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Pu-238 fuel form activities, February 1-28, 1985

Description: The Plutonium Fuel Form Facility (for producing /sup 238/PuO/sub 2/ for RTG's) remains in a production readiness mode of operation. (DLC)
Date: August 1, 1985
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Molten salt freeze seal. Final report

Description: This report documents the results of the testing performed at Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, New Mexico, on the applicability of a sodium freeze seal type valve stem in a molten salt environment. The freeze seal tests consisted of cycling the valve stem at set temperature intervals, checking the temperature distribution for freeze plug location, and verifying the actuator forces. In addition to the test results, this report also documents the engineering analysis and other tasks perfo… more
Date: August 1, 1985
Creator: Corugedo, J.J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Actinide production in /sup 136/Xe bombardments of /sup 249/Cf

Description: The production cross sections for the actinide products from /sup 136/Xe bombardments of /sup 249/Cf at energies 1.02, 1.09, and 1.16 times the Coulomb barrier were determined. Fractions of the individual actinide elements were chemically separated from recoil catcher foils. The production cross sections of the actinide products were determined by measuring the radiations emitted from the nuclides within the chemical fractions. The chemical separation techniques used in this work are described … more
Date: August 1, 1985
Creator: Gregorich, K.E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Guidelines for selecting codes for ground-water transport modeling of low-level waste burial sites. Volume 2. Special test cases

Description: This document was written for the National Low-Level Waste Management Program to provide guidance for managers and site operators who need to select ground-water transport codes for assessing shallow-land burial site performance. The guidance given in this report also serves the needs of applications-oriented users who work under the direction of a manager or site operator. The guidelines are published in two volumes designed to support the needs of users having different technical backgrounds.… more
Date: August 1, 1985
Creator: Simmons, C.S. & Cole, C.R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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ALKACYCL: a basic computer program for the analysis of alkali metal Rankine power cycles

Description: ALKACYCL is a computer program that analyzes Rankine power cycles utilizing an alkali metal as the cycle working fluid. Cycles may have from zero to three stages of regenerative feed heating. The program is written in BASICA language and can be used on an IBM-PC or PC-compatible computer with 128 kbytes of RAM. Output results include mass and energy balance information, cycle efficiency, and sizes and weights for piping and feed heaters. Listing and sample program output are included.
Date: August 1, 1985
Creator: Moyers, J. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Survey of physical property data for several alloys. [Nitronic 33; copper C10400; copper C17510]

Description: This report summarizes an examination of physical property data available in the literature for six alloys of potential interest to the Toroidal Fusion Core Experiment in the Fusion Energy Program. The properties of thermal expansion, density, specific heat, electrical resistivity, and thermal conductivity were compiled for six alloys: Nitronic 33, a low-nickel, high manganese stainless steel; nickel-base Inconnel Alloys 625, 718, and X-750; and copper alloys C10400 and C17510. The temperatures… more
Date: August 1, 1985
Creator: Pawel, R. E. & Williams, R. K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Specific heat loading in Nd:glass lasers

Description: The specific thermal load parameter, chi, for xenon flashlamp-pumped Nd:glass gain media is written as a function of neodymium concentration, pump pulse duration, and energy extraction efficiency. The currently available data on radiative and nonradiative decay probabilities of several commercial Nd:glasses are used to calculate and graph specific thermal load parameter values. By factoring these results into performance scaling relationships for zig-zag and disk lasers, specific Nd:glasses can… more
Date: August 7, 1985
Creator: Krupke, W. F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Parameters of the luminous region surrounding deuterium pellets in the PLT tokamak

Description: The luminous region of the plasma cloud surrounding deuterium pellets injected into a tokamak is studied spectroscopically. At the time of peak luminosity the average electron density is 2.4 x 10/sup 17/ cm/sup -3/ to within 30% and the temperature is at most 2.0 eV. The intensity ratio of the Balmer alpha and beta light from the pellets, the total number of emitted photons, and the apparent size of the radiating region are consistent with local thermodynamic equilibrium at this temperature and… more
Date: August 1, 1985
Creator: McNeill, D. H.; Greene, G. J. & Schuresko, D. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Computing system failure probabilities: a comparison of SIGMA PI with other methods

Description: SIGMA PI is the fastest method available today of accurately calculating probabilities associated with large fault trees. To demonstrate this, we describe the major problems that have prevented successful evaluation of these probabilities by other methods in the past. Then, we describe how SIGMA PI addresses all of these problems, and we compare the performance of SIGMA PI with that of leading alternative methods under selected problem scenarios. 13 refs., 3 figs., 2 tabs.
Date: August 1, 1985
Creator: Thatcher, R. M. & Corynen, G. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Sandia Sodium Purification Loop (SNAPL) description and operations manual

Description: Sandia's Sodium Purification Loop was constructed to purify sodium for fast reactor safety experiments. An oxide impurity of less than 10 parts per million is required by these in-pile experiments. Commercial, reactor grade sodium is purchased in 180 kg drums. The sodium is melted and transferred into the unit. The unit is of a loop design and purification is accomplished by ''cold trapping.'' Sodium purified in this loop has been chemically analysed at one part per million oxygen by weight. 5 … more
Date: August 1, 1985
Creator: Acton, R. U.; Weatherbee, R. L.; Smith, L. A.; Mastin, F. L. & Nowotny, K. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Remedial action work plan for the Colonie site. Revision 1

Description: The Colonie site is a DOE Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) site located in the Town of Colonie, New York, and consisting of an interim storage site and several vicinity properties. The Colonie Interim Storage Site (CISS) is the former National Lead (NL) Industries plant located at 1130 Central Avenue. There are 11 vicinity properties that received remedial action in 1984: 7 located south of the site on Yardboro and Palmer Avenues just across the Colonie-Albany town limit… more
Date: August 1, 1985
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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EPICS cookbook: a bare bones start

Description: This booklet is a simple operator's guide to the EPICS system.
Date: August 1, 1985
Creator: Zamin, R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Annual Outlook for US Electric Power, 1985

Description: This report provides a history and projections of US electric utility markets. It includes summary information on the production of electricity, its distribution to end-use sectors, and on electricity, its distribution to end-use sectors, and on electricity costs and prices. Further, this publication describes the ownership structure of the industry and the operations of utility systems and outlines basic electricity generating technologies. The historical information covers the period from 188… more
Date: August 12, 1985
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Tiber winding pack design

Description: A preliminary winding pack design was performed with the goal of showing feasibility of producing 10-T maximum field with a pack current density of 40 A.mm/sup -2/ while accepting 2.7 kW per coil nuclear heating. A cable-in-conduit conductor design (CIC), reported at the 6th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, was based on several key issues.
Date: August 19, 1985
Creator: Miller, J. R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Off-site consequences of radiological accidents: methods, costs and schedules for decontamination

Description: This report documents a data base and a computer program for conducting a decontamination analysis of a large, radiologically contaminated area. The data base, which was compiled largely through interviews with knowledgeable persons both in the public and private sectors, consists of the costs, physical inputs, rates and contaminant removal efficiencies of a large number of decontamination procedures. The computer program utilizes this data base along with information specific to the contaminat… more
Date: August 1, 1985
Creator: Tawil, J.J.; Bold, F.C.; Harrer, B.J. & Currie, J.W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Subsidence due to fluid withdrawal: a survey of analytical capabilities. [1225 citations]

Description: An extensive review of the literature was conducted in the area of land subsidence due to the withdrawal of fluids. A method of categorizing the citations was developed to facilitate identification of references relating to specific fields of interest. A brief review of the materials represented by the bibliography indicates the state-of-the-art within this area. The bibliography (containing 1225 citations) is presented in its categorized form. 5 figs., 3 tabs.
Date: August 1, 1985
Creator: Engi, D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Risk assessment in the DOE Assurance Program for Remedial Action

Description: This document provides information obtained during the performance of risk assessment tasks in support of the Assurance Program for Remedial Action (APRA) sponsored by the Office of Operational Safety of the Department of Energy. We have presented a method for the estimation of projected health effects at properties in the vicinity of uranium mill tailing piles due to transported tailings or emissions from the piles. Because radon and radon daughter exposure is identified as the principal facto… more
Date: August 1, 1985
Creator: Marks, S.; Cross, F. T.; Denham, D. H.; Kennedy, W. E. & Stenner, R. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Path toward fusion energy

Description: A brief history of the fusion research program is given. Some of the problems that plagued the developmental progress are described. (MOW)
Date: August 1, 1985
Creator: Furth, H.P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Applications guide to the MORSE Monte Carlo code

Description: A practical guide for the implementation of the MORESE-CG Monte Carlo radiation transport computer code system is presented. The various versions of the MORSE code are compared and contrasted, and the many references dealing explicitly with the MORSE-CG code are reviewed. The treatment of angular scattering is discussed, and procedures for obtaining increased differentiality of results in terms of reaction types and nuclides from a multigroup Monte Carlo code are explained in terms of cross-sec… more
Date: August 1, 1985
Creator: Cramer, S.N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Crossing simple resonances

Description: A simple criterion governs the beam distortion and/or loss of protons on a fast resonance crossing. Results from numerical integrations are illustrated for simple sextupole, octupole, and 10-pole resonances.
Date: August 1, 1985
Creator: Collins, T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Effects of space charge on the acceptance of brightness measuring devices

Description: Attempts to measure high electron beam brightness at low values of beam energy are plagued by the effects of space charge forces. These forces can substantially lower the phase space acceptance of various brightness measuring devices. This report considers several models for the effects of space charge upon the acceptance of both the field free, double aperture system and the magnetic ''emittance selector'' and compares them for some recent experiments on ATA and the High Brightness Test Stand.… more
Date: August 14, 1985
Creator: Caporaso, G.J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Leaching behavior of particulate plutonium oxide

Description: Different size cuts of /sup 238/PuO/sub 2/ particles were mixed with deionized water at two temperatures in a shaker bath. The gross plutonium concentration in the water was measured, as well as that portion of the plutonium retained on a 0.1-..mu..m pore filter. The concentration of the plutonium released was primarily a function of the surface area of the particles. The release rate of plutonium into the water for the size cut with particles having diameters between 30 and 20 ..mu..m was 3 ng… more
Date: August 1, 1985
Creator: Kosiewicz, S. T. & Heaton, R. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Phase VII update (1984) report for the Energy Economic Data Program EEDB-VII

Description: Objective of the Energy Economic Data Base (EEDB) Program is to provide current, representative and consistent power plant technical and cost information to the US Department of Energy (DOE). These data are useful for program planning by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy, because they are representative of current US power plant construction cost experience and are developed on a consistent, organized basis.
Date: August 1, 1985
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Geothermal Technology Development Program. Annual progress report, October 1983-September 1984

Description: This report describes the status of ongoing Research and Development (R and D) within the Geothermal Technology Development Program. The work reported is sponsored by the Department of Energy/Geothermal Hydropower Technology Division (DOE/GHTD), with program management provided by Sandia National Laboratories. The program emphasizes research in rock penetration mechanics, fluid technology, borehole mechanics, diagnostics technology, and permeability enhancement. 102 figs., 16 tabs.
Date: August 1, 1985
Creator: Kelsey, J.R. (ed.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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