Consolidation and shaping of boron ; summary of previous work (open access)

Consolidation and shaping of boron ; summary of previous work

From abstract: "The deposit on the rods is in the form of a brittle uneven tube which is cracked off and subsequently pulverized to a 200-mesh powder. This report is chiefly concerned with methods of consolidating this powder and shaping it into forms required, though it also discusses to some extent other methods of shaping boron or born-rich materials."
Date: October 8, 1945
Creator: Kamm, Robert L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Method for Rolling Uranium Foil (open access)

A Method for Rolling Uranium Foil

"This report gives briefly a rather simple method for fabricating foils from uranium buttons. Two log sheets one of a U-238 run and one of a U-255 run are given."
Date: October 21, 1947
Creator: Bernard, George L., (Jr.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fabrication of Uranium Wire (open access)

Fabrication of Uranium Wire

From abstract: "The present report describes experimental work performed to establish a procedure for the production of uranium metal wire. In all cases, the size of the initial rod was 1/2 inch diameter. Three materials were used: hot extruded tuballoy rod, high purity cast tuballoy rod, and cast U-235 rod."
Date: October 25, 1949
Creator: Anderson, R. E.; Taub, J. M. & Doll, D. T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Safety Tests on Hand Stacking of U-235 Cubes (open access)

Safety Tests on Hand Stacking of U-235 Cubes

From abstract: "Critical assembly tests have been made on the Pajarito Universal Machine to determine the safety limits of handstacking cubes of 95% U-235 in spherical geometries preparatory to making critical assemblies of U-235 in an "infinite" tuballoy tamper. The U-235 cubes were stacked as pseudospheres in a cavity at the top of a tuballoy block 12" high and 8" on a side, and the assembly tamped by locating it inside a doughnut shaped water tank whose tamping effect is equivalent to the tamping caused by personnel necessary for hand stacking."
Date: October 11, 1948
Creator: Josephson, V.; Young, D. S. & Dike, R. S.
System: The UNT Digital Library