The dynamic viscosity was measured for six anhydrous silicate melts, obtained by fusing various rocks collected from the Department of Energy's Nevada Test Site, from 1393 to 1953 K at 150 kPa. These silicate melts exhibit Newtonian behavior in this temperature interval. Experimental results indicate that tuff viscosity > alluvium viscosity > basalt viscosity. At 1673 K, viscosities of Schooner tuff (Ue20..mu..-330'), alluvium (U10ba), and Danny Boy basalt (Ue18q No. 2) are 28,460 Pa.s, 4,820 Pa.s, and 12.6 Pa.s, respectively. Activation energies for viscous flow in the interval between 1393 and 1953 K range from 268 to 393 kJ/mole.

The NRC is developing a framework of regulations, criteria, and standards. Lawrence Livermore Laboratory provides broad technical support to the NRC for developing this regulatory framework, part of which involves site suitability criteria for solidified high-level wastes (SHLW). Both the regulatory framework and the technical base on which it rests have evolved in time. This document is the second report of the technical support project. It was issued as a draft working paper for a programmatic review held at LLL from August 16 to 18, 1977. It was printed and distributed solely as a briefing document on preliminary methodology and initial findings for the purpose of critical review by those in attendance. These briefing documents are being reprinted now in their original formats as UCID-series reports for the sake of the historical record. Analysis results have evolved as both the models and data base have changed. As a result, the methodology, models, and data base in this document are severely outmoded.

Wind Energy Conversion Systems (WECS) commercially available in the United States are described. The terms used to describe these wind systems are defined and their significance discussed. Lists of manufacturers and distributors, subsystem components and suppliers, and references are provided.

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Administration of Judicial Retirement.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Payment by the State for licensure of nursing home administrators.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether Hemphill County may pay a portion of the salary of the manager of a historial museum under the facts submitted?

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether Art. 1137r, Sec. 1-4, Vernon's Penal Code, prohibiting the reproduction for sale of sound recordings without the original owner's consent is unconstitutional as in conflict with the Copyright Clause, Art. I, Sec. 8, Cl. 8, United States Constitution, and the implementing federal statutes, 17 USC §§ 1-215, the Copyright Act.

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This study was performed to identify transportation related problems and concerns for low-level transuranic (LLT) wastes. Recommended actions for these problems and concerns are included.

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A tissue-equivalent human-torso phantom has been constructed for calibration of the counting systems used for in-vivo measurement of transuranic nuclides. The phantom contains a human male rib cage, removable model organs, and includes tissue-equivalent chest plates that can be placed over the torso to simulate people with a wide range of statures. The organs included are lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, and tracheo-bronchial lymph nodes. Polyurethane with different concentrations of calcium carbonate was used to simulate the linear photon-attenuation properties of various human tissues--lean muscle, adipose-muscle mixtures, and cartilage. Foamed polyurethane with calcium carbonate simulates lung tissue. Transuranic isotopes can be incorporated uniformly in the phantom's lungs and other polyurethane-based organs by dissolution of the nitrate form in acetone with lanthanum nitrate carrier. Organs have now been labelled with highly pure /sup 238/Pu, /sup 239/Pu, and /sup 241/Am for calibration measurements. This phantom is the first of three that will be used in a U.S. Department of Energy program of intercomparisons involving more than ten laboratories. The results of the intercomparison will allow participating laboratories to prepare sets of transmission curves that can be used to predict the performance of their counting systems for a wide range of subject builds …

A separate abstract was prepared for each of the four articles in this report. (RWR)

This report consists of sugar policy actions since the expiration of the sugar act.

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This report is about completion of Records and Firsts of the United States House of Representatives.

This report consists of comparison and analysis of alternative proposals for federal student assistance.

This report will examine a few scores of controversies regarding executive privilege to illustrate the issues that are emerged and the claims made by congress and the president, and judicial decisions that have a bearing ion them.

The potential contribution of future geopressured energy - especially methane - to the US and the world's needs is examined through several scenarios. Although such production may not become competitive, if it does the eventual producible reserves from the Gulf Coast region seem likely to fall between 100 and 10,000 quads. The world's potential from similar resources is not known but may well be 10 times as great. The contribution to the projected future demand for hydrocarbons is found to become substantial in most of the success scenarios. The potential impact on fuel imports and their future prices is discussed. Although technical uncertainties are far too great at present for accurate projections, this could change rapidly as field data becomes available from DOE's R and D program.

This report presents the results of an airborne radiometric survey that was made of the Inyan Kara group in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming between March 5 to December 5, 1952.

To meet the goals of the LSSA program, solar cell encapsulants must provide protection for 20 years. Consequently, the objective of the present program is to develop methodology for making confident predictions of encapsulant performance at any exposure site in the U.S.A. During the first year of the program, inherent weatherability was studied. Inherent weatherability is controlled by the three weather factors common to all exposure sites: insolation, temperature, and humidity. Emphasis was focused on the transparent encapsulant portion of miniature solar cell arrays by eliminating weathering effects on the substrate and circuitry (which are also parts of the encapsulant system). The most extensive data were for yellowing, which was measured conviently and precisely. Considerable data also were obtained on tensile strength. Changes in these two properties after outdoor exposure were predicted very well from accelerated exposure data. Although more outdoor exposure data will be received, mathematical modeling studies are continuing. This first part of the program can be said to be successfully concluded. In continuation of the inherent weatherability study, the power output of solar cells was monitored under accelerated test conditions and is being followed for outdoor exposures. For this purpose, Universal Test Specimens (UTS's) with nine different …

A number of compounds have been screened as potential scale control agents by examining their effect on the precipitation of silica from Magmamax No. 1 brine. The substances were tested using the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory scale-control test system at the Niland, California, test site. Solutions of the test substances were injected into flowing brine at approx. 200/sup 0/C, the brine was flashed at 125/sup 0/C, and then the kinetics of solids and silica precipitation from effluent brine held at 90/sup 0/C were measured. Compounds tested include a variety of cellulose derivatives, ethylene oxide polymers, several polyethoxylated surfactants, and a phosphonate. The ethylene oxide moiety was confirmed as the source of activity in substances that inhibit the precipitation of silica at 90/sup 0/C, and the polyethylene glycols in the molecular weight range of approximately 10,000 to 100,000 are the most effective. A brief, in-plant scaling test with the most promising precipitation inhibitor showed that, although it significantly retarded scaling at 90/sup 0/C, there was no improvement at 125/sup 0/C or higher, and at 125/sup 0/C there may have been a slight increase in scaling rate.