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[en] When we look back over the years and consider the progress we have made in improving nuclear plant performance, I'm sure that many of you must feel the same mixture of elation and apprehension the mountain climber feels when he finally confronts his summit. In the curse of the last 10 years, many of US have watched availability averages rise from 50% to 60%, to 65% -- and recently, to 70%, 80% and beyond. Yet, as impressive an accomplishment as that is, there comes, I think, a growing realization that the steady increases we have achieved up to now may, in fact, have been the easy part of the journey, the trek from base camp -- and that within a very small handful of years, we may find ourselves pushing plant performance right to the limit, only to discover that it is pushing back

[en] This paper describes the analyses performed to determine whether or not the eleven major Department of Energy sites had adequate planning and resources available to implement their shipping baselines. The study covers only Environmental Management off-site shipments using Type B and Type A-Fissile packaging. The time frame evaluated is from 2001-2010. The results indicate issues with respect to having certified packaging for planned shipments, the packaging inventory available to support schedules, and the material sufficiently characterized to enable package selection

[en] The AP600, the new Westinghouse standard 600-MW(electric) nuclear power plant, uses proven, state-of-the-art technology derived from 30 yr of experience in light water reactor components and technology, reconfigured to create a new generation of mid-sized, simplified plants. Although active systems are also available, overall safety is enhanced by passive systems that rely on natural forces such as gravity, convection, evaporation, and condensation

[en] A comprehensive millimeter- and submillimeter-wave study of the rotational spectrum of (C-13)H₃OH is presented. Approximately 300 new transitions of this species were measured at frequencies up to 650 GHz, and the transitions were analyzed along with previously measured spectra using the internal axis method of Herbst et al. (1984). The resulting spectral constants allow prediction of an additional large number of transitions which should allow astronomers to identify many strong rotational lines of C-13 methanol throughout much of the submillimeter region. 23 references

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[en] A facility designed and constructed to demonstrate the viability of natural convection passive heat removal systems as a key feature of innovative LMR Shutdown Heat Removal (SHR) systems is in operation at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). This Natural Convection Shutdown Heat Removal Test Facility (NSTF) has investigated the heat transfer performance of the GE/PRISM passive design. This initial series of experiments simulates the air-side geometry of the PRISM Radiant Reactor Vessel Auxiliary Cooling System (RVACS). The NSTF operates in either a uniform heat flux mode and a uniform temperature mode at the air/guard vessel interface. Analysis of the RVACS performance data indicates excellent agreement with pretest analytical predictions. Correlation analysis presents the heat transfer data in a form suitable for use in LMR design and verification of analytical studies

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[en] A total of 245 previously unobserved millimeter- and submillimeter-wave transitions of (C-13)H₃OH for J not above 10 were assigned on the basis of measurements with a spectrometer which uses 40-60 GHz klystrons as fundamental radiation sources. These transitions were combined with the previously assigned 596 transitions and were analyzed using a modified internal-axis-method model which treats the symmetric (A) and degenerate (E) substates separately. As a result of the expansion of the (C-13)H₃OH data set to cover the same range as the data set of a previous (C-12)H₃OH analysis by Anderson et al. (1990), rigid criteria of self-consistency could be applied for the selection and the value of the constants between the isotopic species. The spectral constants obtained were used to make accurate predictions of 562 additional transitions of (C-13)H3OH for v(t) = 0, 1, 2 and rotational quantum number J equal to or less than 12. 18 refs

[en] Purified flagella from two strains of ³²P-labeled Pseudomonas aeruginosa were shown to be phosphorylated. This was confirmed by autoradiography of flagellin protein in polyacrylamide gels. Thin-layer electrophoresis and autoradiography of flagellin partial hydrolysates indicated that phosphotyrosine was the major phosphorylated amino acid. High-pressure liquid chromatographic analysis confirmed the presence of phosphotyrosine in flagellum filament protein. Preliminary data indicated that less than one tyrosine per subunit was phosphorylated. No evidence was found for phosphorylation of serine or threonine. A function related to tyrosine phosphorylation has not been determined