System (KIPS) was begun in 1975 for the purpose of satisfying the power requirements of satellites in the 1980's. The KIPS is a /sup 238/PuO/sub 2/-fueled organic Rankine cycle turbine power system to provide a design output of 500 to 2000 W. Phase II of the overall 3-phase KIPS program is described. This volume presents a program plan for qualifying the organic Rankine power system for flight test in 1982. The program plan calls for the design and fa… more
Date: March 15, 1978
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Double-shell target designs for the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory eight-beam laser system

Description: We investigate two double-pusher laser fusion targets, one that incorporates an outer exploding pusher shell and another that uses velocity multiplication. Specific designs are presented for the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Eight-Beam Laser System.
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Kindel, J. M. & Stroscio, M. A.
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CRDM Reliability Study. [Control Rod Drive Monitors (CRDM)]

Description: During the checkout of the Control Rod Assembly (CRA) control system, a fault occurred which could potentially drive all four CRA's at speeds >2''/min. Subsequent experimental tests were performed to purposely identify attainable rod speeds as a function of supplied voltage. Results indicated a rod speed of up to 29.7''/min was attainable at 100 volts. The LOFT Technical Specifications (Section 3.10.3.1) limit the voltage at the stators of the CRDMs to a maximum of 90 volts which will preclude … more
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Close, J. A.; Cooper, C. H.; Hunt, G. L. & Atkinson, S. A.
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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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