Notes on Luminosity Variation at ISABELLE (open access)

Notes on Luminosity Variation at ISABELLE

In the present ISABELLE design, the luminosity at each insertion will be the same, unless special efforts are taken to get a low-..beta.. insertion or reduced crossing angle. These can only change the luminosity by factors of 2 to 4 from insertion to insertion. An estimation of the range of desired luminosities is given.
Date: October 19, 1977
Creator: Herrera, J. C.; Marx, M.; Roe, B. & Rosenberg, E. I.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor neutral beam injection system vacuum chamber (open access)

Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor neutral beam injection system vacuum chamber

Most of the components of the Neutral Beam Lines of the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) will be enclosed in a 50 cubic meter box-shaped vacuum chamber. The chamber will have a number of unorthodox features to accomodate both neutral beam and TFTR requirements. The design constraints, and the resulting chamber design, are presented.
Date: October 19, 1977
Creator: Pedrotti, L.R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Delay line proportional chambers for the Fermilab external muon identifier (open access)

Delay line proportional chambers for the Fermilab external muon identifier

Thirty-nine one meter square proportional chambers with delay line readout were constructed for the external muon identifier of the Fermilab 15 foot bubble chamber. They provide X,Y,U(45/sup 0/) and T (avalanche time) information using a single wire plane, etched strip cathodes and nine amplifiers. They have a time resolution of +-27ns, single particle spatial resolution of +-2 to +-3mm and double particle resolution of approximately 2/sup 1///sub 2/ to 4cm. The energy accessible to each wire is limited so none of the wires in the first 25 chambers has broken since their installation in 1973 to 1974.
Date: October 19, 1977
Creator: Parker, S.; Orthel, J. & Marriner, J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
X-ray lines as a density diagnostic in DT plasmas near 100x solid density (open access)

X-ray lines as a density diagnostic in DT plasmas near 100x solid density

The use of electron impact broadened resonance lines to diagnose near-term high density diagnostics is discussed. In particular, the question of how to choose seed and pusher materials to have discernible broadening effects while maintaining line visibility is discussed.
Date: October 19, 1977
Creator: Bailey, D.S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Neutral beam injection system for the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (open access)

Neutral beam injection system for the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor

The Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor will be installed at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory facility. This is a major step to reach the goal of fusion power using toroidal magnetic fields for plasma confinement. A major part of this test reactor will be four neutral beam injection systems. These systems will inject 20 MW of 120 kV neutral deuterium atoms into the plasma for 0.5 seconds. In order to achieve the required power input to the plasma, several systems are required within the neutral beam line. These are the source, neutralizer, ion deflection magnet, calorimeter and retraction system, ion dump, cryopumps and vacuum enclosure. All of these systems have constraints imposed which increase the complexity of their designs. Since all systems must operate in a tritium environment, remote handling capabilities must be incorporated into the design. An overview is presented of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory/Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Neutral Beam Injection System design. Specifications for the machine and a general description of the total system are presented.
Date: October 19, 1977
Creator: Pittenger, L.C.; Stone, R.R.; Valby, L.E. & Pedrotti, L.R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
System design for the new TMX machine (open access)

System design for the new TMX machine

The Tandem Mirror Experiment (TMX) is designed to test the physics of a new approach to Q-enhancement in open confinement systems. In the tandem mirror concept, the ends of a long solenoid are plugged electrostatically by means of ambipolar potential barriers created in two mirror machines or plugs, one at each end of the solenoid. The ambipolar potential in mirror machines develops as a consequence of the higher scattering rate of electrons and the balancing of electron and ion loss rates. The TMX experiment incorporates very few new engineering developments, but it does involve a new way of combining in an integrated system many previously developed ideas. The engineering task is to design the machine that would provide a proof-of-principle evaluation of the tandem mirror concept as rapidly as possible. The preliminary design was started in September 1976 and was completed by December 1976. It led to a cost estimate of $11 million and a scheduled construction period of 18 months.
Date: October 19, 1977
Creator: Chargin, A. K.; Calderon, M. O.; Mooney, L. J. & Vogtlin, G. E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Determination of the pipe stemming load (open access)

Determination of the pipe stemming load

A mechanical model for the emplacement pipe system is developed. The model is then employed to determine the force applied to the surface collar of the emplacement pipe, the pipe-stemming load, and the stress along the emplacement pipe as a function of stemming height. These results are presented as integrals and a method for their numerical integration is given.
Date: October 19, 1979
Creator: Cowin, S. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Single-charge craters excavated during subsurface high-explosive experiments at Big Black Test Site, Mississippi (open access)

Single-charge craters excavated during subsurface high-explosive experiments at Big Black Test Site, Mississippi

Single-charge and row-charge subsurface cratering experiments were performed to learn how close-spacing enhances single-crater dimensions. Our first experimental phase established cratering curves for 60-lb charges of the chemical explosive. For the second phase, to be described in a subsequent report, the Row-cratering experiments were designed and executed. This data report contains excavated dimensions and auxiliary data for the single-charge cratering experiments. The dimensions for the row-charge experiments will be in the other report. Significant changes in the soil's water content appeared to cause a variability in the excavated dimensions. This variability clouded the interpretation and application of the cratering curves obtained.
Date: October 19, 1978
Creator: Woodruff, W. R. & Bryan, J. B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Investigation of the chemical explosion of an ion exchange resin column and resulting americium contamination of personnel in the 242-Z building, August 30, 1976 (open access)

Investigation of the chemical explosion of an ion exchange resin column and resulting americium contamination of personnel in the 242-Z building, August 30, 1976

As a result of an explosion in the Waste Treatment Facility, 242-Z Building, 200 West Area of the Hanford Reservation on August 30, 1976, the Manager of the Richland Operations Office (RL), Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA), appointed an ERDA Committee to conduct a formal investigation and to prepare a report on their findings of this occurrence. The Committee was instructed to conduct the investigation in accordance with ERDAMC 0502, insofar as circumstances would permit, to cover and explain technical elements of the casual sequence(s) of the occurrence, and to describe management systems which should have or could have prevented the occurrence. This report is the result of the investigation and presents the conclusions of the review.
Date: October 19, 1976
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Double-exposure collector system. Final technical report (open access)

Double-exposure collector system. Final technical report

A retrofit solar water-heating system has been operating for the past two years in a three-story apartment building at Drexel University. The system employs two conventional collector banks (9 PPG collectors) mounted at the latitude angle for Philadelphia of 40 deg from the horizontal and two double-exposure collectors (DEC's) mounted vertically in mirrored enclosures. The relative performance of the conventional and double-exposure collectors has been monitored with an instrumentation system which was developed and installed in the basement of the apartment building. The DEC units have been found to provide from two to four times as much useful heat output per panel area than the PPG collectors. The higher relative performance values occur on clear winter days whereas lower relative performance values are found on clear summer days and generally overcast days. A cost analysis for a DEC unit relative to a conventional collector has also been performed. In the Philadelphia area the DEC units with their mirror enclosures would cost approximately 1.7 times as much per panel area as conventional collectors. Since the DEC units provide two to four times as much useful heat output, they are a cost-effective choice for flat or gently sloping roofs for which they …
Date: October 19, 1979
Creator: Larson, D. C. & Savery, C. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Computer simulation of superthermal transport for laser fusion (open access)

Computer simulation of superthermal transport for laser fusion

The relativistic multigroup diffusion equations describing superthermal electron transport in laser fusion plasmas were derived in an earlier UCRL. A successful numerical scheme based on these equations which is now being used to model laser fusion experiments is described.
Date: October 19, 1979
Creator: Kershaw, D.S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Modeling of brine migration in halite (open access)

Modeling of brine migration in halite

Four different models of the migration process have been reviewed to determine their suitability as a working model. While there are several common factors in the models additional factors are included to account for several possible effects. The detail of each model leads to a certain degree of difficulty in applying the model to the problem at hand. One model predicts that inclusions smaller than 0.1 mm dimension probably will not migrate. The other models do not consider size as a factor. Thermal diffusion (Soret effect) is considered insignificant in three models, while in the fourth model it is added to the concentration diffusion term. The following conclusions are made: (1) Temperature is the most significant parameter in all models and must be known as a function of time, and distance from the canister. (2) All four models predict about the same migration velocity for a given set of conditions. For 100/sup 0/C and 1/sup 0/C/cm thermal gradient, the individual values are 3.0, 4.8, 5.6 and 6.4 mm/y. (3) The diffusion of ions through the brine inclusions is the rate controlling mechanism. (4) The difference between the thermal gradients in the liquid and in the solid should always be considered, …
Date: October 19, 1979
Creator: Cheung, H.; Fuller, M.E. & Gaffney, E.S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Inertia and friction welding of aluminum alloy 1100 to type 316 stainless steel (open access)

Inertia and friction welding of aluminum alloy 1100 to type 316 stainless steel

The inertia and friction-welding processes were evaluated for joining aluminum alloy 1100-H14 and Type 316 vacuum-induction melted, vacuum-arc remelted (VIM VAR) stainless steel. While both processes consistently produced joints in which the strength exceeded the strength of the aluminum base metal, 100 percent bonding was not reliably achieved with inertia welding. The deficiency points out the need for development of nondestructive testing techniques for this type of joint. Additionally, solid-state volume diffusion did not appear to be a satisfactory explanation for the inertia and friction-welding bonding mechanism.
Date: October 19, 1979
Creator: Perkins, M.A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Modeling of brine migration in halite (open access)

Modeling of brine migration in halite

When canisters containing radwastes are emplaced in a repository the heat produced by the decaying radwaste will cause moderate thermal gradients to develop which will cause the brine present in a halite medium (salt deposits) to accumulate around the canister. Four different models of the migration process have been reviewed to determine their suitability as a working model. One model predicts that inclusions smaller than 0.1 mm dimension probably will not migrate. The other models do not consider size as a factor. Thermal diffusion (Soret effect) is considered insignificant in three models, while in the fourth model it is added to the concentration diffusion term. The following conclusions can be made: Temperature is the most significant parameter in all models and must be known as a function of time, and distance from the canister. All four models predict about the same migration velocity for it is a given set of conditions; for 100/sup 0/C and 1/sup 0/C/cm thermal gradient, it is 3.0, 4.8, 5.6 and 6.4 mm/y. Diffusion of ions through the brine inclusions is the rate controlling mechanism. The difference between the thermal gradients in the liquid and in the solid should always be considered and is a function …
Date: October 19, 1979
Creator: Cheung, H.; Fuller, M.E. & Gaffney, E.S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Genetic recombination in mammalian cells in culture. Progress report, May 1977--April 1978 (open access)

Genetic recombination in mammalian cells in culture. Progress report, May 1977--April 1978

Two approaches were made to studies on genetic recombination in Chinese hamster cells: cytogenetics and the synthesis of a hybrid cell line containing two noncomplementing nutritional mutants, presumably in the same cistron, that can be used to detect crossing over to produce nutritional independence. The cytogenetic approach was used to characterize existing mutants and to study new mutants. It is also being used to characterize the parents of the hybrids and the hybrids themselves with a view that prototrophic recombinants selected biochemically will also show recombination cytologically. (HLW)
Date: October 19, 1978
Creator: Morse, M. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
UF/sub 6//sup -/ production from surface reactions of uranium and fluorine (open access)

UF/sub 6//sup -/ production from surface reactions of uranium and fluorine

The production of UF/sub 6//sup -/ by reaction of a collimated stream of fluorine gas with a resistively heated uranium wire was studied at temperatures from 870 to 1020/sup 0/C and pressures less than 10/sup -3/ torr. At these temperatures below the uranium melting point, the formation of UF/sub 3/ intermediate on the uranium surface resulted in low UF/sub 6//sup -/ yields. The kinetic energy of the UF/sub 6//sup -/ ion was on the order of thermal energies. The work function of uranium was measured to be 4.20 +- 0.14 eV.
Date: October 19, 1978
Creator: McLean, J. E.; Dillon, J. J. & Talbert, C. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Register, Volume 4, Number 79, Pages 3815-3850, October 19, 1979 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 4, Number 79, Pages 3815-3850, October 19, 1979

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: October 19, 1979
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 1, Number 81, Pages 2927-2980, October 19, 1976 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 1, Number 81, Pages 2927-2980, October 19, 1976

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: October 19, 1976
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: MW-73 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: MW-73

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Mark White, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification;Effect of amendments to article 21.52 of the Insurance Code.
Date: October 19, 1979
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-1074 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-1074

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; May terms of school district trustees be changed from six years to three years?
Date: October 19, 1977
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-1239 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-1239

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Authority of Texas Cosmetology Commission to renew licenses for periods of less than one year for the purpose of staggering anniversary dates of renewals to achieve efficient administrative work distribution, and related questions.
Date: October 19, 1972
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-1240 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-1240

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether vehicle license receipts are public records to be kept by the County Tax Assessor-Collector, and related questions.
Date: October 19, 1972
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-133 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-133

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Reimbursement of expenses of school board members incurred in various ways.
Date: October 19, 1973
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Megachannel. gamma. --. gamma. coincidence system using a PDP-8/E computer and moving-head disks (open access)

Megachannel. gamma. --. gamma. coincidence system using a PDP-8/E computer and moving-head disks

A megachannel pulse-height analysis system using a PDP-8/E computer and two moving-head disk memories has been developed. The system has a storage capacity of 220 memory locations, is capable of processing 1100 events/s, and provides on-line sorting and disk storage. An X- or Y-pulse-height spectrum in coincidence with one or several arbitrary pulse-height windows can be assembled in core for scope display and spectral analysis within 2 to 20 seconds. Reconstruction of a complete X- or Y-pulse-height spectrum requires about 3 minutes.
Date: October 19, 1976
Creator: Ruhter, W. D.; Camp, D. C.; Mann, L. G.; Niday, J. B. & Siemens, P. D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library