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THE ACCIDENT AT TMI DEMONSTRATED THAT LARGE QUANTITIES OF HYDROGEN CAN BE GENERATED AS A RESULT OF ZIRCONIUM-STEAM OXIDATION REACTION, WHICH POSES A HYDROGEN BURN THREAT IN LWR CONTAINMENTS. THE RATES AT WHICH THE CORE HEATS UP AND WHICH HYDROGEN IS GENERATED DEPENDS UPON THE ZIRONIUM-STEAM REACTION RATE, WHICH IN TURN IS INFLUENCED BY LOCAL STEAM SMSTARVATION AND HYDROGEN BLANKETING EFFECTS. THE ...

COUNTS OF PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC TO JUSTIFY SIGNALS, SIDEWALKS AND OTHER FACILITIES IN OUTSIDE ENVIRONMENT ARE DONE MANUALLY. COST OF TAKING THIS DATA WOULD BE REDUCED IF A RELIABLE, AUTOMATIC PEDESTRIAN DETECTION DEVICE WERE AVAILA-BLE. THE DEVICE MUST BE RELATIVELY INEXPENSIVE, DURABLE, PORTABLE AND ADAPTABLE TO OUTSIDE ENVIRONMENTS. A LINEAR PESTRAIN SENSOR ARRAY (LPSA) IS PROPOSED FOR PHASE I RESE ...

THIS PROPOSAL IS TO APPLY A NEW TECHNOLOGY NOT KNOWN TO BE PRESENTLY EXPLOITED TO THE DETECTION A SPECIAL CLASS OF CONCEALED WEAPONS-THOSE MADE OF PLASTIC. IN THIS CLASS ARE GUNS(AND THEIR AMMUNITION AND KNIVES MADE OF SOME OF THE NEW INDUSTRIAL PLASTICS. ALSO OF GREAT INTEREST ARE PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES, WHICH CAN BE TEMPORARILY OR PERMANENTLY SHARPED IN A VARIETY OF FORMS FOR CONCEALMENT. BECAUSE OF ...

IT IS PROPOSED TO DEVELOP A TEST TO CHARACTERIZE COMPOSITE AIRCRAFT WALL MATERIAL STRENGTH WHEN EXPOSED TO A FIRE. IN PHASE I, AN APPROXIMATELY 4FT X 4 FT GAS-FIRED RADIANT PANELCAPABLE OF EMITTING A MINIMUM OF 30,000 BTU/HR SQ FT AT THE SURFACT WILL BE USED TO EXPOSE REPRESENTATIVE TEST SAMPLES TO WHICH STATIC DESIGN LOADS ARE APPLIED UNTIL FAILURE OCCURS. THE FIRE LOAD TO THE EXPOSED WALL PANEL ...