This report was compiled to distribute for Congressional use concerning the top 50 companies in the United States at the time of writing and their economic information.

Proposals to amend Appendix A of Part 440 of Weatherization Assistance for Low-Income Persons are described. The proposals establish new specifications for the materials purchased for utilization in the weatherization of dwellings which qualify for assistance under Part 440. These proposed regulations prescribe the minimum requirements which must be met or exceeded by each type of material and the Federal standards to which they must conform. In addition, these regulations include installation requirements for each class of material installed at the request of the enduser. (MCW)

This report outlines the "Hatch Act" and its effects on campaign activities by Congressional employees.

Engineering and construction activities associated with the Dresden Unit 1 chemical cleaning facility are described for January to June 1979.

This report addresses the drug abuse office and treatment act of 1972.

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The KIPS Ground Demonstration System (GDS) was designed to simulate, as closely as possible, a Flight System Conceptual Design (FSCD). No radiator was incorporated and electric heat sources were used in place of isotope heat sources. To minimize air in-leakage and to simulate heat losses associated with space operation, the system was operated in a vacuum chamber. Initial testing was performed on the development system which did not incorporate a high performance turbine or non-condensing configuration of the cold liquid passages in certain regenerator vapor regions. After testing of the development system and retrofit to the GDS configuration, which included improvements in the above two items, the GDS was installed in the test chamber. Testing to date showed the GDS configuration has demonstrated a system efficiency of greater than 15%. Satisfactory heat balances have been calculated on most system components, permitting evaluation of component performance. Certain performance deficiencies currently exist which prevented the 18% efficiency goal being attained. These can be corrected with further development.

Milestone Report No. 3 is a progress report. Rogers Engineering Co., Inc. has investigated what sites are best suited for consolidation of power generating units 1 through 12 for processing the noncondensable gases through the Stretford Process for H{sub 2}S abatement below 10% of the mass flow. The consolidation arrangement for the power generating units are Units 1 through 6 which produces 187 MWe power. Units 7-8 and 11 producing 212 MWe and Units 9-10 and 12 which also produces 212 MWe power. Site survey and selection for the Stretford units provided for a primary and alternative site for each consolidation. Each of these three groups of plants is associated with its Stretford Process Plant. The gas blowers located at each power plant to push the noncondensable gases through the stainless steel pipe network to the Stretford Process have been sized. When combining the new auxiliary load requirements of these blowers and the Stretford units it was determined that additional auxiliary transformer capacity is necessary. We are investigating additional alternatives with respect to the Stretford Process application. This data will be submitted in the Final Report, See Section 6.

Milestone Report No. 1 was delivered on June 1, 1979 and related to the conversion of Units 1-4. Milestone Report No. 2 describes the conversion of Units 5-12 from direct contact condensers which use the iron-catalyst/peroxide/caustic systems to surface condensers and H{sub 2}S abatement with the Stretford Process Unit. This Report is a 10 week progress report that specifically addresses itself to the differences that are encountered between Units 5-6, 7-10 and 11-12. The task schedule shown in the Summary Section was originally presented to PG and E at the Project Kick-Off Meeting on Monday, April 23. Units 11 and 12 retrofit concept which appears in this report was evaluated with a two pass surface condenser running parallel to the turbine shaft. This concept requires the relocation of the turbine lube oil tank, instrument air compressor and battery storage rack facilities. On Wednesday, June 27, the condenser supplier notified Rogers Engineering that it was feasible to design and install a four pass, two tube bundle condenser at right angle condenser to the turbine-generator shaft. The four pass condenser concept will eliminate the need of relocating equipment sensitive to turbine operation. However, schedule requirements for Milestone Report No. 2 left no …

In the work on prediction of calorimeter equilibrium, a newly derived single-exponential prediction equation has been shown to yield results equal to those from previously reported work, but allows for more versatility in the instrumentation selection. A single-precision rather than a double-precision calculator is all that is required to predict reliable equilibrium values using this new equation. A double-exponential prediction equation has also been derived and tested using simulated data. Engineering refinements have been incorporated in the Automated Plutonium Assay System (APAS) to provide for improvements in the gamma-ray spectroscopy system and the container pickup device. In addition, evaluation tests on the assay instrumentation have been conducted. Calorimeter tests indicate that values within 1 percent of equilibrium can be obtained in 7 min. The Half-Life Evaluation Committee has completed measurements of the half-life of /sup 239/Pu. Preliminary results show that measurements by alpha and gamma counting, by mass spectrometry and by calorimetry agree sufficiently well that a recommended value with a relative standard deviation of +-0.1 percent will be reported. Papers describing these measurements are being prepared for journal publication. The committee concurs with the recent recommendation by Argonne National Laboratory representatives that the value 87.74 +- 0.04 yr be …

As petroleum-based fuels grow increasingly scarce and costly, nuclear energy may become an important alternative source of industrial energy. Initial applications would most likely include a mix of fossil-fired and nuclear sources of process energy. A means for determining the overall reliability of these mixed systems is a fundamental aspect of demonstrating their feasibility to potential industrial users. Reliability data from nuclear and fossil-fired plants are presented, and several methods of applying these data for calculating the reliability of reasonably complex industrial energy supply systems are given. Reliability estimates made under a number of simplifying assumptions indicate that multiple nuclear units or a combination of nuclear and fossil-fired plants could provide adequate reliability to meet industrial requirements for continuity of service.

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This report outlines the detailed design and system analysis of a solar industrial process steam system for the Lone Star Brewery. The industrial plant has an average natural gas usage of 12.7 MMcf per month. The majority of this energy goes to producing process steam of 125 psi and 353/sup 0/F at about 50,000 lb/h, with this load dropping to about 6000 lb/h on the weekends. The maximum steam production of the solar energy system is about 1700 lb/h. The climatic conditions at the industrial site give 50% of the possible amount of sunshine during the winter months and more than 70% during the summer months. The long-term yearly average daily total radiation on a horizontal surface is 1574 Btu/day-ft/sup 2/, the long-term yearly average daytime ambient temperature is 72/sup 0/F, and the percentage of clear day insolation received on the average day of the year is 62%. The solar steam system will consist of 9450 ft/sup 2/ of Solar Kinetics T-700 collectors arranged in fifteen 90-ft long rows through which 67.5 gpm of Therminol T-55 is pumped. This hot Therminol then transfers the heat collected to a Patterson-Kelley Series 380 unfired steam boiler. The solar-produced steam is then metered …