01384079
EDB-84-081876
Title: Heavy-fuel-burning diesels power Pacific island

Author(s):

Weall,

A.

Source: Mod. Power Syst. (United Kingdom)
Publication Date: Mar 1984
p 29,31-33

v 4:3.

Coden: MPSYD

:

Document Type: Journal Article

Language: English
Journal Announcement: EPA8405
Subfile:
EPA (Energy Abstracts for Policy Analysis) .
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
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Abstract: Four Crossley-Pielstick PC2.2V diesel engines running on heavy
fuel are not the sole source of power on Majuro Atoll, one of the
Marshall Islands in the Pacific. The power station is rated at 12 MW
and there is provision for future expansion. 7 figures.;

Major Descriptors: *DIESEL ENGINES -- POWER GENERATION; *OCEANIA -- DIESEL
ENGINES; *OCEANIA -- POWER PLANTS; *POWER PLANTS -- DESIGN
Broader Terms: ENGINES; HEAT ENGINES; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES

Subject Categories: 200102*
-- Fossil-Fueled Power Plants -- Power Cycles
296000
-- Energy Planning & Policy -- Electric Power

10/5/673
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01378638
ERA-09-025078; EDB-84-076433
Author(s): Noshkin, V.E.;
Wong, K.M.;
Jokela,
R.J.

T.A.;

Brunk,

J.L.;

Eagle,

Title: Plutonium and americium behavior in coral atoll environments
Corporate

Source:

Publication Date:

Report Number(s):

Lawrence Livermore National Lab.,

1 Feb 1984

UCID-19997

p 46

CA

(USA)

Order Number: DE84010920
Contract Number

(DOE):

W-7405-ENG-48

Document Type: Report; Numerical data
Language: English
Journal Announcement: INS8405

Availability: NTIS, PC A03/MF AOl.
Subfile:
INS
Abstracts).

(US

Atomindex

input);

NTS

(NTIS);

ERA

(Energy Research

Country of Origin: United States
Country of Publication: United States

Abstract: Inventories of /sup 239 +240/Pu and /sup 241/Am greatly in excess
of global fallout levels persist in the benthic environments of Bikini

and Enewetak Atolls. Quantities of /sup 239 +240/Pu and lesser amounts

of /sup 241/Am are continuously mobilizing from these sedimentary

reservoirs. The amount of /sup 239 +240/Pu mobilized to solution at any

time represents 0.08 to 0.09% of the sediment inventories to a depth of

16 cm. The mobilized /sup 239 +240/Pu has solute-like characteristics

and different valence states coexist in solution - the largest fraction
of the soluble plutonium is in an oxidized form (+V,VI). The adsorption
of plutonium to sediments is not completely reversible because of
changes that occur in the relative amounts of the mixed oxidation
states in solution with time. Further, any characteristics of /sup 239
+240/Pu described at one location may not necessarily be relevant in

describing its behavior elsewhere following mobilization and migration.
The relative amounts of /sup 241/Am to /sup 239 +240/Pu in the

Major Descriptors: *BIKINI -- AMERICIUM 241; *BIKINI -- PLUTONIUM 239;
*BIKINI -- PLUTONIUM 240; *ENIWETOK -- AMERICIUM 241; *ENIWETOK -PLUTONIUM 239; *ENIWETOK -- PLUTONIUM 240; *SEDIMENTS -- RADIONUCLIDE
MIGRATION
Descriptors: EXPERIMENTAL DATA; RADIOECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; SEAWATER;
SOLUBILITY; VALENCE

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sedimentary deposits at Enewetak and Bikini may be altered in future
years because of mobilization and radiological decay. Mobilization of
/sup 239 +240/Pu is not a process unique to these atolls, and
quantities in solution derived from sedimentary deposits can be found
at other global sites. These studies in the equatorial Pacific have
significance in assessing the long-term behavior of the transuranics in
any marine environment. 22 references, 1 figure, 13 tables.;

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