Spectral Representation and Criticality Problem of a Two-Region Cell Transport Operator (open access)

Spectral Representation and Criticality Problem of a Two-Region Cell Transport Operator

Report determining the solution of the transport equation to determine accurate conditions for the criticality of a two-region fuel-moderator assembly with reflecting boundaries.
Date: 1965
Creator: Pollack, Israel & Bareiss, Erwin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Engineering Development of Fluid-Bed Fluoride Volatility Processes: Part 5. Description of a Pilot-Scale Facility for Uranium Dioxide-Plutonium Dioxide Processing Studies (open access)

Engineering Development of Fluid-Bed Fluoride Volatility Processes: Part 5. Description of a Pilot-Scale Facility for Uranium Dioxide-Plutonium Dioxide Processing Studies

Report describing a pilot plant constructed at Argonne National Laboratory for studying two major process steps for the recovery of uranium and plutonium from spent nuclear fuels of power reactors. A major objective is the demonstration of optimum process conditions for the two steps for synthetic reactor fuel compositions, including those containing mixtures of inactive fission products.
Date: 1964
Creator: Vogel, G. J.; Carls, E. L. & Mecham, W. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Survey and Status Report on Application of Acoustic-Boiling-Detection Techniques to Liquid-Metal-Cooled Reactors (open access)

Survey and Status Report on Application of Acoustic-Boiling-Detection Techniques to Liquid-Metal-Cooled Reactors

Report issued by the Argonne National Laboratory discussing acoustic-boiling-detection techniques. As stated in the abstract, "this report summarizes literature through June 1967 concerning acoustic methods. In the acoustic method for boiling detection, either acoustic waveguides or high-temperature acoustic sensors are recommended" (p. 1). This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: April 1970
Creator: Anderson, T. T.; Mulcahey, T. P. & Hsu, C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Midwest Tandem Cyclotron: A Proposal for a Regional Accelerator Facility (open access)

Midwest Tandem Cyclotron: A Proposal for a Regional Accelerator Facility

Report issued by the Argonne National Laboratory discussing the proposal of the Midwest Tandem-Cyclotron accelerator facility. Descriptions of the facility designs, methods, and operations are presented. This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: June 1969
Creator: Argonne National Laboratory
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pressure-Pulse Propagation in Two-Phase One- and Two-Component Mixtures (open access)

Pressure-Pulse Propagation in Two-Phase One- and Two-Component Mixtures

Report issued by the Argonne National Laboratory discussing the propagation velocity of pressure pulses in two-phase mixtures. As stated in the abstract, "in this study, a comprehensive analytical development of the propagation velocity of small pressure pulses is presented for bubble, annular, stratified, droplet, and slug-flow regimes. Particular attention is given to the influence of flow regime on the momentum transfer between phases" (p. 9). This report includes tables, illustrations, and a photograph.
Date: March 1971
Creator: Henry, R. E.; Grolmes, M. A. & Fauske, H. K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
LMFBR Nuclear Safety Program Annual Report: July 1, 1969, to June 30, 1970 (open access)

LMFBR Nuclear Safety Program Annual Report: July 1, 1969, to June 30, 1970

Report issued by the Argonne National Laboratory discussing the Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor Nuclear Safety Program. The work completed by the program between 1969 and 1970 is presented. This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: July 1971
Creator: Simmons, W. R. & Marchaterre, J. F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Condensation of Metal Vapors: Mercury and the Kinetic Theory of Condensation (open access)

Condensation of Metal Vapors: Mercury and the Kinetic Theory of Condensation

Report issued by the Argonne National Laboratory discussing condensation theories of metal vapors. As stated in the introduction, "the objectives of this research then are critical analysis of condensation theories and data for metal vapors and experimental evaluation of the resistance to condensation for a representative metal such as mercury" (p. 18). This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: October 1964
Creator: Wilhelm, Donald J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Liquid MHD Power Cycle Studies (open access)

Liquid MHD Power Cycle Studies

Report issued by the Argonne National Laboratory discussing the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) power cycle for liquid metals. The benefits, and different phases of the MHD power cycle are presented. This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: June 1965
Creator: Petrick, Michael & Lee, Kung-You
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Argonne National Laboratory Annual Report: 1957 (open access)

Argonne National Laboratory Annual Report: 1957

Report issued by the Argonne National Laboratory discussing the variety of work done at the laboratory during the year of 1957. This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: 1957
Creator: Argonne National Laboratory
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Argonne National Laboratory Annual Report: 1958 (open access)

Argonne National Laboratory Annual Report: 1958

Report issued by the Argonne National Laboratory discussing the variety of work done at the laboratory during the year of 1958. This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: 1958
Creator: Argonne National Laboratory
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Engineering, Construction and Cost of the Argonaut Reactor (open access)

Engineering, Construction and Cost of the Argonaut Reactor

Report describing the Argonaut Reactor located at the Argonne National Laboratory. Photographs and descriptive drawings of the reactor are included.
Date: March 1957
Creator: Armstrong, R. H.; Kolb, W. L.; Lennox, D. H.; Kelber, C. N.; Selep, Andrew & Spinrad, B. I.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Process Equipment and Protective Enclosures Designed for the Fuel Fabrication Facility: Facility #350 (open access)

The Process Equipment and Protective Enclosures Designed for the Fuel Fabrication Facility: Facility #350

Report issued by the Argonne National Laboratory discussing the design and construction of equipment for reactor fuels. As stated in the summary, "the report describes the development, prototype construction, methods of testing, and leak detection of a modular hood design to be used in housing equipment and processes for the Argonne National Laboratory Fuel Fabrication Facility" (p. 9). This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: January 1956
Creator: Shuck, A. B. & Mayfield, R. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The EBWR: Experimental Boiling Water Reactor (open access)

The EBWR: Experimental Boiling Water Reactor

Report issued by the Argonne National Laboratory discussing the Experimental Boiling Water Reactor (EBWR) power plant. Designs of the final EBWR power plant are presented. This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: May 1957
Creator: Argonne National Laboratory
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Argonne National Laboratory Annual Report: 1956 (open access)

Argonne National Laboratory Annual Report: 1956

Report issued by the Argonne National Laboratory discussing the variety of work done at the laboratory during the year of 1956. This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: 1956
Creator: Argonne National Laboratory
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Two-Phase Air-Water Flow Phenomena (open access)

Two-Phase Air-Water Flow Phenomena

Report issued by the Argonne National Laboratory discussing two-phase flow studies that were conducted "to obtain empirical density relationships and pressure drop friction factors for two-phase mixtures" (p. 11). This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: March 1958
Creator: Petrick, Michael
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lecture Notes on Reactor Shielding (open access)

Lecture Notes on Reactor Shielding

Report issued by the Argonne National Laboratory discussing the shielding of radiation produced by nuclear reactors. As stated in the introduction, "these lectures will be an attempt to discuss the design of a reactor shield and the solution of the associated shielding problems by simple hand-computing methods" (p. 19). This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: March 1959
Creator: Grotenhuis, Marshall
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Report on Some Attempts to Cast Centrifugally Fuel Elements of Small Diameter (open access)

A Report on Some Attempts to Cast Centrifugally Fuel Elements of Small Diameter

Report issued by the Argonne national Laboratory discussing centrifugal casting of thin uranium plates. The applicability of the centrifugal casting technique to the production of multiple castings of fuel pins of small diameter and of thin fuel plates was investigated. This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: March 1961
Creator: Yaggee, F. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cost Study of a 100-Mw(e) Direct-Cycle Boiling Water Reactor Plant (open access)

Cost Study of a 100-Mw(e) Direct-Cycle Boiling Water Reactor Plant

Report issued by the Argonne national Laboratory discussing a technical and economic evaluation of a direct-cycle light-water boiling reactor designed for natural circulation and internal steam-water separation. The reference 100-Mw(e) reactor power plant design evolved from the study should have the best chance (compared to similar plants) of approaching the 8 to 9 mill/kwh total power-cost level. This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: July 1960
Creator: Bullinger, C. F. & Harrer, J. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Irradiation of an Aluminum Alloy-Clad, Aluminum-Uranium Alloy-Fueled Plate (open access)

Irradiation of an Aluminum Alloy-Clad, Aluminum-Uranium Alloy-Fueled Plate

Report issued by the Argonne National Laboratory discussing irradiation tests of an aluminum alloy-clad, aluminum-uranium alloy fuel plate. As stated in the introduction, "calculations were made to determine the lowest possible pressure which would allow the maximum possible local boiling on the plate and still assure a margin of safety against burnout" (p. 9). This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: July 1960
Creator: Gavin, A. P. & Crothers, C. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Performance Characteristics of a Liquid Metal MHD Generator (open access)

Performance Characteristics of a Liquid Metal MHD Generator

Report issued by the Argonne National Laboratory discussing the performance of magnetohydrodynamic generators. As stated in the abstract, "an experimental study was made of the performance characteristics of a liquid metal MHD generator utilizing single-phase sodium-potassium and two-phase sodium-potassium-nitrogen fluids. The purpose of this study was to compare the generator performance with theory for single-phase flow and to determine the effects of the introduction of the gaseous phase on the generator output and efficiency" (p. 9). This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: July 1964
Creator: Petrick, Michael & Lee, Kung-You
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Summary of Meteorological Data Taken at Argonne National Laboratory, Du Page County, Illinois, July 1952 Through June 1953 (open access)

Summary of Meteorological Data Taken at Argonne National Laboratory, Du Page County, Illinois, July 1952 Through June 1953

Report issued by the Argonne National Laboratory discussing meteorological data collected between 1952 and 1953. Wind, temperature, pressure, and precipitation studies are presented. This report includes tables, illustrations, and a map.
Date: April 1954
Creator: Argonne National Laboratory
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Quarterly Progress Report on Reactor Development: 4000 program (open access)

Quarterly Progress Report on Reactor Development: 4000 program

Report issued by the Argonne National Laboratory discussing progress made on reactor development. Progress made on the core, pressure vessel and shield, and the power plant are presented. This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: July 31, 1954
Creator: McLain, Stuart
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Transient Behavior of Single-Phase Natural Circulation Water Loop Systems (open access)

The Transient Behavior of Single-Phase Natural Circulation Water Loop Systems

Report issued by the Argonne National Laboratory discussing single-phase water loop systems. As stated in the introduction, "the principal objective of this study was to determine the reliability of the calculations based upon numerical solutions of finite-difference energy and flow equations" (p. 9). This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: March 1956
Creator: Alstad, C. D.; Isbin, H. S.; Amundson, N. R. & Silvers, J. P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Generalized Computer Program for Flowsheet Calculation and Process Data Reduction (open access)

A Generalized Computer Program for Flowsheet Calculation and Process Data Reduction

Report issued by the Argonne National Laboratory discussing the PACER-65 computer program. As stated in the summary, the program "has been developed and utilized for flow sheet calculations and process-data reduction. PACER-65 is an executive program in which material- and energy-balance equations, conversion factors, etc., for each processing step are described by separate subroutines" (p. 5). This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: April 1966
Creator: Koppel, L. B.; Alfredson, P. G.; Anastasia, L. J.; Knudsen, I. E. & Vogel, G. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library