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The Environment of Amchitka Island, Alaska (open access)

The Environment of Amchitka Island, Alaska

Report on ecological investigations sponsored by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
Date: September 1977
Creator: Merritt, Melvin Leroy & Fuller, Rueben Glen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Materials Testing Reactor Project Handbook (open access)

Materials Testing Reactor Project Handbook

The following handbook was made for the purpose of: (1) to give a semidetailed description of the testing reactor, and (2) to explain, in so far as possible, the reasons for the design.
Date: May 7, 1951
Creator: Argonne National Laboratory
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reactor Shielding Design Manual (open access)

Reactor Shielding Design Manual

The purpose of this manual is to help an engineer or scientist to design a practical shield by making available to them the techniques and data developed by the Naval Reactors Program and Pressurized Water Reactor Program.
Date: March 1956
Creator: Rockwell, Theodore, III
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Status of the Application of Nuclear Reactors in the Process Industries: 1961 (open access)

Status of the Application of Nuclear Reactors in the Process Industries: 1961

From preface: This report is a detailed summary of the evaluation studies of civilian power reactor concepts. It is intended to present the current state of the use of nuclear reactors in process industries and current AEC program in this field.
Date: December 1961
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The High Intensity Food Irradiator: Report 17 (open access)

The High Intensity Food Irradiator: Report 17

From introduction: A thorough investigation, both experimental and theoretical was carried out on plaque type radiators. Five phases of the work are reported: preliminary design analysis, experimental measurements, computational program and analytical studies, followed by a general discussion of source design principles. The results are summarized in graphs and formulae which may be applied to other design requirements.
Date: May 1, 1960
Creator: Curtiss-Wright Corporation
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Puerto Rico Energy Center Study: Executive Summary (open access)

Puerto Rico Energy Center Study: Executive Summary

From introduction: The scope of work of the study was to compile and analyze information on the resources and requirements of the southwestern, southeastern, and north-central coastal regions of the Commonwealth, and assess industrial and agricultural activities which in conjunction with the power and desalting plants, might comprise the energy center complex. The study was also to identify the need for any experimental, pilot or demonstration projects which benefit the practical application of the Energy Center concept in Puerto Rico.
Date: July 1970
Creator: Burns and Roe
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Puerto Rico Energy Center Study: Volume 1 (open access)

Puerto Rico Energy Center Study: Volume 1

From introduction: The scope of work of the study was to compile and analyze information on the resources and requirements of the southwestern, southeastern, and north-central coastal regions of the Commonwealth, and assess industrial and agricultural activities which in conjunction with the power and desalting plants, might comprise the energy center complex. The study was also to identify the need for any experimental, pilot or demonstration projects which benefit the practical application of the Energy Center concept in Puerto Rico.
Date: July 1970
Creator: Burns and Roe
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Puerto Rico Energy Center Study: Volume 2 (open access)

Puerto Rico Energy Center Study: Volume 2

From introduction: This report concerns nuclear power plant deployment in Puerto Rico.
Date: July 1970
Creator: Burns and Roe
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hydrogen and Other Synthetic Fuels: A Summary of the Work of the Synthetic Fuels Panel (open access)

Hydrogen and Other Synthetic Fuels: A Summary of the Work of the Synthetic Fuels Panel

From introduction: This report covers all aspects of an energy system based on nonfossil synthetic fuels and includes discussions on the production of the fuels; their storage, transmission, and end uses; and an overall systems analysis illustrating the role these fuels might assume in the future.
Date: September 1972
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Engineering and Economic Feasibility Study for a Combination Nuclear Power and Desalting Plant: Phase 3 (open access)

Engineering and Economic Feasibility Study for a Combination Nuclear Power and Desalting Plant: Phase 3

From introduction: This report is an engineering and economic feasibility study of a combination power and desalting plant in Southern California.
Date: January 1966
Creator: Bechtel Corporation
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Power and Water Desalting Plants for Southwest United States and Northwest Mexico: A Preliminary Assessment (open access)

Nuclear Power and Water Desalting Plants for Southwest United States and Northwest Mexico: A Preliminary Assessment

From introduction: Preliminary assessment between the United States, Mexico, and the IAEA on the technical and economic practicability of a dual-purpose nuclear power plant designed to produce fresh water and electricity for the southern border portion of the Colorado River.
Date: September 1968
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Proceedings of the Thorium Fuel Cycle Symposium, 1962: Book 1, Sessions 1-3 (open access)

Proceedings of the Thorium Fuel Cycle Symposium, 1962: Book 1, Sessions 1-3

From foreword: This report contains thirty-three papers that were presented at a symposium regarding the use of thorium and uranium-233 in nuclear reactors.
Date: 1963?
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Plowshare Symposium, 1964: Engineering with Nuclear Explosives (open access)

Plowshare Symposium, 1964: Engineering with Nuclear Explosives

From foreword: The major objective of the symposium is informing engineers in industry, military, educational institutions, and in government agencies throughout the world of the current state-of-the-art nuclear explosives from an engineering standpoint.
Date: 1964?
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Symposium on Problems in Irradiation Capsule Experiments: October 1963 (open access)

Symposium on Problems in Irradiation Capsule Experiments: October 1963

From introduction: The present paper gives a brief description of the NASA Plum Brook Reactor Facility, discusses the criteria used for design of the capsules, and describes the capsules.
Date: March 1964
Creator: Rice, William L. R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced Pressurized Water Reactor Study [Part 1]: Phase 1 Report (open access)

Advanced Pressurized Water Reactor Study [Part 1]: Phase 1 Report

From preface: This report covers Phase I of the authorized work, consisting of determination of the specific reactor concept and size for the most economic reactor, preparation of a reference design of the most promising concept and estimated capital and generating costs, evaluation of the variations in cost as a function of unit size, and evaluation of the reductions in ultimate costs for a power station having multiple units of the same type.
Date: July 1959
Creator: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Division of Reactor Development.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Boiling Water Reactor Study [Part 1]: 306 Mw Power Reactor Conceptual Design (open access)

Boiling Water Reactor Study [Part 1]: 306 Mw Power Reactor Conceptual Design

From introduction: In general, the objective of this study is to provide for the development of the conceptual design criteria for the most promising type of boiling water reactor and associated complete electrical generating plant consistent with a schedule calling for start of construction in July 1960.
Date: July 1959
Creator: Ebasco Services Incorporated
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Small Size Pressurized Water Reactor Conceptual Design: April 11, 1960 (open access)

Small Size Pressurized Water Reactor Conceptual Design: April 11, 1960

From foreword: The purpose of this conceptual design is to outline criteria for the selection and development of a reactor plant with a fossil fuel fired superheater, a conventional generator plant and auxilary systems constituting a complete operating unit capable of producing a gross electrical power output of 22,000 kw.
Date: April 11, 1960
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Atomic Energy Facts: a Summary of Atomic Activities of Interest to Industry (open access)

Atomic Energy Facts: a Summary of Atomic Activities of Interest to Industry

Introduction: Atomic Energy Facts is designed to serve as an introduction to nuclear operations in the United States and as a handbook of related information for the use of industrial firms and other active or interested in atomic energy.
Date: September 1957
Creator: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
International Symposium on Developments in Irradiation Capsule Technology: Held at Pleasanton, California, May 3-5, 1966 (open access)

International Symposium on Developments in Irradiation Capsule Technology: Held at Pleasanton, California, May 3-5, 1966

Assembled papers regarding advances in irradiation capsule technology.
Date: March 1967
Creator: Hoffman, Donna R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Proceedings of the Symposium on the Solidification and Long-Term Storage of Highly Radioactive Wastes: February 14-18, 1966, Richland, Washington (open access)

Proceedings of the Symposium on the Solidification and Long-Term Storage of Highly Radioactive Wastes: February 14-18, 1966, Richland, Washington

Symposium proceedings regarding long-term storage of highly radioactive wastes resulting from nuclear reactors.
Date: November 1966
Creator: Regan, W. H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Irradiation Performance of Thoria-Urania Fuel Materials: Quarterly Technical Report, Number 2, October - December 1964 (open access)

Irradiation Performance of Thoria-Urania Fuel Materials: Quarterly Technical Report, Number 2, October - December 1964

From introduction: "Complete exploitation of the advantages of thorium as a fertile material in thermal and particular resonant spectrum reactors has been inhibited by the lack of quantitative physical property data for thoria and thoria-urania fuels."
Date: October 1964
Creator: Babcock & Wilcox Company
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Reactor Containment Technology: a Compilation of Current Practice in Analysis, Design, Construction, Test, and Operation, Volume 1 (open access)

U.S. Reactor Containment Technology: a Compilation of Current Practice in Analysis, Design, Construction, Test, and Operation, Volume 1

First volume of a compilation of information about reactor containment, written by experts from a variety of organizations.
Date: August 1965
Creator: Cottrell, William B. & Savolainen, A. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health Physics Division Annual Progress Report, July 31, 1962 (open access)

Health Physics Division Annual Progress Report, July 31, 1962

Report documenting research and developments made by the Health Physics Division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Date: 1962
Creator: Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Health Physics Division.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hanford Radiological Sciences Research and Development Annual Report for 1962 (open access)

Hanford Radiological Sciences Research and Development Annual Report for 1962

Report regarding ongoing research and development undertaken at Hanfdord Laboratories' physics and instruments laboratory and chemical laboratory.
Date: January 1963
Creator: Gamertsfelder, C. C. & Green, J. K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library