Study of plutonium oxide leak rates from shipping containers. Quarterly progress report, October 1, 1976--December 21, 1976

Preliminary data show that a 10-..mu..m orifice will transport a very small amount of fine particles. Realistically, much of the UO/sub 2/ work is planned to consider initially 20 ..mu..m and larger holes. The first use of a settling-agglomeration computer code gave results believed to be realistic, but the computed data should be compared with experimental data.