Uranium - Zirconium Explosion in Nitric Acid (open access)

Uranium - Zirconium Explosion in Nitric Acid

The following report analyzes several reported incidents of uranium-rich zirconium-uranium explosions. This report offers notes designed to describe conditions sufficient to cause an explosion with an 80% wt. uranium alloy.
Date: May 11, 1953
Creator: Russell, R. B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The T3 (p, y) He4 Reaction (open access)

The T3 (p, y) He4 Reaction

The excitation function for the reaction T3 (p, y) He4 has been extended to proton energies of 7.3 Mev. No experimental evidence is found for a resonance in the reaction up to this energy of bombarding protons.
Date: February 11, 1953
Creator: Birge, Robert W. & Jungerman, John A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Medical and Healtyh Physics Quarterly Report - January, February, and March, 1953 (open access)

Medical and Healtyh Physics Quarterly Report - January, February, and March, 1953

Quarterly progress on the metabolic properties of various materials, radiation chemistry, biological studies of radiation effects, health chemistry, health physics.
Date: June 11, 1953
Creator: University of California Radiation Laboratory
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gas Plated Coatings on Metals and Alloys : Progress Report No. 1 (open access)

Gas Plated Coatings on Metals and Alloys : Progress Report No. 1

The object of this project is to conduct studies on the coating of metals and alloys by the gas plating process. Coatings to be studied consist of chromium on copper; alloys of nickel chromium on copper; molybdenum on stainless steel and Inconel; chromium on stainless steel and Inconel; and tungsten and molybdenum and their carbides on stainless steel and Inconel.
Date: March 11, 1953
Creator: Nack, Herman & Whitacre, John R.
System: The UNT Digital Library