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This report discusses the purpose of the bill which is to encourage and assist states and localities to develop, demonstrate and evaluate means of improving the utilization and effectiveness of human services through integrated planning, management, and delivery of those services in order to achieve the objectives of personal independence and individual and family economic self-sufficiency.

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The equations of motion are derived for a piston in a closed end cylinder containing a compressible perfect gas. These equations include the possibility of an arbitrary motion imposed on the cylinder. In the analysis, it is assumed that there is a clearance between the piston and the cylinder which is sufficiently small so that the flow in the gap is controlled by viscous forces.

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The Second Quarterly Progress Report summarizes the status at the mid-point of the conceptual design effort. The fusion driver continues to pose some of the principal design problems due to the necessity of advancing plasma engineering and technology for long pulse, high duty cycle operation. The development of credible design solutions to these problems is one of the major objectives of the study. The TF and OH coil designs have been modified to provide a more compact arrangement in the nose region of the TF coils and to ensure fully cryostable operation. A unique concept has been developed to effectively shield the TF coils from the poloidal fields. A vacuum vessel concept which separates the functions for sustaining the differential pressure load and for sealing the vacuum system is described. The thickness of the blanket has been decreased to reduce the power density and the actinide inventory. Determination and presentation of actinide depletion characteristics represents a major element thus far in the study and is a principal objective. Evaluation of the changes in the hazard only during irradiation proved to be an inadequate measure of the reduction in long term hazards due to the importance of radioactive daughter products which …

The Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) vacuum system has been designed using conventional ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) components and technology. This report describes the rationale and motivation that went into its design. Mercury diffusion pumps were selected over other existing high vacuum pumps. A system of four pumps is designed to provide a base pressure of less than or equal to 8 x 10/sup -6/ Pa and a low impurity level within the torus. These features will be accomplished without in situ bakeout, but the system will be pre-baked before final assembly and periodically discharge cleaned during operation. Bakeout of the total vacuum system has been omitted in the initial design because it is believed that satisfactory conditions of the walls can be obtained without it. However, bakeout is being considered as a design alternative. Calculated spectra of mass to charge (M/e) ratios obtained from the residual gas analyzers (RGA's) to be used in the vacuum system forelines are presented. These spectra indicate the ability of the RGA's to monitor the tritium content of the vacuum system. The requirements for vacuum seals on TFTR are enumerated and the reasons for selecting flat copper washer seals are given. Also included is a …

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Equations of motion are derived for the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory's geothermal reservoir consisting of an elastic half-space (rock), with an open vertical pipe from the surface connected at depth with a vertical penny-shaped fracture. This reservoir, which is filled with water (laminar flow through a pipe), is subjected to seismic waves and/or blast-like impulses applied downhole. Oscillations (responses) of the water column, of the downhole internal net pressure required to keep the fracture open, and of the fracture itself, are found for the reservoir. If the fracture is continuously oscillated subject to pressure waves applied downhole and failure of the fracture surface occurs, it is usually through fatigue after a long period of time. Of concern next is transient oscillation of the fracture when down-hole blast-like impulses are applied. Of particular concern is the maximum amplitude, G/sub max/, of the fracture (crack) oscillation in early cycles. Generally, failure due to G/sub max/ is attributed singly to the strength of the fractured rock being exceeded. Since the period, tau, of the oscillations is sensitive to the radius, R, of the fracture, experimental determination of tau, in conjunction with Eq. (20), will permit R to be evaluated accurately. (auth)

The three main magnetic field windings for the TFTR are the toroidal field (TF) windings, the ohmic heating (OH) winding, and the equilibrium field (EF) winding. The following information is provided for these windings: (1) descriptions, (2) functions, (3) magnetic designs, e.g., number and location of turns, (4) design methods, and (5) descriptions of resulting magnetic fields. This report does not deal with the thermal, mechanical support, or construction details of the windings.

Presented here are notes for a course in PL/I. They might serve as a guide to those who are developing a course, or as class notes for that course. They might be useful as a textbook independent of any course; as such a textbook, however, they are not self-contained because of the built-in assumption that they will supplement lectures and be accompanied by manuals. Very nearly the full language is taught here, with the emphasis on concepts rather than practical details. Discussion of I/O is avoided until roughly the midpoint of the course. The hoped-for consequence for students is an enhanced perception and understanding of the many concepts and their logical relationships. The dawning of the age of transportability for PL/I programs gives the user a reason, for the first time, to avoid convenient but illegal language.

This report critically reviews the available information pertinent to the potential use of uranium-plutonium-zirconium alloy fuels clad with stainless steel in LMFBR's. The areas considered include breeding potential, burnup potential, thermal performance, fuel fabricability, fuel reprocessing, and safety considerations. Because information on uranium-plutonium-zirconium alloys is limited, wide use is made of experience with EBR-II metallic driver fuel to infer advantages and limitations of uranium-plutonium-zirconium fuels. It is concluded that sufficient potential exists for the applicability of uranium-plutonium-zirconium fuels to LMBFR's to warrant additional analytical and experimental studies.

A dispersion relation, including strong turbulence, is derived for short-wavelength longitudinal self-perturbations of bunched electron beams. The effects of radiation damping and quantum excitation are included. Assuming that turbulence stabilizes coherent oscillations allows the derivation of a formula for bunch length which gives excellent fits to the data from SPEAR. As a special case of the formalism, an integral equation which describes the longitudinal self-perturbations of proton beams is derived.

This information, intended for distribution at the dedication ceramonies for HGP Well No. 1, included: objectives, participants, chronology, objectives of the testing programs, budget, and the HGP advisory committee. (MHR)

Experimental directions which will be the most useful in developing underlying theories of hadronic collisions are outlined. As a pedagogical device to accomplish this, approximate percentages of a total program which could be devoted to different areas have been quoted. Findings are presented in the form of a short basic report with several long detailed appendices. In the basic report our opinion as to the amount of polarized beam experimental effort that should be applied to the following areas is stated: nucleon-nucleon scattering, quasi-two-body processes, inclusive production, and new or unexplored areas (such as large p/sub T/ and invariance principles). Our reasoning is discussed briefly, however, the details are left for the appendices. Members of the panel present certain aspects of the above areas, which should be useful for planning and/or performing polarized beam experiments. The seven presentations are abstracted separately in ERA.

The Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory is currently conducting a study to determine the feasibility to extract geothermal energy from dry hot rock. The investigated concept calls for the creation of a hydraulic fracture in hot, impermeable rock. Heat will be exchanged subsequently at the fracture surface between the rock and a circulating fluid. The successful creation of hydraulic fractures in the granitic section of exploratory holes GT-1 and GT-2 yielded sufficient data to calculate the average permeability of the rock next to a fracture by means of the mathematical model. The calculated permeabilities were found to be in the microdarcy range and proved the granitic rock penetrated by GT-1 and GT-2 to be sufficiently impermeable to test the above concept. (auth)

New, nonlinear, charged elementary excitations are predicted to occur for weakly-pinned Froehlich-charge-density-wave condensates at low temperatures.

Oxidation of tantalum nitride resistor films used in hybrid microcircuits is an unavoidable phenomenon known to affect interfacial properties between resistor and conductor layers. At room temperature, oxide thickness increases with time at an unknown rate; therefore, a three-day limitation between Ta/sub 2/N and Cr/Au conductor deposition is presently specified for hybrid microcircuits. The effects of Ta/sub 2/N aging on resistor-conductor contact resistance and conductor bondability were evaluated. Accelerated aging produced oxide layers of various thicknesses which were then correlated to contact resistance. Analytical data and calculations indicate that a 25 percent increase in contact resistance would occur by exposing the Ta/sub 2/N to air for approximately three years at room temperature and pressure prior to metallization. However, little or no change in bondability would be expected.

BeO ceramic disks were evaluated for application as dosimeters for both penetrating and non-penetrating radiation. Response to penetrating radiation was measured as thermoluminescence (TL) and to non-penetrating radiation as thermally stimulated exoelectron emission (TSEE). Field experiments demonstrated that both TSEE and TL responses from BeO can monitor diverse radiation fields. BeO disks in a passive dosimeter were found to be sensitive to a lower exposure level of 100 pCi-day/liter of radon. The depth of the more active exoelectron layer in BeO was found to be 4 ..mu..m. A second less active, exoelectron layer extends to a depth of at least 16 ..mu..m.

The purpose of this report is to describe the information structure of the GEODOC file. GEODOC is a computer based file which contains the descriptive cataloging and indexing information for all documents processed by the National Geothermal Information Resource Group. This file (along with other GRID files) is managed by DBMS, the Berkeley Data Base Management System. Input for the system is prepared using the IRATE Text Editing System with its extended (12 bit) character set, or punched cards.

Efforts to define gamma-ray heating in Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor (LMFBR) environments have been surveyed. Emphasis is placed on both current practice for the Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II) and future needs of the Fast Flux Test Facility (FFTF). Experimental and theoretical work are included in this preliminary survey for both high and low power environments. Current ''state-of-the-art'' accuracies and limitations are assessed. On this basis, it is concluded that a broad and sustained effort be initiated to meet requested FFTF goal accuracies. To this end, recommendations are advanced for improving the current status of gamma heating characterization and temperature measurements in LMFBR.

Data and information concerning irradiation of MgO crystals in position E-1 of the reactor core are presented. Data are included on neutron energy, neutron flux, irradiation time, and neutron dose. (JRD)

This report includes the first two quarters study of available information on schemes for protecting superconducting magnets. These schemes can be divided into two different categories. The first category deals with the detection of faulty regions (or normal regions) in the magnet. The second category relates to the protection of the magnet when a fault is detected, and the derived signal which can be used to activate a safety system (or energy removal system). The general detection and protection methods are first described briefly and then followed by a survey of the protection systems used by different laboratories for various magnets. A survey of the cause of the magnet difficulties or failures is also included. A preliminary discussion of these protection schemes and the experimental development of this program is given.

A set of numerical techniques for investigating the full nonlinear unstable behavior of low-..beta.. kink modes of given helical symmetry in tokamaks is presented. Uniform current density plasmas display complicated deformations including the formation of large vacuum bubbles provided that the safety factor q is sufficiently close to integral. Fairly large m = 1 deformations, but not bubble formation, persist for a plasma with a parabolic current density profile (and hence shear). Deformations for m greater than or equal to 2 are, however, greatly suppressed.