In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Constitution protects a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy (Roe v. Wade), and that a State may not unduly burden the exercise of that fundamental right by regulations that prohibit or substantially limit access to the means of effectuating that decision (Doe v. Bolton). However, the issue of a woman's right to an abortion is far from settled. This report discusses the various legislative actions undertaken since 1973 to either nullify these rulings or hinder their effectuation.

Experiment E-782 has been approved to run during the next fixed target cycle in a fast-spill muon beam aimed at the Tohoku bubble chamber, located in Lab F. New construction is necessary to provide this beam. Initial feasibility tests were carried out during the last fixed target run, measuring both muon fluxes and background halo rates, as a function of several parameters. These test results are compared in detail with the predictions of the Monte Carlo program HALO, and can be used as a benchmark for design of the final beamline. 3 refs., 16 figs.

This report discusses the temporal and economic factors of electric utilities in United States that make transmission constrains vary with time, and material specific to the individual cases. A particular focus of the investigation was the degree to which the transmission system would limit, or be affected by, the various scenarios.

This is an internal DOE Geothermal Program planning and control document. Many of these reports were issued only in draft form.

This is an internal DOE Geothermal Program planning and control document. Many of these reports were issued only in draft form. (DJE - 2005)

In the end calorimeter of the D-zero experiment, uranium and stainless steel plates are assembled into modules which are to be installed into the cryostat as individual units. A single inner module will be surrounded by sixteen middle modules, which are surrounded by sixteen outer modules. The earlier design of the support structure of each middle hadronic module of the end calorimeter consisted of a stainless steel skin 'wrapped' around the plates. Recently, it became clear that a system of straps, instead of skin, offered several advantages. Specifically, high voltage and read-out cables could be attached after assembly, most signal wire ganging connectors could be accessible for maintenance, and there would be less resistance to convective flow of argon vapor during cool-down and warm-up. Unlike the stainless steel plates of the coarse section, uranium plates cannot be welded to the straps. A series of four configurations were designed, constructed, and tested. This report describes testing of the fourth design, which has been selected for construction. Drawings are included in appendix 1.

There has been recent interest in the formulation of a nonperturbative theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED). In this report we critically discuss a recent theory of nonperturbative QED. We point out a difficulty with this theory and outline a theory which is free of this difficulty. Finally, computational schemes for implementing the theory are briefly discussed.

Batch experiments performed using {sup 14}C, Savannah River Plant (SRP) soil, and SRP burial ground groundwater indicate that the distribution coefficient, or K{sub d}, for {sup 14}C in the form of carbonates is typically 2 ml/g after 7 hours of equilibration and 55 ml/g after 72 hours. These results were obtained for samples containing {sup 14}C concentrations ranging from 4.2 nCi/ml up to 40.9 nCi/ml. For comparison the concentration of {sup 14}C in the sump leachate of the defense waste lysimeters 1 have ranged from 0.06 nCi/ml to 0.9 nCi/ml.

A promising design for a deuterium-tritium (DT) neutron source is based on the injection of neutral beams into a dense, warm plasma column. Its purpose is to test materials for possible use in fusion reactors. A series of designs have evolved, from a 4-T version to an 8-T version. Intense fluxes of 5--10 MW/m/sup 2/ is achieved at the plasma surface, sufficient to complete end-of-life tests in one to two years. In this report, we review data from earlier mirror experiments that are relevant to such neutron sources. Most of these data are from 2XIIB, which was the only facility to ever inject 5 MW of neutral beams into a single mirror call. The major physics issues for a beam-plasma neutron source are magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equilibrium and stability, microstability, startup, cold-ion fueling of the midplane to allow two-component reactions, and operation in the Spitzer conduction regime, where the power is removed to the ends by an axial gradient in the electron temperature T/sub e/. We show in this report that the conditions required for a neutron source have now been demonstrated in experiments. 20 refs., 15 figs., 3 tabs.