Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on the drilling for copper deposits near Pinal County, Arizona in 1949. Topographic and geologic mapping, drilling, and field tests were studied. Tables, maps, and illustrations are presented.

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on the development of a mobile compressor and utility station in the oil-shale mine near Rifle, Colorado during 1949. The report includes photographs and illustrations of the mobile station.

A report which intends to acquaint the reader with the planning of the radiochemical laboratory designed for the analytical control of the radiolanthanum process and to define the terminal status of the design of this laboratory and its equipment.

"The purpose of this present document is twofold: (1) To acquaint the reader with the planning of the radiochemical laboratory designed for the analytical control of the Radio-lanthanum Process. (2) To define the terminal status of the design of this laboratory and its equipment."

The purpose of this memorandum is to present and analyze, in terms of the current status of knowledge of radiation damage to graphite, the data available at the present time on the expansion status of the graphite in the piles, and suggest, in terms of this analysis, several possibly feasible curative and preventive measures. The portion of the data to be covered in this memorandum consists of that obtained during the last four years from pile motion measurements and from tube bowing measurements, and particularly that from graphite mining operations during the last six months. The objective to be attained is twofold: (1) the information developed here should permit a better understanding of the need for and development of future corrective measures to be applied to the present piles, and (2) this summary will serve as a basis for further experimental work necessary to place the conclusions on a more firm foundation. This memorandum is being issued at this time, although present ideas and conclusions are in a somewhat uncertain state, in the hope that the currently most feasible preventive measure might be applied to the DR Pile before startup.

This is a progress report of the production reactors on the Hanford Reservation for the month of June 1950. This report takes each division (e.g., manufacturing, medical, accounting, occupational safety, security, reactor operations, etc.) of the site and summarizes its accomplishments and employee relations for that month.

The purpose of this manual is to present a Hazard Breakdown of all jobs normally encountered in the laboratory work of the three sections comprising the Analytic Section, Metallurgy and Control Division of the Technical Department. A Hazard Breakdown is a careful analysis of any job in which the source of possible dangers is clearly indicated for each particular step. The analysis is prepared by individuals who are thoroughly familiar with the specific job or procedure. It is felt that if the hazards herein outlined are recognized by the Laboratory personnel and the suggested safety cautions followed, the chance for injury will be minimized and the worker will become generally more safety conscious. The manual, which is prefaced by the general safety rules applying to all the laboratories, is divided into three main sections, one for each of the three sections into which the Laboratories Division is divided. These sections are as follows: Section 1 -- 200 Area Control; Section 2 -- 100 Area Control; Section 3 -- 300 Area Control, Essential Materials, and Methods Improvement.

This is the second of a series of Quarterly Progress Reports. While most of the departments have summarized their work or used a form comparable to abstracts, the Chemistry Department has given both abstracts and complete reports on its work. The major part of the progress in the Reactor Science and Engineering Department is being presented simultaneously in a separate classified report. There are reports from the following departments: (1) physics department; (2) instrumentation and health physics department; (3) accelerator project; (4) chemistry department; (5) reactor science and engineering department; (6) biology department; and (7) medical department.

Most methods of separating isotopes depend on the use of a large magnetic field. The isotron is an electromagnetic device for separating isotopes, but it effects the separation by the use of radiofrequency voltages instead of magnetic fields. It has the advantage that plane sources of large area can be used instead of the slit sources to which most magnetic methods are limited. Before entering into any discussion of the details, a simplified description of the principles of the method is given.

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A method for the paper chromatography of sterols involving impregnated paper has been developed.

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From abstract: This paper presents temperature-entropy and Mollier charts for sodium, and describes briefly the method used for their construction, based upon data from the literature.

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Report presenting exact and approximate methods based on linearized supersonic flow theory for the calculation of the velocity potential and the downwash from thin wings of arbitrary plan form. The applicability of the method inherently depends on a knowledge of the load distribution over the plan form of the wing.

Note presenting equations derived for the prediction of velocity distributions for fully developed adiabtic turbulent flow in smooth tubes; both the incompressible and compressible flow cases were treated. The analysis produced a single equation that represents flow in both the conventional buffer layer and the laminar layer. The results for fully developed flow were correlated by using conventional dimensionless velocity and distance parameters, and agreed closely with those of Nikuradse and other investigators.

"A study is made of the effect of variation in diameter and pitch of A17S-T4 aluminum-alloy flat-head rivets on the average stress at maximum load for 24S-T3 and 75S-T6 aluminum-alloy, flat, Z-stiffened panels that fail by local instability. A curve is presented for determining the diameter and pitch required to insure the development of a given average stress for local instability" (p. 1).