This report provides a bibliography of resources related to the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and includes writings by him, biographical books and articles, and news articles related to his assassination, funeral, and legacy.

This report discusses the draft and procedures for selection which were revised in 1969 to make selection random and the number of men called up through the draft for 1968 through 1970.

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The leachabilities of /sup 90/Sr, /sup 239/Pu, and /sup 137/Cs from solids in Tank 108-SX were determined. Through 21 leach cycles covering a 3.5 day period, 63 volumes of leachate removed 1.4, 4.6, and 19.2% of the /sup 239/Pu, /sup 90/Sr, and /sup 137/Cs, respectively, from the 108-SX solids. With the exception of the first few leachates, the /sup 239/Pu concentrations in the leachates were less than maximum permissible concentration in drinking water for 168-h/wk exposure. A composite of the TK-108-SX leachate was passed through a column containing typical Hanford soil. Column distribution coefficients with 108-SX leachate of 14, 24, and 20 were obtained for /sup 239/Pu, /sup 90/Sr, and /sup 137/Cs, respectively, indicating appreciable sorption of all these radionuclides by the soil. The radionuclides were not readily removed from the loaded soil columns with 12 column volumes of dilute leachate solution. Laboratory results with the 108-SX sludge were carefully evaluated to determine their significance to the overall analysis of the safety of long-term storage of Redox sludge in existing underground tanks. The primary deterrent to movement of the radionuclides from such solids to the water table is the absence of moving water in the storage zone. Incident precipitation does …

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This report contains a compilation of unclassified plutonium programs underway in FY 1970 in the field of materials science. It includes work in ceramics, metallurgy, solid state physics and physical chemistry. Information on each of the programs is given in five sub-headings: scope of the work; technical effort in manyears; primary class of materials studied; person(s) to contact for further information; and reports and publications. All the work listed is restricted to either research or long range development and not applied or hardware-type projects.

Semiconductors with a sufficiently large energy gap, in contact with an electrolyte, can be used as electrodes for the study of electrochemical reactions of excited molecules. The behavior of excited chlorophyll molecules at single crystal ZnO-electrodes has been investigated. These molecules inject electrons from excited levels into the conduction band of the electrode, thus giving rise to an anodic photocurrent. The influence of various agents on this electron transfer has been studied. In the presence of suitable electron donors (e.g., hydroquinone, phenylhydrazine) in the electrolyte chlorophyll molecules, absorbing quanta, mediate the pumping of electrons from levels of the reducing agents into the conduction band of the semiconductor-electron acceptor. The electron capture by the semiconductor electrode is irreversible, when an adequate electrochemical gradient is provided in the electrode surface. An experimental technique for the study of the kinetics of photoelectrochemical reactions of chlorophyll molecules is introduced and a theoretical approach for its calculation is given. Some properties of excited chlorophyll at semiconductor electrodes (unidirectional electron transfer, highly efficient charge separation, chlorophyll as electron pump and able to convert electronic excitation into electric energy) show similarity to the behavior of chlorophyll in photosynthetic reaction centers.

Branched alkanes from blue-green algae were separated on a 750 feet high resolution capillary gas chromatographic column. The mixture was found to be 90% of 1:1 ratio 7-methyl, and 8-methyl-heptadecane, and 10% of 6-methylheptadecane. An optical rotation of +2.5 {+-} 0.5 was obtained on a 5 mg of mixture.

In order to build a thin particle detector with 10 micron spatial resolution and automatic readout, the avalanche of ionization electrons in high electric fields in liquid argon and liquid xenon has been studied. We present a scheme using an array of points that could be used to make a reliable liquid argon filled detector. The avalanche pulses in liquid xenon have a rise time more than three orders of magnitude faster than that in liquid argon, suggesting that the positive charge carriers are holes, and making possible a detector with a time resolution of better than 100 nanoseconds. A direct observation of hole conduction is described.

The hydrocarbon content of leaf fossils from Iceland has been investigated by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The distribution patterns of normal hydrocarbons, branched hydrocarbons, and cyclic hydrocarbons are compared to those of present-day living organisms. The diagenetic pathways of these hydrocarbons are discussed.

The procaryotic photosynthetic microorganisms Anacystis nidulans, Nostoc and Rhodospirillum rubrum have cell walls and membranes that are resistant to the solution of methane in their lipid components and intracellular fluids. But Anacystis nidulans, possesses a limited bioxidant system, a portion of which may be extracellularly secreted, which rapidly oxidizes methane to carbon dioxide. Small C{sup 14} activities derived from CH{sub 4} in excess of experimental error are detected in all the major biochemical fractions of Anacystis nidulans and Nostoc. This limited capacity to metabolize methane appears to be a vestigial potentiality that originated over two billion years ago in the early evolution of photosynthetic bacteria and blue-green algae.

Fluorescence properties of purified isoleucyl-tRNA-synthetase isolated from E. coli B have been studied. No changes in the quantum yield, energy or polarization of the emission were detected in the presence (either individually or in combinations) of the substrates and cofactors required for activation of L-isoleucine. In 2.5 M urea enzyme activity and intrinsic fluorescence intensity (at 340 nm) each decrease with time, showing similar kinetics and rate constants. The rate of this decay is reduced in the presence of ligands which can bind to the enzyme and the effect has been used to measure dissociation constants for enzyme-ligand complexes. Values have been obtained for the complexes between enzyme and L-isoleucine (K{sub diss} = 2.5 x 10{sup -5} M), L-valine (K{sub diss} = 3.0 x 10{sup -4} M), ATP (K{sub diss} = 1.5 x 10{sup -4} M) and PP{sub i} (K{sub diss} = 2.0 x 10{sup -4} M) at 25{sup o}. The effects of ionic strength, and the temperature dependence and urea concentration dependence of L-isoleucine binding have also been studied. Magnesium ions, which are required for catalysis, do not greatly affect the binding of single substrates, but changes are seen in the presence of ATP and L-isoleucine together. The magnesium …

The authors have searched for an asymmetry in the inelastic scattering of electrons from a polarized proton target in the region of resonance excitation, at values of four-momentum transfer squared of 0.4, 0.6 and 1.0 (GeV/c){sup 2}. Data were also taken using an incident positron beam in order to distinguish any possible effect of time-reversal violation from that due to higher-order ({alpha}{sup 3}) contributions to the scattering. No sizeable violation of time-reversal invariance was found.

Irradiation of benzo[a]pyrene 1 with 1-methylcytosine hydrochloride 2a (molar ratio 1:10) at 3500 {angstrom} in methanol-acetone produces the 6-(1-methylcytos-5-yl)-benzo[pa]pyrene 3. The structure of the photoproduct shows the hydrocarbon bound through the most active 6-carbon atom to the nucleophilic 5-position of the base. The specific substitution of both moieties combined with other data allows them to understand the carcinogenic activity of the hydrocarbon and thereby to propose a possible mechanism of their linkage in vivo. In this model, the K region does not play a role in triggering the cancer process.

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A statistical approach is proposed to validation of SHAC models. It includes a definition of validation, an explanation of its purposes, and a description of the statistical aspects of experimental design. It proposes a study to validate design codes with statistical samples of real-world systems. Also included is a summary of present SHAC validation methodologies and studies as well as recommendations for future activity.

A study was performed of the correlation between fuel form stability and exposure environment of (temperature and atmosphere). 100% Tm/sub 2/O/sub 3/, 80% Tm/sub 2/O/sub 3//20% Yb/sub 2/O/sub 3/ and 100% Yb/sub 2/O/sub 3/ wafers were subjected to air, dynamic vacuum and static vacuum at temperatures to 2000/sup 0/C for times to 100 hours. Results showed the Tm/sub 2/O/sub 3//Yb/sub 2/O/sub 3/ cubic structure to be unaffected by elemental levels of iron, aluminum, magnesium and silicon and unaffected by the environmental conditions imposed on the wafers. A second task emphasized the optimization of the thermal, mechanical and chemical stability of Tm/sub 2/O/sub 3/ fuel forms. Enhancement was sought through process variable optimization and the addition of metal oxides to Tm/sub 2/O/sub 3/. CaO, TiO/sub 2/ and Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/ were added to form a grain boundary precipitate to control fines generation. The presence of 1% additive was inadequate to depress the melting point of Tm/sub 2/O/sub 3/ or to change the cubic crystalline structure of Tm/sub 2/O/sub 3//Yb/sub 2/O/sub 3/. Tm/sub 2/O/sub 3//Yb/sub 2/O/sub 3/ wafers containing CaO developed a grain boundary phase that improved the resistance to fines generation. The presence of Yb/sub 2/O/sub 3/ did not appear to …

A feasibility study was performed on encapsulated thulium-170 as an isotopic fuel for operation at temperatures to 1500/sup 0/C for 180 days. Effects of various combinations of fueled capsule design parameters were evaluated and compard to experimental data. A computer program was developed to predict dose rates through various thicknesses of aluminum, stainless steel, lead, tungsten and depleted uranium absorbers using thermoluminescent dosimetry techniques for experimental corroboration. A procedure for preparing Tm/sub 2/O/sub 3//Yb/sub 2/O/sub 3/ composites was evaluated. Melting points and solid-state transformations to the melting point of a composition series 100% Tm/sub 2/O/sub 3/ - 100% Yb/sub 2/O/sub 3/ were determined. The Tm/sub 2/O/sub 3/ - 100% Yb/sub 2/O/sub 3/ system remains cubic to the melting point. Solid-state reaction of candidate containment materials (Hastelloy X, Hastelloy C-276, Haynes-25, T-111, TZM, tungsten and zirconium) with Tm/sub 2/O/sub 3//Yb/sub 2/O/sub 3/ were studied. Containment for times to 10,000 hours at 1600/sup 0/C and to 500 hours at 2000/sup 0/C were demonstrated.

The EPR spectrum of single ions of /sup 143/Nd in a crystal of Neodymium Ethyl Sulfate, predominantly of isotope /sup 142/Nd, was observed under condition of very high Boltzmann factor, i.e., high fields and low temperatures. It was found that the interactions with neighboring ions displaced the hyperfine lines from uniform spacing, and that by measuring the deviation it was possible to find the nearest neighbor interaction. The departure from a purely magnetic dipolar interaction is smaller than previous measurements would indicate. It was found that EPR resonance at large values of H/T in magnetically concentrated crystals can yield accurate values of spin-spin interactions.

Radiation dose rates from three thulium-170 oxide sources (20.7, 10.0 and 5.0 thermal watts) were measured through three thicknesses (1/4, 1/2 and 1 inch) of absorber by thermoluminescent dosimetry techniques. Absorber materials used were aluminium, stainless steel, lead, tungsten and depleted uranium. Resultant radiation doses were measured at 19 and 100 cm. Comparison of theoretical dose rates calculated by computer with measured dose rates validated the calculation technique for lead, tungsten and uranium absorbers but not for aluminum and stainless steel. Use of infinite medium build-up factors (B/sub infinity/) was thus validated in computation of dose rates for lead, tungsten and uranium absorbers; use of B/sub infinity/ in computation of dose rates for aluminum and stainless steel absorbers overestimated dose rates vis-a-vis experimentally determined dose rates by an approximate factor of 2.

Proton hole states in the 1f/sub 7/2/ nuclei /sup 46/Ti, /sup 54/Fe, /sup 56/Fe, /sup 58/Ni, and /sup 60/Ni have been studied with the (p,2p) reaction with 46-MeV protons. The measured binding energies and angular correlations are consistent with the binding energies and orbital angular momentum assignments (1f/sub 7/2/, 2s/sub 1/2/, and 1d/sub 3/2/) obtained from proton pick-up reactions. 3 figures, 1 table.

The purpose of this analysis is to determine if the two piece flat head closure concept presently being considered by INC for the LOFT reactor vessel will meet the structural and fatigue requirements of Article 4 of Section III, ''Nuclear Vessels,'' of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, for the anticipated LOFT operational requirements. The analyses performed include stress analyses based on classical stress analysis methods and proven computer programs, fatigue analyses based on the fatigue criteria of Section III of the Code, and thermal analyses based on multi-dimensional computer programs.

This report recommends developing a statistical model to characterize the three-dimensionall pattern of thermal plumes, It indicates the danger of drawing detailed conclusions on the basis of a small number of observations, and emphasizes the need for proper interpretation of empirical measurements, Two reports, on the discharges (1) from the Dresden Power Station into the Illinois River and (2) from Waukegan Station into-Lake Michigan are analyzed. In conclusion, a plan for interpretation of temperature measurements is recommended.