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CsAlSi/sub 5/O/sub 12/: a possible host for /sup 137/Cs immobilization

Description: CsAlSi/sub 5/O/sub 12/ exhibits more acid resistance than pollucite (CsAlSi/sub 2/O/sub 6/). At pH values of 1.02 and 1.40, the extraction of Cs from CsAlSi/sub 5/O/sub 12/ at 25/sup 0/C was approximately proportional to the square root of leach time. The Cs extraction at 25/sup 0/C varied as (H/sup +/)/sup 0/ /sup 36/ over the pH range of 1 to 6. Also, the Cs extraction in various brines at 300/sup 0/C/30 MPa was comparable with that for pollucite. CsAlSi/sub 5/O/sub 12/ can be crystallized at… more
Date: March 31, 1982
Creator: Adl, T. & Vance, E.R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Effect of gamma irradiation on the strength of Climax stock quartz monzonite

Description: A laboratory study was made of the effects of a massive dose of {gamma} irradiation upon the mechanical properties of Climax stock quartz monzonite. Twenty-nine cylinders of rocks were tested using the Brazilian method and 26 strain gauged cylinders were tested to failure in uniaxial compression. One-half the cylinders in each group were subjected to a {gamma} ray dose of 13.2 MGy (1.32 x 10{sup 9} rads), or six times the maximum five-year dose to rock at the Spent Fuel Test-Climax, Nevada Test… more
Date: March 31, 1982
Creator: Durham, W.B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Imperial County geothermal development. Quarterly report, January 1-March 31, 1982

Description: The activities of the Geothermal Office are reported including: important geothermal events, geothermal waste disposal, grant applications to the California Energy Commission, the planned geothermal development meeting, and other geothermal planning activities. The activities of the Geothermal Planner include processing of applications for geothermal permits, processing of environmental impact reports, and other geothermal planning activities. The progress on the VTN Corporation direct heat stu… more
Date: March 31, 1982
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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National forecast for geothermal resource exploration and development with techniques for policy analysis and resource assessment

Description: The backgrund, structure and use of modern forecasting methods for estimating the future development of geothermal energy in the United States are documented. The forecasting instrument may be divided into two sequential submodels. The first predicts the timing and quality of future geothermal resource discoveries from an underlying resource base. This resource base represents an expansion of the widely-publicized USGS Circular 790. The second submodel forecasts the rate and extent of utilizati… more
Date: March 31, 1982
Creator: Cassel, T. A. V.; Shimamoto, G. T.; Amundsen, C. B.; Blair, P. D.; Finan, W. F.; Smith, M. R. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Stability of ceramic waste forms in potential repository environments: a review

Description: Most scenarios for geologic disposal of high-level nuclear waste include the eventual intrusion of groundwater into the repository. Reactions in the system and eventual release of the radionuclides, if any, will be controlled by the chemistry of the groundwater, the surrounding rock, the waste form, and any engineered barrier materials that are present, as well as by the temperature and pressure of the system. This report is a compilation and evaluation of the work completed to date on interact… more
Date: March 31, 1982
Creator: Johnston, R. J. & Palmer, R. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Value of the energy data base

Description: An assessment was made of the Energy Data Base (EDB) of the Department of Energy's Technical Information Center (TIC). As the major resource containing access information to the world's energy literature, EDB products and services are used extensively by energy researchers to identify journal articles, technical reports and other items of potential utility in their work. The approach taken to assessing value begins with the measurement of extent of use of the EDB. Apparent value is measured in … more
Date: March 31, 1982
Creator: King, D.W.; Griffiths, J.M.; Roderer, N.K. & Wiederkehr, R.R.V.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Feasibility of using geothermal water at Timberline Lodge

Description: The report discusses the technical and economic feasibility of utilizing geothermal fluids as a heating source at the Timberline Lodge complex. No unsolvable technical problems were discovered.
Date: March 30, 1982
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Geothermal energy planning and communication for native Americans. Final report. Draft

Description: The purpose was to explore and develop geothermal energy resources on Indian lands. Activities included the following: (1) continued review of Indian communities and their potential for geothermal energy development; (2) introduced tribes to the availability of geothermal energy and removed the barriers to the implementation of this energy source; (3) provided information by telephone and by mailing packages of information; (4) published articles on geothermal energy development in the UIPA new… more
Date: March 30, 1982
Creator: Robertson, T.A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Ocean thermal energy. Quarterly report, January-March 1982

Description: This quarterly report summarizes work of the following tasks as of March 31, 1982: OTEC pilot plant conceptual design review; OTEC methanol; review of electrolyzer development programs and requirements; financial and legal considerations in OTEC implementation; potential Navy sites for GEOTEC systems; hybrid geothermal-OTEC power plants: single-cycle performance estimates; and supervision of testing of pneumatic wave energy conversion system.
Date: March 30, 1982
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Solar-powered car. Final report

Description: The work reported was to modify a commercially available electric vehicle to use power generated by solar cells. Besides the technical and financial aspects of constructing the car, media publicity and public showings of the car are discussed. (LEW)
Date: March 30, 1982
Creator: Plank, D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Proposal for 2020 program

Description: This document is a proposal to do an analysis of the use of light water reactors (LWRs) in Weapons Material Production. The objective of this study is to examine the major issues associated with using a LWR to produce weapons materials. The central focus of the study will be on the design and safety issues relating to tritium production in LWRs using uranium fuel with both low and high enrichment. This study will identify the problems and propose solutions. This study will analyze the technolog… more
Date: March 26, 1982
Creator: Dingee, D. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Informal Technical Progress Report and Budget for Incremental Funding

Description: The principal activities during the last year were related to LAMPF experiments, a newly initiated radiochemical search for Glashow particles, and the writing up of experimental work completed at FERMILAB studying the interaction of 400-MeV protons and 150-MeV pions with complex nuclei. Collaboration is proceeding with Los Alamos on heavy methanes as atmospheric tracers and in proposing a geological search for enhanced solar neutrinos in past geological times.
Date: March 25, 1982
Creator: Turkevich, A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Proposed Equal Rights Amendment

Description: This CRS Report provides a brief legislative history of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment and a description of its current status. The report also contains pro and con analyses of the possible effects of ERA, were it to be ratified, and a discussion of questions raised by the action of Congress in extending the deadline for ratification and by the action of States that have voted to rescind their approval of the measure. This report is based in part on an earlier CRS report by Morrigene… more
Date: March 25, 1982
Creator: Gladstone, Leslie W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Graph-theoretic algorithm for hierarchial decomposition of dynamic systems

Description: A graph-theoretic scheme is proposed for partitioning of dynamic systems into hierarchially ordered subsystems having independent inputs and outputs. The resulting subsystems are input-output reachable as well as structurally controllable and observable, so that a piece-by-piece design of estimators and controllers can be accomplished for systems with large dimensions without excessive computer requirements.
Date: March 24, 1982
Creator: Pichai, V.; Sezer, M.E. & Siljak, D.D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Bibliography: injection technology applicable to geothermal utilization

Description: This bibliography cites 500 documents that may be helpful in planning, analysis, research, and development of the various aspects of injection technology in geothermal applications. These documents include results from government research; development, demonstration, and commercialization programs; selected references from the literature; symposia; references from various technical societies and installations; reference books; reviews; and other selected material. The cited references are from … more
Date: March 19, 1982
Creator: Darnell, A. J. & Eichelberger, R. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Direct application of west coast geothermal resources in a wet corn milling plant supplementary analyses and information dissemination. Final report, addendum

Description: In an extension to the scope of the previous studies, supplementary analyses were to be performed for both plants which would assess the economics of geothermal energy if coal had been the primary fuel rather than oil and gas. The studies include: supplementary analysis for a coal fired wet corn milling plant, supplementary analysis for an East Coast frozen food plant with coal fired boilers, and information dissemination activities.
Date: March 19, 1982
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Potential benefits of R and D directed toward increasing the cost-effectiveness of energy use

Description: The need for energy research programs directed toward increasing the cost-effectiveness of energy use is discussed. Benefits reaped by society as a consequence of successful completion of a research activity are economic, environmental, health and safety, security, and long term; emphasis is placed on the economic benefits from research projects on the demand side (i.e., energy end-use sectors). Each end-use sector was examined and data on the amount of energy consumed and the estimated cost of… more
Date: March 17, 1982
Creator: Anderson, T.D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Annual technical report: fiscal year 1981

Description: The activities of the JPL Solar Thermal Power Systems Parabolic Dish Project are summarized for FY 1981. Included are discussions on subsystem designs of concentrators, receivers, engines, power converters, and thermal transport. Analyses and test results are also included along with progress on field tests, Small Community System development and the Parabolic Dish Test Site.
Date: March 15, 1982
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Assessment of deposition for power-plant molten-carbonate fuel cells

Description: Particulate deposition in molten carbonate fuel cell anodes is addressed for operation with future coal gasification power plants. Power plant systems factors affecting deposition are explored such as gas cleanup requirements for particulate removal and gasifier product gas composition differences for various gasifier types and operational modes (air blown versus oxygen blown). Effects of fuel cell characteristics (including average cell current density and fuel utilization) on anode deposition… more
Date: March 15, 1982
Creator: Wenglarz, R. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Energy spectrum of neutrals formed in an ion accelerator

Description: This work presents an estimate of the energy distribution of the neutrals formed in the ion beam accelerator. However it does not determine the fraction of those neutrals which leave the neutral beam injector and go on into the reactor. To do that, more details of the beam line performance are needed.
Date: March 15, 1982
Creator: Fink, J.H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Japan's International Trade Patterns, Institutions, and Policies

Description: This report presents an overview of Japan's performance in its trading relations. The report begins with a discussion of the development, size, and importance of Japan's international trading sector. It then examines the composition, institutions, and policies for trade. This is followed by a review of Japan's balance of payments, capital flows, value of the yen, and direction of trade.
Date: March 15, 1982
Creator: Nanto, Dick K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Mechanisms affecting mass transfer in fuel cells

Description: An initial analysis of particulate effects on molten carbonate fuel cells has been conducted. The analysis has been applied to a conceptual fuel cell with operating parameters appropriate to use with future power generation plants. Particle transport due to several mechanisms has been considered and dominant mechanisms affecting particle delivery to anode channel surfaces and into anode pores have been identified. Thermophoresis and gas flow out from anode pores have been found to inhibit parti… more
Date: March 15, 1982
Creator: Wenglarz, R.A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Mitigation of biofouling using coatings, year 2. Quarterly progress report No. 2. [PWR; BWR]

Description: Objectives of this project are to evaluate benefits associated with control of the surface energetic properties of materials used in heat exchangers; and to identify preferred ranges of these surface conditions that minimize deposits of biological fouling known to deteriorate heat exchange efficiencies in cooling water systems. The technical approach employed uses special diagnostic plates in novel flow cells where fluid flow conditions can be well-controlled, modifying the surface chemistry an… more
Date: March 15, 1982
Creator: Meyer, A. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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