During 1975 Pantex Plant conducted a monitoring program to determine the concentration of specific radioactive and non-radioactive species in the local environment. Although the plant activities involve the handling of significant quantities of uranium, plutonium and tritium, only small releases of uranium (depleted in the isotope /sup 235/U) and tritium occurred which could have affected the local environment. Monitoring data indicate that concentrations of these nuclides in the environment are below established criteria for air and water and therefore should not present a health hazard either to employees or to the public.

An add-on program is proposed to the existing Brayton Isotope Power System (BIPS) Contract E(04-3)-1123. The proposed program includes the design and fabrication of a superalloy BIPS ''workhorse'' loop and the technical assessment of an optimized superalloy flight system (FS).