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Stochastic modelling of physiologic processes with radiotracers and positron emission tomography

Description: The compartment model, so often used in nuclear medicine and in pharmacokinetics, is formed by a set of linear differential equations of order one with constant coefficients; its validity depends upon the hypothesis that the system described contains a finite number of components, and that each component is homogeneous. These hypotheses exclude the presence of diffusion and of age-dependent processes, or in general of transport of a non-Markovian nature. The fact that frequently the experimenta… more
Date: January 1, 1982
Creator: Rescigno, A.; Lambrecht, R. M. & Duncan, C. C.
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Development of a procedure to estimate runoff and sediment transport in ephemeral streams

Description: A distributed hydrologic model for application on small, semiarid watersheds is developed. The distributed model incorporates simplified routing schemes to include the influence of transmission losses on runoff. A sediment transport model, by sediment size fractions, is developed to compute transport capacity and sediment yield in noncohesive, alluvial channels. Based on available information published in soils and topographic maps and on channel and bed sediment characteristics, the procedure … more
Date: January 1, 1982
Creator: Lane, L.J.
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Collisionally excited few-electron systems: theoretical introduction and survey. [2-200 keV]

Description: We consider excitation, ionization, and charge transfer in collisions of protons (and antiprotons) with the single-electron targets H, He/sup +/, and Li/sup 2 +/. These collisions are first compared to other types of ion-atom collisions. A brief review of our own theoretical method is given; in particular we describe how we allow for both large charge transfer and ionization probabilities while retaining the computational efficiency that allows us to consider a variety of collision partners and… more
Date: January 1, 1982
Creator: Ford, A.L.; Reading, J.F. & Becker, R.L.
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Measurements of /sup 234/U, /sup 238/U and /sup 230/Th in excreta of uranium-mill crushermen

Description: Uranium and thorium levels in excreta of uranium mill crushermen who are routinely exposed to airborne uranium ore dust were measured. The purpose was to determine whether /sup 230/Th was preferentially retained over either /sup 234/U or /sup 238/U in the body. Urine and fecal samples were obtained from fourteen active crushermen with long histories of exposure to uranium ore dust, plus four retired crushermen and three control individuals for comparison. Radiochemical procedures were used to s… more
Date: July 1, 1982
Creator: Fisher, D. R.; Jackson, P. O.; Brodacynski, G. G. & Scherpelz, R. I.
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Is the two-term expansion valid for highly anisotropic systems. The Townsend ionization coefficient in strong runaway as a test case

Description: The Townsend ionization coefficient in the strong runaway regime is calculated within the framework of the two-term expansion. Results are compared to the 1-D model. General features of the two models are qualitatively similar, but quantitative differences by factors of approx. 2 are observed.
Date: July 15, 1982
Creator: Yu, S. S. & Melendez, R. E.
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Locations and areas of ponds and Carolina Bays at the Savannah River Plant

Description: The Savannah River Plant has 28 ponds and 190 Carolina Bays on its 192,000-acreite. Excluding the Par Pond system, the mean pond area is 17.6 acre, with a range of 0.4 to 202.8 acres. Par Pond is the largest pond, with an area of 2500 acres. The mean Carolina Bay area is 6.6 acres, with a range of less than 0.3 to 124.0 acres. The geographical location of each pond and bay has been digitized and can be graphically displayed by computer. This capability will facilitate identification of wetland … more
Date: May 1, 1982
Creator: Shields, J. D.; Woody, N. D.; Dicks, A. S.; Hollod, G. J.; Schalles, J. & Leversee, G. J.
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Cumulative impacts study of The Geysers KGRA: public-service impacts of geothermal development

Description: Geothermal development in The Geysers KGRA has affected local public services and fiscal resources in Sonoma, Lake, Mendocino, and Napa counties. Each of these counties underwent rapid population growth between 1970 and 1980, some of which can be attributed to geothermal development. The number of workers currently involved in the various aspects of geothermal development in The Geysers is identified. Using three different development scenarios, projections are made for the number of power plan… more
Date: May 1, 1982
Creator: Matthews, K.M.
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Pentamethylcyclopentadienyl and bis(trimethylsilyl)amido complexes of the di- and trivalent lanthanides

Description: The reaction of the divalent iodides YbI/sub 2/ and EuI/sub 2/ with NaN(SiMe/sub 3/)/sub 2/ has provided pentane-soluble, monomeric derivatives of the divalent lanthanides. These compounds are isolated as the solvated species Eu(N(SiMe/sub 3/)/sub 2/)/sub 2/L/sub 2/ (L = thf or 1,2-dme), Yb(N(SiMe/sub 3/)/sub 2/)/sub 2/(thf)/sub 1/ /sub 5/ and Yb(N(SiMe/sub 3/)/sub 2/)/sub 2/L/sub 2/ (L = 1,2-dme or OEt/sub 2/), or as the sodium salts NaM(N(SiMe/sub 3/)/sub 2/)/sub 3/ (M = Eu or Yb). The pentam… more
Date: March 1, 1982
Creator: Tilley, T. D.
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Analysis of valence-electron structures of Y/sub 3/Al/sub 5/O/sub 12/(YAG) and Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/, Cr/sub 2/O/sub 2/ (Ruby), a study of certain properties of these laser materials related to their valence-electron structures

Description: A direct method of determination of the valence-electron structure from its crystal structure has been presented by the writer at XIIth International Congress of Crystallography, at Ottawa, 1981. Here the method is applied to determine the valence-electron structures of Y/sub 3/Al/sub 5/O/sub 12/ (YAG) and Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/, Cr/sub 2/O/sub 3/ (ruby) to see how certain properties of these laser materials are related to their valence-electron structures. The first point observed is the very stron… more
Date: January 1, 1982
Creator: Yu, S. H. & Yu, L. H.
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Devil's staircase and order without periodicity in classical condensed matter

Description: The existence of incommensurate structures proves that crystal ordering is not always the most stable one for nonquantum matter. Some properties of structures which are obtained by minimizing a free energy are investigated in the Frenkel Kontorova and related models. It is shown that an incommensurate structure can be either quasi-sinusoidal with a phason mode or built out of a sequence of equidistant defects (discommensurations) which are locked to the lattice by the Peierls force. In that sit… more
Date: January 1, 1982
Creator: Aubry, S.
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Useful characteristics of the Savannah River

Description: The following information about the Savannah River is tabulated: significant activities and discharges along the Savannah River, river water temperature data near Jackson st Savannah River Plant, flow informatiom, and reservoir parameters for Clarks Hill, Richard B. Russell and Hartwell reservoirs.
Date: May 19, 1982
Creator: Watts, J. R.
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Role of diagnostic testing in identifying and resolving dimensional-stability problems in electroplated laser mirrors

Description: The metal mirrors which are the subject of this discussion are to be used in the Antares inertial fusion laser system. Antares is a high-power (40 TW), high-energy (35 to 40 kJ), pulsed CO/sub 2/ laser system for the investigation of inertial confinement fusion. The system contains more than four hundred small and large diamond-turned and conventionally polished mirrors. The largest mirrors are trapezoidal in shape with the longest dimension being 16 to 18 inches. The substrates are type 2124 a… more
Date: January 1, 1982
Creator: Cutler, R.L. & Hogan, B.
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Design of a diesel exhaust-gas purification system for inert-gas drilling

Description: To combat the serious oxygen corrosion of drill pipe when a low density drilling fluid (air or mist) is used in geothermal drilling, a system has been designed that produces an inert gas (essentially nitrogen) to be substituted for air. The system fits on three flatbed trailers, is roadable and produces 2000 scfm of gas. The projected cost for gas is slightly less than $2.00 per thousand standard cubic feet.
Date: January 1, 1982
Creator: Caskey, B. C.
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Molecular ingredients of heterogeneous catalysis

Description: The purpose of this paper is to present a review and status report to those in theoretical chemistry of the rapidly developing surface science of heterogeneous catalysis. The art of catalysis is developing into science. This profound change provides one with opportunities not only to understand the molecular ingredients of important catalytic systems but also to develop new and improved catalyst. The participation of theorists to find answers to important questions is sorely needed for the soun… more
Date: June 1, 1982
Creator: Somorjai, G.A.
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H5 fast-kicker-magnet pulser

Description: The fast extraction kicker magnet for the AGS is powered by a novel pulse generator. A pulse forming network (PFN) is discharged into nearly 100% mismatched load. The pulser delivers a current pulse of 3000 amperes peak pulse with a 2% flat-top ripple into a 1.4 ..mu.. H single turn ferrite core magnet. The pulse is 2.8 ..mu..sec wide with a 180 nsec rise time, at a 0.5 to 1.5 pps repetition rate. The pulse rise time is required to provide clean extraction of the 28 GeV proton beam by bringing … more
Date: January 1, 1982
Creator: Frey, W.; Ghoshroy, S. & Cottingham, J.G.
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Floristic composition and plant succession on near-surface radioactive-waste-disposal facilities in the Los Alamos National Laboratory

Description: Since 1946, low-level radioactive waste has been buried in shallow landfills within the confines of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Five of these sites were studied for plant composition and successional patterns by reconnaissance and vegetation mapping. The data show a slow rate of recovery for all sites, regardless of age, in both the pinon-juniper and ponderosa pine communities. The sites are not comparable in succession or composition because of location and previous land use. The two o… more
Date: March 1, 1982
Creator: Tierney, G.D. & Foxx, T.S.
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Effect of reactor coolant pumps following a small break in a pressurized water reactor

Description: Small-break loss-of-coolant accidents were calculated to help determine whether to trip the reactor-coolant pumps early in the accident when the reactor scrams or to delay the pump trip (pump trip times ranged from 450 s to no trip at all). Four-in.-diam (approximate) cold-leg breaks in Babcock and Wilcox (B and W) and Westinghouse (W) pressurized-water reactors were investigated using the Transient Reactor Analysis Code, TRAC-PD2. The results indicated that for a 4-in.-diam cold-leg break the … more
Date: January 1, 1982
Creator: Elliott, J.L.; Lime, J.F. & Willcutt, G.J.E. Jr.
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Low-Btu coal-gasification-process design report for Combustion Engineering/Gulf States Utilities coal-gasification demonstration plant. [Natural gas or No. 2 fuel oil to natural gas or No. 2 fuel oil or low Btu gas]

Description: This report describes a coal gasification demonstration plant that was designed to retrofit an existing steam boiler. The design uses Combustion Engineering's air blown, atmospheric pressure, entrained flow coal gasification process to produce low-Btu gas and steam for Gulf States Utilities Nelson No. 3 boiler which is rated at a nominal 150 MW of electrical power. Following the retrofit, the boiler, originally designed to fire natural gas or No. 2 oil, will be able to achieve full load po… more
Date: June 1, 1982
Creator: Andrus, H E; Rebula, E; Thibeault, P R & Koucky, R W
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Radiochemical analysis of the first plateout probe from the Fort St. Vrain high-temperature gas-cooled reactor

Description: This report presents the analysis of radioactive elements on the first plateout probe from the Fort St. Vrain high-temperature gas-cooled reactor. The plateout probe is a device which samples the primary coolant for condensible fission products. Circuit inventories of individual radionuclides are estimated from the probe analysis. The analysis shows that the radioactive contamination in the primary circuit is remarkable low, with activation product concentrations much greater than that of fissi… more
Date: June 1, 1982
Creator: Burnette, R. D.
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Analytical theory of ion-temperature-gradient instability

Description: The relationship between the threshold values of ion-temperature-gradient instabilities and the temperature parameters of plasmas is investigated analytically in slab and toroidal geometries separately. It is found that the threshold values increase rapidly when the ion temperature becomes much higher than the electron temperature. The change of the threshold vaues with respect to the ion temperature is quite similar for both geometric models. This finding is consistent with PLT observations. F… more
Date: January 19, 1982
Creator: Guo, S.; Shen, J.; Chen, L. & Tsai, S.T.
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Fractional charge search

Description: A device to search for fractional charge in matter is described. The sample is coupled to a low-noise amplifier by a periodically varying capacitor and the resulting signal is synchronously detected. The varying capacitor is constructed as a rapidly spinning wheel. Samples of any material in volumes of up to 0.05 ml may be searched in less than an hour.
Date: June 1, 1982
Creator: Innes, W.; Klein, S.; Perl, M. & Price, J.C.
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Optical-scattering measurements from 1. 06-. mu. m, 0. 53-. mu. m, and 0. 35-. mu. m laser-heated disk targets

Description: A discussion is presented on scattered light measurements relevant to three of the important parametric instabilities which occur in high intensity laser plasma interactions: stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS), the two plasmon decay instability (2-..omega../sub pe/), and stimulated Raman scattering (SRS). Most of these experiments were carried out on the ARGUS facility. Its configuration is described for the multiple wavelength experiments, all of which were conducted with one beam illuminat… more
Date: January 1, 1982
Creator: Turner, R. E.; Campbell, E. M.; Phillion, D. W.; Mead, W. C.; Ze, F.; Max, C. et al.
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Impact of common problems in geothermal drilling and completion

Description: Problems that arise in geothermal drilling and completion account for a significant portion of geothermal well costs. In order to evaluate new technologies for combatting these problems, the relative frequencies and severities of different problems have been estimated. The estimates were based on both subjective judgements and analysis of available drilling records. The most common problems include lost circulation, stuck pipe and cementing, and their impact is to increase well cost by an avera… more
Date: January 1, 1982
Creator: Carson, C. C. & Lin, Y. T.
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Radiolytic Effects on Ion Exchangers During the Storage of Radioactive Wastes

Description: Radiolytic effects on ion exchangers are being recognized as a significant problem in the processing and storage of high-specific-activity radioactive waste forms. Two major literature surveys and a series of scoping experiments conducted during this investigation indicate that radiation decomposition of ion exchange materials has the potential for a variety of undesirable consequences. These include the ready dispersion of adsorbed radionuclides to the environment, corrosion and pressurization… more
Date: January 1, 1982
Creator: Pillay, K. K. S. & Palau, G. L.
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