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Nuclear Chemical Research, Radiochemical Separations and Activation Analysis: Progress Report 7, November 1957 - October 1958 (open access)

Nuclear Chemical Research, Radiochemical Separations and Activation Analysis: Progress Report 7, November 1957 - October 1958

Progress report discussing projects and work completed by the University of Michigan Department of Chemistry 1957-1958.
Date: November 1, 1958
Creator: Meinke, W. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Single-Phase Transfer of Liquefied Gases (open access)

Single-Phase Transfer of Liquefied Gases

Report examining the problems of handling liquefied gases and discusses the feasibility of transporting them through piping systems.
Date: December 1, 1958
Creator: Jacobs, Robert B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Operation and Maintenance Instructions for Gamma Scintillation Monitor - Model 3 (open access)

Operation and Maintenance Instructions for Gamma Scintillation Monitor - Model 3

Gamma scintillation monitor Model 3 is designed to continuously monitor and record the gamma activity of a process solution.
Date: October 1, 1953
Creator: Connally, R. E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Operational Characteristics of Submerged Gas-Lift Circulators (open access)

Operational Characteristics of Submerged Gas-Lift Circulators

Report that presents and interprets data taken from previous tests involving gas-lift circulators and then correlates the data for the purpose of design and operational improvements.
Date: December 1, 1955
Creator: Cook, M. W. & Waters, Elmer Dale, 1930-
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Addendum to a Parametric Study of the Gas-Cooled Reactor Concept (open access)

An Addendum to a Parametric Study of the Gas-Cooled Reactor Concept

From introduction: "This report provides background information regarding the study results presented in the first volume of this report and provides information resulting from the studies made on the gas cooled reactor concept."
Date: March 1, 1958
Creator: Hanford Works
System: The UNT Digital Library
Factors Affecting Fluidization of Uranium Trioxide Powders (open access)

Factors Affecting Fluidization of Uranium Trioxide Powders

Study of factors, such as the average particle size and particle-size distribution, which affect the fluidization properties of uranium trioxide powders.
Date: March 1, 1958
Creator: Johnson, B. M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Automatic Analyzing Monitor for Reactor Effluent Cooling Water (open access)

An Automatic Analyzing Monitor for Reactor Effluent Cooling Water

From objective: "The objective of this work was to design, develop, assemble, and test and automatic analyzing monitor for recording the prominent isotopes in reactor effluent cooling water."
Date: May 1, 1959
Creator: Rieck, H. G.; Ratcliffe, C. A. & Schwendiman, L. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Area Survey Manual of Brookhaven National Laboratory: Area Radiation Detection Instrumentation, Maintenance, and Results (open access)

The Area Survey Manual of Brookhaven National Laboratory: Area Radiation Detection Instrumentation, Maintenance, and Results

Report issued by the Brookhaven National Laboratory discussing the instrumentation, operation, and maintenance of the established area radiation monitoring stations. This report includes maps, tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: January 1, 1952
Creator: Weiss, Max M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Non-Overload Amplifiers (open access)

Non-Overload Amplifiers

Report issued by the Brookhaven National Laboratory discussing non-overload amplifiers, including features, performance, and improvements of amplifiers. This report includes illustrations, and photographs, as well as errata at the end of the report.
Date: April 1, 1953
Creator: Higinbotham, W. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Performance of Five Low-Temperature-Ratio Ram-Jet Combustors Over Range of Simulated Altitudes (open access)

Performance of Five Low-Temperature-Ratio Ram-Jet Combustors Over Range of Simulated Altitudes

Memorandum presenting the analysis of direct-connect performance data obtained with five flame holders of various gutter and can types operated in a 20-inch-diameter ramjet engine at Mach number 3, which revealed that the specific impulse of each of the flame holders was about the same. The combustion-chamber length had a marked effect on specific impulse. Results regarding flame-holder performance and effect of combustion-chamber length on flame-holder performance are provided.
Date: November 1, 1954
Creator: Wentworth, Carl B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aerodynamic Design of Axial-Flow Compressors, Volume 2 (open access)

Aerodynamic Design of Axial-Flow Compressors, Volume 2

"Available experimental two-dimensional-cascade data for conventional compressor blade sections are correlated. The two-dimensional cascade and some of the principal aerodynamic factors involved in its operation are first briefly described. Then the data are analyzed by examining the variation of cascade performance at a reference incidence angle in the region of minimum loss" (p. 1).
Date: August 1, 1956
Creator: Members of the Compressor and Turbine Research Division
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aerodynamic and hydrodynamic characteristics of models of some aircraft-towed mine-sweeping devices : TED No. NACA AR 8201 (open access)

Aerodynamic and hydrodynamic characteristics of models of some aircraft-towed mine-sweeping devices : TED No. NACA AR 8201

This report details a study that was conducted by the U.S. Naval Air Development Center to "determine the feasibility of several airborne magnetic mine-sweeping methods. The advantages of a satisfactory airborne method are greater safety and speed than are possible with existing surface methods." The configurations and results of the double Q-sweep, the modified double-catenary sweep, and the M-sweep are examined.
Date: December 1, 1955
Creator: Shanks, Robert E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aerodynamic Damping at Mach Numbers of 1.3 and 1.6 of a Control Surface on a Two-Dimensional Wing by a Free-Oscillation Method (open access)

Aerodynamic Damping at Mach Numbers of 1.3 and 1.6 of a Control Surface on a Two-Dimensional Wing by a Free-Oscillation Method

Memorandum presenting tests at two supersonic speeds to obtain experimentally the aerodynamic damping characteristics of a control surface on a two-dimensional wing. The control surface had a chord of 1.67 inches and a span of 7.25 inches and was supplied in three materials with different mass, inertia, and stiffness properties. Results regarding the presentation of data and comparison with theory and comparison with control-surface data for a triangular wing are provided.
Date: May 1, 1956
Creator: Tuovila, W. J. & Hess, Robert W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Wind-Tunnel Investigation at Transonic Speeds of a Jet Control on an 80 Degree Delta-Wing Missile (open access)

Wind-Tunnel Investigation at Transonic Speeds of a Jet Control on an 80 Degree Delta-Wing Missile

Report presenting an investigation in the high speed tunnel of three missile models with cruciform delta wings swept back 80 degrees and equipped with jet controls to determine the effectiveness of the controls when using ram or mechanically compressed air. Results regarding the rolling characteristics, static rolling-moment coefficients, static pressure, and effect of the location of the jet control are provided.
Date: November 1, 1955
Creator: Turner, Thomas R. & Vogler, Raymond D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preliminary Design 55,000 KW Prototype Natural Uranium, Gas Cooled, Graphite Moderated Nuclear Power Plant (Prototype for an Optimum Plant) for United States Atomic Energy Commission, Idaho Operations Office (open access)

Preliminary Design 55,000 KW Prototype Natural Uranium, Gas Cooled, Graphite Moderated Nuclear Power Plant (Prototype for an Optimum Plant) for United States Atomic Energy Commission, Idaho Operations Office

Report describing the preliminary design of a 55,000 kW prototype of a natural uranium nuclear power plant for the United States Atomic Energy Commission. Testing of the design and potential requirements for operating the plant are included.
Date: April 1, 1958
Creator: Kaiser Engineers
System: The UNT Digital Library
Feasibility Study, Optimum Natural Uranium, Gas Cooled, Graphite Moderated Nuclear Power Plant for United States Atomic Energy Commission, Idaho Operations Office (open access)

Feasibility Study, Optimum Natural Uranium, Gas Cooled, Graphite Moderated Nuclear Power Plant for United States Atomic Energy Commission, Idaho Operations Office

Report containing "a discussion of the feasibility design and cost estimates for a gas cooled, natural uranium, graphite moderated power plant optimized for minimum power cost" (p. 3).
Date: April 1, 1958
Creator: ACF Industries Incorporated. Nuclear Products - ERCO Division.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Feasibility Study, 44,000 KW Prototype Partially Enriched Uranium, Gas Cooled, Graphite Moderated Nuclear Power Plant (Prototype for an Optium Power Plant) for United States Atomic Energy Commission, Idaho Operations Office (open access)

Feasibility Study, 44,000 KW Prototype Partially Enriched Uranium, Gas Cooled, Graphite Moderated Nuclear Power Plant (Prototype for an Optium Power Plant) for United States Atomic Energy Commission, Idaho Operations Office

Report that "contains a discussion of the feasibility study and cost estimates for a gas cooled, partial enriched uranium, graphite moderated power plant" (p. 3).
Date: April 1, 1958
Creator: Kaiser Engineers
System: The UNT Digital Library
Startup Operation of a Production Facility for Separating Barium-140 from MTR Fuel (open access)

Startup Operation of a Production Facility for Separating Barium-140 from MTR Fuel

Report describing "the startup operation of a batch production facility for separating and purifying barium-140 from short-cooled MTR fuel" (p. 3).
Date: September 1, 1957
Creator: Legler, Billy Mason; Fairbourne, S. F.; Kelly, P. N. & Robinson, R. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
MTR Technical Branch Quarterly Report, Third Quarter (open access)

MTR Technical Branch Quarterly Report, Third Quarter

Quarterly report for the technical branch of the Materials Testing Reactor of Idaho. Includes current developments and experiments.
Date: November 1, 1956
Creator: Conner, W. P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Feasibility Study, Optimum Partially Enriched Uranium, Gas Cooled, Graphite Moderated for United States Atomic Energy Commission, Idaho Operations Office (open access)

Feasibility Study, Optimum Partially Enriched Uranium, Gas Cooled, Graphite Moderated for United States Atomic Energy Commission, Idaho Operations Office

Report that contains "a preliminary design and feasibility studies of gas cooled, graphite moderated, nuclear power plants" (p. 1).
Date: April 1, 1958
Creator: ACF Industries Incorporated. Nuclear Products - ERCO Division.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Scintillation Spectrometry : Gamma-Ray Spectrum Catalogue (open access)

Scintillation Spectrometry : Gamma-Ray Spectrum Catalogue

Report presenting a collection of gamma spectra containing samples of the response of NaI(TI) scintillation detectors to a large number of the more frequently encountered radioactive nuclides.
Date: July 1, 1957
Creator: Heath, R. L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Summary of the Spert-I, -II, and -III reactor facilities (open access)

Summary of the Spert-I, -II, and -III reactor facilities

Report containing "[a] brief description and design data summary of each of the SPERT Reactor Facilities is presented. Engineering, operating, and physics data are tabulated for use as basic references" (p. 3)
Date: November 1, 1957
Creator: Montgomery, C. R.; Norberg, J. A. & Wilson, T. R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experimental Organic Cooled Reactor : Conceptual Design (open access)

Experimental Organic Cooled Reactor : Conceptual Design

Report presenting the design, research programs, and design objectives for an Organic-Cooled Reactor.
Date: December 1, 1959
Creator: Huffman, John R.; Nyer, W. E. & Rainwater, J. H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of the Maneuvering Performance of a Monowing Versus a Cruciform Missile (open access)

A Comparison of the Maneuvering Performance of a Monowing Versus a Cruciform Missile

Report presenting a study to compare the maneuvering performance of a cruciform and a monowing missile. Results regarding beam riding and minimum launch range at 5000 and 50,000 feet are provided.
Date: June 1, 1955
Creator: Matthews, Howard F. & Schmidt, Stanley F.
System: The UNT Digital Library