Several major dosimetric intercomparisons were carried out during the last year. At the National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba-shi and the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, calorimetric and ionimetric intercomparisons of dose were performed. Similar measurements were also carried out at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Los Alamos, and Harvard. The measurements of the thermal defect for A-150 plastic were completed and an average value of (4.1 +- 0.3)% was found. Preliminary measurements using a cryogenic calorimeter were carried out at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The first measurement of the event size distribution for 20-MeV neutrons were carried out at Ohio University and an interesting difference between the measurement and theoretical calculations was found. The measured fraction of events due to alpha particles was found to be significantly lower than the fraction predicted by the calculation of Caswell and Coyne.

A possible route for producing low molecular weight olefins is to convert synthesis gas to methanol followed by conversion of methanol to olefins in a one-step process. During this report period the reaction apparatus suitable for reaction pressure of 500 to 1000 psig was constructed. A preliminary trial run was performed for the reaction of synthesis gas over an intimate mixture of methanol synthesis catalyst and Zeolon-500 (mixture of chabasite and erionite). The reaction temperature, pressure and space velocity were 400/sup 0/C, 800 psig, and 6000 h/sup -1/ (STP), respectively. The total carbon monoxide conversions were 15 to 24%. The major products were carbon dioxide and paraffins of C/sub 1/ to C/sub 4/. Deactivation of the catalyst occurred after 10 hours. X-ray diffraction patterns of the catalyst shows that crystal structure changed during the reaction, and the catalyst exhibited low crystallinity compared to synthetic erionite.

A conceptual design study for district heating of a 30-home subdivision located near the southeast extremity of the city of Elko, Nevada is presented. While a specific residential community was used in the study, the overall approach and methodologies are believed to be generally applicable for a large number of communities where low temperature geothermal fluid is available. The proposed district heating system utilizes moderate temperature, clean domestic water and existing community culinary water supply lines. The culinary water supply is heated by a moderate temperature geothermal source using a single heat exchanger at entry to the subdivision. The heated culinary water is then pumped to the houses in the community where energy is extracted by means of a water supplied heat pump. The use of heat pumps at the individual houses allows economic heating to result from supply of relatively cool water to the community, and this precludes the necessity of supplying objectionably hot water for normal household consumption use. Each heat pump unit is isolated from the consumptive water flow such that contamination of the water supply is avoided. The community water delivery system is modified to allow recirculation within the community, and very little rework of existing …

The overall objective of this study was to investigate in the laboratory the feasibility of using saturated solar ponds for unmixing a brine of intermediate concentration into dilute and concentrated brine streams for salinity gradient energy conversion systems. This objective was accomplished by conducting experiments on laboratory saturated ponds using borax, potassium perchlorate, potassium nitrate, disodium phosphate and potassium alum. Results from ponds using borax, potassium nitrate and disodium phosphate conclusively demonstrated that saturated solar ponds can self-generate and self-maintain a stable density gradient. Moreover, these ponds reestablished stable density profiles after the ponds were externally mixed. Based on preliminary results, the residence time for unmixing of a brine of intermediate concentration into dilute and concentrated brine streams varies from a few days for the borax pond to about two weeks for the disodium phosphate pond, depending upon the characteristics of the individual saturated solution. Because of only a very small increase in the density of saturated solutions from 25/sup 0/C to 90/sup 0/C, the potassium perchlorate pond could not establish a stable density stratification.

As an extension of its efforts in the development of the geopressured resources of the Gulf Coast, the Division of Geothermal Energy of the US Department of Energy is interested in determining the extent and characteristics of geopressured occurrences in areas outside the Gulf Coast. The work undertaken involved a literature search of available information documenting such occurrences. Geopressured reservoirs have been reported from various types of sedimentary lithologies representing virtually all geologic ages and in a host of geologic environments, many of which are unlike those of the Gulf Coast. These include many Rocky Mountain basins (Green River, Big Horn, Powder River, Wind River, Uinta, Piceance, Denver, San Juan), Mid-Continent basins (Delaware, Anadorko, Interior Salt, Williston, Appalachian), California basins (Sacramento, San Joaquin, Los Angeles, Ventura, Coast Ranges), Alaskan onshore and offshore basins, Pacific Coast offshore basins, and other isolated occurrences, both onshore and offshore.

Anisotropic, hot electrons trapped in local minimum-B wells have been proposed as MHD-stabilizing anchors to an otherwise axisymmetric tandem configuration. This work describes a model for plasma confinement between the anchors and the remainder of the system and calcuates the power loss implied by maintenance of this plasma.

Progress is reviewed briefly on the following: area development plans, site specific development plans, outreach, institutional analysis and update, impediment analysis and update, and administrative activities. (MHR)

The resource base, status of geothermal development activities, and the state's energy flow are summarized. The present and projected geothermal share of the energy market is discussed. The public and private sector initiatives supporting geothermal development in California are described. These include legislation to provide economic incentives, streamline regulation, and provide planning assistance to local communities. Private sector investment, research, and development activities are also described. The appendices provide a ready reference of financial incentives. (MHR)

The potential for solr process heat applications for federal buildings in Texas is assessed. The three sites considered are Reese Air Force Base, Lubbock; Fort Bliss, El Paso; and Dyess Air Force Base, Abilene. The application at Lubbock is an electroplating and descaling facility for aircraft maintenance. The one at El Paso is a laundry facility. The Abilene system would use solar heat to preheat boiler feedwater makeup for the base hospital boiler plant. The Lubbock site is found to be the most appropriate one for a demonstration plant, with the Abilene site as an alternate. The processes at each site are described. A preliminary evaluation of the potential contribution by solar energy to the electroplating facility at Reese AFB is included. (LEW)

5083 aluminium with 25% cold work must be processed above 215/sup 0/C or below 70/sup 0/C to avoid forming continuous precipitate in the grain boundaries which makes the material susceptible to stress corrosion cracking. Time at temperature above 215/sup 0/C should be held to minimum (less than 30 min) to retain some strength from the 25% cold work.

The Transuranic Waste Form Characterization and Data Base (Volume 1) provides a wide range of information from which a comprehensive data base can be established and from which standards and criteria can be developed for the present NRC waste management program. Supplementary information on each of the areas discussed in Volume 1 is presented in Appendices A through K (Volumes 2 and 3). The structure of the study (Volume 1) is outlined and appendices of Volumes 2 and 3 correlate with each main section of the report. The Executive Summary reviews the sources, quantities, characteristics and treatment of transuranic wastes in the United States. Due to the variety of potential treatment processes for transuranic wastes, the end products for long-term storage may have corresponding variations in quantities and characteristics.

Photodetachment is more desirable than other types of neutralizers of negative deuterium ions because it is cleaner, produces no gas or vapor, selectively detaches D/sup -/ and not heavy impurities, and may be more efficient. However, good overall efficiency in comparison with the alternatives is attainable only under the appropriate conditions of ion beam current density and thickness and with sufficient efficiencies of the laser and of the mirrors of the optical cavity. Analysis of these conditions indicate that the overall efficiency of an 11 A beam of 200 keV D/sup 0/ using photodetachment is competitive with that for a beam neutralized in a gas cell, usng the expected values of laser and mirror efficiencies.

Etching a phase-separated glass can produce a surface film with low refractive index that increases gradually to the bulk value. This report demonstrates that such a graded index can be produced on optical quality glass for use with intense pulses of energy at 1.06 ..mu..m. The film reduces reflections and raises the threshold against damage of the surface by the transmitted energy.

We consider several aspects of the thermal modeling of an underground nuclear waste repository. These are the long term temperature response due to different ground surface boundary conditions, the effects of treating the three-dimensional problem in 2-D, and the consequences of using a constant power load rather than decaying power typical of radioactive waste. Our approach is superposition in time and space of the appropriate analytic solutions.

This report discusses the general impact of cost-of-living increases in social security benefits upon incomes of persons with earnings, cash or non-cash welfare benefits, or other retirement or social insurance payments.

Monthly report of the Texas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service on various poultry numbers in Texas and compared with other states. It includes compiled statistics during two years for hatchery production of broiler chicks and turkey poults, egg production, price ratios, poultry slaughtered, cold storage holdings, and chick placements.

Cost estimating equations were developed to determine capital and operating costs for five surface coal mine models in Central Appalachia, Northern Appalachia, Mid-West, Far-West, and Campbell County, Wyoming. Engineering equations were used to estimate equipment costs for the stripping function and for the coal loading and hauling function for the base case mine and for several mines with different annual production levels and/or different overburden removal requirements. Deferred costs were then determined through application of the base case depreciation schedules, and direct labor costs were easily established once the equipment quantities (and, hence, manpower requirements) were determined. The data points were then fit with appropriate functional forms, and these were then multiplied by appropriate adjustment factors so that the resulting equations yielded the model mine costs for initial and deferred capital and annual operating cost. (The validity of this scaling process is based on the assumption that total initial and deferred capital costs are proportional to the initial and deferred costs for the primary equipment types that were considered and that annual operating cost is proportional to the direct labor costs that were determined based on primary equipment quantities.) Initial capital costs ranged from $3,910,470 in Central Appalachia to $49,296,785; …

Progress is reported in the research project aimed at investigation of the basic chemical kinetics and mechanisms in catalytic hydrogenation of lignite suspended in a carrier oil in a continuous reactor operating at steady state. Specifically, the research is designed to study the overall conversion rate and the elemental transformation from the raw materials into products under surface reaction cntrolling conditions and to postulate the reaction mechanisms of hydroliquefaction and hydrogasification of lignite based upon the results obtained. A delay of six months in the delivery of a new slurry pump has prevented extension of the range of available residence times in the continuous stirred tank reactor. A quick-feed mechanism installed on the batch autoclave permits more accurate determination of running times at constant temperature. A detailed study of decomposition of carrier oil (anthracene oil) sowed that gasification of the oil was considerably greater at high temperatures than previously expected. Future runs will be limited to conditions under which the carrier oil loss is a relatively small fraction of the oil generated from lignite.

This report will analyse the authority of the Chief Executive to declare a state of emergency, and will then discuss some of the more significant actions that the President may take under these conditions.

This interim report summarizes results from the Tandem Mirror Experiment (TMX) during the period January to July 1980 and describes the physics experiments, the machine operation, and the diagnostics that were added to TMX during this period. This operating period followed the initial proof-of-principle TMX experiments and predated the ongoing final experiments preceding TMX shutdown for modification to TMX Upgrade. The results described in this report include measurements of plasma parameters and plasma behavior which confirm the initial TMX results that demonstrated that the tandem mirror configuration can be generated and sustained by neutral beam injection and that the tandem mirror configuration improves confinement of magnetic mirror systems.

Weekly report of the Texas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service on turkey poult numbers in Texas and compared with other states. It includes compiled statistics across six consecutive weeks during two years for turkey eggs set and poults hatched.

The growth rate of plant cells can be defined in terms of five parameters: the hydraulic conductivity of the tissue (L'p), the rate of export from the cell to the wall of a wall loosening factor (dW/dt), the capacity of the wall to be loosened in response to the wall loosening factor (WLC), the osmotic potential of the cells and outside solution (..pi../sub c/ and ..pi../sub o/, respectively), and the yield threshold for wall expansion (Y). The study assesses each of these parameters under conditions where growth is being enhanced or inhibited, with the purpose of explaining at the cellular level just how growth is being controlled. (ACR)

This progress report documents the major accomplishments on the two remaining SEAS tasks for the period of July 10 to August 8, 1980. The tasks are SEAS scenario runs, and SEAS management, documentation, maintenance and support. The scenario run work in this month period consisted of the completion of the TASE 6 scenario on the reference system, development of an ARMS baseline scenario and a run of the NEP2 scenario. The SEAS management, documentation, maintenance and support task continued at about a five person level during this period. A list of all the SEAS change requests that have been completed under this contract (since the procedures begin in March 1980) is contained in Table 1. Approximately forty additional change requests have been proposed. Some of these have been approved by the change control board and are in progress. Work has continued on several documents and some have been published. In addition to the ARMS design briefing on August 8, MITRE participated in two other design briefings during this month report period. These are the July 14 briefing on the guidance document and the July 23 briefing on the TECNET/MOBIL 1 Comparison and on the Graphics Preprocessor Design.

EEMIS has responsibility for providing special information and communication services to government officials, at Federal and state levels, who must deal with energy emergencies. Because of proprietary information residing in the data base used for Federal purposes, a special system (EEMIS-S) must be established for use by the states. It is planned to acquire teleprocessing services for EEMIS-S from a time-sharing commercial vendor, and the process for procurement must meet guidelines for approval. The work plan and schedule for meeting these guidelines are discussed. Tasks to be included contain estimates of time, cost, and resources required, all of which are briefly described.