This report discusses research at the Pacific Northwest Laboratory on topics relating to hanford production reactors. The topic deal with: reactor and material technology; reactor physics and instruments; chemistry; biology and medicine; applied mathematics; radiation protection; and test reactor and engineering services.

The monthly report for the Hanford Laboratories Operation, May 1961. Reactor fuels, chemistry, dosimetry, separation processes, reactor technology, financial activities, biology operation, and physics and instrumentation research, operations research and synthesis operation, programming, laboratory auxiliaries operation, and technical administration operation are discussed.

The monthly report for the Hanford Laboratories Operation, May 1963. Reactor fuels, chemistry, dosimetry, separation processes, reactor technology, financial activities, biology operation, and physics and instrumentation research, and applied mathematics, and programming operation are discussed.

This is the monthly report for the Hanford Laboratories Operation, April, 1963. Reactor fuels, chemistry, dosimetry, separation processes, reactor technology financial activities, biology operation, physics and instrumentation research, employee relations, applied mathematics operation, programming, and radiation protection operation discussed.

This is the monthly report for the Hanford Laboratories Operation, May, 1962. Reactor fuels, chemistry, dosimetry, separation process, reactor technology employee relations, operations research and synthesis operation, programming, and radiation protection are discussed.

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A description is given of the safety features and the major alterations to be performed prior to occupancy. The evaluation was made in support of fubrication work on the production of safe isotopic power sources from Cm/sup 242/ and Sr/sup 90/. The chemical, nuclear, and radiobiological properties of Cm/sup 242/ and Sr/sup 90/ are outlined. The projected physical fiow of materials for production of the isotopic power souroes is schematically given. An evaluation of the malfunctions, operational hazards, and remedial health physics procedures is presented. The analysis and evaluation of postulated maximum credible incidents are demonstrated. (B.O.G.)

The Purex Plant was originally designed for the chemical processing of irradiated natural uranium. It has been used nearly exclusively for this purpose during its approximately ten-year operating lifetime. However, during the winter of 1964--1965, a special processing campaign was planned and accomplished in which approximately 6 tons of irradiated thoria targets were introduced to the plant, and the thorium-232 and uranium-233 were successfully separated and purified on a demonstration basis. For the demonstration thorium processing operation (6-ton test) of the winter of 1964--1965, process specifications were issued. These specifications were necessarily specific to the particular campaign inasmuch as a rather unusual processing scheme was required, by virtue of the small tonnage involved and the equipment limitations of the plant. Thus, for the relatively large operation subsequently planned, other process specifications are required. The purpose of this present document is to provide these specifications. Depending on the manner and extent of thorium -- uranium-233 production developments, these present specifications may have future application, at least in part. In addition to the process specifications, this document includes a section describing the flowsheet, and a section in which the technological bases for good process control are presented. In conjunction with the specifications, …

Work related to these areas is reported: PHOEBUS 2; PEWEE; NRDS ACTIVITIES; FUEL ELEMENT AND CORE COMPONENT DEVELOPMENT, FABRICATION, AND TESTING; MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT AN.D PROPER TIES; and MISCELLANEOUS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.

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Project Rulison post-shot plans and evaluations are discussed and include physical characteristics of the Rulison cavity; pressure and temperature expected in the cavity; amount, nature, and distribution of radioactivity in the cavity; reentry plan; radioactive species which may be encountered during reentry; public safety considerations arising from release of radioactivity; procedures to assure public safety; and the radiological safety plan. Maximum hypothetical accidents and ecological considerations are discussed in the appendices.

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>Thirty papers are included on reactor kinetics with emphasis being placed on reactor safety and design considerations resulting from kinetic work. Information is presented on power excursion programs, reactor transfer function determination and application, reactor instability and thermal-hydraulic problems, and analytical methods in reactor kinetics. The accomplishments in the field and areas needing emphasis are discussed and summarized. Constructive suggestions are made on program direction and information dissemination. Separate abstracts were prepared for each paper. (N.W.R.) lOl2 Data and analytical work on various power excursion tests are summarized and discussed in order to show the present position and understanding of reactor kinetics under accident conditions. The results show that our understanding of plate-type, water-moderated systems of the low power research type seem to be in good shape. On the other hand, information on radiolytic gas formation and transient boiling phenomena is not understood too well. Data are primarily presented on safety experiments with SPERT I and KEWB; however, some information is presented on power excursion tests of Borax I, SPERT III, Triga, Treat, and Godiva. Results show that the problem of predicting the response of reactor systems is on a much firmer basis, even without knowing very much about details. …

These data are provided: Masses and .Mean Lives of Elementary Particles; Atomic and Nuclear Properties of Materials; Particle Scattering; Atomic and Nuclear Constants; Particle Decay and Reaction Dynamics; Tentative Data on Strongly lnteracting Particles and Resonances; and Clebsch-Gordan Coefficients and Spherical Harmonics.

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