The objective of this document is to outline the test plan for the KIPS Technology Verification Program. This test plan is inclusive of component simulating (rig) testing, component testing and system testing. Rig testing will prove concept feasibility, measure basic performance and to develop the hardware necessary prior to initiation of GDS component part manufacture. Component testing will measure basic performance and verify component integrity prior to GDS assembly. The GDS system testing will: simulate the flight system operation; determine the life limiting components; measure performance and relate to potential system lifetime; demonstrate 18+% DC generating efficiency; and perform a 5000 h endurance test with final configuration hardware.

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A considerable amount of experimental results on beam-beam effects in SPEAR is available. We have analyzed the results which give the functional dependences of some important machine parameters. The data have been taken from machine physics experiments carried out during the period December 1977 to October 1978, and from records of the operation runs. 10 refs., 13 figs., 3 tabs.

This report is a collation of documents and drawings that describe a prototype solar heating and hot water system using air type solar energy collection techniques. The system consists of a modular designed prepackaged solar unit containing solar collctors, a rock storage container, blowers, dampers, ducting, air-to-water heat exchanger, DHW preheat tank, piping and system controls. The system was designed to be installed adjacent to a small single family dwelling. The description, performance specification, subsystem drawings, verification plan/procedure, and hazard analysis of the system are packaged for evaluation of the system with inforation sufficient to assemble a similar system. The prepackage solar unit has been installed at the Mississippi Power and Light Company, Training Facilities, Clinton, Mississippi.

This study provides a first cut analysis for the FRAD program of a range of reference, steady-state, fresh and spent fuel compositions for the development of alternative fuels refabrication technology. Included are the resource requirements and separative work requirements and the material flows for each fuel cycle evaluated. However, since steady-state represents only a portion of the complete fuel cycle, a more in depth evaluation of each alternative fuel cycle will follow this analysis. Each of the fuel types investigated is composed of either plutonium-uranium (Pu-U), denatured uranium-thorium (DU-Th), plutonium-thorium (Pu-Th), highly enriched uranium-thorium (HEU-Th) or low enriched uranium (LEU). Seven ''closed cycles'' were formed by coupling two or more of the above fuel types. The closed cycle concept assumes that all fissile material recovered from spent fuel is either recycled into fresh fuel, or retired to waste when its net reactivity worth is equal to or less than tails equivalence. Additional fissile material required as makeup is introduced to the system from the enrichment cascade only. Each closed system presented in this study simulates the production of 1000 MWe in steady-state operation. The findings of this preliminary study indicated that, at equilibrium, those closed cycles which employ DU-Th or …

Recently two new techniques, pulsed electron beam annealing and pulsed laser annealing, have been developed for processing ion-implanted silicon. These two types of anneals have been compared using ion-channeling, ion back-scattering, and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Single crystal samples were implanted with 100 keV As/sup +/ ions to a dose of approx. 1 x 10/sup 16/ ions/cm/sup 2/ and subsequently annealed by either a pulsed Ruby laser or a pulsed electron beam. Our results show in both cases that the near-surface region has melted and regrown epitaxially with nearly all of the implanted As (97 to 99%) incroporated onto lattice sites. The analysis indicates that the samples are essentially defect free and have complete electrical recovery.

A corner turning test capability has been established. While the test is not suited to be the sole criterion for lot qualification, it provides valuable information regarding explosive behavior near failure. Light enhancement and film record analysis techniques are discussed.

Cutting tests performed with both Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/ copper-bond and diamond grinding wheels to determine tolerance capabilities in the production of narrow slots by electrochemical grinding. The effects of varying machining parameters were studied. Slot tolerance was +-97.79 ..mu..m with the Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/ wheel and +-106.68 ..mu..m with the diamond wheel. The diamond wheel is superior because of its wear resistance.

Thirty-one days after the disclosure of high-field superconductivity in Nb/sub 3/Sn, the bubble chamber group at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory began a program to apply this discovery to high-energy physics. On that day in 1961 a very special relationship was born which, as subsequent events were to show, proved to be one of the most fruitful associations in modern science. Given the well-known high-technology content and innovative approach to problem solving associated with high-energy physics, it is hardly surprising that significant developments in applied superconductivity took place in accelerator laboratories. Particle physics requires a bewildering array of technologically sophisticated equipment: from the instant when particles are injected into the accelerator through the acceleration process, beam extraction, separation, and steering to the instant of collision and analysis of the interaction products, superconducting devices play a most important role. Each step in this process is examined; how the latest advances in superconductivity have been applied is described, as well as why these developments necessarily took place. It is remarkable that, in spite of considerable fiscal restraint, high-energy physics is entering a period of major construction activity. Thus, if history repeats itself, there will soon be a flood of innovations, each intended to …

A conceptual process flowsheet for preparation of U/sub 3/O/sub 8/ by precipitating uranyl formate monohydrate with excess formic acid and calcining it was developed and demonstrated on a laboratory scale. The product U/sub 3/O/sub 8/ has a particle size distribution apropriate for fabrication of U/sub 3/O/sub 8/-Al fuel by powder metallurgy. The U/sub 3/O/sub 8/ particles are crystalline, do not exceed 150 ..mu..m in diameter, and have a narrow particle size distribution with most particles within the range of 44 to 150 ..mu..m. A ten-fold decontamination of uranium from low-level fission products during uranyl formate precipitation was demonstrated. Minimal variations in U/sub 3/O/sub 8/ particle size distribution as a function of various uranyl formate precipitation conditions were observed. Preliminary tests demonstrated that calcination of uranyl formate monohydrate recovered from solution by evaporation to dryness did not produce U/sub 3/O/sub 8/ with the desired particle size distribution. Calcination of uranyl oxalate, uranous oxalate, or uranous formate also did not produce U/sub 3/O/sub 8/ with the appropriate particle size distribution.

This paper is written to give engineers and modelers an idea of the types of data that they may expect to be available in a community that can be used as inputs for their models. As such, it is a broad representation of the reasons why data availability varies from place to place, and provides an idea of the quality of data that can be expected for a given community.

The classic problem of constructing the sharp spin states for n spin-1/2 particles by simultaneously classifying the states by their irreducible transformation properties under both SU(2) and S/sub n/ is solved explicitly by recognizing that these states are a special case of the boson polynomials of U(n). 7 references.

A fixed double Langmuir probe was used to investigate the temporal behavior of the scrape-off plasma in the ISX-A tokamak. During gas puffing, the ion saturation current dropped rapidly to a very low level while the line average density showed a steady increase. This sudden transition was due mainly to a density change of more than a factor of five while the electron temperature remained relatively constant at approximately 10 eV. This behavior was easily observed at points away from the limiter with mild and moderate gas puffing rates, and near the inner edge of the limiter with strong gas puffing. In order to explain the phenomenon, it is suggested that there may be two distinct layers in the scrape-off plasma and that the boundary between the layers moves inward toward the limiter. The existence of the boundary has been confirmed indirectly by sudden shifts of the plasma during feedback control experiments.

An ICES is being considered for a community located in a small New England city. (MCW) It is part of the city's newer development. It is a commercial park of offices, shopping center, bank, hospital, and hotel. The ICES for this community is designed to meet all heating, cooling, steam, and hot water needs. Electricity from the cogeneration unit is to be sold to the local utility, and electricity for the community will be purchased as at present. However, future electrical demand will be reduced, since absorption chillers, which will be powered by heat recovered from the central ICES unit, will partially replace electric air conditioners. In addition, hot-water heating from ICES will, in some cases, lower electrical use. Thus, the ICES involves substitution of energy forms as well as modification of fuel requirements. Examination of the integrated system, in comparison with existing energy systems, includes both indirect economic impacts (employment and fiscal effects on the city) and indirect energy impacts. The indirect economic analysis proceeds from an initial description of conditions that determine employment and fiscal results through specific estimates of employment and then revenues and costs to municipal government and finally to an evaluation of ICES's worth to …

This quantitative assessment of the potential of a combined dry-land Energy Plantation, wood-fired power plant, and algae wastewater treatment system demonstrates the cost-effectiveness of recycling certain by-products and effluents from one subsystem to another. Designed to produce algae up to the limit of the amount of carbon in municipal wastewater, the algae pond provides a positive cash credit, resulting mainly from the wastewater treatment credit, which may be used to reduce the cost of the Photosynthesis Energy Factory (PEF)-generated electricity. The algae pond also produces fertilizer, which reduces the cost of the biomass produced on the Energy Plantation, and some gas. The cost of electricity was as low as 35 mills per kilowatt-hour for a typical municipally-owned PEF consisting of a 65-MWe power plant, a 144-acre algae pond, and a 33,000-acre Energy Plantation. Using only conventional or near-term technology, the most cost-effective algae pond for a PEF is the carbon-limited secondary treatment system. This system does not recycle CO/sub 2/ from the flue gas. Analysis of the Energy Plantation subsystem at 15 sites revealed that plantations of 24,000 to 36,000 acres produce biomass at the lowest cost per ton. The following sites are recommended for more detailed evaluation as potential …

Interpolation of one-dimensional data using piecewise cubic interpolants is considered. Methods are presented for modifying the derivative values in the Hermite representation in order to eliminate the ''bumps'' and ''wiggles'' that frequently plague the more common cubic spline or Akima interpolants. The resulting interpolant is C/sup 1/, but generally not C/sup 2/. The report consists of a reproduction of a poster prepared for a meeting. 27 figures.

A portable, relatively inexpensive laser-beam profiler and detector-surface scanner has been developed to map the intensity profile of laser beams and the cross-sectional response of optical detectors within a wavelength range of 633 nm to 10.6 ..mu..m. Equipment diagrams, circuit schematics, and examples of detector-response maps and laser-beam profiles are provided. Intensity distribution is an important parameter in obtaining good laser welds, and a knowledge of the detector response is essential in determining the accuracy of laser power measurements.