Annual report of the Texas Judicial System (the Texas Judicial Council and the Office of Court Administration) describing judicial branch operations, reports and developments, summaries and analyses of court activities, and providing a directory of judges and clerks.

Monthly report providing tabular statistical information about motor vehicle accidents in Texas during 1982, with data broken out by various criteria including number of persons, locations, types of accidents, time of day, and other factors.

Monthly report providing tabular statistical information about motor vehicle accidents in rural areas of Texas during 1982, with data broken out by various criteria including number of persons, locations, types of accidents, time of day, and other factors.

Reports providing data for 1 uranium occurrences in the Winnemucca Quadrangle, including description, uranium analysis, exact location, deposit type, and features of the host rock.

A report discussing the results of an investigation indicating environments favorable for hydroallogenic uranium deposits in the Fish Creek Basin sedimentary rocks of Miocene age and for hydroallogenic and sandstone uranium deposits in the Home Station Wash sedimentary rocks of Miocene age.

This abbreviated data report presents results of ground and surface water and stream sediment reconnaissance in the Midnite Mine study area in Eastern Washington, primarily in the Turtle Lake quadrangle

This abbreviated data report presents results of ground water and stream sediment reconnaissance in the Mount Spokane quadrangle in eastern Washington and northeastern Idaho

This report presents the computer programs used at the Savanah River Laboratory to produce National Uranium Resource Evaluation program reports.

This abbreviated data report presents the results of water and stream sediment detailed study in the Kettle Falls Dome area of northeastern Washington state.

This report presents the results of detailed sampling of soils, rocks, and dry lake bed material from the area of Jean Dry Lake in southern Nevada.

Report on the surface areas and shoreline distances on the Texas coast, including bay areas, beaches, and system measurements.

This report provides a whole weight-headed weight and whole weight-collared weight relationship for converting dressed weight to whole weight for individual black drum.

Annual report documenting information about managing shell dredging activities to insure that dredging activities comply with department rules.

Report documenting statistics related to the weekend sport boat fisherman finfish catch for the years, 1974 to 1981, including trip hours and species harvested.

Report detailing the findings of studies on blue crab populations in Texas, including mean monthly catch rates, effectiveness of catching methods, and catch data.

Report from the Governor's Task Force on Higher Education describing the group's findings and recommendations regarding higher education in the State of Texas.

An automated accountability system for special nuclear materials (SNM) is under development at Argonne National Laboratory-West. Phase I of the development effort has established the following basic features of the system: a unique file organization allows rapid updating or retrieval of the status of various SNM, based on batch numbers, storage location, serial number, or other attributes. Access to the program is controlled by an interactive user interface that can be easily understood by operators who have had no prior background in electronic data processing. Extensive use of structured programming techniques make the software package easy to understand and to modify for specific applications. All routines are written in FORTRAN.

Natural and forced convection experiments (SBTF and French) are simulated with the sodium version of the thermal-hydraulic computer code THERMIT. Simulation is done for the test section with the pressure-velocity boundary condition and subsequently extended to the whole loop. For the test section simulation, a steady-state and transient calculations are performed and compared with experimental data. For the loop simulation, two methods are used, a simulated 1-D loop and an actual 1-D loop. In the simulated 1-D loop analysis, the vapor density is increased by one hundred and two hundred times to avoid the code failure and the results still showed some of the important characteristics of the two-phase flow oscillation in a loop. A mathematical model is suggested for the two-phase flow oscillation. In the actual 1-D loop, only the single phase calculation was performed and turned out to be nearly the same as the simulated 1-D loop single phase results.

The subject of this report is probability description of wind direction fluctuations within the height range above the surface of wind energy conversion systems (WECS)

The Safety Technology Group is developing methodology that can be used to assess the risk of operating a plant to reprocess spent nuclear fuel. As an early step in the methodology, a preliminary hazards analysis identifies safety-related incidents. In the absence of appropriate safety features, these incidents could lead to significant consequences and risk to onsite personnel or to the public. This report is a compilation of potential safety-related incidents that have been identified in studies at SRL and in safety analyses of various commercially designed reprocessing plants. It is an expanded revision of the version originally published as DP-1558, Published December 1980.

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Monthly compilation of statistics for oil and wells in Texas, documenting the number completed, drilled, and plugged.

The economics of liquid-fuels production from microalgae was evaluated. A detailed review of published economic analyses of microalgae biomass production revealed wide variations in the published costs, which ranged from several dollars per pound for existing commercial health-food production in the Far East, to less than .05/lb costs projected for microalgae biomass for fuel conversion. As little design information or specific cost data has been published, a credible cost estimate required the conceptual engineering design and cost estimating of microalgae to liquid-fuels processes. Two systems were analyzed, shallow (2 to 3'') covered ponds and deeper (1 ft) open ponds. Only the latter was selected for an in-depth analysis due to the many technical shortcomings of the former approach. Based on the cost analysis of a very simple and low cost process, the most optimistic costs extrapolated were about $60/barrel. These were based on many optimistic assumptions. Additional, more detailed, engieering and cost analyses would be useful. However, the major emphasis in future work in this area should be on demonstrating the basic premises on which this design was based: high productivity and oil content of microalgae strains that can dominate in open ponds and which can be harvested by a …

Local seismic networks were established at the Roosevelt Hot Springs geothermal area, utah and at Raft River geothermal area, Idaho to monitor the background seismicity prior to initiation of geothermal power production. The Raft River study area is currently seismically quiet down to the level of approximately magnitude one. The Roosevelt Hot Springs area has low-level seismic activity for M/sub L/ greater than about two; however, microearthquake (M/sub L/ less than or equal to 2) swarms appear to be relatively common. One swarm occurred adjacent to the Roosevelt geothermal area during the summer of 1981. From June 27 to August 28, 1044 microearthquakes (M/sub L/ less than or equal to 1.5) were recorded from which 686 earthquakes were located and analysed. The main cluster of microearthquakes was located about 2 km east of the production field at a depth of about 5 km. A few small events were located in the production field at shallow depths (< 2 km). Three of the four largest earthquakes in the swarm (M/sub L/ 1.5-2.0) were located 4 to 5 km further east along a n-NW trend beneath the flank of the adjacent Mineral Mountains. Focal mechanism solutions indicate primarily normal faulting due to …