The isothermal test series is part of the Semiscale Blowdown and Emergency Core Cooling (ECC) Project conducted by Aerojet Nuclear Company for the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission. The test series consisted of ten blowdown tests and five hot-wall tests with emphasis on emergency core coolant delivery. The blowdown tests were conducted to investigate the effects of lower plenum geometry, heat transfer configuration, ECC injection location, downcomer gap size, and break size.

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The objectives of the general seal test program are to: (1) conduct static and dynamic tests to demonstrate or determine the mechanical performance of full-size (cross-section) FFTF fuel transfer machine and reactor vessel head seals intended for use in a sodium vapor - inert gas environment, (2) demonstrate that these FFTF seals or new seal configurations provide acceptable fission product and cover gas retention capabilities at Clinch River Breeder Reactor Plant (CRBRP) operating environmental conditions other than radiation, (3) develop improved seals and seal technology for the CRBRP to support the national objective to reduce all atmospheric contaminations to low levels, and (4) publish a Design Guide for reactor seals along with Ordering Data. Test results for the quarter are presented.

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A conceptual design study of 200-GeV proton intersecting storage accclerators with room temperature magnets is presented. The key to this study was thc desire to keep the electric power consumptiom to an acceptable level (40 MW). The design has been optimized by choosing small-gap (4 cm) aluminum coil dipoles operating at about 15 kG. The luminosity of this machine is limited to about 10/sup 32/ cm-/sup -2/ sec/sup -1/ by transverse space-charg e effects. An order of magnitude higher luminositics can be obtained by adding a booster of modest cost. A novel vacuum system using distributed Ti-sublimation pumps results in considerable savings. A cost comparison with a high-luminosity superconducting machine is given. (auth)

In the Plutonium Reclamation Facility a critically-safe geometry of the processing vessels, combined with economical utilization of building space, has resulted in manifolded, vertical tanks for blending, receiving, holding, etc. The pumps attached to the bottom-outlet manifolds of the tanks are of a canned motor type. The extremely short life of these pumps (considerably below that expected even in severe abrasive and corrosive service) prompted a series of studies using glass tanks containing process solutions which, except for the associated radioactivity, duplicate plant process streams. Circulation, blending, and reaction characteristics of simulated process streams in glass duplicates of the 234-5 Bank Tanks TK-17, TK-27, and TK-37 revealed circulation patterns that result in intermittent cavitation within the canned motor transfer pumps. This cavitation, combined with the unavoidable corrosion and abrasion, rapidly destroys the pumps. The circulation patterns, under varying liquid levels as encountered in plant operation, cause single and dual phase transfer of the organic aqueous solutions to process colunans at different times, which results in flooding and erratic extraction efficencies. Reduction of cavitation and elimination of mixed phase transfer has been demonstrated by means of parallel controllable orifices in the external circulation lines. Elimination of cavitation and uniformity of mixing …

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>Results from radiation monitoring during 1973 in the environment of the Brookhaven National Laboratory are presented. Data are included on: the gross alpha and BETA activity and content of tritium and gamma-emitting radionuclides in surface air; gross BETA activity and gamma and tritium content in atmospheric precipitation; activities and concentration of gamma emitters in liquid effiuents and ground water; gross BETA , tritium and /sup 90/Sr in effluents; gross BETA and tritl um in surface waters; /sup 90/Sr and gamma- emitting radionuclides in river ecosystem; gross alpha , gross BETA , tritium, / sup 90/Sr, and /sup 137/Cs in ground and well water; /sup 137/Cs, K, /sup 131/I, and /sup 90/Sr content in area milk; and gamma-emitting radionuclides in soils and grasses. (LCL)

The phases of the 1974 geothermal field tests at the Niland Reservoir in the Imperial Valley of California are documented. The following tests are included: separator, steam scrubber, steam turbine, heat exchanger, packed heat exchanger, corrosion, chemical cleaning, and control and instrumentation. (MHR)

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A length-measurement systcm is described that can make absolute length- change measurements of a meter-long specimen within a pressure vessel (to pressures of 8 kbar) with a fractional error of 3 x 10/sup -8/ even when changes in length of 4 cm occur. Possible uses of such a system for measuring the volume thermal expansivity (at pressure) and the isothermal bulk modulus (at pressure) are described. Moreover, it is noted that, when this system is combined with an ultrasonic velocity measurement system, the adiabatic bulk modulus (at pressure) and Gruneisen parameter as a function of pressure can be directly determined and the absolute pressure itself can be measured. (auth)

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