A prototype gauge (gage) was designed and fabricated using air bearings in a new configuration to provide less error and distortion during inspection of hemispherical parts. No wear occurs on the moving parts during operations and accuracy of alignment is maintained. The gauge will check outside radial distance, inside radial, and outside radial and wall, and inner radial and wall thicknesses of parts. The gauge contains only four moving parts, which increases the measuring accuracy. A horizontal table rotates. A table mounted on the horizontal table at 45/sup 0/ rotates through two transducers. All moving parts are mounted on hydrostatic gas bearings. Laser interferometric, air-bearing gauge heads are used to obtain the required data. Investigation of a hemispherical part is in any desired spiral path from equator to pole. Measurement information is obtained from two laser interferometric transducers using linear air bearings. The transducers use a Spectra Physics Model-120 helium and neon laser. Working range of each transducer is 1.5 inches. The fringe voltage signals are amplified and converted to inches to be displayed on a digital readout. A punched paper tape contains the nominal inside diameter (ID) and outside diameter (OD) information in Binary Coded Decimal form. The tape …

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "IT'S OVER AT LAST for Alma E. Johnson, Oklahoma City who like many other Oklahomans joined long lines of auto license tag buyers."

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Alma Lee Perotka, Oklahoma City Zoo Veterinarian, and one of her "clients," a young kangaroo."

The five major chemical processes, the Bismuth Phosphate process, the Uranium Recovery process, the Redox process, the Purex process, and the Waste Fractionization process have each contributed to give the total Hanford waste chemicals. Each of these processes is studied to determine the total estimated chemicals stored in underground waste tanks. The chemical contents are derived mainly from flowsheet compositions and recorded waste volumes sent to underground storage. The major components and amounts of Hanford waste are sodium hydroxide, 230 million gram-moles (20 million pounds), sodium nitrate, 1400 million gram-moles (270 million pounds), sodium nitrite, 220 million gram-moles (34 million pounds), sodium aluminate, 400 million gram-moles (72 million pounds), and sodium phosphate, 87 million gram-moles (31 million pounds). Chemical analyses of the sludge and salt cake samples are tabulated to determine the chemical characteristics of the solids. A relative chemical toxicity of the Hanford underground waste tank chemicals is developed from maximum permissible chemical concentrations in air and water. The most toxic chemicals are assumed to be sodium phosphate--35%, sodium aluminate--28%, and chromium hydroxide--19%. If air standards set toxicity limits, the most toxic chemicals are bismuth--41%, chromium hydroxide--23%, and fluoride--10%.

An improved bremsstrahlung convertor for use at high electron beam energies was developed. The convertor consists of three main components: (1) conversion foil; (2) electron scavenger; and (3) impulse shield. Structural failures of the impulse shield were experimentally determined to be caused by shock wave interactions. Convertor materials and design modifications were aimed at attenuation of the magnitude of the shock and maximization of energy absorption by the convertor materials. Techniques proven successful included the introduction of porosity into electron scavenger and impulse shield materials, the use of a standoff between the conversion foil and the electron scavenger, the insertion of a gap between the scavenger and impulse shield, and the use of advanced composite materials for the impulse shield. These modifications have increased the convertor operating range from 4 cal/gm Au to over 8 cal/gm Au. Kevlar 49 reinforced-resin composites have proven to have the best combination of strength, stiffness, toughness, and x-ray transport properties for use as bremmstrahlung convertor impulse shields.

An analytical and experimental study was conducted to examine the mechanical behavior of double-lapped adhesive-bonded joints subjected to bending loads. Adherends consisted of a U-shaped high-strength steel hub and a unidirectional composite of either B/Al or B/epoxy. Adhesives with a range of moduli and peel strengths were evaluated with and without bolts in regions of high stress concentration. Finite element analysis results indicated high shear and normal stress concentrations at the end of the steel hub legs. These concentrations are a direct function of the effective hub stiffness - increases in hub thickness or Young's modulus result in higher adhesive stresses. Stress concentrations in the adhesive layer may be reduced by decreasing adhesive modulus, composite transverse modulus, or composite in-plane shear modulus. Experimental testing of sample joints revealed that failure modes are controlled by the composite adherend material. Joints incorporating a B/Al adherend failed by adhesive peel in the region of high stress concentration. Failure occurred at a load level which stressed the B/Al composite to 75 percent of its 200 ksi ultimate strength. Delamination of the B/epoxy composite was the predominant failure mode of joints utilizing a B/epoxy adherend. Failure by delamination was suppressed by the insertion of high-strength …

Calculated results are presented of the uncertainties in the neutron scalar flux, the energy deposition per unit volume, and the displacements per atom in the toroidal field coil of a tokamak experimental power reactor due to neutron cross-section errors in iron and carbon which are major constituents of the blanket-shield-coil configuration considered. The calculations were carried out using perturbation theory to obtain sensitivity profiles for the various cross sections of interest, and these profiles were then combined with cross- section error estimates, including correlations, to obtain the uncertainties. Each of the three responses--the neutron scalar flux, the energy deposition per unit volume, and the displacements per atom--is found to be very sensitive to the cross sections in the energy group which contains the source (approximately 14 MeV since a D-T source is assumed), and each of the responses is found to have a relative standard deviation of approximately 100 percent due to neutron cross- section errors in iron.

Magnetization was measured between 1.7 and 300/sup 0/K in fields up to 70 kOe on splat-cooled Ni--P--B amorphous alloys in the critical concentration range for the appearance of ferromagnetism. The onset of ferromagnetism is attributed to interactions between giant moments. For the composition range investigated, the magnetic contribution is arising mainly from moments of 5 to 6 ..mu../sub B/ with a Kondo-type characteristic temperature of 1/sup 0/K.

A computer-based structural analysis was performed on the inner tank of SY-103 in the 241-SY tank farm on the Hanford reservation. The objectives of this study were to determine the general stress condition of the inner tank for selected water-fill, hydrotest heights, and, to investigate the magnitude of local stresses in the vicinity of an out-of-tolerance ''bump'' on the bottom of the inner tank under a loading equivalent to the anticipated waste storage condition. Results show that the stresses induced in flat-bottomed tank, due to hydrotest water-fill are quite low until fill heights in excess of 45 feet are encountered. Filling beyond this level, circumferential membrane compressive stresses in the upper knuckle become great enough to cause concern about the possibility of buckling. If the upper knuckle portion of the tank is effectively supported by the reinforced concrete roof when fill heights of approximately 43 feet are exceeded, the calculated stresses would not develop. Investigation of the measured bottom bump in SY-103 indicates that total flattening will not quite occur under the anticipated operating conditions. Results show that there will be no localized yielding of the tank inner surface when it is filled to normal height with terminal waste slurry …

An analytical model was developed to identify the basic phenomena present in the high temperature flow (2700/sup 0/K) of two gaseous coaxial streams. The one-dimensional model potentially has application for design of hardware and test conditions for conducting a laser isotope separation feasibility experiment. The processes of interest are those of coupled flow dynamics, liquid condensation of metal vapors, and gaseous diffusion. The stream tubes may initially consist of pure or combinations of an inert carrier--nitrogen, or metal vapor--uranium. A computer code, LISP (Laser Isotope Separation Program), follows from the model. Output from the LISP code is presented in three test cases. They involved stream differences in velocity up to 90,000 mm/sec and in temperatures of 1100/sup 0/K. The rate controlling process for the cases cited was found to be diffusion. However, condensation was present. Further use of the LISP code should continue to give a better understanding into the coupled processes of diffusion, condensation, and flow dynamics.

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A phase-controlled rectifier has been designed for the accelerating supply on the PLT Neutral Beam Injection system at PPPL. The rectifier must furnish 70 amperes at up to 50 KV for 300 milliseconds, with a duty cycle of up to 10 percent. Protection of the injectors requires the supply to withstand repeated crowbarring. The rectifying element selected to satisfy these requirements was a commercially-available ignitron, installed in a supporting frame and using firing circuits and controls designed by PPPL.

Preliminary experiments are reported on the relationship between the injection mode of contact and the occurrence and magnitude of vapour explosions. Water was injected beneath the surface of molten metals, chiefly tin at 250 to 900/sup 0/C. Vapour explosions occurred in many, but not all, cases. The results are compared with Dullforce's observations (Culham Report (CLM-P424) on the dropping mode of contact and it appears that rather different behaviour is found; in particular, the present results suggest that the Temperature Interaction Zone is different for the two modes of contact.

If an intense short pulse of megavolt electrons is deposited in a brittle solid, dynamic spalling can be made to occur with removal of material. Experiments were made on several types of hard rock; results are reproducible and well-described theoretically. An accelerator with a rapidly-pulsed scanning electron beam was designed that could tunnel in hard rock about ten times faster than conventional drill/blast methods.

The reactivity and power perturbation effects of poison and neutral pins in mockups of 15 by 15 fuel assemblies are measured. The experimental facility--a water-moderated, 4 percent enriched UO/sub 2/ lattice--is arranged to mock up the fuel assemblies of the Consolidated Nuclear Steam Generator (CNSG) core.

Preliminary numerical results for the dynamics of toroidally confined plasmas in the drift-kinetic, Fokker--Planck description are discussed. These solutions were obtained by using the techniques inherent to the collisional plasma model (CPM) described in detail elsewhere. An initial value problem is solved in the local approximation in which collisions and particle dynamics compete in a given magnetic field to set up a quasi-equilibrium. Both the plasma (guiding center) distribution function and many macroscopic quantities of interest are monitored. Good agreement with corresponding but more approximate theories is obtained over a wide range of collisionality, particularly with regard to the neoclassical particle flux. Encouraging confirmation of earlier results for the distribution function is achieved when due account is taken of the differing collisionality of particles with differing energies. These initial results indicate the potential importance of certain non-local effects as well as inclusion of self-consistency between fields and plasma currents and densities.

A continuation is given of the fission-cross-section ratio measurements in progress at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. Preliminary results are provided for the /sup 240/Pu//sup 235/U and /sup 242/Pu//sup 235/U ratios from 0.02 to 30 MeV and 0.1 to 30 MeV, respectively. Using the threshold-cross-section method, the ratios were normalized to the values 1.368 +- 0.030 and 1.116 +- 0.025, respectively, from 1.75 to 4.00 MeV.

The resonance cones existing below the ion cyclotron frequency, ..omega../sub c/sub i//, are shown, theoretically and experimentally, to be the asymptotes of hyperbolic constant-phase surfaces of low-frequency ion acoustic waves. Above ..omega../sub c/sub i// the surfaces transform into ellipses that are related to the electrostatic ion cyclotron waves and ion acoustic waves.

The basic design of the breeding blanket consists of cylindrical aluminium canisters filled with a ceramic bed of moderating, shielding, and breeding materials all suitably cooled. A technical analysis of the blanket for an EPR design is given. Activation studies are presented. The effect of pulsed magnetic fields on module structure is investigated. (MOW)

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