Technical report outlining the use of the Carbagel process in nuclear reactors, its technical feasibility, and case studies of the Carbagel process and its theoretical and technical use for reactors such as the Brookhaven National Laboratory reactor.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of game wardens to seize and retain possession of guns of game violators pending final disposition of criminal charges.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of the State Department of Health to defray the cost of diagnostic procedures to determine eligibility of children for crippled children's care and treatment.

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This monthly document details activities of the Hanford Operations Office during the month of March 1959. (FI)

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From Introduction: "The purpose of the present report is to present a comprehensive summary of theoretical investigations of comprehensible laminar boundary layers which have been carried out since 1949 at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn under the sponsorship and with the financial assistance of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. The results of these investigations are contained primarily in references 1 to 7."

Report discussing an investigation to determine the effects of aeroelasticity on the rolling effectiveness of a model of a McDonnell F3H-1 airplane wing. The plane was found to be subject to aeroelastic losses that varied with Mach number and altitude.

Report discussing a project to determine a high-energy fuel suitable for turbojet-powered aircraft. Components of the project include thermal and combustion properties, experiments with combustors using boron compounds, evaluation of boron fuels in full-scale turbojets with and without afterburners, and boron fuel use in ramjet flights. The most promising fuel found in the report is pentaborane.

Report presenting an investigation into the effect of end plates and end-mounted struts on the lift-drag ratios of a hydrofoil at several speeds and Reynolds numbers that were all above the limiting speed of wave propagation. Information about the lift-drag ratio, effective aspect ratio, and comparison of the results versus theoretical calculations is included.

Report presenting a survey of various types of catapults in connection with the problem of accelerating a large car along a track to a speed of 150 miles per hour. A hydraulic jet catapult seems to be the best-suited for the purpose, and various types of design problems are examined.

Report presenting an investigation of wings of aspect ratios of 4, 3, and 2 with a plan-form taper ratio of 0.5 and a thickness taper ratio of 0.33 to determine their transonic longitudinal characteristics and effects of tapering thickness ratio. Results regarding the combined effects of aspect ratio and thickness ratio and effects of tapered thickness ratio are provided.

Report presenting an investigation to determine the aerodynamic characteristics of a cruciform 70 degree delta-wing missile configuration with 70 degree delta canard control surfaces at M = 1.41 in the 4- by 4-foot supersonic pressure tunnel. Modifications to the configuration included variation of the body length and canard area and the substitution of a series of very small span wings for the cruciform delta wings and canard controls.

Report presenting an investigation to determine the effects of aeroelasticity on the rolling effectiveness of an 8.06-percent-scale model of the McDonnell F3H-1 airplane wing. The investigation used rocket-propelled models in free flight over a range of Mach numbers. The results indicate that the airplane is subject to aeroelastic losses varying from about 7 percent at Mach number 0.5 to 46 percent at Mach number 0.90 at sea level.

A longitudinal stability and control characteristics of a Boeing B-29 airplane have been measured with a booster incorporated in the elevator-control system. Tests were made to determine the effects on the handling qualities of the test airplane of variations in the pilot's control-force gradients as well as the effects of variations in the maximum rate of control motion supplied by the booster. The results of the control-rate investigation indicate that large airplanes may have satisfactory handling qualities with the booster adjusted to give much lower rates of control motion than those normally used by pilots.

Critical mass, fuel concentration, power, maximum power density, and wall power density were obtained for bare spherical reactors having diameters of 8, 10, 11, and 12 ft, operating at 20, 100, 2OO, and 300 deg C. (L.T.W.)

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This memorandum indicates the Purex-Plant pulse-column and pulse- generator revisions which would be required to assure an instantaneous capacity of 25 tons U/day with a 20% capacity safety margin under Purex HW {number_sign}3 Flowsheet conditions. (The use of the Purex HW {number_sign}4 Flowsheet (6) with the revised columns would be expected to increase the capacity to 29 or 30 tons U/day.) The indicated design changes are recorded here for study and for possible reference if need for increased production capacity should arise. No recommendation for adoption at this time is made.

Report discussing details of curium's chemical properties, including gamma radiation, solubility, and absorption. A procedure for separating curium from americium and the preparation of terbium tetrafluoride, which lead to its discovery, is also included.

Report discussing studies regarding active atmospheric particles in several United States cities. Experimental data of particles collected in filters is given.

Two types of ``feedstock,`` i.e. irradiated uranium and uranium from underground storage, are processed by the 200 Areas. Future operations may add irradiated thorium as a supplementary feed material. In either case, the major portion of future feedstocks is presumed to be in the form of irradiated metal, i.e. uranium and/or thorium, resulting in an almost complete dependence of the required 200 Area processing rate on reactor power levels and metal irradiation history. This document presents correlations by which predicted reactor power levels and production commitments for particular types of product may be easily converted to the required separations processing rates. Separations processing rates potentially resulting from low NGS plutonium and ``23`` commitments are given for the period through 1957.

This report addresses the analyses for fission-product antimony-125 made on samples of selected Thorex streams. The results are summarized in Table I