This document reports progress on the OWI's portion of the National Waste Terminal Storage (NWTS) program. It comprises project reports on work performed by organizations under subcontract to OWI, by DOE contractors, by OWI consultants, and by other federal agencies participating in the NWTS program. They are made under the headings technical projects, facility projects, planning and analysis, and regulatory affairs. (DLC)

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Nuclear graphite grades H-451 (Great Lakes Carbon Company) and TS-1240 (Union Carbide Corporation) are described and property data are presented for the unirradiated state. Properties measured included bulk density, ultimate tensile strength, modulus of elasticity, Poisson's ratio, thermal expansivity, and thermal conductivity. The data presented represent the minimum and maximum property values of the prototype full-size production logs and are indicative of property values to be expected in commercial production.

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This annual report is for the second year of a program to investigate the characteristics of the components and the total system using sunlight concentrated onto solar cells. The second year was primarily to experimentally investigate the conclusions of the first year of analytical studies. Cells have been fabricated that are designed for different intensities. Typically the efficiency of a cell will increase from its 11 percent at AM1 peak to efficiency at the designed concentration level and return to its initial efficiency at about 3 times its designed concentration level. The developed cells have been tested under high intensity simulators and in concentrated sunlight and have shown to have the predicted response. The experimental testing of passive cooling limitations for cooling cells with just finned arrangements in the back of the cell has been completed in the controlled environment of a wind tunnel. These experiments have confirmed the heat transfer coefficients that had been used in the analytical studies. Testing was done to collect heat transfer coefficients for actual wind conditions and these data show good agreement with the controlled wind tunnel data. Four photovoltaic/concentrator system experiments have been started with CR of about 3, 10, 25, and 100. …

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A brief review of the small car vs large car fuel economy and emission scenario was conducted to determine whether it is meaningful to implement multi-level emission regulations (different values for small and large cars) to encourage or forces the use of catalytic converters on smaller cars, and by so doing improve the overall fuel economy of the total fleet while at the same time reduce overall emissions. The results of this review showed that: the 1975 to 1976 federal HC standard (1.5 gr/mi) is sufficiently low to effectively force the use of catalysts on larger cars (4000-lb inertia test weight and above) to avoid fuel economy losses, but not sufficiently low to require them on all smaller cars (3500-lb class and below). However, the 1975 to 1976 California HC standard (0.9 gr/mi) is sufficiently low to do so, as evidenced by the fact that essentially all California cars do use catalysts; whether or not small or large cars are equipped with oxidation catalysts, NO/sub x/ standards below the current federal level (3.1 gr/mi) and California level (2 gr/mi) will act to reduce vehicle fuel economy, although small cars are slightly less sensitive in this respect; to meet the projected …

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The effects of D. C. electric fields on high lying Rydberg and valence states in atomic uranium have been studied. Results of measurements of Stark shifts, lifetime lengthening via l-mixing, critical fields for ionization, barrier tunneling, and the appearance of zero-field parity forbidden transitions are presented for atomic uranium along with the observation of field induced autoionization of valence states. 3 figs. (GHT)

The activities of the first quarter of the contract, which began December 29, 1975, are described. An existing laboratory-type CVD reactor system with a vertical deposition chamber has been used for growth of the Si films studied to date. Extensive modifications of this system, involving mass flow controllers and automatic timing of reactant gas flows by means of solenoid-activated air-operated bellows valves, will be completed early in the second quarter. (WDM)

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A simple circuit for controlling the delivery pressure of a stepping motor-driven syringe pump is described. This circuit allows a pressure to be set either manually or by computer control and permits controlled increases and decreases in pump pressure. An evaluation of the reproducibility of starting pressures and programming rates resulted in relative standard deviations of better than 1.5 percent and 7 percent respectively. An application of this circuit to supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) is described.

Tensile tests of uranium--0.75 percent titanium and uranium--2.25 percent niobium alloys showed decreased ductility values with an increased humidity of the test atmosphere (12 to 80 percent rh). Similar results were obtained when the specimens were coated with a commercial rust preventive prior to testing. Results show that testing of the alloys should not be performed in laboratory atmospheres above a 50 percent relative humidity. The tensile-test ductility was not degraded in a dry argon atmosphere.

The work reported includes studies of reactions between core materials and coolant impurities, basic fission product transport mechanisms, core graphite development and testing, the development and testing of recyclable fuel systems, and physics and fuel management studies. Materials studies include irradiation capsule tests of both fuel and graphite. Experimental procedures and results are discussed and the data are presented in tables, graphs, and photographs.

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