The 2XIIB CTR facility at LLL is described with emphasis on the engineering aspects of recent modifications. The current version of the 2X series of magnetic confinement experiments has been operating since the fall of 1974. The 2XIIB relies on pulsed-mirror coils to trap axially-injected low- energy ions. Subsequent heating of the ions is accomplished by energizing additional mirror coils to compress the plasma. Experiments prior to 2XIIB demonstrated plasma trapping and confinement in the pulsed mode. The new feature of 2XIIB is intense beams of electrically neutral atoms that heat the target plasma and sustain its classical losses. The principal goal of on-going experiments is to demonstrate scaling of the eta tau product with mean ion energy via neutral beam injection. This paper is an overview of the engineering developments of the past two years and an introduction to more detailed reports presented at this symposium. (auth)

The 2XIIB mirror confinement experiment makes unique demands on its vacuum system. The confinement coil set encloses a cavity whose surface is comprised of both simple and compound curves. Within this cavity and at the core of the machine is the operating vacuum which is on the order of 10$sup -9$ Torr. The vacuum container fits inside the cavity, presenting an inside surface suitable for titanium getter pumping and a means of removing the heat load imposed by incandescent sublimator wires. In addition, the cavity is constructed of nonmagnetic and nonconducting materials (nonmetals) to avoid distortion of the pulsed confinement field. It is also isolated from mechanical shocks induced in the machine's main structure when the coils are pulsed. This paper describes the design, construction, and operation of the 2XIIB high-vacuum vessel that has been performing successfully since early 1974. (auth)

The ACIR Library is composed of publications that study the interactions between different levels of government. This document addresses the ACIR state legislative program.

The ACIR Library is composed of publications that study the interactions between different levels of government. This document addresses the ACIR state legislative program.

The ACIR Library is composed of publications that study the interactions between different levels of government. This document addresses the ACIR state legislative program.

The ACIR Library is composed of publications that study the interactions between different levels of government. This document addresses the ACIR state legislative program.

The ACIR Library is composed of publications that study the interactions between different levels of government. This document addresses the ACIR state legislative program.

The ACIR Library is composed of publications that study the interactions between different levels of government. This document addresses the ACIR state legislative program.

The ACIR Library is composed of publications that study the interactions between different levels of government. This document addresses the ACIR state legislative program.

Newsletter issued by the Advisory Council for Technical-Vocational Education in Texas discussing news, events, and other relevant information related to technical and vocational education for adults in Texas.

Theoretical calculations were made of the electron reflectivity for quantum mechanical models of the surface dipole layer. Research on plasma theory is summarized including the modification of the plasma program to include electron temperature gradient iteration and a series of tests using a pulsed triode converter with an electropolished arc cast tungsten emitter, a deposited tungsten oxide collector and a four wire molybdenum grid. Converter development is summarized including electrode screening for low temperature converters and evaluation of the tungsten oxide converter, titanium oxide converter, and lanthanum hexaboride converter. Also, component hardware development is summarized. (WHK)

A report prepared by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) analyzing the potential impacts of the expected natural gas shortage of the winter of 1975-76. The study's objectives are to "determine the extent to which these projected curtailments reflect the actual situation and what the impacts and potential danger points might be as a result of the natural gas shortage" (p. ix).

A computer code named GASBAL was written to calculate the steady-state vacuum system performance of multi-chamber mirror machines as well as rather complex conventional multichamber vacuum systems. Application of the code, with some modifications, to the quasi-steady tokamak operating period should also be possible. Basically, GASBAL analyzes free molecular gas flow in a system consisting of a central chamber (the plasma chamber) connected by conductances to an arbitrary number of one- or two-chamber peripheral tanks. Each of the peripheral tanks may have vacuum pumping capability (pumping speed), sources of cold gas, and sources of energetic atoms. The central chamber may have actual vacuum pumping capability, as well as a plasma capable of ionizing injected atoms and impinging gas molecules and ''pumping'' them to a peripheral chamber. The GASBAL code was used in the preliminary design of a large mirror machine experiment--LLL's MX. (auth)

This paper describes the 12-pulse stabilizing field rectifier used for vertical field production in the Princeton Large Torus (PLT). It is essential that the rectifier be reliable, and protect itself from all faults including induced transient overvoltage produced by switching and plasma instabilities. To this end, computer simulations were run to insure protection under various fault conditions. (auth)

The assembly of the PLT device began in June 1974 with a preassembly of the mechanical structure at a remote site. The preassembly sequence incorporated final fabrication procedures with an initial staging operation. This successful staging/fabrication procedure proved to be an invaluable asset when the final assembly was started in August 1974. The assembly continued with the initial reassembly of the previously tested structural components at the final machine site. Construction was interrupted at several points to allow for toroidal field coil, vacuum vessel, and poloidal coil installation. Two phases of toroidal field coil power tests were included in the assembly sequence prior to, and just after the vacuum vessel insertion. (auth)

Activities in atmospheric sciences in the Department of Applied Science at Brookhaven National Laboratory carried out during 1974 are described. Included are contributions from the Meteorology, Atmospheric Diagnostics, Atmospheric Chemistry Research, and Atmospheric Instrumentation Groups. Programs in Meteorology reported on include diffusion from an off-shore source, plume dynamics studies, modeling of coastal effects on wind and temperature fields and pollutant distributions, effects of indoor shelter on inhalation of airborne radionuclides, chemical-dynamical interactions, techniques for determining acid-rain impact upon the ecology of the eastern U.S., and climatology. Work under Atmospheric Chemistry Research was concentrated on atmospheric aerosol studies, including formation by free radical and neutral association reactions, identification of reactive systems leading to aerosol formation, growth of sodium aerosols under atmospheric conditions and clustering reactions. Atmospheric Diagnostics presents work on field sampling and analytical technology for atmospheric pollutants, airborne sampling systems, atmospheric sulfate particulates methodology, and on a pyroturbidometric method for particulate sulfate discrimination and determination. Methodology for the use of sulfur hexafluoride in field tracer studies is discussed under Atmospheric Instrumentation. A list of publications is included. (auth)

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A number of existing $gamma$ cameras for imaging of radioisotope distributions give depth information about the distribution. These devices have in common that they provide tomographic images of the object, that is, that images of a given object plane have that plane in focus and all other object planes contribute an out-of-focus background superimposed on the in-focus image. A method is described for three dimensional reconstruction of these axial tomographic images which removes the blurred off-plane activity from a number of transverse planes simultaneously. The method is applicable to a number of tomographic cameras, such as the multiple single-pinhole camera, the rotating slanted-hole collimator, the Anger focussing tomographic scanner, and the positron camera. The method can be implemented on a small computer having a disc system. (auth)

A computer network for real-time data acquisition, monitoring and control of a series of experiments at the Brookhaven High Flux Beam Reactor has been developed and has been set into routine operation. This reactor experiment control facility presently services nine neutron spectrometers and one x-ray diffractometer. Several additional experiment connections are in progress. The architecture of the facility is based on a distributed function network concept. A statement of implementation and results is presented. (auth)

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Central fission and capture rates, the central neutron spectrum and the reactivity worths of small samples were measured at the core center of the GCFR Phase I Assembly, the initial benchmark GCFR mockup assembly. Results of these measurements and comparisons with calculations are reported. (auth)

A number of irradiated fuel rods and unfueled zircaloy cladding tubes (''water tubes'') were obtained from the Saxton reactor through arrangements with the Westinghouse Electric Corporation for use in subsequent irradiation effects and fuel behavior programs. A comprehensive nondestructive and corroborative destructive characterization program was undertaken on these fuel rods and tubes by ANC to provide baseline data on their characteristics prior to further testing and for comparison against post-post data. This report deals primarily with one portion of the NDT program performed remotely in the hot cells. The portion of interest in this paper is the pulsed eddy current inspection used in the nondestructive phase of the work. 6 references. (auth)

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.

Calculations are discussed using the 2D Lagrangian code LASNEX to simulate irradiation of Parylene discs. Using a representation of the experimental beam profile, geometric optics propagation, and an absorption model based on plasma simulations, the scattered light angular intensity distribution can be obtained. The use of a suprathermal electron heating spectrum and thermally generated magnetic fields with Braginskii transport coefficients leads to agreement with time-integrated x-ray spectra and x-ray spatial distributions. Details of the calculations and comparisons with other models are discussed. (auth)