Fabrication Cots for Plutonium Fuel Elements Part A: Variable Costs of Fabrication UO2-PuO2 Fuel Rods for the Plutonium Recycle Critical Facility (open access)

Fabrication Cots for Plutonium Fuel Elements Part A: Variable Costs of Fabrication UO2-PuO2 Fuel Rods for the Plutonium Recycle Critical Facility

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Date: September 1, 1695
Creator: Bloomster, C. H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Establishing Site X: Letter, Arthur H. Compton to Enrico Fermi, September 14, 1942 (open access)

Establishing Site X: Letter, Arthur H. Compton to Enrico Fermi, September 14, 1942

This letter from Compton to Fermi describes developments bearing on the establishment of ``site X`` (which, as of the letter date, is definitely determined as at the Tennessee Valley) for the construction of a pile and associated pilot plant buildings, describes the situation as of the letter date, and offers counsel as to how to proceed.
Date: September 14, 1942
Creator: Compton, A. H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experimental Physics Division of the Los Alamos Project. Progress report No. 4 (open access)

Experimental Physics Division of the Los Alamos Project. Progress report No. 4

Included in this semi-monthly report written in 1943 are progress with neutron beams, neutron absorption in enriched materials, equipment operation and maintenance reports of the cyclotron neutron source facility, and instrumentation maintenance activities of individuals in the cyclotron group. (GHT)
Date: September 1, 1943
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Project 9336: Hanford-retention basin and effluent dilution (open access)

Project 9336: Hanford-retention basin and effluent dilution

This report discusses effluent dilution of a retention basin at the Hanford Works in 1943. (JL)
Date: September 1, 1943
Creator: Worthington, H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Water Analysis (open access)

Water Analysis

Data acquired from sampling the Columbia River water September 1, 1943, is presented. The waster was analyzed for turbidity, ph value, chemical composition, and suspended matter.
Date: September 1, 1943
Creator: Kidder, C. P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Weekly report CMX, Building 145 (open access)

Weekly report CMX, Building 145

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Date: September 6, 1943
Creator: Kidder, C. P. & Hunt, F. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hanford Engineer Works technical progress letter No. 8, August 25--August 31, 1944 (open access)

Hanford Engineer Works technical progress letter No. 8, August 25--August 31, 1944

This barely legible document describes the canning process, autoclave tests, slug weight distributions, and general information on progress in the 100 Area to include: Reactor physics, corrosion, instrument development, plant assistance, slug recovery, outgassing, sniffer tests, statistics, and analytical services.
Date: September 2, 1944
Creator: Bugbee, S. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Tolerance requirements] (open access)

[Tolerance requirements]

This report consists of a discussion concerning maximum allowable tolerance dose for personnel working in a contaminated area on an 8 hour per day basis. It is a follow up of a telephone conversation between the Medical Superintendent at Hanford Works and Dr. Robert Lash of Knoxville, Tennessee on April 13, 1943. (CBS)
Date: September 4, 1944
Creator: Norwood, W. D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Filtered river water (open access)

Filtered river water

This document is a letter sent on September 6, 1944. The topic of discussion is the chemical composition of the water in the Columbia River. Tests show the amount of metals, dissolved solids, hardness and turbidity of the water before and after laboratory filtration.
Date: September 6, 1944
Creator: Howe, J. P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hanford Engineer Works technical progress letter No. 9, September 1 through September 7, 1944 (open access)

Hanford Engineer Works technical progress letter No. 9, September 1 through September 7, 1944

This report details technical activities of the Hanford Engineer Works for the time period of September 1 through September 7, 1944.
Date: September 9, 1944
Creator: Bugbee, S. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Radiation hazards (open access)

Radiation hazards

This report is a discussion between Dr, Robert Stone of Knoxville, Tennessee and Dr. W.D. Norwood, the Medical Superintendent at HAPO, concerning the health hazards involved from working at HAPO and the maximum exposure to gamma radiation which a worker could be exposed to without receiving adverse irreparable damage. (CBS)
Date: September 9, 1944
Creator: Norwood, W. D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Review of water supply, induced activities, and water monitoring in 100-B Area (open access)

Review of water supply, induced activities, and water monitoring in 100-B Area

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Date: September 9, 1944
Creator: Hall, J.H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Summary of the Properties, Preparation, and Purification of the Anhydrous Chlorides and Bromides of Uranium. Part A. Uranium Chlorides. Part B. Uranium Bromides (open access)

A Summary of the Properties, Preparation, and Purification of the Anhydrous Chlorides and Bromides of Uranium. Part A. Uranium Chlorides. Part B. Uranium Bromides

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Date: September 15, 1944
Creator: Johnson, O.; Butler, T.; Powell, J. & Nottorf, R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
HEW technical progress letter No. 10, September 8--September 14, 1944 (open access)

HEW technical progress letter No. 10, September 8--September 14, 1944

This technical progress letter details activities of the Hanford Engineer Works for the time period of September 8 through September 14, 1944.
Date: September 16, 1944
Creator: Mackey, B. H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
THE THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF SOME FLUORIDES OF U AND Pu (open access)

THE THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF SOME FLUORIDES OF U AND Pu

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Date: September 18, 1944
Creator: Davidson, N.R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Wind dilution required to reduce to tolerance levels the activity due to xenon and iodine in HEW dissolver off-gases (open access)

Wind dilution required to reduce to tolerance levels the activity due to xenon and iodine in HEW dissolver off-gases

The radio-active xenon and iodine evolved during the dissolution of the uranium may present a health hazard within certain areas around the base of the stack through which the dissolver off-gases are discharged. Since the concentration of these elements in the uranium metal is directly proportional to the power of the pile* and is related to decay period of the metal in accordance with their half-lifes, the maximum rate of discharge of these elements from the stack at H.E.W. can be estimated form existing Clinton data. The required wind dilution to reduce the discharging activation to tolerance levels can then be calculated. The time with respect to the start of the metal dissolution at which the maximum rates of discharge will be attained can also be roughly estimated form existing Clinton data. 3 figs., 3 tabs.
Date: September 29, 1944
Creator: Dreher, J.L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Characteristics of a standard tube (open access)

Characteristics of a standard tube

Transmitted herewith are three charts showing the temperatures attained at various points of the slugs in a typical tube of a flat ended pile. These charts are based on the latest information available to us on September 15, 1944. They are valid for any power load when the water rate is 21.0 gpm, whatever may be the inlet temperature of the cooling water. A simple method is provided for correcting the curves for deviations in water rate from 21 gpm. There is appended a detailed explanation of their derivation and of the evaluation of the constants involved in their construction. The current discovery that the pile will be self-poisoned by transient fission products means that the true temperature curves will be somewhat flatter than those here presented.
Date: September 30, 1944
Creator: Drew, Thomas B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hanford Engineer Works technical progress letter No. 12, September 12--September 28, 1944 (open access)

Hanford Engineer Works technical progress letter No. 12, September 12--September 28, 1944

This barely legible document describes the canning process, B area activities, and the 200 area activities.
Date: September 30, 1944
Creator: Bugbee, S. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
ABRASIVE BLASTING FOR CLEANING PARTS. (Experiment Performed August 18 through August 25, 1945 (open access)

ABRASIVE BLASTING FOR CLEANING PARTS. (Experiment Performed August 18 through August 25, 1945

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Date: September 1, 1945
Creator: McWherter, J.R. & Yerazunis, S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
CLEANING E-UNITS BY BLASTING (open access)

CLEANING E-UNITS BY BLASTING

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Date: September 1, 1945
Creator: McWherter, J.R. & Yerazunis, S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Formation of Methyl Borate From the Methyl Borate-Boron Fluoride Complex (open access)

Formation of Methyl Borate From the Methyl Borate-Boron Fluoride Complex

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Date: September 1, 1945
Creator: McCaulay, D. A. & Rittschof, W. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Preparation of Small Dense Crucibles of Magnesia (open access)

The Preparation of Small Dense Crucibles of Magnesia

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Date: September 1, 1945
Creator: Barlett, H.B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Vacuum Melting and Casting of Beryllium (open access)

Vacuum Melting and Casting of Beryllium

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Date: September 1, 1945
Creator: Gordon, Emmanuel
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Monsanto Chemical Company, Unit 3 abstracts of progress reports, August 16--31, 1945: Summary of work to date on volatile neutron source (open access)

Monsanto Chemical Company, Unit 3 abstracts of progress reports, August 16--31, 1945: Summary of work to date on volatile neutron source

It was proposed to prepare a volatile polonium compound which could be used alone or with another gaseous compound as a neutron source. The objective was to obtain a neutron source which would give off few neutrons in the expanded state, but when condensed would act substantially as a thick target and emit perhaps ten times as many neutrons. Originally, polonium hexafluoride was suggested; with such compound the fluorine atoms would constitute the target. the predicted boiling point of polonium hexafluoride is about -40 {degrees}C. There was reason to believe, however, that lower relatively non-volatile fluorides would be formed rather than the hexafluoride. Polonium alkyls were therefore proposed as alternatives. The predicted boiling point of Po(CH{sub 3}){sub 2} is about 110 {degrees}C. This compound in itself would probably not be suitable as a target material but it could be mixed with other gases such as carbon tetrafluoride, boron trifluoride, etc., as targets. As a longer range possibility, Po(CF{sub 3}){sub 2} was also suggested. This compound would act as its own target and would moreover have the same F/Po ratio as PoF{sub 6}; its boiling point could be expected to be 30{degrees} - 60 {degrees} lower than that of polonium dimethyl. …
Date: September 6, 1945
Creator: Rollinson, C.L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library