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COMP: a BASIC language nonlinear least-squares curve fitting program

Description: COMP is an interactive nonlinear least squares routine written in BASIC language and used to obtain estimates of parameters in nonlinear functions and to approximate their associated statistical errors. The program uses the linearizing (or Taylor Series) expansion of partial derivatives outlined in Draper and Smith, (1966, pp. 267 to 270). Therefore, partial derivatives must be supplied (as well as the function) by the user for any new models not currently contained in the programs. When a line… more
Date: November 1, 1977
Creator: Thomas, J. M.; Cochran, M. I.; Watson, C. R. & Eberhardt, L. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Digital SLIFER Recorder, Model A. [Underground nuclear explosions]

Description: The Digital SLIFER Recorder (DSR) is an instrument that records a time-varying frequency signal in the range from 700 kHz to 1500 kHz with an amplitude greater than 200 mV. This signal is referenced to an input fiducial marker, and recording is initiated by an increase in the frequency of the signal. The primary purpose of this instrument is to record data from the SLIFER system. The DSR records 512 samples after the record trigger signal, with a sample interval of 50 ..mu..s (for a total recor… more
Date: November 1, 1977
Creator: Breding, D.R.; Fogel, D.; Loukota, J.J.; Worthen, G.S. & Watterberg, J.P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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ACORN: a computer program for plotting fault trees. [In FORTRAN for CDC Cyber 74]

Description: A description and user instructions are presented for ACORN, a FORTRAN computer program for drawing fault trees. ACORN analyzes the input logical structure of a fault tree and provides data for CalComp plot of the tree. AND, OR, and INHIBIT gates are permitted, and basic events are drawn as diamonds, circles, or houses. Each component (gate or basic event) can have a descriptive label within a rectangle attached to the top of its respective symbol. Tree logic is input as a set of FORTRAN statem… more
Date: November 1, 1977
Creator: Carter, J. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Investigation of impurity radiation from a well diganosed, laser heated plasma sample. Final report

Description: The results are described of an experimental and theoretical program designed to measure the relative intensities of line radiation from various ionization stages of carbon and helium impurities added to a deuterium plasma, and to relate the observed line intensity ratios to the plasma temperature. A deuterium sample plasma is produced and heated to a temperature of 2 to 7 eV at an electron density of 5 x 10/sup 16/ cm/sup -3/. The plasma parameters are monitored at various discrete times durin… more
Date: November 1, 1977
Creator: Crawford, E.; Quimby, D.; Hoffman, A. & Pietrzyk, Z.A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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General multi-configuration Hartree--Fock program: MCHF77. [In FORTRAN (double precision) for IBM 360 and 370]

Description: This technical report contains a listing of a general program for multi-configuration Hartree--Fock (MCHF) calculations, including its documentation. Several examples are given showing how the program may be used. Typical output for several cases is also presented. This program has been tested over an extended period of time for a large variety of cases. This program is written for the IBM 360 or 370 in double-precision arithmetic.
Date: November 1, 1977
Creator: Fischer, C F
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Investigations of the Natural Fission Reactor Program. Progress report, October 1976--September 1977

Description: During Fiscal Year 1977, efforts of the Natural Fission Reactor Program have been directed toward (1) further measurements and predictions of reactor product migration at Oklo, (2) uraninite solubility studies, (3) radiogenic equilibria studies of natural Pu, Ra, and Th in U ores, (4) search for evidence of other natural fission reactors, and (5) supportive analytical measurements and procedures development.
Date: November 1, 1977
Creator: Apt, K.E. (ed.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Multiperipheral ring dynamics and a definition of the complete twisted Reggeon loop. [Diagonalization, naturality, threshold behavior, Regge cuts, complex helicity]

Description: The t less than 0 multiperipheral formalism of Ciafaloni, DeTar, Misheloff, Mueller, Muzinich and Yesian is reviewed, extended, and applied to the ordered S-matrix whose ring amplitudes comprise the zeroth level of the topological expansion. Toller M-function notation is used throughout. The bootstrap and cylinder problems are formulated in terms of a well defined helicity pole propagator; a definition of the complete twisted Reggeon loop, which appears in the one-twist term of the cylinder, is… more
Date: November 1, 1977
Creator: Lucht, P.H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Radio chemistry as a diagnostic in laser fusion experiments

Description: Nuclear chemistry techniques have been employed in an attempt to measure the density of high compression laser fusion targets. Radioactive /sup 28/Al atoms formed in the /sup 28/Si(n,p)/sup 28/Al reaction arising from the interaction of the 14 MeV neutrons with the silicon atoms in the glass microsphere have been counted at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory using a ..beta..-..gamma.. coincidence method. The detection system that is employed allows activities corresponding to 100 aluminum atoms to b… more
Date: November 1, 1977
Creator: Campbell, E.M.; Hicks, H.G.; Mead, W.C.; Glaros, S.S.; Coleman, L.W. & Laird, W.B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Improved ceramic heat exchanger material

Description: Various ceramic materials in the form of small, monolithic bars were screened as candidate materials in heat exchanger structures for automotive gas turbine engines. The material finally selected consists of 60 w/o* petalite (LAS) and 40 w/o of a recrystallizable glass which converts during thermal processing to cordierite (MAS). This new material, GE-3200, was fabricated by Coors Porcelain Company into a circular honeycomb structure 53.3 cm diameter and 10.2 cm thick (21'' x 4'') and having 69… more
Date: November 1, 1977
Creator: Rauch, H. W., Sr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Central receiver solar thermal power system, Phase 1. CDRL Item 2. Pilot plant preliminary design report. Volume IV. Receiver subsystem. [10-MW Pilot Plant and 100-MW Commercial Plant]

Description: The conception, design, and testing of the receiver subsystem proposed by the McDonnell Douglas/Rocketdyne Receiver team for the DOE 10-MW Pilot Plant and the 100-MW Commercial Plant are described. The receiver subsystem consists of the receiver unit, the tower on which the receiver unit is mounted above the collector field, and the supporting control and instrumentation equipment. The plans for implementation of the Pilot Plant are given including the anticipated schedule and production plan (… more
Date: November 1, 1977
Creator: Hallet, Jr., R. W. & Gervais, R. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Anaerobic fermentation of simulated in-situ oil shale retort water

Description: The feasibility of removing soluble organics from oil shale retort water by anaerobic digestion with methane production was experimentally investigated. The following conclusions were made. The retort water studied had to be pretreated to remove toxic and add deficient constituents before it could be successfully treated with the anaerobic fermentation process. Pretreatment included pH adjustment to 7, ammonia reduction, and nutrient addition. A digested sludge from a conventional municipal sew… more
Date: November 1, 1977
Creator: Ossio, E. A.; Fox, J. P.; Thomas, J. F. & Poulson, R. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Nuclear chemistry research of high-energy nuclear reactions at Carnegie-Mellon University, 1961--1977. Summary report. [Summaries of research activities at Carnegie-Mellon University]

Description: The activities and the results of research in the study of high energy nuclear reactions carried out at Carnegie Institute of Technology from 1957 to 1967 and at Carnegie-Mellon University from 1967 to 1977 are summarized. A complete list of all publications, doctoral dissertations, and reports resulting from the research of this project is also included. A major part of the report is a review of the research activities and results. The objective of the research of this project was the study of… more
Date: November 1, 1977
Creator: Caretto, A. A., Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Neutronics of a mixed-flow gas-core reactor

Description: The study was made to investigate the neutronic feasibility of a mixed-flow gas-core reactor. Three reactor concepts were studied: four- and seven-cell radial reactors and a seven-cell scallop reactor. The reactors were fueled with UF/sub 6/ (either U-233 or U-235) and various parameters were varied. A four-cell reactor is not practical nor is the U-235 fueled seven-cell radial reactor; however, the 7-cell U-233 radial and scallop reactors can satisfy all design criteria. The mixed flow gas cor… more
Date: November 1, 1977
Creator: Soran, P. D. & Hansen, G. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Outdoor sources of indoor air pollution

Description: Conservation measures that seal a building, like storm window installation, can significantly reduce its energy requirements. These measures also protect its occupants from air pollutants having outdoor sources but amplify any harmful effects of those generated indoors. Using these Fourier series techniques and an approximation of outdoor pollution peaks by step functions, we obtained the following results: the average daily concentration indoors is the same as outdoors for any pollutant with n… more
Date: November 1, 1977
Creator: Silberstein, S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Transport-diffusion comparisons for small core LMFBR disruptive accidents

Description: A number of numerical experiments were performed to assess the validity of diffusion theory for calculating the reactivity state of various small core LMFBR disrupted geometries. The disrupted configurations correspond, in general, to various configurations predicted by SAS3A for transient undercooling (TUC) and transient overpower (TOP) accidents for homogeneous cores and to the ZPPR-7 configurations for heterogeneous core. In all TUC cases diffusion theory was shown to be inadequate for the c… more
Date: November 1, 1977
Creator: Tomlinson, E.T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Annotated bibliography: hazard assessments for the geologic isolation of nuclear wastes. Final report. Center for Resource and Environmental Systems Studies report No. 41

Description: This report presents an annotated bibliography of risk assessments that are pertinent to constructing, operating, and decommissioning a federal repository for the underground storage of radioactive waste. This might be considered as a first phase in an assessment of the risks associated with radioactive waste storage. Only those documents judged to be the more pertinent are abstracted. The abstracts are grouped under 13 classifications. A subject and author index is provided.
Date: November 1, 1977
Creator: Suta, B.E.; Mara, S.J.; Radding, S.B. & Weisbecker, L.W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Self-consistent model calculations of the ordered S-matrix and the cylinder correction

Description: The multiperipheral ordered bootstrap of Rosenzweig and Veneziano is studied by using dual triple Regge couplings exhibiting the required threshold behavior. In the interval -0.5 less than or equal to t less than or equal to 0.8 GeV/sup 2/ self-consistent reggeon couplings and propagators are obtained for values of Regge slopes and intercepts consistent with the physical values for the leading natural-parity Regge trajectories. Cylinder effects on planar pole positions and couplings are calcula… more
Date: November 1, 1977
Creator: Millan, J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Examination of fast reactor fuels, FBR analytical quality assurance standards and methods, and analytical methods development: Irradiation tests. Progress report, July 1--September 30, 1977. [PuO/sub 2/; UO/sub 2/]

Description: Information is presented concerning the examination of fast reactor fuels, FBR analytical quality assurance standards, and analytical methods development irradiation tests.
Date: November 1, 1977
Creator: Baker, R.D. (comp.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Study of brine treatment. Final report

Description: Available information pertinent to the treatment of geothermal brines was collected by literature search and then evaluated and summarized for use by the electric utility and geothermal industries. The information was screened from the geothermal, oil and gas, wastewater disposal, and boiler water treatment industries. The current state of knowledge and methodology concerning the treatment of geothermal brines to control scaling and corrosion in geothermal electric power production was assessed… more
Date: November 1, 1977
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Heavy ion reactions in the transition region

Description: Evidence is given for a serious and systematic failure of the DWBA to predict the cross sections for single nucleon transfers induced by heavy ions above about 10 MeV/Nucleon beam energies. This is perhaps related to a coherent coupling to an increasing cross section to the quasi-elastic continuum, which also shows an anomalous energy dependence at about the same energy.
Date: November 1, 1977
Creator: Hendrie, D. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Letter report for the Superconducting Magnet Development Program, April 1, 1977--June 30, 1977

Description: The results and accomplishments of the Superconducting Magnet Development Program (SCMDP) for the second quarter of the calendar year 1977 are summarized. The presentations are arranged according to projects rather than the group organization by discipline of the Magnetics and Superconductivity Section. The design, procurement, and fabrication of the Large Coil Segment are well under way. Significant progress is reported on the conductor stability and loss experiments for both toroidal field co… more
Date: November 1, 1977
Creator: Fietz, W. A. & Lubell, M. S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Limits to Ductility Set by Plastic Flow Localization

Description: The theory of strain localization is reviewed with reference both to local necking in sheet metal forming processes and to more general three dimensional shear band localizations that sometimes mark the onset of ductile rupture. Both bifurcation behavior and the growth of initial imperfections are considered. In addition to analyses based on classical Mises-like constitutive laws, approaches to localization based on constitutive models that may more accurately model processes of slip and progre… more
Date: November 1, 1977
Creator: Needleman, A. & Rice, J. R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Management of waste cladding hulls. Part II. An assessment of zirconium pyrophoricity and recommendations for handling waste hulls

Description: This report reviews experience and research related to the pyrophoricity of zirconium and zirconium alloys. The results of recent investigations of the behavior of Zircaloy and some observations of industrial handling and treatment of Zircaloy tubing and scrap are also discussed. A model for the management of waste Zircaloy cladding hulls from light water reactor fuel reprocessing is offered, based on an evaluation of the reviewed information. It is concluded that waste Zircaloy cladding hulls … more
Date: November 1, 1977
Creator: Kullen, B J; Levitz, N M & Steindler, M J
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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