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Creating a word list for technical and clerical personnel

Description: The Savannah River Plant and Laboratory employ more than 16,000 people. When the separate Publications Divisions of the Plant and Laboratory were combined it was determined that a single source of information for using terms was needed, and that the source would take the form of a word list. The Word List was issued to more than 5000 employees onsite. In addition, the Word List is being added to the site computer network as a reference document and as an online spelling checker where more than … more
Date: May 1, 1988
Creator: Hammond, J S
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Plutonium scrap recovery at Savannah River: Past, present, and vision of the future

Description: As a result of the changing requirement, plus environmental and regulatory commitments, SRP now has essentially completed its paradigm shift. SRP has been transformed from primarily a reprocessor of irradiated uranium targets to primarily a reprocessor of non-specification plutonium. This is the mission which will carry SRP into the 21st Century. Accomplishment of the defined goals for the three-pronged RandD program will achieve several objectives: exploit new processes for recovering low-grad… more
Date: January 1, 1988
Creator: Gray, Leonard W.; Gray, John H.; Blancett, Allen L.; Lower, William M. & Rudisill, Tracy S.
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Preliminary assessment of tree mortality near F- and H-area seepage basins

Description: A preliminary assessment was conducted to evaluate factors that may have been responsible for the vegetation damage that has occurred in groundwater seeps downslope from the F- and H-area seepage basins. The factors that were considered included altered hydrology, toxicity from hazardous chemical constituents associated with seepage basin operation, and toxicity from non-hazardous constituents associated with basin operation. It was concluded that the observed damage was not likely to have resu… more
Date: January 28, 1988
Creator: Loehle, C & Gladden, J
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Liquid waste handling facilities for a conceptual LWR spent fuel reprocessing complex

Description: The waste evaporator systems and the methods for evaporating the liquid wastes of various radioactivity levels are discussed. After the liquid wastes are evaporated and nitric acid is recovered the high-level liquid waste is incorporated into borosilicate glass and the intermediate-level liquid waste into concrete for final disposal. (LK)
Date: January 1, 1978
Creator: Witt, D.C. & Bradley, R.F.
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Investigation of cooling coil corrosion in storage tanks for radioactive waste

Description: The high frequency of cooling coil leaks observed in high-heat waste storage tanks soon after sludge removal operations is attributed to pitting, according to laboratory corrosion studies. Experiments show that the most likely series of events leading to coil leakage is (1) excessive dilution of basic nitrite in the supernate, (2) initiation of attack in crevices due to oxygen depletion cells, and (3) acceleration of the attack by sulfate dissolved from the sludge. When sludge was slurried with… more
Date: January 1, 1978
Creator: Ondrejcin, R.S.
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Consolidated Incineration Facility model videotape

Description: A Consolidated Incineration Facility (CIF) is in final design for construction at the Savannah River Plant in Aiken, South Carolina. The CIF will detoxify and volume reduce combustible radioactive, hazardous and mixed waste. A study model was constructed during scope development for project authorization to assist with equipment layout and insure sufficient maintenance access. To facilitate the Department of Energy Validation process, a videotape of the model was developed. This ten minute vide… more
Date: January 1, 1988
Creator: Krolewski, J F & Augsburger, S T
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Initial evaluation of photographic data of F- and H-Area seepage basin outcrops

Description: Photographic data for the Savannah River Plant (SRP) were reviewed for 1961 through 1987 to determine the value of this photography in estimating the timing and extent of the F- and H-Area seepage basin outcrops along the upper Four Mile Creek floodplain. In excess of 15,000 frames of photography of the SRP were reviewed. The quality of the photography varied widely and included panchromatic (black and white), natural color, and false color infrared. Altitudes of the photography ranged from 2,0… more
Date: February 8, 1988
Creator: Mackey, H. E., Jr.
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Advances in processing nuclear waste glasses

Description: The vitrification of nuclear waste glasses is presenting unique challenges to glass technologists. On the one hand, the composition of the most important constituent of the glass batch/--/the waste/--/may vary widely. On the other hand, the vitrification process itself must be tightly controlled to ensure product quality, public safety, and process reliability. This has led to several important developments in waste vitrification technology, all aimed at improving process control. These include… more
Date: January 1, 1988
Creator: Plodinec, M J
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Expert system control of a six-legged walking telerobot

Description: The Robotics Technology Group of the Savannah River Laboratory has implemented a three-stage expert system for a six-legged walking telerobot. Remote operation of this machine requires the knowledge of a highly skilled operator. Stability, size, and mode of operation considerations must take place continuously, in general, much more so than with a typical wheeled vehicle. The technology employed provides for quasi-real-time computer control, manual control, and an expert advisor -- all in the s… more
Date: January 1, 1989
Creator: DeVries, K R
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Application of artificial intelligence to melter control: Realtime process advisor for the scale melter facility

Description: The Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) at the Savannah River Plant (SRP) is currently under construction and when completed will process high-level radioactive waste into a borosilicate glass wasteform. This facility will consist of numerous batch chemical processing steps as well as the continuous operation of a joule-heated melter and its off-gas treatment system. A realtime process advisor system based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques has been developed and is currently in us… more
Date: January 1, 1988
Creator: Edwards, Jr, R E
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Light water reactor fuel reprocessing: dissolution studies of voloxidized fuel

Description: Voloxidation is a proposed head-end process to remove tritium from irradiated LWR fuel by roasting the fuel in the presence of oxygen. The process oxidizes UO/sub 2/ to a fine U/sub 3/O/sub 8/ powder with high surface area for dissolution. Small-scale tests with irradiated Robinson, Oconee, and Saxton reactor fuels have been made to determine the dissolution behavior of both voloxidized and nonvoloxidized (UO/sub 2/) fuel. No significant technical problems were encountered in batch-dissolving o… more
Date: January 1, 1977
Creator: Johnson, D. R. & Stone, J. A.
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Remote reactor repair: GTA (gas tungsten Arc) weld cracking caused by entrapped helium

Description: A repair patch was welded to the wall of a nuclear reactor tank using remotely controlled thirty-foot long robot arms. Further repair was halted when gas tungsten arc (GTA) welds joining type 304L stainless steel patches to the 304 stainless steel wall developed toe cracks in the heat-affected zone (HAZ). The role of helium in cracking was investigated using material with entrapped helium from tritium decay. As a result of this investigation, and of an extensive array of diagnostic tests perfor… more
Date: January 1, 1988
Creator: Kanne, W. R., Jr.
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Impingement and entrainment of fishes at the Savannah River Plant: an NPDES 316b demonstration

Description: Environmental impacts of the Savannah River Plant's withdrawal of Savannah River water include impingement of juvenile and adult fish on trash removal screens, and entrainment of planktonic fish eggs and larval fish into the pumping system. The Savannah River Plant (SRP) has the capacity to pump 3.6 million cubic meters of water per day--25% of the minimal river discharge--for cooling and other purposes. Present removal is 7% of the actual river discharge. In the river and intake canals reside … more
Date: February 1, 1978
Creator: McFarlane, R. W.; Frietsche, R. F. & Miracle, R. D.
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Immobilization of incinerator ash in a concrete matrix

Description: The ashcrete process will solidfy ash generated by the consolidated Incinerator Facility (CIF) at the Savannah River Plant (SRP). The ashcrete unit produces ashcrete, a stable cement-based wasteform, by remotely adding cement and water and tumbling drums of ash. Ashcrete product homogeneity, temperature rise during setting, and compressive strength were measured and product formulations were developed for several nonradioactive dry ash types. Saturation level and wet and dry ash densities for s… more
Date: January 1, 1988
Creator: Simpson, R S & Charlesworth, D L
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Larvae and juveniles of the brook silverside, Labidesthes sicculus

Description: Protolarvae have 6 to 7 preanal and 29 to 31 postanal myomeres. Migration of the anus and pelvic buds during the metalarval phase results in 14 to 15 preanal and 24 to 25 postanal myomeres and causes a relative increase in prepelvic body length. Pectoral fins in protolarvae appear before finfold differentiation. Median fin ray development in mesolarvae appears sequentially in the caudal, anal, and soft dorsal fins, respectively. The spinous dorsal and pelvic fins differentiate in metalarvae. Pr… more
Date: January 1, 1978
Creator: Freitsche, R. A.; Miracle, R. D. & McFarlane, R. W.
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Improved reactivity monitor using a shuttling /sup 252/Cf source

Description: A technique for measuring reactivities of moderated arrays of nuclear fuels with a shuttling /sup 252/Cf source has been significantly extended and refined. In the old method, the shuttle time was so short that details of the delayed neutron time behavior could be neglected. Specifically, the average delayed neutron population during the ''On'' part of the cycles was assumed to be equal to that during the ''Off'' part. In the new method, the detailed behavior of the delayed neutrons is explicit… more
Date: January 1, 1977
Creator: Baumann, N.P. & Jarriel, J.L.
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Kinetics of the ambient temperature dissolution of plutonium metal in sulfamic acid

Description: The stoichiometry and the kinetics of the ambient temperature dissolution of alpha-phase plutonium in sulfamic acid has been determined. Hydrogen off-gas rates and plutonium concentrations were calculated as functions of time for a variety of dissolving conditions. Calculations show that nominal 2.2 kg Pu buttons (surface area, 171 cm/sup 2/) should yield solutions containing 60 +- 10 g Pu/L after a one-hour dissolving cycle. Hydrogen off-gas rates were calculated to vary from as high as 780 mL… more
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Gray, L.W.
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Temperature dependence of nitrate stress corrosion cracking of mild steel

Description: The temperature dependence of nitrate stress corrosion in mild steel is given by activation energies of 27 kJ/mol for continuous and 56 kJ/mol for discontinuous crack growth. The mechanism of nitrate stress corrosion in mild steel has been interpreted as anodic dissolution, and these results support this interpretation, except that an intergranular oxide is formed and the metal is not dissolved directly. If the stress intensity, K, increases, then the mode of crack growth is fracture of the int… more
Date: January 1, 1977
Creator: Donovan, J.A.
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Trace elements in the terrestrial environment of a coal-fired powerhouse

Description: A coal-fired powerhouse at the Savannah River Plant, Aiken, South Carolina operated for more than 20 years without electrostatic precipitators and consumed about 360,000,000 kilograms of coal per year. Twenty-nine trace elements were measured in fly ash, and in samples of soil, vegetation, and ground water collected along a 29-km traverse centered on the powerhouse. There were statistically significant effects of the stack releases upon the concentration of Ba, Be, Cu, Hg, Mn, Se, and Sr in soi… more
Date: September 1, 1977
Creator: Horton, J. H.; Dorsett, R. S. & Cooper, R. E.
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