MACK-IV calculates nuclear response functions important to the neutronics analysis of nuclear and fusion systems. A central part of the code deals with the calculation of the nuclear response function for nuclear heating more commonly known as the kerma factor. Pointwise and multigroup neutron kerma factors, individual reactions, helium, hydrogen, and tritium production response functions are calculated from any basic nuclear data library in ENDF/B format. The program processes all reactions in the energy range of 0 to 20 MeV for fissionable and nonfissionable materials. The program also calculates the gamma production cross sections and the gamma production energy matrix. A built-in computational capability permits the code to calculate the cross sections in the resolved and unresolved resonance regions from resonance parameters in ENDF/B with an option for Doppler broadening. All energy pointwise and multigroup data calculated by the code can be punched, printed and/or written on tape files. Multigroup response functions (e.g., kerma factors, reaction cross sections, gas production, atomic displacements, etc.) can be outputted in the format of MACK-ACTIVITY-Table suitable for direct use with current neutron (and photon) transport codes.

At full luminosity of ISABELLE and with an anticipated pp total cross section of 60 mb, there will be, on the average, one interaction every 70 ns. At the other end of the spectrum, it will probably take about 10 ms to store a complete event onto magnetic tape. In between these two extremes comes a triggering scheme which must select the one event out of 14,285,714 that is of interest to the experimenter. In a typical experiment, a certain small number of signals will come into an electronics trailer on cables that are as short as possible and have propagation velocities as high as possible. With these signals a fast decision will be made as to whether the rest of the information coming in on the slower, longer cables should be further processed or not. The typical length of time for this decision is 200 ns. Some of the problems arising during that first 200 ns are considered, and some examples of attempts to solve those problems are given.

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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%.

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Electropolishing is a rapid and effective technique for removing plutonium and other radionuclide contamination from a variety of metal surfaces. The major objective of this continuing research is to develop electropolishing into a large-scale decontamination technique that can completely and economically remove transuranic and other surface contamination from large volumes of metallic waste. These research studies have demonstrated the ability of electropolishing to reduce the radiation levels of steel tools and stainless steel vacuum system components, which were heavily contaminated with plutonium oxide. Other examples of objects that have been decontaminated within minutes using electropolishing include hot cell manipulator assemblies, analytical instrument components, laboratory transfer containers, offsite shipping containers, fission product storage capsules, laboratory animal cages, and nuclear reactor process tube components. One of the major activities of this research has been the establishment and intensive operation of a 400-gal immersion electropolishing system designed specifically to develop and demonstrate decontamination techniques for representative plutonium- and beta/gamma-contaminated components. Substantial progress has also been made in developing in situ electropolishing techniques that can be used to decontaminate metallic surfaces that cannot readily be transported to or immersed in a conventional electropolishing tank. Sectioning/pretreatment studies are underway to develop and demonstrate optimum disassembly, …

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.

An experimental program was conducted to assess the endurance and lifetime of HEPA filters exposed to fire-generated aerosols, and to reduce the aerosol exposure by installing engineering countermeasures in the duct between the fire source and HEPA filters. Large cribs of wood and other potential fuels of interest were ''forcefully burned'' in a partially ventilated enclosure. In a ''forceful burn'' the crib of fuel is continuously exposed to an energetic premixed methane flame during the entire experimental period. This tactic serves two purposes: it optimizes the production of smoke rich in unburned pyrolyzates which provides severe exposure to the filters, and it facilitates the ignition and enhances the combustion of cribs formed with synthetic polymers. The experiments were conducted in an enclosure specifically designed and instrumented for fire tests. The test cell has a volume of 100 m/sup 3/ and includes instrumentation to measure the internal temperature distribution, pressure, thermal radiation field, flow fields, gas concentration, particulate size distribution and mass, fuel weight loss, inlet and exit air velocities, and smoke optical density. The countermeasure techniques include the use of passively operated sprinkler systems in the fire test cell, of fine and dense water scrubbing sprays, and of rolling prefiltration …

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The conversion of methanol or synthesis gas is an attractive route for producing ethylene and propylene from coal. Utilizing a chabazite ion exchanged with ammonium and rare earth chlorides, methanol is converted to ethylene and propylene with carbon yields of 70 to 90% at reaction temperatures of 375 to 425/sup 0/C and pressures to 100 psi. Carbon disulfide in the feed at concentrations less than 200 ppM increases the operating time between regenerations from four hours to twenty hours. At carbon disulfide concentrations of 300 ppM or greater, the catalyst goes through the stages of dehydrogenation catalysts, a producer of ethylene and propylene, and then a dehydration catalyst. Water has no detrimental effect on the catalyst, and appears to enhance its activity. When synthesis gas (a one-to-one mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide) is passed over the catalyst at 365/sup 0/C and atmospheric pressure, methane, carbon and carbon dioxide are produced.

Seven general solar thermal conversion concepts were selected initially. The literature review confirmed that these are the only concepts that are developed to a level suitable for inclusion in the comparative analysis to be performed. A summary of information pertaining to these concepts is given and the concepts are briefly described. The information presented is abstracted from applicable references presented in the bibliography. The bibliography and a list of the major contacts established are included in appendices. The seven concepts are: point-focusing distributed receiver system; point focusing, central receiver systems; fixed mirror/distributed focus system; line-focus central receiver system; line-focus distributed receiver system; fixed mirror line-focus distributed receiver system, and low concentrator non-tracking systems. (WHR)

Ion source performance characteristics consisting of total ion current, ion energy distribution, mass distribution, and ion current density distribution were measured for several models of a duopigatron. Variations on the duopigatron design involved plasma expansion cup material and dimensions, secondary cathode material, and interelectrode spacings. Of the designs tested, the one with a copper and molybdenum secondary cathode and a mild steel plasma expansion cup proved to give the best results. The ion current density distribution was peaked at the center of the plasma expansion cup and fell off to 80 percent of the peak value at the cup wall for a cup 15.2 mm deep. A total ion current of 180 mA consisting of 60 to 70 percent atomic ions was produced with an arc current of 20 A and source pressure of 9.3 Pa. More shallow cups produced a larger beam current and a more sharply peaked ion current density distribution. Typical ion energy distributions were bell-shaped curves with a peak 10 to 20 V below anode potential and with ion energies extending 30 to 40 V on either side of the peak.

The two pairs of line-reversed reactions: ..pi../sup +/p ..-->.. K/sup +/..sigma../sup +/; K/sup -/p ..-->.. ..pi../sup -/..sigma../sup +/ and ..pi../sup +/p ..-->.. K/sup +/Y*(1385); K/sup -/p ..-->.. ..pi../sup -/Y*(1385) at two energies: 7 and 11.5 GeV/c were studied. The experiment was conducted in the SLAC 1 m rapid cycling bubble chamber triggered by electronic detectors and an online algorithm. The cross section excess for the K/sup -/ reactions which has shown exchange degeneracy violations at lower energy is still significant but smaller at 7 GeV/c. At 11.5 GeV/c it is found that both the helicity-flip and non-flip dominated processes are consistent with exchange degeneracy predictions. Polarization measurements of the ..sigma../sup +/ and Y* at both energies support dominance in the production process of exchange degenerate K*(890) vector and K*(1490) tensor trajectories. 9 references

This paper describes a number of physics studies relevant to tandem mirror confinement. We give the basic axial confinement laws and show that T/sub e/ depends critically upon end loss. Sufficient central-cell end loss can stabilize the drift-cyclotron loss-cone mode in the plugs, although the resultant T/sub e/ scaling is too slow for reactors. Minimum-B plugs stabilize flute MHD- and rotation-driven modes; local ballooning sets limits on ..beta.. > or equal to 0.5. Proper magnetic symmetry is important for good drift confinement. For small increases in the total injected power, supplementary ion-cyclotron r.f. heating can halve the neutral-beam energy required to maintain plug densities.

Experimental measurements are being conducted on critical configurations of clusters of fuel rods mocking up LWR-type fuel elements in close proximity water storage. Results will serve to benchmark the computer codes used in the design of nuclear power reactor fuel storage racks.

From an exposure of the Fermilab 15-ft Neon (64 atomic %)-H{sub 2} filled bubble chamber to a single-horn-focused {bar {nu}} beam, they have found 60 e{sup -}X and 35 e{sup +}X events, which they compare with 227 {mu}{sup -}X and 202 {mu}{sup +}X events. No statistically significant departures from {mu}-e universality are seen.

Initial development of geochemical techniques for exploration and exploitation of geothermal systems is described. The techniques are based on analysis of solid materials. Distribution of Cu, Mo, Pb, Zn, Ag, As, Sb, Co, Ni, Mn, Fe, Bi, B, Te, In, Sn, and W are determined and evaluated for several sample types in a hot water system (Roosevelt Hot Springs, Utah) and a vapor dominated system (Geysers, California). The sample types analyzed are magnetic fractions, whole rock samples, and two different heavy liquid separates derived from cuttings composites from geothermal wells and shallow rotary drill holes. The results show that multi-element geochemical zoning is developed at both a relatively small scale of over hundreds of feet around individual steam entries (SEs) and hot water entries (HWEs) in geothermal wells, and at a larger scale of over thousands of feet both vertically and laterally in geothermal systems. Zoning is surprisingly similar for both hot-water and vapor-dominated systems. Trace elements which display the most consistent and useful zoning characteristics are As, Sb, Pb, Zn, Mn, B, and W. Optimum delineation of the zoning is provided by +3.3 heavy liquid (HL) samples compared to the other sample types evaluated. Utilization of +3.3 samples maximizes …

Initial development of geochemical techniques for exploration and exploitation of geothermal systems is described. The techniques are based on analysis of solid materials. Distributions of Cu, Mo, Pb, Zn, Ag, As, Sb, Co, Ni, Mn, Fe, Bi, B, Te, In, Sn, and W are determined and evaluated for several sample types in a hot water system (Roosevelt Hot Springs, Utah) and a vapor dominated system (Geysers, California). The sample types analyzed are mangetic fractions, whole rock samples, and two different heavy liquid separates derived from cuttings composites from geothermal wells and shallow rotary drill holes. The results show that multi-element geochemical zoning is developed at both a relatively small scale of over hundreds of feet around individual steam entries (SEs) and hot water entries (HWEs) in geothermal wells, and at a larger scale of over thousands of feet both vertically and laterally in geothermal systems. Zoning is surprisingly similar for both hot-water and vapor-dominated systems. Trace elements which display the most consistent and useful zoning characteristics are As, Sb, Pb, Zn, Mn, B, and W. Optimum delineation of the zoning is provided by +3.3 heavy liquid (HL) samples compared to the other sample types evaluated. Utilization of +3.3 samples maximizes …

Forward dispersion relations are used to test a dynamical theory of ..pi..N interaction based on the use of the divergence of the axial vector current as the canonical pion field, the notion of sigma-commutator and the assumption that the seagull term in the low expansion of the scattering amplitude is purely isoscalar. Most of the parameters of the dynamical theory have been fixed by an earlier work on low energy S wave phase shifts. The theory is used to calculate the scattering lengths and the amplitude anti C/sup (+)/ (0,0) used as subtraction constants. These values and f/sup 2/ = 0.0725, fixed mainly by the Goldberger-Treiman relation, are then used in the forward dispersion relations to yield values of cross section integrals J, I/sup (+)/ and I/sup (-)/. The test consists of comparing these values with those obtained from the usual dispersion theoretic analysis of scattering data. The theory passes the test satisfactorily. This success, coupled with the earlier successes in fitting the low energy phase shifts and the anti C/sup (+-)/ (0,t less than 0) amplitudes for small t, provides very strong support for the present theory. 15 references.

Exact and approximate equations have been derived for the stresses and strains beneath a free surface when an incoming longitudinal wave and an incoming shear wave reflect from the surface. Results of the approximate solution for depths much less than the wave length of the incoming wave are given in tabular form and are graphed for Poisson's ratios of 0.25, 0.3, and 0.333. The results should be of use in categorizing the magnitude of near-surface stresses and strains resulting from seismic waves produced by deeply buried explosives or earthquakes.

A subsynoptic scale disturbance in the lower troposphere passed through the Georgia-South Carolina area during a field experiment in which supplementary meteorological data were available at the Savannah River Laboratory. Consistencies were noted in the fields of wind, temperature, and cloudiness, which aided in the documentation of the feature. This event is suggested as a useful case study for the application of mesoscale dynamical models.