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Design and operation of a passive neutron monitor for assaying the TRU content of solid wastes

Description: A passive neutron monitor has been designed and built for determining the residual transuranic (TRU) and plutonium content of chopped leached fuel hulls and other solid wastes from spent Fast Flux Test Facility (FFTF) fuel. The system was designed to measure as little as 8 g of plutonium or 88 mg of TRU in a waste package as large as a 208-l drum which could be emitting up to 220,000 R/hr of gamma radiation. For practical purposes, maximum assay times were chosen to be 10,000 sec. The monitor c… more
Date: February 1, 1984
Creator: Brodzinski, R.L.; Brown, D.P.; Rieck, H.G. Jr. & Rogers, L.A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Steam generator group project progress report. Task 3, health physics

Description: The gamma radiation fields in and around the retired Surry steam generator were measured extensively with thermoluminescent dosimeters (TLD's) and other standard radiation instruments. The techniques of measurement and the results are described for locations outside the shell, inside the channel head, and inside the secondary side of the steam generator. The gamma fields ranged from more than 10 R/hr in the middle of the tube bundle on the secondary side to less than 5 mR/hr at the bottom of th… more
Date: January 1, 1984
Creator: Reece, W.D.; Hoenes, G.R. & Parkhurst, M.A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Laser-assisted solar cell metallization processing. Quarterly report, September 13-December 12, 1983

Description: The Westinghouse Electric Corporation has undertaken to investigate, develop, and characterize laser-assisted processing techniques utilized to produce the fine line, thin metal grid structures that are required to fabricate high-efficiency solar cells. Two basic techniques for metal deposition will be investigated, as follows: (1) photochemical decomposition of liquid or gas phase organometallic compounds utilizing either a focused, CW ultraviolet laser (System 1) or a mask and ultraviolet flo… more
Date: January 16, 1984
Creator: Dutta, S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Influence of dissolved organic substances in groundwater on sorption behavior of americium and neptunium

Description: Groundwaters typically contain dissolved organic carbon consisting largely of high molecular weight compounds of humic and fulvic acids. To evaluate whether these dissolved organic substances can enhance the tranport of radionuclides through the groundwater system, experiments were conducted to examine the sorption of americium and neptunium onto crushed basalt in the presence of dissolved humic- and fulvic-acid organic carbon introduced into synthetic groundwater. The partitioning experiments … more
Date: January 1, 1984
Creator: Boggs, S. Jr. & Seitz, M.G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Supercritical Fluid Chromatography/Supersonic Jet Spectroscopy. Progress Report, November 1, 1983-January 31, 1984. [Supersonic Jet Spectroscopy]

Description: Modifications were made in the designs for the supercritical fluid extraction/fractionation unit and the vacuum chamber for supersonic jet spectroscopy. The construction of the extraction/fractionation unit is nearly complete and the construction of the vaccum system is presently underway. An interface has been constructed for supercritical fluid chromatography - mass spectrometry based on direct fluid injection with provision for circulating a heated liquid for precise temperature control. Ini… more
Date: January 1, 1984
Creator: Lee, M. L. & Goates, S. R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Nuclear data adjustment methodology utilizing resonance parameter sensitivities and uncertainties

Description: This work presents the development and demonstration of a Nuclear Data Adjustment Method that allows inclusion of both energy and spatial self-shielding into the adjustment procedure. The resulting adjustments are for the basic parameters (i.e., resonance parameters) in the resonance regions and for the group cross sections elsewhere. The majority of this development effort concerns the production of resonance parameter sensitivity information which allows the linkage between the responses of i… more
Date: January 1, 1984
Creator: Broadhead, B.L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Steam Generator Group Project. Semiannual progress report, July-December 1982

Description: The Steam Generator Group Project (SGGP) is an NRC program joined by additional sponsors. The SGGP utilizes a steam generator removed from service at a nuclear plant as a vehicle for research on a variety of safety and reliability issues. This report is a semi-annual summary of progress of the program. Information is presented on positioning the generator into the Steam Generator Examination Facility, and examination of the secondary side to confirm pretransport generator condition. The report … more
Date: January 1, 1984
Creator: Clark, R. A. & Lewis, M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Assessment of degradation concerns for spent fuel, high-level wastes, and transuranic wastes in monitored retrievalbe storage

Description: It has been concluded that there are no significant degradation mechanisms that could prevent the design, construction, and safe operation of monitored retrievable storage (MRS) facilities. However, there are some long-term degradation mechanisms that could affect the ability to maintain or readily retrieve spent fuel (SF), high-level wastes (HLW), and transuranic wastes (TRUW) several decades after emplacement. Although catastrophic failures are not anticipated, long-term degradation mechanism… more
Date: January 1, 1984
Creator: Guenther, R. J.; Gilbert, E. R.; Slate, S. C.; Partain, W. L.; Divine, J. R. & Kreid, D. K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Geology of the Hanna Formation, Hanna Underground Coal Gasification Site, Hanna, Wyoming

Description: The Hanna Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) study area consists of the SW1/4 of Section 29 and the E1/2SE1/4 of Section 30 in Township 22 North, Range 81 West, Wyoming. Regionally, this is located in the coal-bearing Hanna Syncline of the Hanna Basin in southeast Wyoming. The structure of the site is characterized by beds dipping gently to the northeast. An east-west fault graben complex interrupts this basic trend in the center of the area. The target coal bed of the UCG experiments was the … more
Date: January 1, 1984
Creator: Oliver, R.L. & Youngberg, A.D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Design of a photovoltaic central power station

Description: Photovoltaic central power station designs have been developed for both high-efficiency flat-panel arrays and two-axis tracking concentrator arrays. Both designs are based on a site adjacent to the Saguaro Power Station of Arizona Public Service. The plants are 100 MW each, made of 5 MW subfields. The site specific designs allow detailed cost estimate for site preparation, installation, and engineering. These designs are summarized and cost estimates analyzed. Provided also are recommendations … more
Date: February 1, 1984
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Observation of lines above 2000 A in OVIII and CVI in the PLT tokamak due to charge-exchange processes: diagnostic applications

Description: Hydrogen-like oxygen and carbon lines from high-n transitions with wavelengths above 2000 A were observed as a result of charge-exchange processes during neutral beam injection of hydrogen atoms into the Princeton Large Torus (PLT) tokamak. The lines are: OVIII 2976 A (8 ..-->.. 7 transitions), CVI 3434 A (7 ..-->.. 6), and CVI 5291 A (8 ..-->.. 7). Application of these lines for Doppler ion temperature measurements and initial obeservations of neutral beam vertical and horizontal distributions… more
Date: February 1984
Creator: Suckewer, S.; Skinner, C. H.; Stratton, B.; Bell, R.; Cavallo, A.; Hosea, J. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Pretreatment of Kapton-coated cable for epoxy adhesion

Description: Preliminary testing of a new system for protecting bonded strain gages that will be attached to the MFTF magnets indicated falling electrical resistance to ground, attributed to the infiltration of moisture. The most likely infiltration route seemed to be along the Kapton lead cable, which has an outer surface of FEP fluorocarbon resin. Samples of the cable were pretreated with a fluorocarbon etchant, Tetra-Etch, for periods of 10, 25, and 40 s at room temperature, followed by rinsing with demi… more
Date: January 9, 1984
Creator: Carley, J. F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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District heating and cooling systems for communities through power plant retrofit distribution network. Phase 2. Final report, March 1, 1980-January 31, 1984. Volume IV

Description: This volume contains the following: discussion of cost estimating methodology, detailed cost estimates of Hudson No. 2 retrofit, intermediate thermal plant (Kearny No. 12) and local heater plants; transmission and distribution cost estimate; landfill gas cost estimate; staged development scenarios; economic evaluation; fuel use impact; air quality impact; and alternatives to district heating.
Date: January 31, 1984
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Cold flow modeling of pulverized coal combustors for magnetohydrodynamic channel applications

Description: This report describes an experimental program and techniques for studying the internal aerodynamics of pulverized coal combustors of the type used in magnetohydrodynamic test trains at The University of Tennessee Space Institute. The combustors are modeled with small scale, cold flow models that permit both flow visualization and velocity field surveys to be performed. Water was selected as the working fluid so that the model flow fields had the same Reynolds number as the actual reactive combu… more
Date: March 1, 1984
Creator: Schulz, R. J.; Giel, T. V.; Ghosh, A. & Morris, R. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Nevada test site fallout atom ratios: /sup 240/Pu//sup 239/Pu and /sup 241/Pu//sup 239/Pu

Description: The exposure of the population in Utah to external gamma radiation from the fallout from nuclear weapons tests carried out between 1951 and 1958 at the Nevada Test Site (NTS) has been reconstructed from recent measurements of /sup 137/Cs and plutonium in soil. The fraction of /sup 137/Cs in the fallout from NTS events was calculated from the total plutonium and the /sup 240/Pu//sup 239/Pu ratios measured in the soil, using the values of 0.180 +- 0.006 and 0.032 +- 0.003 for that ratio in global… more
Date: February 1, 1984
Creator: Hicks, H.G. & Barr, D.W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Licensee Event Report (LER) compilation for month of February 1984. Vol. 3, No. 2

Description: This monthly report contains LER operational information that was processed into the LER data file of the Nuclear Safety Information Center (NSIC) during this period. The LER summaries are arranged alphabetically by facility name and then chronologically by event date for each facility. Component, system, keyword, and component vendor indexes follow the summaries.
Date: March 1, 1984
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Laboratory-scale evaluations of alternative plutonium precipitation methods

Description: Plutonium(III), (IV), and (VI) carbonate; plutonium(III) fluoride; plutonium(III) and (IV) oxalate; and plutonium(IV) and (VI) hydroxide precipitation methods were evaluated for conversion of plutonium nitrate anion-exchange eluate to a solid, and compared with the current plutonium peroxide precipitation method used at Rocky Flats. Plutonium(III) and (IV) oxalate, plutonium(III) fluoride, and plutonium(IV) hydroxide precipitations were the most effective of the alternative conversion methods t… more
Date: February 8, 1984
Creator: Martella, L. L.; Saba, M. T. & Campbell, G. K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Experimental data developed to support the selection of a treatment process for West Valley alkaline supernatant

Description: At the request of West Valley Nuclear Services Co., Inc., the Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL) has studied alternative treatment processes for the alkaline PUREX waste presently being stored in Tank 8D2 at West Valley, New York. Five tasks were completed during FY 1983: (1) simulation and characterization of the alkaline supernatant and sludge from the tank. The radiochemical and chemical distributions between the aqueous and solid phase were determined, and the efficiency of washing sludge w… more
Date: January 1, 1984
Creator: Bray, L.A.; Holton, L.K.; Myers, T.R.; Richardson, G.M. & Wise, B.M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Environmental monitoring final report: groundwater chemical analyses

Description: This report presents the results of analyses of groundwater qualtiy at the SRC-I Demonstration Plant site in Newman, Kentucky. Samples were obtained from a network of 23 groundwater observation wells installed during previous studies. The groundwater was well within US EPA Interim Primary Drinking Water Standards for trace metals, radioactivity, and pesticides, but exceeded the standard for coliform bacteria. Several US EPA Secondary Drinking Water Standards were exceeded, namely, manganese, co… more
Date: February 1, 1984
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Analysis of nuclear power plant component failures

Description: Items are shown that have caused 90% of the nuclear unit outages and/or deratings between 1971 and 1980 and the magnitude of the problem indicated by an estimate of power replacement cost when the units are out of service or derated. The funding EPRI has provided on these specific items for R and D and technology transfer in the past and the funding planned in the future (1982 to 1986) are shown. EPRI's R and D may help the utilities on only a small part of their nuclear unit outage problems. F… more
Date: January 1, 1984
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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CO + H/sub 2/ reaction over nitrogen-modified iron catalysts. Quarterly technical progress report, October 1, 1983-December 30, 1983. [Denitriding of iron nitrides in both hydrogen and helium]

Description: The synthesis of epsilon-Fe/sub 2.7/N is confirmed by Moessbauer spectroscopy. Carburization of epsilon-iron nitride for 2.5 hours in 3H/sub 2//CO at 523 K starts the formation of a bulk structure similar to that seen during ..gamma..'-iron nitride carburization. Reaction of ..gamma..'-Fe/sub 4/N in 3CO/H/sub 2/ synthesis gas at 523 K shows a better bulk stability than reaction in 3H/sub 2//CO. Kinetic analysis of the product distribution at the higher CO ratio confirms greater activity and sel… more
Date: February 1, 1984
Creator: Delgass, W.N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Smolt Passage Behavior and Flow-Net Relationships in the Forebay of John Day Dam, 1983 Annual Report of Research.

Description: During 1983, the research program had three separate but complementary phases - monitoring current patterns in the forebay, defining fish distribution with purse seine sampling, and describing the migration routes of salmonid smolts using radio tracking techniques. Preliminary results from the radio-tracking and purse seining operations in FY 1983 suggest that the discharge from the John Day River and the turbid plume it forms in the forebay may have a pronounced effect on the distribution of s… more
Date: April 1, 1984
Creator: Giorgi, Albert E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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R and D Opportunities in Gas-Side Fouling. Executive Summary

Description: This report provides an overview of five research reports that were generated for the Fouling and Corrosion Program. In addition, a listing of research and development opportunities in gas-side fouling is provided. R and D opportunities are designated as technology transfer, basic research, or applied research opportunities.
Date: February 1, 1984
Creator: Garrett-Price, B. A.; Moore, N. L. & Fassbender, L. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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