The HGP-A Wellhead Generator Proof-of-Feasibility Project consists of a nominal 3 Megawatt geothermal steam turbine electric power generating facility, the first geothermal power plant in Hawaii. The plant is being constructed as a research and development project to evaluate geothermal steam as a viable resource to be considered for larger commercial electric power generating stations in Hawaii. The project facilities include a turbine building, with a contiguous service area for plant operations and maintenance, visitor center, and the power plant equipment.

An X-Ray Calibration and Standards Laboratory has been established at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory to provide x-ray calibrations of various types of x-ray diagnostic equipment presently being utilized. This Laboratory is the outgrowth of many years of involvement in the development of x-ray generation and calibration equipment. X-ray calibrations in a steady state mode are available from 100 eV to 100 keV. Pulsed response and linearity studies as well as radiation damage studies can also be performed. A crystal fabrication, characterization and calibration facility is an integral part of the Laboratory. A general discussion of various equipment and capabilities within the Laboratory is presented.

Summary of the proceedings of Concerns Related to Library and Information Services including access information, facilities, funding, information services, programs, and planning.

Proceedings of the town hall meeting reports including access to the meetings, facilities, conference concerns, funding, information services, planning, and respondents.

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.

Results of a study to determine the limiting temperature conditions in a large reactor system are presented. The study considers a sodium-cooled breeder reactor system having a loop-type primary system configuration. A temperature range of 930 to 1050/sup 0/F in reactor outlet temperature is covered. Significant findings were that the use of the materials for the 930/sup 0/F reference design, i.e., a core material of 20% cold-worked 316 stainless steel, a primary piping material of 316SS, and a steam generator material of unstabilized 2-1/4 Cr - 1 Mo resulted in limiting conditions in component performance at the higher temperatures. Means to circumvent these limits through the use of alternate materials, mitigation of thermal transients, and/or design changes are presented. The economic incentive to make some materials changes is also presented.

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.

This report discusses about The LDC Debt Problem and The Witteveen Facility.

This report is about the The LDC Debt Problem And The Witteveen Facility

We are investigating a retropulse shutter to protect fusion lasers from target reflected light. It is required to project a plasma of 10/sup 21//cm/sup 3/ across a vacuum spatial filter pinhole with a velocity of at least 2 cm/..mu..s. The plasma is produced from a foil which is resistively heated to sublimation, superheated, and magnetically driven across the optical beam path. This paper describes these plasma production processes. A technique has been developed to couple the drive circuit to the foil to enhance the plasma velocity. A nozzle controls the solid angle into which the plasma is projected. Using diagnostics of circuit monitors, witness plates, Faraday cups, streak camera, and probe lasers, we determine the space-time evolution of the plasma. Using a self consistent numerical model, we analyze the plasma behavior. With these methods, we correlate and contrast data and numerical results for two specific cases in which the foil sublimes at or well before the current maximum.

Seismic monitoring of the northern section of the Imperial Valley region in Southern California has been underway since 1973, in order to study in detail the relationship between geothermal areas and earthquakes. A description of the 22-station network and a list of preliminary data on earthquakes recorded by the network from January 1977 through March 1977 are presented.

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Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Fees of civil process servers other than sheriffs or constables.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether a magistrate in an administrative driver's license suspension hearing authorized by 67011-5, V.T.C.S., has the power to probate the suspension of the driver's license.

The space charge detuning of a dc beam due to electrons trapped is shown to be essentially energy independent. This leads to a curvature in the ..nu.. vs p relation. Left uncorrected, this would result in a "brick-wall" instability. It is shown that the strength of octupole field required to correct the curvature increases as the third power of the energy. Thus, large octupole correction coils are needed. The possibility of using stronger sextupole corrections to reduce the octupole requirement is suggested. However, this would mean that the working line would not shrink with energy, and ISABELLE would be required to operate with a tune spread greater than or equal to 0.02 even at 400 GeV.

The DT fusion neutron irradiation of eleven BNL-LASL superconductor wires, six LASL Spinel, Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/, and YAG crystals (two of each), six NRL five 9's crystalline, tetragonal GeO/sub 2/ samples and four LASL-IIT high purity single crystals (MgO, YAG, Spinel and Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/) is described. The sample position, beam-on time and neutron dose record are given. The maximum neutron fluence on any sample was 1.87 x 10/sup 16/ neutrons/cm/sup 2/.

The DT fusion neutron irradiation of eleven BNL-LAST superconductor wires, six NRL GeO/sub 2/ crystals, two YAG, two Spinel and two Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/ crystals for LASL and four LASL high purity single crystals of MgO, YAG, Spinel and Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/ is described. The sample position, beam-on time, and neutron dose record are given. The maximum fluence on any sample was 1.51 x 10/sup 16/ neutrons/cm/sup 2/.

Because groundwater movement can have important effects on buried nuclear wastes, hydrologists need to know if future climatic changes will influence the accuracy of groundwater flow calculations. Groundwater recharge (and therefore groundwater flow) depends on surface water balance. (Surface water balance equals precipitation less losses to evaporation, runoff, and storage.) To develop input data for modeling future climatic effects, we have made the following simplifying assumptions: (1) Climate (and therefore water balance) will behave in the future very much as it has in the past. (2) Groundwater recharge responds linearly to precipitation. (3) Future long-term climatic changes can be classified into groups or regimes that are similar to those of the past. Our current research is aimed at providing input data to the Waste Management Program's site suitability task. 16 figures, 1 table.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Authority of Texas Commission on Jail Standards to establish guidelines for salaries of county jail personnel.

To meet the goals of the LSSA program, solar cell encapsulants must provide protection for 20 years. Consequently, the objective of the present program is to develop methodology for making confident predictions of encapsulant performance at any exposure site in the U.S.A. During the first year of the program, inherent weatherability was studied. Inherent weatherability is controlled by the three weather factors common to all exposure sites: insolation, temperature, and humidity. Emphasis was focused on the transparent encapsulant portion of miniature solar cell arrays by eliminating weathering effects on the substrate and circuitry (which are also parts of the encapsulant system). The most extensive data were for yellowing, which was measured conviently and precisely. Considerable data also were obtained on tensile strength. Changes in these two properties after outdoor exposure were predicted very well from accelerated exposure data. Although more outdoor exposure data will be received, mathematical modeling studies are continuing. This first part of the program can be said to be successfully concluded. In continuation of the inherent weatherability study, the power output of solar cells was monitored under accelerated test conditions and is being followed for outdoor exposures. For this purpose, Universal Test Specimens (UTS's) with nine different …

This report consists of comparison and analysis of alternative proposals for federal student assistance.

A separate abstract was prepared for each of the four articles in this report. (RWR)

A tissue-equivalent human-torso phantom has been constructed for calibration of the counting systems used for in-vivo measurement of transuranic nuclides. The phantom contains a human male rib cage, removable model organs, and includes tissue-equivalent chest plates that can be placed over the torso to simulate people with a wide range of statures. The organs included are lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, and tracheo-bronchial lymph nodes. Polyurethane with different concentrations of calcium carbonate was used to simulate the linear photon-attenuation properties of various human tissues--lean muscle, adipose-muscle mixtures, and cartilage. Foamed polyurethane with calcium carbonate simulates lung tissue. Transuranic isotopes can be incorporated uniformly in the phantom's lungs and other polyurethane-based organs by dissolution of the nitrate form in acetone with lanthanum nitrate carrier. Organs have now been labelled with highly pure /sup 238/Pu, /sup 239/Pu, and /sup 241/Am for calibration measurements. This phantom is the first of three that will be used in a U.S. Department of Energy program of intercomparisons involving more than ten laboratories. The results of the intercomparison will allow participating laboratories to prepare sets of transmission curves that can be used to predict the performance of their counting systems for a wide range of subject builds …

Wind Energy Conversion Systems (WECS) commercially available in the United States are described. The terms used to describe these wind systems are defined and their significance discussed. Lists of manufacturers and distributors, subsystem components and suppliers, and references are provided.