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TRANSMISSION LINE DESIGN IS OFTEN GOVERNED BY THE NEED TO RESIST THE HIGH LONGITUDINAL LOADS IMPOSED BY A LINE BREAK. THIS RARE EVENT REQUIRES TOWERS MUCH STRONGER (AND MORE COSTLY) THAN NEEDED FOR NORMAL SERVICE. FURTHER, FAILURE TO RESIST A LINE BREAK CAN LEAD TO EXTREMELY COSTLY "ZIPPER" TYPE MULTI-TOWER FAILURES. THIS PROJECT WILL PRODUCE A FEASIBILITY DESIGN WITH BACKUP SYSTEMS ANALYSIS OF A ...

THIS PROJECT WILL ASSESS THE FEASIBILITY OF ENHANCING THE PERFORMANCE OF TOROIDAL DEVICES FOR MAGNETIC CONFINEMENT OF FUSION PLASMAS BY USING HIGH-BETA, HOT-ELECTRON, SURFACE- LAYER PLASMAS. THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS ENHANCEMENT IS TO PERMIT STABLE OPERATION AT SUBSTANTIALLY HIGHER VALUES OF BETA THAN CAN BE ACHIEVED WITHOUT THE HOT-ELECTRON LAYER. IN PARTICULAR, THIS WORK WILL ADDRESS KEY QUESTIONS R ...

INCREASINGLY SERIOUS PROBLEMS ARE OCCURRING IN THE SUPPLY OF CARBON FOILS FOR USE IN HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATORS, WHERE THE FOILS ARE USED FOR INSTANCE TO CONVERT NEGATIVE HYDROGENIONS INTO PROTONS. WE ARE THE MAJOR U.S. SOURCE OF THESE FOILS. WE PRESENTLY SUPPLY THEM TO BROOKHAVEN, BERKELEY, LIVERMORE, ARGONNE, AND HAVE PREVIOUSLY SOLD THEM TO FERMILAB. NOW WE HAVE BEEN ASKED TO PROVIDE THEM FOR THE ...

LIQUID AND GASEOUS FUELS PRODUCED FROM COAL OR SHALE OIL, I.E., "SYNTHETIC" FUELS, WILL BE MAJOR SUBSTITUTES IN THE FUTURE FOR THE DIMINISHING SUPPLY OF PETROLEUM-BASED FUELS. A SIGNIFICANT PROBLEM IN THE PRODUCTION OF SYNFUELS IS THE GENERATION OF LARGE VOLUMES OF AQUEOUS WASTES, CLASSIFIED ASPROCESS CONDENSATES. THESE CONTAIN ORGANIC AND INORGANIC COMPOUNDS THAT CAN ONLY BE REMOVED BY A SERIES O ...

ACID GAS REMOVAL BY CONVENTIONAL ABSORPTION PRODESSES IS AN EXPENSIVE STEP IN THE PRODUCTION OF CLEAN FUELS FROM BOTH LOW- AND HIGH-BTU COAL GASES. MEMBRANE PROCESSES FOR ACID GAS SCRUBBING ARE COMPARATIVELY SIMPLE AND ECONOMICAL. HOWEVER, CONVENTIONAL POLYMERIC MEMBRANES LACK THE REQUIRED PERMEABILITY AND SELECTIVITY. IMMOBILIZED LIQUID MEMBRANES ARE MUCH MORE PERMEABLE AND SELECTIVE, BUT THEY CA ...

FEW NEW WILDCAT WELLS ARE IN FRONTIER LOCATIONS; IT IS MOSTLY FRONTIER EXPLORATION THAT WILL PRODUCE THE SIGNIFICANT NEW FINDS IN THE OFFSHORE, UNEXPLORED SEDIMENTARY BASINS. RAPID, LOW-COST, SENSITIVE AIRBORNE EXPLORATION TECHNIQUES ARE REQUIRED TO PINPOINT THE AREAS THAT JUSTIFY SLOWER, HIGH-COST SEISMIC SURVEYS. AIRBORNE MAGNETIC GRADIOMETRY HAS RECENTLY PROVED TO BE A USEFUL TOOL IN GEOPHYSICA ...

NON-INTRUSIVE BEAM MONITORS AND PRECISE INSTRUMENTS FOR CALIBRATING BEAM INTENSITY MONITORS WOULD BE OF TREMENDOUS VALUE IN HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATORS DURING ACCELERATOR OPERATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS. WE PROPOSE TO INITIATE A PROGRAM OF STUDY TO EVALUATE THE FEASIBILITY OF USING VERY RECENTLY DEMONSTRATED INTERFEROMETRIC FIBER OPTIC MAGNETIC TRANSDUCTION MECHANISMS IN A PRACTICAL INSTRUMENT FOR BEAM MO ...

A SCHEME FOR MANAGING RADIOACTIE WASTES FOR TRANSPORTATION AND ULTIMATE DISPOSAL IS SET-FORTH IN THIS PROPOSAL. LOW LEVEL RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINANTS WOULD BE SECURED BY A NEW ENCAPSULATION/FIXATION METHOD. PRODUCTS WILL BE 30 TO 55 GALLON CYLINDRICAL MODULES. MODULES WOULD CONSIST OF CORES OF PARTICULATED RADIOACTIVE WASTES FIXED BY CHEMICALLY CROSS-LINKED POLYETHYLENE AND ENCAPSULATED BY SEAM-FREE ...

THERE HAVE BEEN MANY MAJOR ADVANCEMENTS IN DIGITAL ELECTRONICS WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN APPLIED TO TEST INSTRUMENTATION. SPECIFICALLY, SIGNAL CONDITIONING INSTRUMENTATION COULD BE SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVED BY APPLYING SOME RECENTLY DEVELOPED LARGE SCALE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS. CURRENTLY, SIGNAL CONDITIONING IS DONE USING ANALOG FUNCTION CIRCUITS WHICH HAVE MANY LIMITATIONS AND PROBLEMS. BY APPLYING CURRENTLY ...

PRESENT COMPUTER ALGEBRA SYSTEMS SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE THE TIME SPENT SOLVING MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS FROM THAT REQUIRED IN THE PREVIOUS PENCIL-AND-PAPER OR NUMERICAL APPROXIMATION TECHNIQUES. HOWEVER, THESE SYSTEMS ARE STILL UNNECESSARILY TEDIOUS AND TIME-CONSUMING FOR THE SOLUTION OF MANY IMPORTANT PROBLEMS. IN PHASE I OF THIS PROJECT, SYSTEMS COGNITION WILL DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITY OF APPLYING ...