Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Jeff Laird, an Oklahoma City lawyer and 20-year FBI agent who headed the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation under Gov. David Boren, died Wednesday after being hospitalized for cancer."

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Working in a freshly cleared corridor north of the I-35 and I-40 interchange near downtown Oklahoma city."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Commutes rounding the bend from I-35 into the westbound lanes of the Crosstown Expressway are funnelled into one lane to avoid construction work near the Byers exit. Crews are building a new exit ramp, located on the graded area to the right where the pickup trucks are parked, that will tie in with Reno and a new extension of Lincoln Blvd."

The laboratory cyclone incinerator has been developed to study the effects of burning feed containing radionuclides other than plutonium-238. These isotopes, which will be primarily products of fission, must be efficiently removed from the off-gas if combustible waste containing such species is to be incinerated. Modifications to the original incinerator design were made to increase the efficiency of combustion and particulate removal in the system and to reduce its energy consumption. A drum compactor was purchased, installed, and tested. The test results were as expected; a 55-gal steel drum volume was reduced by 86%. The ash/cement matrix studies were completed. The 65/35 mixture proved to be the best for dry-cure pellets, and the 80/20 mixture produced the best wet-cured pellets. Experimental incinerator ash was successfully sintered; the final carbon content was less than 0.1 wt%.

A thermal analysis of a deep geologic depository for spent nuclear fuel is being conducted. The TRUMP finite difference heat transfer code is used to analyze a 3-dimensional model of the depository. The model uses a unit cell consisting of one spent fuel canister buried in salt beneath a ventilated room in the depository. A base case was studied along with several parametric variations. It is concluded that this method is appropriate for analyzing the thermal response of the system, and that the most important parameter in determining the maximum temperatures is the canister heat generation rate. The effects of room ventilation and different depository media are secondary.

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma City council and Libby-Owners-Ford reached agreement Tuesday on replacement of broken window panes in the Myriad Convention Center."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Emma Nicklas sacks aluminum cans she'll sell to finance her travels around the country."

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Members of Wesley Methodist Church men's team watch game from dugout."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Richard Wells, of Wesley Methodist Church's team, shouts encouragement during a high school boys game."

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: ".. . but as First Presbyterian Church high school girl's team member Kathy Lindley's espression indicates not all balls are strikes."

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The technical progress reported is divided into seven task areas. They are as follows: (1) thermal disproportionation of Si/sub x/F/sub y/ homologues on Si packed beds. Effort has been directed toward the study of the thermal disproportionation of Si/sub x/F/sub y/ homologues on Si packed beds at 850/sup 0/C and 500/sup 0/C. (2) review of experimental results on the near-continuous reactor. The silicon transport data from forty runs conducted on the near-continuous reactor are summarized and discussed. (3) thermal analysis of (SiF/sub 2/)/sub x/ polymer. At 276 to 286/sup 0/C a strong exothermic transition occurs in the (SiF/sub 2/)/sub x/ polymer. The enthalpy (..delta..H) measured by D.S.C. was -44.37 cal/gm. Other smaller endotherms were observed at 96/sup 0/C and 363/sup 0/C. (4) motorola purification therodynamics. In the Appendix can be found thermodynamic calculations for the predicted SiF/sub 4/ to SiF/sub 2/ conversion efficiencies for Step I in the SiF/sub 4/ transport purification process. (5) polymer condensation. It was concluded from the polymer condensation experiments at 0/sup 0/C that substrates and higher pressures in the polymer condensation unit increase condensation efficiency. However, the higher pressure occurring in these experiments markedly reduced the Step I reaction efficiency. (6) crystal growth. Single crystal …

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Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.