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Background radiation from fission pulses

Description: Extensive source terms for beta, gamma, and neutrons following fission pulses are presented in various tabular and graphical forms. Neutron results from a wide range of fissioning nuclides (42) are examined and detailed information is provided for four fuels: /sup 235/U, /sup 238/U, /sup 232/Th, and /sup 239/Pu; these bracket the range of the delayed spectra. Results at several cooling (decay) times are presented. For ..beta../sup -/ and ..gamma.. spectra, only /sup 235/U and /sup 239/Pu result… more
Date: May 1, 1988
Creator: England, T. R.; Arthur, E. D.; Brady, M. C. & LaBauve, R. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A one-and-a-quarter-dimensional transport code for field-reversed configuration studies: A user's guide for CFRX

Description: A one-and-a-quarter-dimensional transport code, which includes radial as well as some two-dimensional effects for field-reversed configurations, is described. The set of transport equations is transformed to a set of new independent and dependent variables and is solved as a coupled initial-boundary value problem. The code simulation includes both the closed and open field regions. The axial effects incorporated include global axial force balance, axial losses in the open field region, and flux… more
Date: May 1, 1988
Creator: Hsiao, Ming-Yuan; Werley, K.A. & Ling, Kuok-Mee
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Search for New Leptons with Heavy Neutrinos in e/sup +/e/sup -/ Annihilation at. sqrt. s = 29 GeV. [None]

Description: This thesis describes the results of a search for new leptons with associated heavy neutrinos. The search uses 68.1 pb/sup /minus/1/ of data taken with the TPC2..gamma.. detector at the PEP storage ring. New lepton pairs with charged lepton masses m/sub L/ < 12 GeV and mass differences in the approximate range 0.4 GeV < m/sub L/ /minus/ m/sub/nu/L/ < 2.5 GeV are excluded at the 99% confidence level. Results are also given of a study of search techniques for the region m/sub L/ < 12 GeV, m/sub L… more
Date: May 5, 1988
Creator: Mathis, L. G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Project to design and develop an energy-related program: For public housing residents and renters: Volume 1, Final report

Description: This demonstration project was undertaken as a result of an unsolicited proposal submitted by THE ASSIGNMENT GROUP (TAG) to the Office of Minority Economic Impact, Department of Energy (DOE). The problem to which the proposal responded was how to minimize the costs associated with public housing tenants in standard public housing as well as under homeownership transfers. A related problem was how to graduate the tenants to another level of responsibility and self-sufficiency through resident bu… more
Date: May 1, 1988
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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SESAME equation of state No. 7530, basalt

Description: A full-range equation of state (EOS) for dry, nonporous basalt with a grain density of 2.868 gcm/sup 3/ has been constructed and placed on the SESAME library as material number 7530.
Date: May 1, 1988
Creator: Barnes, J.F. & Lyon, S.P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Laboratory work in support of West Valley glass development

Description: Over the past six years, Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL) has conducted several studies in support of waste glass composition development and testing of glass compositions suitable for immobilizing the nuclear wastes stored at West Valley, New York. As a result of pilot-scale testing conducted by PNL, the glass composition was changed from that originally recommended in response to changes in the waste stream, and several processing-related problems were discovered. These problems were solved… more
Date: May 1, 1988
Creator: Bunnell, L.R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Environmental surveillance at Los Alamos during 1987

Description: This report describes the environmental surveillance program conducted by Los Alamos National Laboratory during 1987. Routine monitoring for radiation and radioactive or chemical materials is conducted on the Laboratory site as well as in the surrounding region. Monitoring results are used to determine compliance with appropriate standards and to permit early identification of potentially undesirable trends. Results and interpretation of data for 1987 cover: external penetrating radiation; quan… more
Date: May 1, 1988
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A toxicological study of gadolinium nitrate

Description: The sensitization study in the guinea pig did not show gadolinium nitrate to have potential sensitizing properties. Skin application studies in the rabbit demonstrated that it was cutaneously a severe irritant. This material was considered an irritant in the rabbit eye application studies. 3 refs., 1 tab.
Date: May 1, 1988
Creator: London, J.E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Milliwatt generator project: Progress report, April 1983--March 1984

Description: This report covers progress on the Milliwatt Generator Project during April 1983--March 1984. Activities included (plutonium 238 oxide) fuel processing and characterization, production of heat sources, fabrication of pressure-burst test units, compatibility studies, impact testing, examination of surveillance units, Inconel weld development, and qualilty assurance.
Date: May 1, 1988
Creator: Rinehart, G.H. & Latimer, T.W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Determining cerium in plutonium by anion exchange and x-ray fluorescence

Description: This report describes a procedure for determining cerium in plutonium using an anion-exchange separation and x-ray fluorescence. We add lanthanum to the plutonium solution as an internal standard, oxidize the plutonium to Pu/sup /plus/4/, and pass the solution through an anion-exchange column with 8M HCl. The Pu/sup /plus/4/ sorbs to the resin, and the cerium and lanthanum pass through the column completely. We evaporate the solution containing the cerium and the lanthanum to 0.5 mL for pipetti… more
Date: May 1, 1988
Creator: Martell, C. J. & Hansel, J. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Separations innovative concepts: Project summary

Description: This project summary includes the results of 10 innovations that were funded under the US Department's Innovative Concept Programs. The concepts address innovations that can substantially reduce the energy used in industrial separations. Each paper describes the proposed concept, and discusses the concept's potential energy savings, market applications, technical feasibility, prior work and state of the art, and future development needs.
Date: May 1, 1988
Creator: Lee, V.E. (ed.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Sulfur tolerant anode materials

Description: The goal of this program is the development of a molten carbonate fuel cell (MCFC) anode which is more tolerant of sulfur contaminants in the fuel than the current state-of-the-art nickel-based anode structures. This program addresses two different but related aspects of the sulfur contamination problem. The primary aspect is concerned with the development of a sulfur tolerant electrocatalyst for the fuel oxidation reaction. A secondary issue is the development of a sulfur tolerant water-gas-sh… more
Date: May 1, 1988
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A model for electron/ion recombination in ionization chambers

Description: The recombination of free electrons and positive ions along charged particle tracks in gases has been modeled using electron tranport equations, which assume homogeneous distribution in the vicinity of the tracks. The equations include space charge terms, which have been negelected in previous models. A formula for the electron yield as a function of detector applied potential is obtained from a perturbation solution valid when the ratio of the Debye length to the charge column radius is larger… more
Date: May 1, 1988
Creator: Sailor, W. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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LFCM (liquid-fed ceramic melter) vitrification technology: Quarterly progress report, January--March 1987

Description: This report is compiled by the Nuclear Waste Treatment Program and the Hanford Waste Vitrification Program at Pacific Northwest Laboratory to describe the progress in developing, testing, applying and documenting liquid-fed ceramic melter vitrification technology. Progress in the following technical subject areas during the second quarter of FY 1987 is discussed: melting process chemistry and glass development, feed preparation and transfer systems, melter systems, canister filling and handling… more
Date: May 1, 1988
Creator: Brouns, R. A.; Allen, C. R. & Powell, J. A. (comps.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Total and differential electron collision cross sections for O/sub 2/ and N/sub 2/

Description: We present a compilation of total and differential cross sections for electron scattering of N/sub 2/ and O/sub 2/. Energy-dependent total cross sections and energy- and angle-dependent differential cross sections are given for elastic, rotational, vibrational, electronic excitation, and ionizing collisions. 16 refs., 46 figs., 8 tabs.
Date: May 1, 1988
Creator: Murphy, T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A summary of environmentally assisted crack-growth studies performed at Westinghouse Electric Corporation: Under funding from the Heavy-Section Steel Technology Program

Description: This report was prepared as an attempt to collect the information developed in the crack-growth studies at Westinghouse from 1969 to 1986. Although progress reports were issued regularly over the entire period, the program results have not previously been integrated in a single document. The effect of a pressurized-water environment in the enhancement of fatigue crack growth at low frequencies of loading was discovered by Kondo in 1971 and verified in this program shortly thereafter. To charact… more
Date: May 1, 1988
Creator: Bamford, W.H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Annex to 7-GeV Advanced Photon Source : Conceptual Design Report

Description: The Annex to the 7-GeV Advanced Photon Source Conceptual Design Report updates the Conceptual Design Report of 1987 (CDR-87) to include the results of further optimization and changes of the design during the past year. The design changes can be summarized as affecting three areas: the accelerator system, conventional facilities, and experimental systems. Most of the changes in the accelerator system result from inclusion of a positron accumulator ring (PAR), which was added at the suggestion o… more
Date: May 1988
Creator: Argonne National Laboratory
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Annual Technical Report

Description: Report of Argonne Chemical Technology division activities, including high-performance batteries, aqueous batteries, advanced fuel cells, and coal utilization.
Date: May 1988
Creator: Argonne National Laboratory. Chemical Technology Division.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Infertility: Medical and Social Choices

Description: This report illustrates a range of options for congressional action in nine principal areas of public policy related to infertility: collecting data on reproductive health; preventing infertility; information to inform and protect consumers; providing access to infertility services; reproductive health of veterans; transfer of human eggs, sperm, and embryos; recordkeeping; surrogate motherhood; and reproductive research.
Date: May 1988
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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New Developments in Biotechnology: Field-Testing Engineered Organisms: Genetic and Ecological Issues

Description: This report in the series illustrates a range of options for congressional action in three major areas of public policy related to this application of biotechnology: the criteria for review of planned introductions for potential risk, the administrative mechanisms for applying such review criteria, and the research base supporting planned introductions.
Date: May 1988
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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SDI: Technology, Survivability, and Software

Description: This report is the unclassified version of a classified document delivered to Congress at the end of August 1987. In attempting to reach agreement with the Department of Defense on what information could be included in an unclassified report, OTA found the wheels of bureaucracy to turn very slowly—when they turned at all. Only through the active intervention of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, beginning in late in November 1987, and extending to the end of March, 1988, was a parti… more
Date: May 1988
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Seismic Verification of Nuclear Testing Treaties

Description: This report addresses the issues of detection, identification, yield estimation, and evasion to arrive at answers to the two critical questions: 1) Down to what size explosion can underground testing be seismically monitored with high confidence? 2) How accurately can the yields of underground explosions be measured?
Date: May 1988
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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