The present invention is directed to a method for making a wide variety of general-purpose cermets and for radioactive waste disposal from ceramic powders prepared from urea-dispersed solutions containing various metal values. The powders are formed into a compact and subjected to a rapid temperature increase in a reducing atmosphere. During this reduction, one or more of the more readily reducible oxides in the compact is reduced to a selected substoichiometric state at a temperature below the eutectic phase for that particular oxide or oxides and then raised to a temperature greater than the eutectic temperature to provide a liquid phase in the compact prior to the reduction of the liquid phase forming oxide to solid metal. This liquid phase forms at a temperature below the melting temperature of the metal and bonds together the remaining particulates in the cermet to form a solid polycrystalline cermet.

This bibliography encompasses systems definition and engineering aspects; environmental assessment of microwave health and ecology, risks to space workers and atmospheric effects; a societal assessment covering resource requirements (land and materials) international and institutional issues; and a comparative assessment of the SPS Reference System relative to other advanced energy technologies, such as fusion. (MHR)

Assessment approaches and strategies useful in addressing important issues in section 316(b) of the 1972 Federal Water Pollution Control Act are illustrated in this report through the analysis and evaluation of the Prairie Island Nuclear Station 316(b) data base. The main issues in 316(b) demonstrations, cooling water intake operation and location, involve determining the impacts of entrainment and impingement. Entrainment impacts were addressed by applying the equivalent adult approach and correcting for inherent biases and by determining the through-plant survival of zooplankton. An assessment of impingement impacts was made by comparing for each of various species the number of fish impinged to estimates of population size. Densities of plankton and fish were compared between the intake area and an alternate area to determine if the location of the present intake minimizes impacts. No definitive conclusion relative to the best location of the intake could be made because of high year to year variability in the data and the differential dominance of trophic groups between areas.

Daily newspaper from Pawhuska, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The needle holds no terror for a cheerful Mitch Brown, 17."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Downtown commuter Debby Darnell applies for a parking place in the Galleria Garage, scheduled to open July 1st."

Caption: "Collected from willing students, faculty and staff during the one-day drive conducted by the Oklahoma Blood Institute." Poster for blood drive.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Flashing an A-OK sign, Western heights High School business education teacher Mary Nell Traywick recuperates after donating a few"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Backhoe operator Ernie Sherrill prepares to take a bite out of Park Avenue Wednesday as work on a project to widen Hudson Avenue and upgrade the intersection continues. The $544,000 project, which began Monday, is expected to take about six months to complete."

As part of the assessment of the Hot Dry Rock geothermal energy potential of Arizona and New Mexico, a compilation of the locations and ages of volcanic rocks less than 5 Myr was made. The locations of those rocks less than 3 Myr are shown on a map of the region. Because the compiled information has many uses in addition to geothermal exploration, the entire compilation is presented as a tabulation. The table is organized first by state and secondly by latitude and longitude within each state. Rock type, age and error, method of dating, and original reference are also given. The K-Ar dates have not been recalculated using the most recent decay constants for /sup 40/K. A few references gave only verbal descriptions of sample location; these locations were converted to approximate latitude and longitude.

This map is one of a series of maps designed for hot dry rock geothermal assessment in Arizona, New Mexico, and the Trans-Pecos area of west Texas. The 3.0 m.y. cutoff age was selected because original heat has probably largely dissipated in older rocks. The location of volcanic centers is more important to geothermal resource assessment than the location of their associated volcanic rocks; however, ages have been determined for numerous flows far from their source. Therefore, the distribution of all volcanic rocks less than or equal to 3.0 m.y. old, for which there is at least one determined age, are shown. Location of the volcanic vents and rocks were taken from Luedke and Smith (1978).

Review of the Electric Power Research Institute's (EPRI) method for calculating the geothermal resource base of a country shows that modifications are needed for several of the assumptions used in the calculation. These modifications include: (1) separating geothermal belts into volcanic types with a geothermal gradient of 50{sup 0}C/km and complex types in which 80% of the area has a temperature gradient of 30{sup 0}C/km and 20% has a gradient of 45{sup 0}C/km, (2) using the actual mean annual temperature of a country rather than an assumed 15{sup 0}C average ambient temperature, and (3) making separate calculations for the resource stored in water/brine and that stored in rock. Comparison of this method (Revised EPRI) for calculating a geothermal resource base with other resource base estimates made from a heat flow map of Europe indicates that the technique yields reasonable values. The calculated geothermal resource bases, stored in water and rock to a depth of 5 km, for each country in the world are given. Approximately five times as much energy is stored in rock as is stored in water.

A control system has been developed that uses a carrier signal imposed on an existing ac power circuit to transmit commands. This system was specifically developed to control an entire solar collector field by sending sun-tracking information to the trough collectors or by commanding them to assume safe positions (STOW) if out-of-limit conditions were encountered. Objectives were to develop a control system that operates reliably and has enough functions to control an entire collector field, yet do it at less cost than for conventional approaches. Development, design, operating characteristics, and field testing and results of the new system, the Power Cable Carrier Control (PC/sup 3/) System are described.

An experimental program was conducted to evaluate the process feasibility of the first stage of the HITS two-stage coal combustion system. Tests were run in a small (12-in. ID) fluidized bed facility at the Energy Engineering Laboratory, Aerojet Energy Conversion Company, Sacramento, California. The first stage reactor was run with low (0.70%) and high (4.06%) sulfur coals with ash fusion temperatures of 2450/sup 0/ and 2220/sup 0/F, respectively. Limestone was used to scavenge the sulfur. The produced low-Btu gas was burned in a combustor. Bed temperature and inlet gas percent oxygen were varied in the course of testing. Key results are summarized as follows: the process was stable and readily controllable, and generated a free-flowing char product using coals with low (2220/sup 0/F) and high (2450/sup 0/F) ash fusion temperatures at bed temperatures of at least 1700/sup 0/ and 1800/sup 0/F, respectively; the gaseous product was found to have a total heating value of about 120 Btu/SCF at 1350/sup 0/F, and the practicality of cleaning the hot product gas and delivering it to the combustor was demonstrated; sulfur capture efficiencies above 80% were demonstrated for both low and high sulfur coals with a calcium/sulfur mole ratio of approximately two; gasification …

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The dwindling level of Lake Altus, used for irrigation and recreation in southwestern Oklahoma."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Lake Altus boat dock has become dry land as drought shrinks the lake."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Has caused the usually submerged foundation of abandoned building at right to reappear on the shoreline."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Recent rains have greened up southwestern Oklahoma somewhat, but Lake Altus is still a long way from returning to the reservoir ir once was."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Jerry McClain smiles over the improving net-income chart of his downtown bank."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Construction is well underway on Enterprise Square, USA, a combination Disney-type theme park and economics classroom that is going up at Memorial and Benson Roads, adjacent to the Oklahoma Christian College campus."

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Preliminary evaluations have indicated that tri(n-hexyl) phosphate (THP) and tri(2-ethylhexyl) phosphate (TEHP) have some significant advantages over tri(n-butyl) phosphate (TBP) for fuel reprocessing although they also have some disadvantages. The longer alkyl chains in these new extractants decrease their aqueous phase solubility and increase the organic phase solubility of their metal complexes and the metal complexes of their degradation products. Both THP and TEHP extract uranium and plutonium more strongly than TBP; thorium extraction is in the order THP > TBP > TEHP. Tritium extraction is highest with TBP because of slightly higher water extraction. In extractions of thorium, a third liquid phase was formed using TBP at a solvent loading of about 40 g/L of thorium and above. Third-phase formation did not occur with THP or TEHP. The dialkyl phosphoric acid degradation products of THP and TEHP showed a markedly lower tendency to precipitate with thorium than did dibutyl phosphoric acid (HDBP). Chemical stability studies showed TEHP to have much greater stability to acid hydrolysis than TBP and THP, which were about equivalent. No differences were detected in the radiation stability of the three extractants. The phase separation properties of THP and TEHP are inferior to those of TBP …

An analysis has been performed to enable a preliminary assessment of the performance that can be expected of a solar thermal cogeneration system designed to serve a selected group of buildings at Fort Hood, Texas. A central receiver system utilizing a molten salts mixture as the receiver coolant, heat transfer fluid, and storage medium is assumed. The system is to supply a large share of the space heating, air conditioning, domestic hot water, and electricity needs of a 20-building Troop Housing Complex. Principal energy loads are graphed and tabulated, and the principal electric parasitic loads are tabulated and the methodology by which they are estimated is reviewed. The plant model and the performance calculations are discussed. Annual energy displacement results are given. (LEW)

The basement of the proposed High Explosives Applications Facility (Building 353) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory includes several explosive test cells for the assembly and/or storage of up to 10 kg of high explosive (HE). This document reports 1/8-scale and 1/4-scale model tests conducted to confirm maze design criteria, to determine the cell explosive weight limit based on an allowable 10 psi reflected shock pressure at the hallway-maze doorway, and to specify permissible areas for handling HE within the cell. The integrity of cube-root scaling of the explosive charges detonated in the 1/8-scale model was verified by explosive testing in a comparable 1/4-scale model. Reflected shock pressures in the hallway adjacent to the maze and the effect of HE charge orientation were investigated and are also reported.