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Economic Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG) study. Volume I. ERTG design. Final report

Description: The objectives of this study were: (1) to develop and evaluate an ERTG design for a high power, Curium-244 fueled system based on the tubular thermoelectric module technology; (2) to prepare a program plan for the development of a flight qualified ERTG; and (3) to estimate the costs associated with the production of one, ten and twenty flight qualified ERTG's. This volume presents the Reference Design ERTG approach, the results of the engineering trade studies leading to its selection, and the … more
Date: December 1, 1973
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Economic Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG) study. Volume II. Development plan. Final report

Description: The objectives of this study were: (1) to develop and evaluate an ERTG design for a high power, Curium-244 fueled system based on the tubular thermoelectric module technology; (2) to prepare a program plan for the development of a flight qualified ERTG; and (3) to estimate the costs associated with the production of one, ten and twenty flight qualified ERTG's. This volume summarizes the program plan for developing and producing flight qualified ERTG's. The information presented explains what wi… more
Date: December 1, 1973
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Script: Budget]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about discussions on Tarrant County courthouse budgets.
Date: January 3, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Evaluation of the Effects of Geothermal Reservoir Fluid Temperature on the Costs of Steam Production and Power Generation

Description: This report provides a preliminary evaluation of the effect of reservoir temperatures on the cost of geothermal hot water wells and flash-steam gathering systems to support a 50,000 kW power plant. Comparisons are made of the capital investments required for each case and the corresponding payout period based on steam costs of 6 mill/kWh of power generated. In order to show how the reservoir temperatures and steam cost affect the cost of electric power delivered to the high tension bus at the p… more
Date: April 1, 1973
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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New computer technology to be applied to decision making process

Description: Much of what is presented here is indicative of our national trends in computing. To review and bring in the international scope at the same time, the following points are enumerated: 1. There are but few new ventures in the competition for the high performance end of the computer market. 2. The competition for the middle range of computers is very great internationally. 3. The number and varieties of minicomputers are growing at a phenomenal rate throughout the world. There is no question but … more
Date: August 1, 1973
Creator: Fernbach, S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Feasibility evaluation and R and D program plan for transuranic partitioning of high-level fuel reprocessing waste

Description: An approach to managing high-level radioactive waste is to separate it into fractions of different half-lives. Existing separations technologies were reviewed and their potential for this application assessed, process concepts expected to be capable of these separations were defined, areas where R&D to develop and design an effective process is required were identified, and an R&D plan for selection and development of a partitioning process was prepared. A wide spectrum of technologies was init… more
Date: November 1, 1973
Creator: Bray, L.A.; Burger, L.L.; Burns, R.E. & Ryan, J.L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Review of 2XIIB project

Description: A review is given of the 2X project, including project history and recent results, with the intent that both those new to CTR engineering and those people familiar with its progress will benefit. The current 2XII Program plan is reviewed, with emphasis on the major device fabrication underway at the present time. This construction consists primarily of a new magnet for 2XII, and has been designated 2XIIB. The injection of a 800-A neutral beam is described. The final portion of the paper is a pr… more
Date: August 20, 1973
Creator: Anderson, C.J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Environmental radiation dose criteria and assessment: pathway modeling and surveillance

Description: From nuclear science symposium; San Francisco, California, USA (14 Nov 1973). The controversy in recent years over the extent of the risk to the public from environmental radioactivity attributable to nuclear facilities (in particular nuclear power plants and fuel reprocessing facilities) has resulted in a lowering of previously acceptable environmental radiation levels. The proposal by the AEC to limit effluents from light-water-cooled nuclear reactors so that the exposure of any individual in… more
Date: January 1, 1973
Creator: Hull, A.P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Cost and feasibility of stimulating tight gas reservoirs with chemical explosives

Description: Long, continuous, cylindrical charges of high explosives are considered as alternatives to nuclear explosives or massive hydraulic fracturing for the stimulation of gas production in tight gas formations. The calculational method was that used previously for nuclear stimulation; it was verified by comparison of the calculated and observed gas production from Rulison. The calculations indicate that charges of high explosives 24 inches in diameter and 2000 feet in length (the height assumed for t… more
Date: January 16, 1973
Creator: Higgins, G.H.; Butkovich, T.R. & Montan, D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Review of 2XIIB project

Description: From fifth sympoaium on engineering problems of fusion research; Princeton, New Jersey, USA (6 Nov 1973). A review is given of the 2X project, including project history and recent results, with the irtent that both those new to controlled thermonuclear research engineering and those people familiar with its progress will benefit. The current 2XII program plan is reviewed, with emphasis on the major device fubrication underway at the present time. This construction consiats primarily of a new ma… more
Date: August 20, 1973
Creator: Anderson, C.J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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