"In this paper we solve for the diffracted wave which results when a weak hydromegnetic shock impinges on a rigid perfectly conducting half plans."

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Progress in health physics is reported under 20 topics. Separate abstracts were prepared for 19 topics. Education, training, and consultation are also discussed (M.C.G.)

A total of 25 sections is incorporated in the report. Separate abstracts were prepared for 22 of the sections. Those sections for which no abstracts were prepared are concerned with Th fuel cycle development, assistance programs, and publications. (J.R.D.)

ABS>Progress in nuclear safety research and development is reported. Topics covered include: reactivity effects of small fuel displacements in a pool- type reactor; studies in nuclear safety of fuels outside reactors; release of fission products from out-of-pile reactor fuels; release of fission products in in-pile melting or burning of reactor fuels; characterization and control of accident-released fission products; fission-product evaluation; I/sub 2/ removal from oxidizing gases at high temperatures; attenuation of fissionproduct escape by intrinsic processes; nuclear safety pilot plant; nuclear safety information center; radiochemicalplant safety studies; and space safety. (J.R.D.)

Newsletter of the University of Texas Bureau of Business Research outlining statistics and research related to business in Texas.

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Report issued by Oak Ridge National Laboratory that discusses progress and work performed by the Chemical Technology Division.

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Variables affecting the texture and grain size of uranium during beta treatment are summarized. The study of the effect of time and temperature in the beta phase on the growth index (G3) and grain size of the final alpha product is tentatively believed to show that higher beta temperatures for short times (up to about seven minutes) tend to promote slightly more negative growth indices and that higher beta temperatures give rise to somewhat finer grain sizes. Results of studies of both Jominy end-quenched bars and several full-sized rods and tubes quenched by total immersion showed that large thermal gradients promoted negative growth indices and produced grains somewhat elongated in the direction of the thermal gradient. The effects of endcooling in full-sized pieces quenched by total immersion in cold water showed that the axial growth index is negative up to distances from the end of about half the wall thickness of tubes and about half the radial dimension of rods. The grain refinement penetrates to a lesser distance from the ends. In the radial direction the growth index for these same pieces is largely negative to a distance below the outer diameter of about midwall in two tubes studied. In …

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Discussing peaceful applications of nuclear explosions

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"We compute the equilibrium configuration of a collision-free plasma contained in an axially symmetric magnetic field. The plasma is characterized by a non-scalar pressure tensor which is obtained from a microscopic distribution function in a form suggested b the guiding center approximation. The solution is calculated in the limit where the ratio of the width to the length of the plasma region and the ratio of the gas to the magnetic pressure are both small. Boundary values at the midplane as well as the shape of the plasma appear as arbitrary parameters in the solution. We give the solution to a corresponding scalar pressure problem for comparison."

Monthly magazine discussing natural resources, parks, hunting and fishing, and other information related to the outdoors in Texas.

This report details activities of the N-Reactor Department during the month of August 1963.

This document details activities of the Irradiation Processing Department during the month of August, 1962. A general summary is included at the start of the report, after which the report is divided into the following sections: Research and Engineering Operations; Production and Reactor Operations; Facilities Engineering Operation; and NPR Project.

Re-entry flight demonstration number one (RFD-1) was launched on May 22, 1963 from the Scout launch complex at NASA Wallops Station, Wallops Island, Virginia.

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Abstract: This report describes the SNAP-10A Simulated Test Reactor, the test philosophy of Re-entry Flight Demonstration Number One, the analytical analysis of reactor disassembly, and the results of the flight test.

The ACIR Library is composed of publications that study the interactions between different levels of government. This document addresses labor-management policies for state and local government.

Issued in two books and an Index. A total of 11,944 annotated references is presented to report and published literature concerning the effects of radiation on biological systems. Abstracts are included for many references. Author and subject indexes are included. (C.H.)