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Sodium Waste Technology : a Summary Report

Description: The Sodium Waste Technology (SWT) Program was established to resolve long-standing issues regarding disposal of sodium-bearing waste and equipment. Comprehensive SWT research programs investigated a variety of approaches for either removing sodium from sodium-bearing items, or disposal of items containing sodium residuals. The most successful of these programs was the design, test, and the production operation of the Sodium Process Demonstration Facility at ANL-W. The technology used was a seri… more
Date: January 1987
Creator: Abrams, C. S. & Witbeck, L. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Measurement of Stibine and Arsine Generation from the Exide 3100-Ah Lead-Acid Module

Description: Stibine and arsine evolution from lead-acid cells in a 36-kWh Exide load-leveling module was measured as this module approached 1900 cycles of operation. A specially prepared gas-collection apparatus enabled us to determine the maximum and average rates for evolution of both toxic hydrides. Hydride generation began once the cell voltage exceeded 2.4 V. The maximum rate for arsine occurred just above 2.5 V and consistently preceded the peak rate for stibine for each sampled cell. When adjusted f… more
Date: January 1987
Creator: Marr, J. J. & Smaga, J. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Final Report for the Light Water Breeder Reactor Proof-of-Breeding Analytical Support Project

Description: The technology of breeding uranium-233 from thorium-232 in a light water reactor is being developed and evaluated by the Westinghouse Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory (BAPL) through operation and examination of the Shippingport Light Water Breeder Reactor (LWBR). Bettis is determining the end-of-life (EOL) inventory of fissile uranium in the LWBR core by nondestructive assay of a statistical sample comprising approximately 500 EOL fuel rods. This determination is being made with an irradiated-fue… more
Date: May 1987
Creator: Graczyk, D. G.; Hoh, J. C.; Martino, F. J.; Nelson, R. E.; Osudar, John & Levitz, Norman M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Theory of Program Correctness, and Algorithms for Proofs

Description: A model of program correctness is given where a problem domain is defined by its language, variable names, and an abstract machine defining the semantics of the language. The set of all computations in this domain is shown to be a semigroup. A corresponding statement is true of a more general programming language. A program P in the general language is an element of the semigroup. If P performs computations in some domain, a connection can be established between P and the semigroup of computati… more
Date: January 1987
Creator: Gabriel, John R.; Chapman, Richard O. & Kljaich, J. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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²³⁵U(n,f), ²³⁸U(n, gamma), ²³⁸U(n,f), ²³⁹Pu(n,f) Reaction Rate Measurement Calibrations at ZPPR

Description: New reference deposits for uranium-235, plutonium-239 and uranium-238 have been established with mass uncertainties of <0.2%. These new deposits replace the older reference deposits which were used during the last 17 years and improve the uncertainty of reaction rate measurements due to reference mass uncertainties by about a factor of 6. Measurements of the fission fragment absorption in 2 pi and low-geometry count rates. Two measurements of the uranium-238 capture rate in depleted uranium sam… more
Date: January 1987
Creator: Poenitz, W. P.; Maddison, D. W.; Gasidlo, J. M.; Carpenter, S.G. & Armani, R. J.
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Investigation of Primary Li-Si/FeS2 Cells

Description: The factors that limit the performance of thermally activated Li-Si/FeS2 batteries were defined through the use of electrochemical characterization tests and post-test examinations. For the characterization tests, 82 individual cells were instrumented with multiple voltage sensors and discharged under isothermal and isobaric conditions. The voltage data for the sensors were recorded to determine the ohmic and electrochemical impedances of each cell component at different levels of discharge. Th… more
Date: April 1987
Creator: Redey, L.; Smaga, J. A.; Battles, J. E. & Guidotti, Ronald
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Beyond "'Speedup": Performance Analysis of Parallel Programs

Description: This paper addresses the problem of measuring and analyzing the performance of fine-grained parallel programs running on shared-memory multiprocessors. Such processors use locking (either directly in the application program, or indirectly in a subroutine library or the operating system) to serialize accesses to global variables. Given sufficiently high rates of locking, the chief factor preventing linear speedup (besides lack of adequate inherent parallelism in the application) is lock contenti… more
Date: February 1987
Creator: Dritz, Kenneth W. & Boyle, James M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Site Surveillance and Maintenance Program for Palos Park : Report for 1986

Description: The results of the environmental monitoring program conducted at Site A/Plot M in the Palos Park Forest Preserve area for CY 1986 are presented. The monitoring program is the ongoing remedial action that resulted from the original radiological characterization of the site. The program consists of sample collection and analysis of air, surface and subsurface water, and bottom sediment to determine the migration pathway of water from the burial ground (Plot M) to hand-operated picnic wells, estab… more
Date: April 1987
Creator: Golchert, N. W. & Sedlet, J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Atmospheric Fluidized-Bed Cogeneration Air Heater Experiment : 1000-h Laboratory Test A

Description: A laboratory test program is described to evaluate the corrosion behavior of several metallic alloys, coatings, claddings, and weldments in support of the atmospheric fluidized-bed air heater experiment. Results are presented from the first 1000-h test (Test A) conducted at metal and gas temperatures of 871 C and 899 C, respectively. Detailed information is also presented on the corrosion scale morphologies, scale compositions and thicknesses, intergranular penetration of the substrate material… more
Date: March 1987
Creator: Natesan, K. & Podolski, W. F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Users' Guide to Toolpack/1 (Release 2) in a Unix Environment

Description: This is a guide to the use of a collection of Unix shell scripts that extend the Fortran analyzing and transforming capabilities of Unix by invoking a set of tools from Toolpack/1 (Release 2). It is a substantial revision and update of Argonne report ANL/MCS-TM-77, which served as a Unix users' guide to the first release of Toolpack/1.
Date: March 1987
Creator: Cowell, Wayne R. & Garbow, B. S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Physics Division Annual Review 1 April 1986 - March 1987

Description: Report of activities of the Argonne Physics Division, including medium-energy physics research, ATLAS research, theoretical nuclear physics, superconducting LINAC development, and accelerator operations.
Date: August 1987
Creator: Argonne National Laboratory. Physics Division.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Ring Energy Selection and Extra Long Straight Sections for the Advanced Photon Source

Description: Recommended criteria are given for the performance of Advanced Photon Source (APS), taking into consideration undulator tunability criteria and their relationship to the storage ring energy and undulator gap, length of straight sections.
Date: April 1987
Creator: Brown, G.; Cho, Y.; Hastings, J.; Krinsky, S.; Moncton, D. E.; Shenoy, G. K. et al.
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7-GeV Advanced Photon Source : Conceptual Design Report

Description: During the past decade, synchrotron radiation emitted by circulating electron beams has come into wide use as a powerful, versatile source of x-rays for probing the structure of matter and for studying various physical processes. Several synchrotron radiation facilities with different designs and characteristics are now in regular operation throughout the world, with recent additions in this country being the 0.8-GeV and 2.5-GeV rings of NSLS at Brookhaven National Laboratory. However, none of … more
Date: April 1987
Creator: Argonne National Laboratory
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Computerized Operating Procedures for Shearing and Dissolution of Segments from LWBR (Light Water Breeder Reactor) Fuel Rods

Description: This report presents two detailed computerized operating procedures developed to assist and control the shearing and dissolution of irradiated fuel rods. The procedures were employed in the destructive analysis of end-of-life fuel rods from the Light Water Breeder Reactor (LWBR) that was designed by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory. Seventeen entire fuel rods from the end-of-life core of the LWBR were sheared into 169 precisely characterized segments, and mor… more
Date: May 1987
Creator: Osudar, J.; Deeken, P. G.; Graczyk, D. G.; Fagan, J. E.; Martino, F. J.; Parks, J. E. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Decontamination and Decommissioning of the Argonne National Laboratory East Area Radioactively Contaminated Surplus Facilities : Final Report

Description: ANL has decontaminated and decommissioned (D and D) seven radiologically contaminated surplus facilities at its Illinois site: a ''Hot'' Machine Shop (Building 17) and support facilities; Fan House No. 1 (Building 37), Fan House No. 2 (Building 38), the Pangborn Dust Collector (Building 41), and the Industrial Waste Treatment Plant (Building 34) for exhaust air from machining of radioactive materials. Also included were a Nuclear Materials Storage Vault (Building 16F) and a Nuclear Research Lab… more
Date: July 1987
Creator: Kline, W. H.; Fassnacht, G. F. & Moe, H. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Chemical Technology Division Annual Technical Report: 1986

Description: Annual report of Argonne National Laboratory's Chemical Technology (CMT) Division. In this period, CMT conducted research and development in areas that include the following: (1) high-performance batteries--mainly lithium-alloy/metal sulfide and sodium/sulfur; (2) aqueous batteries (lead-acid, nickel/iron, etc.); (3)advanced fuel cells with molten carbonate or solid oxide electrolytes; (4) coal utilization, (5) methods for recovery of energy from municipal waste; (6) methods for the electromagn… more
Date: June 1987
Creator: Argonne National Laboratory. Chemical Technology Division.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Assessment of Impact of Advanced Energy Transmission Fluids on District Heating and Cooling Systems : (Phase 1)

Description: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), under sponsorship of the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Buildings and Community Systems, has embarked upon a comprehensive, long-range program to develop high-performance advanced energy transmission fluids for use in district heating and cooling (DHC) systems. ANL has the lead technical role in this DOE program. These advanced fluids will substantially reduce flow frictional losses and enhance energy transfer. In system enhancement scoping studies co… more
Date: September 1987
Creator: Kasza, Kenneth Edmund & Chen, M. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The SUPRENUM (Supercomputer Numerical) Communications Subroutine Library for Grid-Oriented Problems

Description: In the application software development of the SUPRENUM project (the German supercomputer project) many parallel grid-oriented algorithms are being programmed, especially multigrid and computational fluid dynamics codes. As the communication tasks are similar, a central SUPRENUM communications library with subroutines covering all communication requirements of the applications programs has been created. By implementing versions of the library for the Intel iPSC hypercube and the planned SUPRENU… more
Date: June 1987
Creator: Hempel, Rolf
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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X-ray Computed Tomography for Structural Ceramic Applications : Beam Hardening Corrections

Description: Beam hardening (BH), caused by the energy dependence of x-ray attenuation in materials, reduces the reliability of images generated by computed tomographic (CT) when polychromatic x-ray sources are used. The magnitude of the BH effect was calculated, and four different approaches to BH correction for CT imaging of ceramics were investigated: the ''water bag'' approach, pre-hardening of the beam by use of a filter, linearization correction, and dual-energy methods. The dual-energy approach appea… more
Date: May 1987
Creator: Ellingson, William A.; Segal, E. & Vannier, M. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Insertion Device and Beam Line Plans for the Advanced Photon Source : a Report and Recommendations by the Insertion Device and Beam Line Planning Committee

Description: In the 7-GeV Advanced Photon Source (APS) Conceptual Design Report (CDR), fifteen complete experimental beam lines were specified in order to establish a representative technical and cost base for the components involved. In order to optimize the composition of the insertion devices and the beam line, these funds are considered a ''Trust Fund.'' The present report evaluates the optimization for the distribution of these funds so that the short- and long-term research programs will be most produ… more
Date: February 1987
Creator: Boyce, R.; Hewitt, R.; Morrison, T. I.; Shenoy, G. K.; Thomlinson, W. & Viccaro, P. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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An Algebraic Theory of Program Specification and Correctness Using Symmetry Operations

Description: This report applies some methods from the theory of group representation to the questions of program specification and knowledge about programs. The theory is that of a program as a transformation on a state space, and operators commuting with that transformation being symmetries of the program, means of specifying properties, and generators of program invariants. Because a program can simulate a system in the real world, there is a corresponding model of engineered artifacts, that is, manmade … more
Date: March 1987
Creator: Gabriel, John R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Scanning transmission x-ray microscopy of unaltered biological specimens

Description: A scanning transmission x-ray microscope at the National Synchrotron Light Source was used to image fresh, wet biological specimens at 32 Angstroms, with resolution better than 750 Angstroms. A gold Fresnel zone plate (outer zone width 500 Angstroms) was used to focus the undulator radiation, and the sample was scanned through the spot. Absorption data was recorded digitally as a gridded array. The major accomplishment of the experiment was the demonstration of the ability to image biological s… more
Date: May 1, 1987
Creator: Iskander, N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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