WASP Newsletter, June, 1984 (open access)

WASP Newsletter, June, 1984

Newsletter of the former World War II Women Airforce Service Pilots including news, events, stories about the group's history, and other information of interest to the members.
Date: June 1984
Creator: Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.) & Gardner, Libby
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Alumni J-TAC, June 1982 (open access)

Alumni J-TAC, June 1982

Alumni magazine of Tarleton State University providing information on events at the school and news about university students, staff, and alumni.
Date: June 1982
Creator: Tarleton State University
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Detailed photonuclear cross-section calculations and astrophysical applications (open access)

Detailed photonuclear cross-section calculations and astrophysical applications

We have investigated the role of an isomeric state and its coupling to the ground state (g.s.) via photons and neutron inelastic scattering in a stellar environment by making detailed photonuclear and neutron cross-section calculations for /sup 176/Lu and /sup 210/Bi. In the case of /sup 176/Lu, the g.s. would function as an excellent galactic slow- (s-) process chronometer were it not for the 3.7-h isomer at 123 keV. Our calculations predicted much larger photon cross sections for production of the isomer, as well as a lower threshold, than had been assumed based on earlier measurements. These two factors combine to indicate that an enormous correction, a factor of 10/sup 7/, must be applied to shorten the current estimate of the half-life against photoexcitation of /sup 176/Lu as a function of temperature. This severely limits the use of /sup 176/Lu as a stellar chronometer and indicates a significantly lower temperature at which the two states reach thermal equilibrium. For /sup 210/Bi, our preliminary calculations of the production and destruction of the 3 /times/ 10/sup 6/ y isomeric state by neutrons and photons suggest that the /sup 210/Bi isomer may not be destroyed by photons as rapidly as assumed in certain …
Date: June 15, 1989
Creator: Gardner, D. G.; Gardner, M. A. & Hoff, R. W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Continued study of the parameterization of the El gamma-ray strength function (open access)

Continued study of the parameterization of the El gamma-ray strength function

The parameterization of the magnitude and the energy dependence of the E1 gamma-ray strength function for the calculation of neutron- and proton-induced capture cross sections and capture gamma-ray spectra is investigated. The energy-dependent Breit-Wigner (EDBW) is reparameterized incorporating a more general expression for the Breit-Wigner line shape. Evaluation of the reparameterized E1 gamma-ray strength function is discussed. (WHK)
Date: June 19, 1981
Creator: Gardner, M. A. & Gardner, D. G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Statistical vs valence neutron neutron capture in /sup 98/Mo (open access)

Statistical vs valence neutron neutron capture in /sup 98/Mo

It has often been reported that, in mass regions corresponding to peaks in the neutron strength function, nonstatistical mechanisms contribute a significant or even major portion of the average radiation width in the beginning of the resonance region. This could severely limit the possibility of calculating caputure cross sections for targets where experimental data are lacking, because such direct effects are sensitive to the detailed nuclear level structure in the daughter nucleus. The reaction /sup 98/Mo+n was examined for neutrons in the 1 keV to 3 MeV energy range, because this case is often cited as one of the clearest examples of valence neutron capture effects. Preliminary calculations are presented which suggest that these nonstatistical effects rapidly disappear when measurements from even a small number of resonances are averaged.
Date: June 19, 1981
Creator: Gardner, D. G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Alternative institutional vehicles for geothermal district heating (open access)

Alternative institutional vehicles for geothermal district heating

The attributes of various institutional entities which might participate in various phases of geothermal heating applications are described. Public entities considered include cities, counties, and special districts. Private entities discussed include cooperative organizations and non-member-owned private enterprises. The powers, authority and manner of operation of each of the institutional entities are reviewed. Some of the public utility regulatory implications which may affect choices among available alternatives are considered. (MHR)
Date: June 1, 1980
Creator: Bressler, S.; Gardner, T.C.; King, D. & Nimmons, J.T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reconnaissance geologic map of the northern Kawich and southern Reveille ranges, Nye County, Nevada (open access)

Reconnaissance geologic map of the northern Kawich and southern Reveille ranges, Nye County, Nevada

A geological survey was performed in Nye County, Nevada. Results of that survey are summarized in the maps included. The general geology of the area is discussed. Major structures are described. The economics resulting from the mineral exploitation in the area are discussed. The hydrogeology and water chemistry of the area are also discussed.
Date: June 1, 1980
Creator: Gardner, J.N.; Eddy, A.C.; Goff, F.E. & Grafft, K.S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Variability in dose estimates associated with the food-chain transport and ingestion of selected radionuclides (open access)

Variability in dose estimates associated with the food-chain transport and ingestion of selected radionuclides

Dose predictions for the ingestion of /sup 90/Sr and /sup 137/Cs, using aquatic and terrestrial food chain transport models similar to those in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Regulatory Guide 1.109, are evaluated through estimating the variability of model parameters and determining the effect of this variability on model output. The variability in the predicted dose equivalent is determined using analytical and numerical procedures. In addition, a detailed discussion is included on /sup 90/Sr dosimetry. The overall estimates of uncertainty are most relevant to conditions where site-specific data is unavailable and when model structure and parameter estimates are unbiased. Based on the comparisons performed in this report, it is concluded that the use of the generic default parameters in Regulatory Guide 1.109 will usually produce conservative dose estimates that exceed the 90th percentile of the predicted distribution of dose equivalents. An exception is the meat pathway for /sup 137/Cs, in which use of generic default values results in a dose estimate at the 24th percentile. Among the terrestrial pathways of exposure, the non-leafy vegetable pathway is the most important for /sup 90/Sr. For /sup 90/Sr, the parameters for soil retention, soil-to-plant transfer, and internal dosimetry contribute most significantly to the variability …
Date: June 1, 1982
Creator: Hoffman, F.O.; Gardner, R.H. & Eckerman, K.F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
WASP Newsletter, June 1981 (open access)

WASP Newsletter, June 1981

Quarterly newsletter of the former World War II Women Airforce Service Pilots including news, events, stories about the group's history, and other information of interest to the members. Of note are several articles about the death of member Jacqueline Cochran.
Date: June 1981
Creator: Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[National Uranium Resource Evaluation: Durango Quadrangle, Colorado, Appendix A-D]

Appendices containing data on uranium availability to accompany a report on U.S. uranium resources in the Durango Quandragle, Colorado.
Date: June 1981
Creator: Theis, Nicholas J.; Madson, Michael E.; Rosenlund, Gene C.; Reinhart, William R. & Gardner, Hal A.
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library
National Uranium Resource Evaluation: Durango Quadrangle, Colorado (open access)

National Uranium Resource Evaluation: Durango Quadrangle, Colorado

From purpose and study: The Durango Quadrangle, southwest Colorado (Fig. 1), was evaluated to identify geologic units and to delineate areas that exhibit characteristics favorable for uranium deposits. Geologic environments were evaluated to a depth of 1500 m based on recognition criteria (Mickle and Mathews, eds., 1978) prepared for the National Uranium Resource Evaluation (NURE) program. A favorable environment, as defined for this program, is an environment that could contain at least 100 tons U308 in deposits with an average grade no less than 100 ppm U308 . Environments that did not meet the NURE criteria were categorized as unfavorable. Some of the subsurface and several areas of restricted access were categorized as unevaluated because insufficient data exist for proper evaluation.
Date: June 1981
Creator: Theis, Nicholas J.; Madson, Michael E.; Rosenlund, Gene C.; Reinhart, William R. & Gardner, Hal A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Minutes of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Panel on Reference Nuclear Data, Brookhaven National Laboratory, November 1-2, 1979. [BNL, Nov. 1-2, 1979] (open access)

Minutes of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Panel on Reference Nuclear Data, Brookhaven National Laboratory, November 1-2, 1979. [BNL, Nov. 1-2, 1979]

After the welcome and approval of the agenda and of the minutes of the Third Annual Meeting, the participants turned to reactor physics data needs, CTR data needs, status of international and national cooperation, status and availability of data files, election of officers, status of publications, biomedical data needs, and miscellaneous action items from the Third Meeting. A summary of recommendations and action items is given. Eighteen appendixes are included. (RWR)
Date: June 1, 1980
Creator: Burrows, T.W.; Stewart, L. & Coyne, J.J. (eds.)
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A review of plutonium environmental data with a bibliography for use in risk assessments (open access)

A review of plutonium environmental data with a bibliography for use in risk assessments

Plutonium fueled radioisotopic heat sources find space, terrestrial, and undersea applications to generate electrical power. Such systems under postulated accident conditions could release radioactivity into the environment resulting in risks to the general population in the form of radiological doses and associated health effects. The evaluation of the radiological impact of postulated scenarios involving releases of activity into the environment includes identification of postulated accident release modes, including the probability of release and the release location; source term definition, including the activity of each radionuclide released and the corresponding chemical form and particle size distribution; analysis of the environmental behavior of the released radioactivity to determine the concentrations in environmental media (air, soil, and water) as a function of time; and analysis of the interaction between the environmental concentrations and man, leading to ingestion, inhalation, and external doses through each environmental exposure pathway. 443 refs., 2 figs., 4 tabs.
Date: June 15, 1983
Creator: Bartram, B.W. & Wilkinson, M.J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
HTGR-GT systems optimization studies (open access)

HTGR-GT systems optimization studies

The compatibility of the inherent features of the high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) and the closed-cycle gas turbine combined into a power conversion system results in a plant with characteristics consistent with projected utility needs and national energy goals. These characteristics are: (1) plant siting flexibility; (2) high resource utilization; (3) low safety risks; (4) proliferation resistance; and (5) low occupational exposure for operating and maintenance personnel. System design and evaluation studies on dry-cooled intercooled and nonintercooled commercial plants in the 800-MW(e) to 1200-MW(e) size range are described, with emphasis on the sensitivity of plant design objectives to variation of component and plant design parameters. The impact of these parameters on fuel cycle, fission product release, total plant economics, sensitivity to escalation rates, and plant capacity factors is examined.
Date: June 1, 1980
Creator: Kammerzell, L. L. & Read, J. W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
FPS-vidicon television camras for ultrafast-scan data acquisition (open access)

FPS-vidicon television camras for ultrafast-scan data acquisition

Two ultrafast-scan (<8 ms/field) television (TV) camera prototypes have been developed for closed-circuit data-acquisition applications. The line and field rates are quasi-continuously adjustable. The number of lines, the integration duty cycle, and the scan direction are among the other adjustable parameters. Typical resolution at the fastest scan rate is >500 TV lines per picture height with a corresponding dynamic range (to light input) of more than 100. The cameras use the unique properties of FPS vidicons and specially designed electronics to achieve their performance levels and versatility. The advantages and disadvantages of FPS vidicons and of antimony trisulfide and silicon target materials in such applications are discussed in detail. All of the electronics circuits are discussed. The sweep generator designs are treated at length because they are the key to the cameras' versatility. Emphasis is placed on remotely controllable analog and digital sweep generators. The latter is a complete CAMAC-compatible subsystem containing a 16-function master arithmetic logic unit. Pulsed and cw methods of obtaining transfer characteristics are described and compared. The effects of generation rates, tube types, and target types on the resolution, determined from contrast-transfer-function curves, are discussed. Several applications are described, including neutron TV pinhole, TREAT, and barium-release …
Date: June 1, 1980
Creator: Noel, B. W. & Yates, G. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with John Henry Faulk, June 9, 1981 (open access)

Oral History Interview with John Henry Faulk, June 9, 1981

Interview with John Henry Faulk, an English professor from Austin, Texas, about his education and teaching career at the University of Texas, interest in folklore, race relations in the South, his experience participating in the Medical Corps during WWII, time spent with J. Frank Dobie, Roy Bedichek, and Walter Prescott Webb, and the lawsuits he participated in.
Date: June 9, 1981
Creator: Smallwood, J. B. & Faulk, John Henry
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology, geochemistry and evaluation of proposed gradient hole sites, Cleveland-Maple Grove Prospect, Caribou and Franklin Counties, Idaho (open access)

Geology, geochemistry and evaluation of proposed gradient hole sites, Cleveland-Maple Grove Prospect, Caribou and Franklin Counties, Idaho

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Date: June 1, 1980
Creator: McIntyre, J. R.; Klein, C. W. & Cox, B. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Discernment of two opposing reports on the hydrological effects of a hydrothermal power plant (open access)

Discernment of two opposing reports on the hydrological effects of a hydrothermal power plant

Two evaluations to determine the hydrological effects of a 50-megawatt hydrothermal power plant in the Jemez Mountains give dramatically different results. One shows little effect; the other, a large one. The treatments agree on some thermal-zone water supplies to the Jemez River but not on the expected changes in these flows. The primary areas of disagreement appear to be the total volume of water in the reservoir and the movement of this water to the point of withdrawal. The author (a nonhydrologist) has compared these reports but leaves final judgment of the accuracy of either evaluation for some erudite hydrologists, as some experimental data and model development are needed.
Date: June 1, 1986
Creator: Williams, J. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
ACDOS2: an improved neutron-induced dose rate code (open access)

ACDOS2: an improved neutron-induced dose rate code

To calculate the expected dose rate from fusion reactors as a function of geometry, composition, and time after shutdown a computer code, ACDOS2, was written, which utilizes up-to-date libraries of cross-sections and radioisotope decay data. ACDOS2 is in ANSI FORTRAN IV, in order to make it readily adaptable elsewhere.
Date: June 1, 1981
Creator: Lagache, J.C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 93, No. 23, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 8, 1988 (open access)

The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 93, No. 23, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 8, 1988

Weekly newspaper from Clifton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 8, 1988
Creator: Smith, W. Leon
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Christian Chronicle (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 39, No. 6, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 1, 1982 (open access)

The Christian Chronicle (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 39, No. 6, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 1, 1982

Monthly newspaper from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that includes news and information about the Churches of Christ along with advertising.
Date: June 1, 1982
Creator: Norton, Howard W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 88, No. 120, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 24, 1981 (open access)

The Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 88, No. 120, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 24, 1981

Daily newspaper from Perry, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 24, 1981
Creator: Watson, Milo W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 87, No. 109, Ed. 1 Monday, June 9, 1980 (open access)

The Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 87, No. 109, Ed. 1 Monday, June 9, 1980

Daily newspaper from Perry, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 9, 1980
Creator: Watson, Milo W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 91, No. 108, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 13, 1984 (open access)

Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 91, No. 108, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 13, 1984

Daily newspaper from Perry, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 13, 1984
Creator: Watson, Milo W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History