This report documents the systems and component requirements, design approaches, and performance and design characteristics for the 5-kwe system.

This report outlines major legislation concerning crime and criminal justice during the 92nd Congress.

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Projects in support of the Aerospace Nuclear Safety Program are summarized. The objective of the program was to evaluate the radiological safety of SNAP systems and to develop methods and designs to assure that safety. Projects summarized are analyses and experiments for determining: (1) the disintegration of reactors reentering the atmosphere; (2) the burnup of fuel elements reentering the atmosphere, including ablation and dispersal of particles; (3) reactor criticality conditions and the assurance of subcriticality in water; (4) the behavior of reactors in transient power operation; (5) the nuclear behavior of reactors on impact with the earth and in handling accidents; (6) the assurance of shutdown at the end of the power production lifetime; (7) risks by various exposure modes from different methods of reactor disposal; and (8) thermophysical properties of SNAP fuel materials. (auth)

This report provides a bibliography of the original source materials of popular conspiracy theories of the 20th century in America.

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Summaries of research programs in radiological physics, including dosimetry, microdosimetry and the Radiological Research Accelerator Facility (RARAF), and biophysics and radiobiology are presented. (CE8)

This report surveys the need for large computers in analyzing the properties of magnetically confined plasmas and simulating the characteristics of fusion reactors. The major conclusion of the report is that, to meet the program schedule developed by Magnetic Confinement Systems, it would be necessary to immediately scale up the CTR (controlled thermonuclear research) computerized effort to a level of two Class IV computers by FY 1975. Based on this report, and in an attempt to best meet this need, it was decided to establish the National CTR Computer Center at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.

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Progress is reported for a program to demonstrate by 1976 an experimental gas turbine powered automobile which meets the 1976 Federal Emission Standards, has significantly improved fuel economy, and is competitive in performance, reliability, and potential manufacturing cost with the conventional piston engine powered, standard-size American automobile. Procurement delays have caused an additional one-month slippage in engine deliveries. All test cell conversion and preparation tasks are complete. Assembly, qualification, and delivery to NASA of Engine 3 were accomplished. Vehicle installation design tasks were completed. Vehicle structural modifications were completed. Initial operation of the first vehicle has slipped two weeks due to engine delivery schedule changes. The planned training activity for the NASA technician took place. Endurance activity has included continued testing of molded insulation and the start of testing of new coarse pitch regenerator drive gears. Testing of a variable geometry combustor for control schedule optimization started. The all-ceramic regenerator core program was formulated, and work started on design and fabrication or procurement of core, drive, and seal hardware required specifically for these cores. The integrated control system sub-contract is delayed pending resolution of the adjustments to the scope of work. An elasto-plastic stress analysis program is being written in …

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Ultrasonic tagged, adult chinook salmon and steelhead trout were tracked in the Columbia River in 1967 during upstream migration past cooling water discharges from nuclear reactors. All fish migrated near shorelines, showing preference for the river bank opposite reactors. Clear responses to local temperaature differences were exhibited by few fish, these responses being to small shoreline seepages rather than to main centerchannel outfalls. (auth)

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X-ray diffraction data for graphite-related and diamond-related forms of carbon.

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Thesis. The variational equation is derived and discussed using Jastrowtype wave functions, which are a product of pair wave functions, as the trail wave function. The various approximations used in simplifying the variational equations so as to obtain a form that is possible to solve numerically are discussed also. A Monte Carlo calculation is described using the wave function obtained. Exchange in /sup 3/He is discussed. (MHR)

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