In-Pile Radiation Corrosion Experiments with Zirconium, Titanium, and Steel Alloys in 0.17 m UO2SO4 Solutions at 280°C (open access)

In-Pile Radiation Corrosion Experiments with Zirconium, Titanium, and Steel Alloys in 0.17 m UO2SO4 Solutions at 280°C

In-pile loop experiments L-2-15 and L-4-16 were two of a series designed to test the radiation corrosion of Zircaloy-2 and other possible reactor construction materials in UO2SO4 solutions under various conditions of radiation intensities, temperatures, solution compositions, and velocity flow past specimens.
Date: June 10, 1963
Creator: Jenks, G. H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Homogeneous Reactor Project Progress Report: May-October 1959 (open access)

Homogeneous Reactor Project Progress Report: May-October 1959

Report issued by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory discussing quarterly progress made by the Homogeneous Reactor Program. Descriptions of progress and studies conducted are presented. This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: February 10, 1960
Creator: Briggs, R. B.; Beall, S. E.; Lyon, R. N.; Bohlmann, E. G.; Ferguson, D. E.; McDuffie, H. F. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Army Reactors Program Annual Progress Report: 1962 (open access)

Army Reactors Program Annual Progress Report: 1962

Report summarizing ongoing nuclear work performed by the ORNL for the United States Army.
Date: April 10, 1963
Creator: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
System: The UNT Digital Library
Plutonium Release Incident at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (open access)

Plutonium Release Incident at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A nonnuclear explosion involving an evaporator occurred in a shielded cell in the Radiochemical Processing Pilot plant at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Plutonium released from the processing cell contaminated areas in the pilot plant building and nearby streets and building surfaces. The explosion is considered the result of rapid reaction of nitrated organic compounds formed by the inadvertent nitration of about 14 liters of a proprietary decontaminating reagent.
Date: January 10, 1961
Creator: King, L. J. & Bresee. J. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Plasma Accumulation in a Device Fed by Energetic Ion Trapping (open access)

Plasma Accumulation in a Device Fed by Energetic Ion Trapping

Simon (1960) has given a general steady state theory of plasma accumulation (without energy losses) in an OGRA device. Such a device is fed by injection of energetic molecular ions which dissociate to produce trapped protons. Initial trapping is achieved by dissociation in the background gas. Such a device is usually characterized by a critical input current of critical plasma density (a function of input current) above which plasma density builds up to a value limited by Coulomb-scattering losses. For a regime of operation of current interest at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (600-kev hydrogen molecular ion injection and dissociation, highly efficient ion-pumping action of the trapped plasma), extremely simple approximate formulas have been derived which describe with a fair degree of accuracy the critical current of density for plasma build-up.
Date: November 10, 1960
Creator: Mackin, R. J., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Gas Film Resistance in Diffusion from a Porous Septum into a Fluid Stream (open access)

The Effect of Gas Film Resistance in Diffusion from a Porous Septum into a Fluid Stream

The theory of mass transfer into a flowing fluid is utilizes to estimate the effect of gas film resistance on overall rates of transfer through a porous septum. The expressions developed for the mass transfer ratio...
Date: October 10, 1960
Creator: Saunders, A. R.
System: The UNT Digital Library