LA-10760-MS MASTER UC-2 and UC-13 IS3ued: November 1986 LA—10760-HS DE87 003575 Publications of Los Alamos Research 1985 Compiled by Connie J. Sheridan WilrnaJ. McClary Jeannette A. Rich Shirley A. Dussart DISCLAIMER This report was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the United States Government. Neither the United States Government nor any agency thereof, nor any of their employees, makes any warranty, express or implied, or ass imes any legal liability or responsi- bility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights. Refer- ence herein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recom- mendation, or favoring by the United States Government or any agency thereof. The views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government or any agency thereof. Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos,New Mexico 87545 DlSTBlBUTlOil CONTENTS Introduction vii Preface viii 1. Applications of Explosions 1 2. Biology and Medicine 2 3. Chemical High Explosives 6 4. Chemical Separations Processes for Plutonium and Uranium 8 5. Chemistry 9 7. Coal Conversion and Utilization—Coal Science and Analysis 16 8. Criticality Studies 17 9. Electric Energy Systems—Systems Development and Control 18 10. Energy Projections and Statistical Information 19 11. Energy Storage 20 12. Engineering and Equipment 21 14. Environment Control Technology and Earth Sciences 26 15. Experimental Plasma Physics 29 16. Fusion Systems 32 17. Geothermal Energy—Drilling Technology 34 19. Geothermal Energy—Exploration Technology 35 20. Geothermal Energy—Resource Development 36 21. Gas Cooled Reactor Technology 37 22. General Reactor Technology 38 23. General, Miscellaneous, and Progress Reports (Nonnuclear) 39 24. General, Miscellaneous, and Progress Reports (Nuclear) 40 25. Geothermal Energy 41 26. Health and Safety 42 27. Heating and Cooling—Residental and Commercial Applications 44 28. Inertiai Confinement Fusion 46 29. Instruments 48 30. Isotope Separation 52 31. Light Water Reactor Technology 53 33. LMFBR—Safety Technology 54 34. Magnetic Fusion Energy 55 35. Materials 56 36. Mathematics and Computers 61 37. Nuclear Propulsion Systems and Aerospace Safety 69 38. Nuclear Waste Management 71 39. Oil Shales and Tar Sands 73 40. Particle Accelerators and High Voltage Machines 7,4 41. Physics—Atomic and Molecular 80 42. Physics—Cosmic and Terrestrial 84 43. Physics—General 91 44. Physics—Nuclear 99 45. Physics—Particles and Fields 107 46. Radioisotope and Radiation Applications 111 47. Safeguards—Nuclear Materials Security 112 48. Solar Thermal 115 49. Theoretical Plasma Physics 116 Author Index 118 Numeric Index 167 Publication Tabulation 176 PUBLICATIONS OF LOS ALAMOS RESEARCH 1985 INTRODUCTION Los Alamos National Laboratory, which is "oarated for Facilities used in such research at the Laboratory in- the US Department of Energy (DOE) by the University of clude specialized laboratories; a nuclear reactor designed California, was founded in 1943 as part of the wartime for a variety of experiments; and particle accelerators Manhattan Project at the site of the Los Alamos Ranch such as the 24-MeV, three-stage Van de Graaff particle School, a boys' preparatory school in the mountains of accelerator and the 27-MeV electron accelerator de- northern New Mexico. It had a single assignment—to signed to produce a very intense, very short burst of x create the world's first nuclear fission bombs. Success in rays for high-speed flash radiography. At the Los Alamos that task, one of the greatest scientific and technological Meson Physics Facility, where physics experiments are achievements of all time, was followed by equal success carried out and where production of a variety of radio- in developing the first thermonuclear weapons. Since isotopes for medical use is under way, an 800-MeV, 1- 1952, the Laboratory has diversified its programs, and, mA-beam linear accelerator produces beams of protons, while still serving as one of the nation's two development mesons, and other nuclear particles with intensities up to centers for nuclear weapons, Los Alamos now devotes 10 000 times greater than those available elsewhere. about one-half of its total effort to unclassified research, Another of the Laboratory's facilities, ZT-40, is a toroidal exploring several peaceful applications of nuclear, con- reversed-field device for controlled thermonuclear re- ventional, and alternative forms of energy. Los Alamos search involving magnetic confinement of hot plasmas for research covers a broad spectrum, ranging from medium- fusion research. A Central Computing Facility with four and low-energy nuclear physics research to programs Cray-1s, three Cray X-MPs, two CDC 7600s, three Cyber involving medical and biological effects of radiation and 825s, and one Cyber 855 assists in the Laboratory's basic work in molecular and cellular biology. research. Major nonweapons activities at Los Alamos are energy The Laboratory as of 1985 employed approximately research in fields such as superconducting electrical 8000 persons, about one-third of whom are scientists and energy transmission and storage, solar and geothermal engineers. The total operating costs of the Laboratory, energy development, laser fusion research and laser excluding construction, are about $730 million per year. isotope separation, and controlled thermonuclear re- The investment in DOE-owned buildings and capital search using magnetic confinement. equipment at Los Alamos is over $920 million. vii PREFACE The Los Alamos Libraries' continuing program of locat- The entries are arranged in sections by broad subject ing, recording, and announcing publications of Los Ala- categories. Within each section they are alphabetical by mos-sponsored research has resulted in the previous title. All types of publications are interfiled. puolications: "Selected Bibliography of Publications of The author and numeric indexes refer to the item LASL Research, 1957-1962" (LAMS-2895 and supple- numbers, which consist of a number designating the ment), "Publications of LASL Research" for each of the section followed by a dash and a number for the years 1963 through 1966, "Publications of LASL Re- alphabetic arrangement of the item within the section. In search, 1967-1971" (LA-5400-MS), "Publications of LASL the numeric index, the LA- and LA-xxxx-MS, etc., Research, 1972-1976" (LA-6755-MS, Vols. I and II), numbers of reports are interfiled. "Publications of Los Alamos Research, 1977-1981" A Keyword-in-Context index included in earlier com- (LA-9435-MS, Vols. I and II), "Publications of Los Alamos pilations is not provided. Research 1982" (LA-9800-MS), "Publications of Los Ala- Most of the reports listed in this publication are avail- mos Research 1983" (LA-10155-MS), and "Publications able for sale from of Los Alamos Research 1984" (LA-10450-MS). National Technical Information Service This bibliography is a compilation of unclassified US Department of Commerce publications of work done at the Los Alamos National Springfield, VA 22161 Laboratory for 1985. Publications not included in earlier or on request by government agencies and their contrac- compilations have also been listed. Declassification of tors from previously classified reports is considered to constitute Office of Scientific and Technical Information publication. All classified issuances are omitted—even Technical Information Center those papers, themselves unclassified, which were pub- US Department of Energy lished only as part of a classified document. If a paper was P.O. 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Classification Office, from abstracting and indexing The arrangement in each bibliographical citation is title journals, and from supplementary library files. Inquiries first, place(s) of publication, indented, and authors, further regarding any of the materials included should be directed indented. The CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS abbreviation is to the Technical Processes Section of the Los Alamos used for journal citations except for the capitalization. The Libraries. group designations given after the authors' names in- The Libraries gratefully acknowledge the assistance of dicate the groups with which the authors were associated members of the Laboratory's Administrative Data when the papers were written. Parenthetical information Processing Division for assistance with the computerized includes report and