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Radiological assessment report for the Lansdowne property, 105-107 East Stratford Avenue, Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, October-December 1984

Description: Areas with elevated levels of radioactivity were found throughout both residences, as well as on the surrounding property. Contamination was also found in the garage behind the 105 East structure. The 105 East residence had substantially more contamination than the 107 East residence, as was expected. The chimneys, particularly the rear chimney, from the 105 East residence had extensive contamination, indicating that contaminated materials may have been burned at the site. The high background r… more
Date: September 1, 1985
Creator: Wynveen, R.A.; Smith, W.H.; Sholeen, C.M. & Flynn, K.F.
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Mineralogy in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) facility stratigraphic horizon

Description: Forty-six samples were selected for this study from two cores, one extending 50 ft up through the roof of the WIPP facility and the other penetrating 50 ft below the facility floor. These samples, selected from approximately every other foot of core length, represent the major lithologies present in the immediate vicinity of the WIPP facility horizon: ''clean'' halite, polyhalitic halite, argillaceous halite, and mixed polyhalitic-argillaceous halite. Samples were analyzed for non-NaCl mineralo… more
Date: September 1, 1985
Creator: Stein, C. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Experiments on eta-meson production

Description: Following a review of some highlights of eta-meson characteristics, the status of eta-meson production experiments is reviewed. The physics motivations and first results of two LAMPF experiments on (..pi..,eta) reactions are discussed. Possible future experiments are also discussed. 42 refs., 12 figs., 4 tabs.
Date: January 1, 1985
Creator: Peng, J.C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Evaluation of the gas production economics of the gas hydrate cyclic thermal injection model. [Cyclic thermal injection]

Description: The objective of the work performed under this directive is to assess whether gas hydrates could potentially be technically and economically recoverable. The technical potential and economics of recovering gas from a representative hydrate reservoir will be established using the cyclic thermal injection model, HYDMOD, appropriately modified for this effort, integrated with economics model for gas production on the North Slope of Alaska, and in the deep offshore Atlantic. The results from this e… more
Date: May 1, 1985
Creator: Kuuskraa, V.A.; Hammersheimb, E. & Sawyer, W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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TRU Waste Sampling Program: Volume II. Gas generation studies

Description: Volume II of the TRU Waste Sampling Program report contains the data generated from evaluating the adequacy of venting/filtering devices for maintaining safe hydrogen levels in plutonium contaminated waste drums. Additional studies reported in this volume include gas generation rates, selected waste form monitoring, and evaluation of hydrogen migration from sealed 90-mil rigid polyethylene drum liners containing /sup 238/Pu-contaminated wastes. All wastes used in the studies were newly-generate… more
Date: September 1, 1985
Creator: Clements, T.L. Jr. & Kudera, D.E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Charge exchange processes involving iron ions

Description: A review and evaluation is given of the experimental data which are available for charge exchange processes involving iron ions and neutral H, H/sub 2/ and He. Appropriate scaling laws are presented, and their accuracy estimated for these systems. A bibliography is given of available data sources, as well as of useful data compilations and review articles. A procedure is recommended for providing single approximate formulae to the fusion community to describe total cross sections for electron c… more
Date: January 1, 1985
Creator: Phaneuf, R.A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Preliminary measurements of gamma ray effects on characteristics of broad-band GaAs field-effect transistor preamplifiers

Description: The effect of gamma radiation on electrical characteristics of cryogenically cooled broad-band low-noise microwave preamplifiers has been preliminarily evaluated. The change in the gain and noise figure of a 1-2 GHz preamplifier using GaAs microwave transistors was determined at gamma doses between 10/sup 5/ rad to 5 /times/ 10/sup 8/ rad. The gain and noise figure was measured at ambient temperatures of 300 K and 80 K. 8 refs., 2 figs.
Date: January 1, 1985
Creator: Jackson, H.G.; Shimizu, T.T. & Leskovar, B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Liquid helium dump concept for a large scale superconducting magnetic energy storage plant

Description: Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES) is a potentially cost effective technology for electric utility load leveling. Design concepts and cost estimates of SMES plants capable of delivering 5000 MWh daily have been previously identified. An important feature of a large commercial plant is a system that will reliably shut down the magnet by thermally dissipating the stored energy in the event of an imminent or actual loss of superconductivity. To prevent damage to the coil during such a … more
Date: January 1, 1985
Creator: Schoenung, S. M.; Loyd, R. J.; Nakamura, T.; Rogers, J. D. & Purcell, J. R.
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Bounce-averaged Fokker-Planck code for stellarator transport

Description: A computer code for solving the bounce-averaged Fokker-Planck equation appropriate to stellarator transport has been developed, and its first applications made. The code is much faster than the bounce-averaged Monte-Carlo codes, which up to now have provided the most efficient numerical means for studying stellarator transport. Moreover, because the connection to analytic kinetic theory of the Fokker-Planck approach is more direct than for the Monte-Carlo approach, a comparison of theory and nu… more
Date: July 1, 1985
Creator: Mynick, H.E. & Hitchon, W.N.G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Assessment of government tribology programs

Description: An assessment has been made to determine current tribology research and development work sponsored or conducted by the government. Data base surveys and discussions were conducted to isolate current projects sponsored primarily by 21 different government organizations. These projects were classified by subject, objective, energy relevance, type of research, phenomenon being investigated, variables being studied, type of motion, materials and application. An abstract of each project was prepared… more
Date: September 1, 1985
Creator: Peterson, M.B. & Levinson, T.M.
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Indoor concentrations of radon 222 and its daughters: sources, range, and environmental influences

Description: The author here reviews what is presently known about factors affecting indoor concentrations of radon 222 and its daughters. In US single-family homes, radon concentrations are found to average about 1.5 pCi/1, but substantially higher concentrations occur frequently: perhaps a million US homes have concentrations exceeding 8 pCi/1 (from which occupants receive radiation doses comparable to those now experienced by uranium miners). The major contributor to indoor radon is ordinary soil underly… more
Date: April 1, 1985
Creator: Nero, A.V. Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Making sense of anomalous gauge theories

Description: An anomalous gauge theory is defined here as a gauge theory in which the field equation is inconsistent and gauge invariance is lost. A conventional approach to anomalous gauge theories, that of adjusting the fermion content so the anomaly vanishes, is discussed, followed by a mathematically coherent frame for anomalies. 10 refs. (LEW)
Date: September 1, 1985
Creator: Jackiw, R.
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Structural study of multilayered vanadium/nickel superlattices

Description: We have studied the microstructure of V/Ni metallic superlattice, using x-ray and neutron diffraction. We find a sharp and broad rocking curves around the first-order Bragg peak, and attribute them to a columnar structure which gives rise to two modulation structures; one the ordinary layered structure within the columns and the other the averaged modulation structure which produces the sharp rocking peak.
Date: July 1, 1985
Creator: Homma, H.; Lepetre, Y.; Murduck, J.M.; Schuller, I.K. & Majkrzak, C.F.
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Electrical Conductivity Measurements in Shock Compressed Liquid Nitrogen

Description: The electrical conductivity of shock compressed liquid nitrogen was measured in the pressure range 20 to 50 GPa using a two-stage light-gas gun. The conductivities covered a range 4 x 10/sup -2/ to 1 x 10/sup 2/ ohm/sup -1/ cm/sup -1/. The data are discussed in terms of a liquid semiconductor model below the onset of the dissociative phase transition at 30 GPa. 15 refs., 1 fig.
Date: June 1, 1985
Creator: Hamilton, D. C.; Mitchell, A. C. & Nellis, W. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Draft Transportation Institutional Plan

Description: The Department of Energy recognizes that the success of its program to develop and implement a national system for nuclear waste management and disposal depends on broad-based public understanding and acceptance. While each program element has its particular sensitivity, the transportation of the waste may potentially affect the greatest number of people, and accordingly is highly visible and potentially issue-laden. Therefore, the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management has developed t… more
Date: September 1, 1985
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Robotic sample preparation for radiochemical plutonium and americium analyses

Description: A Zymate robotic system has been assembled and programmed to prepare samples for plutonium and americium analyses by radioactivity counting. The system performs two procedures: a simple dilution procedure and a TTA (xylene) extraction of plutonium. To perform the procedures, the robotic system executes 11 unit operations such as weighing, pipetting, mixing, etc. Approximately 150 programs, which require 64 kilobytes of memory, control the system. The system is now being tested with high-purity … more
Date: January 1, 1985
Creator: Stalnaker, N.; Beugelsdijk, T.; Thurston, A. & Quintana, J.
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Expert systems for design and simulation

Description: We discuss work in progress on two expert systems. We are developing systems that use artificial intelligence techniques to simplify the use of large simulation codes and to help design complicated physical devices. The simulation codes are used in analyzing and designing weapons, and the devices are themselves part of weapon systems. But we focus not only on the particular applications, but also on the broader issues common to design problems: large solution spaces and tentative reasoning. We … more
Date: January 1, 1985
Creator: Aldridge, J.; Cerutti, J.; Draisin, W. & Steuerwalt, M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Study of quark fragmentation in e/sup +/e/sup -/ annihilation at 29 GeV: charged particle multiplicity distributions

Description: This paper presents the charged particle multiplicity distributions for e/sup +/e/sup -/ annihilation at ..sqrt..s = 29 GeV measured in the High Resolution Spectrometer. The data, which correspond to an integrated luminosity of 185 pb/sup -1/, were obtained at the e/sup +/e/sup -/ storage ring PEP. The techniques used to obtain the original distributions from the observed prong numbers are discussed. The multiplicity distribution of the charged particles with a two jet selection has a mean valu… more
Date: January 1, 1985
Creator: Derrick, M.; Kooijman, P.; Loos, J.S.; Musgrave, B.; Price, L.E.; Schlereth, J. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Semiclassical methods in chemical dynamics

Description: A general semiclassical (multidimensional WKB-type) approximation to quantum mechanics is reviewed. The principal feature of the approach is that it is able to incorporate the exact classical mechanics of the system and also the quantum principle of superposition. Applications to inelastic and reactive scattering, and to statistical mechanics and reaction rates are discussed. 13 refs.
Date: March 1, 1985
Creator: Miller, W. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Table of radioactive elements

Description: As has been the custom in the past, the Commission publishes a table of relative atomic masses and halflives of selected radionuclides. The information contained in this table will enable the user to calculate the atomic weight for radioactive materials with a variety of isotopic compositions. The atomic masses have been taken from the 1984 Atomic Mass Table. Some of the halflives have already been documented.
Date: January 1, 1985
Creator: Holden, Norman E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Combined electrochemical/surface science investigations of Pt/Cr alloy electrodes

Description: Chromium addition improves the performance of carbon-supported Pt electrodes for oxygen reduction in phosphoric acid fuel cells. To clarify the role of chromium and its chemical nature at the electrode surface, we have performed a combined electrochemical/surface science investigation of a series of bulk Pt/sub x/Cr/sub (1-x)/ alloys (0 less than or equal to x less than or equal to 1). In this paper we report the surface characterization of the starting electrodes by XPS, electrochemical result… more
Date: January 1, 1985
Creator: Daube, K. A.; Paffett, M. T.; Gottesfeld, S. & Campbell, C. T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Cold iron cos THETA magnet option for the SSC

Description: We review first the evolution over the past several years of a cold iron, high field cos THETA magnet design option for the SSC. We note the collaborative approach pursued by BNL and LBL on the 2-in-1 option, and the culmination of this effort in the tests of the BNL 4.5 m model magnets. Next, we discuss the subsequent 1-in-1 option being pursued jointly by BNL, Fermilab and LBL.
Date: January 1, 1985
Creator: Reardon, P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Nuclear masses far from stability: the interplay of theory and experiment

Description: Mass models seek, by a variety of theoretical approaches, to reproduce the measured mass surface and to predict unmeasured masses beyond it. Subsequent measurements of these predicted nuclear masses permit an assessment of the quality of the mass predictions from the various models. Since the last comprehensive revision of the mass predictions (in the mid-to-late 1970's) over 300 new masses have been reported. Global analyses of these data have been performed by several numerical and graphical … more
Date: January 1, 1985
Creator: Haustein, P.E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Confinement scaling and ignition in tokamaks

Description: A drift wave turbulence model is used to compute the scaling and magnitude of central electron temperature and confinement time of tokamak plasmas. The results are in accord with experiment. Application to ignition experiments shows that high density (1 to 2) . 10/sup 15/ cm/sup -3/, high field, B/sub T/ > 10 T, but low temperature T approx. 6 keV constitute the optimum path to ignition.
Date: October 1, 1985
Creator: Perkins, F.W. & Sun, Y.C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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