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Materials and water chemistry research results associated with the development of the Oconee-1 Reactor steam generator are presented. A summary of water chemistry data acquired during preoperational testing and power operation to date is also included. These data confirm the operational practicality of the nuclear once-through concept using volatile water treatment and high purity condensate demineralized feedwater.

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Under sponsorship of the Division of Applied Technology of AEC, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory is investigating the possibilities and problems of extracting energy from geothermal reservoirs which do not spontaneously yield useful amounts of steam or hot water. The system for accomplishing this which is being developed first is a pressurized-water circulation loop intended for use in relatively impermeable hot rock. It will consist of two holes connected through the hot rock by a very large hydraulic fracture and connected at the surface through the primary heat exchanger of an energy utilization system. Preliminary experiments in a hole 2576 ft (0.7852 km) deep, extending about 470 ft (143 m) into the Precambrian basement rock underlying the Jemez Plateau of north-central New Mexico, revealed no unexpected difficulties in drilling or hydraulically fracturing such rock at a temperature of approximately 100 C, and demonstrated a permeability low enough so that it appeared probable that pressurized water could be contained by the basement rock. Similar experiments are in progress in a second hole, now 6701 ft (2.043 km) deep, about 1.5 miles (2.4km ) south of the first one. Here the bottomhole temperature is about 146 C, and again no unexpected difficulty was …

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The semiinclusive reaction p+p {yields} n charged particles + anything was investigated with nuclear emulsions irradiated with 200 GeV/c protons at the NAL accelerator (Batavia, US). They measured angles {Theta} of all charged particles. In every event particles were ordered on rapidity which was approximated by the value y = -lntg {Theta}lab/2. In every event particles were numbered on increasing the rapidity. Let us consider, for example, distributions of ordered rapidities and distributions of differences of various ordered rapidities and try to make a physical conclusion from the analysis of these distributions.

Missing mass spectra were obtained by measuring recoil protons from the reaction p + p {yields} p + X in the Jacobian peak region at |t| = 0.175 and 0.25 (GeV/c){sup 2}. The incident momentum range from 9 to 300 GeV/c was covered continuously by taking data during the acceleration ramp of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory machine. Our missing mass range varied from 1.5 to 8.5 GeV and we observed the well known N*(1688) and N*(2l90) but no significant structures at higher mass.

The investigation of interactions of hadrons with the nucleus in recent time became very important, and there is a hope that it can give the information about the systems produced in this process (lifetime, cross sections etc.) The nuclear photoemulsions are a good detector at the investigation of hadron-nucleus interactions due to a high spatial resolution and a possibility of detection of particles nearly at all energies that enables to study the characteristics of both fast and slow particles. The consistence of emulsion enables to obtain the characteristics of interactions both on light (CNO, <A> = 14) and on heavy(Ag,Br,<A> = 94) nuclei.

The recent discoveries of heavy narrow resonances at masses of 3.1 and 3.7 Gev came at the same time as the successful testing by our group of the electron beam in the Fermilab Tagged Photon Facility. The timing is perfect, as this facility with its clean environment and relatively high photon fluxes and energies will be the ideal location for several important experiments suggested by the new results. We outline below the new significance of our experiment to measure the photon total cross section (Experiment 25A), as well as six other experiments to study the new phenomena we can perform with little increase in running time and with the apparatus already being prepared for Experiment 25. This apparatus is particularly well suited for these experiments which include a definitive check on whether the new resonances are photo produced, a search for a pseudoscaler particle made of charmed quarks and a study of neutral decay modes (which may well be dominant) of new particles. Several of these experiments can most likely be performed nowhere else but the Tagged Photon Lab. We propose to spend some time during testing of the tagging system and the Experiment 25 apparatus to determine the feasibility …

Rifazone-8{sub 2} (R-8{sub 2}), a new rifamycin derivative, is shown to preferentially inhibit the growth of virus-transformed chick cells in culture. Macromolecular synthesis and glucose uptake of transformed cells are also appreciably decreased in the presence of low concentrations of R-8{sub 2} where the normal cells appear unaffected. While R-8{sub 2} is shown to be a selective inhibitor of RNA-directed DNA polymerase in vitro, its action on the growth of transformed cells may involve some other mechanism.

Results are presented on the production of K{sub s}{sup 0}, {Lambda} and {gamma} and {gamma} in 100 GeV/c {pi}{sup -}p interactions in the 30-inch hydrogen bubble chamber at NAL. The cross sections for the production of {pi}{sup 0}, K{sub s}{sup 0}, {Lambda} and {bar {Lambda}} are derived and compared with those produced in other reactions as functions of the energy. The average number of {pi}{sup 0} produced per collision is the same as in 100 GeV/c pp reactions.

In the estimation of the output in kW/h produced by the geothermal power generation, it is required to know the well characteristics, the heat cycle in the power plant, the output characteristics and the efficiency. Of these three in the latter are seemed to be constant in the present power plant, while only the well characteristics varies in the wide range. One of great importance in the measurement of well characteristics is the determination of the steam flow rate from a well at a given well head pressure. it is, at present, well-known that the corresponding output in kW based on the steam flow rate is defined as the potential for the geothermal area involved. Specifically, in the case of hydrothermal systems the separate system must be equipped in order to know the steam flow rate.

Detailed examination of computed particle trajectories has revealed a complexity and disorder that is of increasing interest to accelerator specialists. To introduce this topic, the author would like you to consider for a moment the analysis of synchrotron oscillations for a particle in a coasting beam, regarded as a problem in one degree of freedom. A simple analysis replaces the electric field of the RF-v cavity system by a traveling wave, having the speed of a synchronous reference particle, and leads to a pair of differential equations of the form dy/dn = -K sin {pi}x, (1A) where y measures the fractional departure of energy from the reference value {pi}x measures the electrical phase angle at which the particle traverses the cavity, and K is proportional to the cavity voltage; and dx/dn = {lambda}{prime}y, (1b) in which {lambda}{prime} is proportional to the change of revolution period with respect to particle energy. It will be recognized that these equations can be derived from a Hamiltonian function H = (1/2){lambda}{prime}y{sup 2}-(K/{pi})cos {pi}x. (2) Because this Hamiltonian function does not contain the independent variable explicitly, it will constitute a constant of the motion and possible trajectories in the x,y phase space will be just …