Intense, pulsed beams of low-energy positrons have been produced by a high-energy beam from an electron linac. The production efficiency for low-energy positrons has been determined for electrons with 60 to 120 MeV energy, low-energy positron beams from a linac can be of much higher intensity than those beams currently derived from radioactive sources.

Changes in the structure of (Mo /sub 6/Ru /sub 4/)/sub x/B/sub 1-x/ amorphous alloys were observed in positron annihilation analysis using both positron lifetime and Doppler broadening techniques. The changes were introduced into the alloy either by varying the boron fraction or by neutron irradiation. Similar results were observed both in the irradiated alloys and those with vacant boron sites. The positron annihilation data suggest that the modified structure contains regions of open volume and that the positrons interact with those regions.

This paper mathematically defines protocol translation which is a function employed to interconnect different computer networks. An example of an application is a gateway.

Annealed molybdenum was irradiated at room temperature by energetic protons or neutrons and the fluence and recoil energy dependence of two traps was measured. Comparison of trapping rates with calculations of damage energy correlates high energy recoils with the short lifetime trap and low energy recoils with the longer lifetime.

Responding to the widespread need for the geotechnical community to discuss instrumentation for nuclear waste repositories, a meeting was held December 2 and 3, 1981, in Denver, Colorado. This report gives the group's consensus recommendations to aid in making decisions for development of instrumentation for future repository work. The main conclusions of the working group meeting were as follows: (1) monitoring of geotechnical parameters in nuclear waste repositories will be necessary to meet licensing requirements; (2) currently available instruments are underdeveloped for this monitoring; (3) research and development to provide adequate instrumentation will need to be performed under federal sponsorship by national laboratories, universities, contractors, and consultants; and (4) a NASA-type reliability program is needed to meet the quality assurance, durability, calibration, and time schedule demands of geotechnical instrumentation development. This will require significant financial commitments from the federal sector.

The major reported work on joining uranium comes from the USA, Great Britain, France and the USSR. The driving force for producing this technology base stems from the uses of uranium as a nuclear fuel for energy production, compact structures requiring high density, projectiles, radiation shielding, and nuclear weapons. This review examines the state-of-the-art of this technology and presents current welding process and parameter information. The welding metallurgy of uranium and the influence of microstructure on mechanical properties is developed for a number of the more commonly used welding processes.

This paper summarizes the status of fusion technology and discusses the requirements to be met in order to build a demonstration fusion plant. Strategies and programmatic considerations in pursuing engineering feasibility are also outlined.

Given known amounts of network resources in two different networks, we want to determine the portion of the resources that can participate in protocol translation.