The mechanical structure of the LLL/GA Mirror Hybrid Reactor vessel is briefly discussed. Functional requirements and over-all design considerations leading to selection of a post-tensioned concrete reactor vessel and a modular blanket approach are indicated. Module design life of four years, module replacement, capability and remote fueling are provided by the chosen structural design. (RME)

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: Whether a county and city may loan revenue sharing funds to a student to finance his medical education in return for a promise that he will serve as county health officer and maintain practice in the city for a specified time after licensing.

Recent improvements have made the two-stage, light-gas gun at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory into a dependable source of very energetic planar shocks. Also, the inclined-prism technique has proved useful in observing anomalous behavior of materials, especially at low pressure. The availability of these improved techniques presented an opportunity to re-examine the low pressure, shock-compression characteristics for graphite and, in a search for an additional transformation, to extend some of the data to higher pressures.

A listing is given of Mound Laboratory's sales of stable isotopes of noble gases, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, chlorine, and sulfur for fiscal years 1976 and 1976A (the period July 1, 1975 through September 30, 1976). Purchasers are listed alphabetically and are divided into domestic and foreign groups. A cross-reference index by location is included for domestic customers. Cross-reference listings by isotope purchased are included for all customers.

The central cell of TMX may require hot-ion injection. The resulting velocity-space anisotropy together with the length of the central homogeneous region raise the possibility of convective AIC instability. In this report we demonstrate that the Rosenbluth criterion of less than a thousand-fold amplitude amplification per pass can be satisfied by ion distributions which nevertheless have sufficient anisotropy to be confined within the central cell.

This report is a brief overview of land disposal policies of Principal federal land managements agencies.

Present techniques for measuring sound velocity in liquid metals have been limited by transducers that cannot survive in extreme temperatures for the long periods these techniques require. We are developing an alternative, noncontacting technique that takes very little time (approximately 1 ..mu..s) and can be used at very high temperatures (above 6000 K). We hope to use this method with our isobaric-expansion apparatus, in which we measure the thermal expansion, enthalpy, and temperature of wire samples electrically heated under high-pressure argon gas. Because we can already determine the specific heat C/sub p/ and the bulk thermal-expansion coefficient ..cap alpha.. for liquid metals, sound-velocity measurement would allow us to determine the Gruneisen parameter ..gamma../sub G/, specific heat C/sub v/, isothermal compressibility K/sub T/, entropy derivative (delta S/delta v)/sub T/, and internal-energy derivative (delta u/delta v)/sub T/. This paper describes this technique and the progress we have made with it to date.

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This report is about the unionization of Farm workers with the background and alternative federal approaches.