Research projects are conducted in the following areas: environmental assessment, technology assessment, resource assessment, and material assessment. Project summaries for 1977 are included. (MHR)

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The purpose of the Insolation Resource Assessment Program is to collect, standardize, certify, process,, and archive geophysical data for solar energy applications. The principal solar parameters to be measured are global, direct, diffuse and total radiation on an inclined surface. The measurement of the spectral distribution of solar radiation is also important to the development of several technologies. The aim of many of the completed, current, and planned projects presented in the IRAP Plan is to improve solar data collection methods and procedures and to refine solar radiation forecasting capabilities.

The Program Plan represents the top level guidance document for stating and performing the objectives of the Decontamination and Disposition (D and D) Program. The program objectives, historical data, and program description are presented, along with the top level planning. The planning includes a statement of the funding basis and the corresponding first and second level activity network schedules. The management plan is included which describes the procedures to be used for cost and schedule control and reporting, purchasing and subcontract control, and program and engineering data control. The requirements for the quality assurance plan, operational safety plan, and training plan are presented.

The difficult task of removing large pieces of highly contaminated equipment from an obsolete plutonium-239 facility was completed in a seven-month operation that included structural alteration of the process building. Detailed job planning, job execution and contamination control were major factors in accomplishing the task. (auth)

Separate entries were made for the nine main sections of the report. These sections deal with geosciences, controlled thermonuclear research, solar energy, chemical processes, engineering, energy use, instrumentation, environment, and energy analysis.

This volume contains Biomedical and Environmental Research, Environmental Control Technology Research, and Operational and Environmental Safety Research project listings. The projects are ordered numerically by log number.