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Effect of Temperature and Reactivity Changes in Operation of the Los Alamos Plutonium Reactor (open access)

Effect of Temperature and Reactivity Changes in Operation of the Los Alamos Plutonium Reactor

The operation of the Fast Reactor is considered in terms of normal equilibrium conditions and normal shut-down. The proposed loading, control rod adjustment and subsequent "floating" operation are discussed. Safety devices and interlocks are described. Temperature and reactivity changes are examined with respect to various system failures, phase changes, and "flashing" of the reactor. Slow changes due to faulty slug cooling are also considered. The calculations were initially based upon 10 kw operation. Performance tests of the mercury system now indicate that 20-kw operation may be feasible.
Date: May 28, 1948
Creator: Hall, David B. & Hall, Jane H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Los Alamos Power Reactor Experiment and its Associated Hazards (open access)

Los Alamos Power Reactor Experiment and its Associated Hazards

The following report describes the high pressure and temperature homogeneous reactor experiment which has been started at Los Alamos, as well as the hazards and safety aspects for the experiments.
Date: December 2, 1953
Creator: King, L. D. P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Survey of Some Los Alamos County Canyons for Radioactive Contamination, Spring 1953 to Spring 1955 (open access)

A Survey of Some Los Alamos County Canyons for Radioactive Contamination, Spring 1953 to Spring 1955

Abstract: This document is a survey analysis of soil samples from Los Alamos, Pueblo, Bayo, and Mortandad canyons to determine the presence and activities of radioactive contaminants. Also included are the results of analyses of a few samples of grass and of surface water. This survey covers the period from spring 1953 to spring 1955.
Date: April 1956
Creator: Dodd, Aubrey O.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Instrumentation and Some Related Problems for Neutron Flux Measurement of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Kiwi-A Reactor (open access)

Instrumentation and Some Related Problems for Neutron Flux Measurement of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Kiwi-A Reactor

Abstract: "A description of the instrumentation for neutron flux measurement from Kiwi-A at NTS is given as some discussion of start-up considerations, detector design, system response adjustments, and power calibration of the reactor at some low level of power."
Date: September 1958
Creator: Barton, David M.; Helmick, Herbert H. & Jarvis, G. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Formerly Utilized MED/AEC Sites Remedial Action Program: Radiological Survey of the Bayo Canyon, Los Alamos, New Mexico (open access)

Formerly Utilized MED/AEC Sites Remedial Action Program: Radiological Survey of the Bayo Canyon, Los Alamos, New Mexico

Preface: This report contains data and information on the resurvey effort and the effect of residual contamination as a result of nuclear weapons development programs conducted in this area.
Date: June 1979
Creator: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental surveillance at Los Alamos during 1975 (open access)

Environmental surveillance at Los Alamos during 1975

This report documents the CY 1975 environmental monitoring program of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (LASL). Data are presented for concentrations of radioactivity measured in air, ground and surface waters, sediments, soils, and foodstuffs, and are compared with relevant U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration guides and/or data from other reporting periods. Levels of external penetrating radiation measured in the LASL environs are given. The average whole-body radiation dose to residents of Los Alamos County resulting from LASL operations is calculated. Chemical qualities of surface and ground waters in the LASL environs have been determined and compared to applicable standards. Results of related environmental studies are summarized.
Date: April 1, 1976
Creator: Apt, K. E. & Lee, V. J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Archeological Salvage Excavations on the Mesita Del Buey, Los Alamos County, New Mexico. (open access)

Archeological Salvage Excavations on the Mesita Del Buey, Los Alamos County, New Mexico.

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Date: January 1, 1967
Creator: Worman, F. C. V.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Beta-Gamma Radioactivity in Environmental Air at Los Alamos, New Mexico, for 1964 (open access)

Beta-Gamma Radioactivity in Environmental Air at Los Alamos, New Mexico, for 1964

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Date: January 1, 1965
Creator: Aeby, J. W. & Kennedy, W. R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fabrication of Ceramic Shapes (open access)

Fabrication of Ceramic Shapes

Abstract: "This report indicates some of the methods employed at Los Alamos for the fabrication of refractory products."
Date: December 23, 1946
Creator: Mullen, Terence & Taub, James M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Los Alamos primer (open access)

The Los Alamos primer

Notes Based on a set of five lectures given by R. Serber during the first two weeks of April 1943, as an "indoctrination course" in connection with the starting of the Los Alamos project.
Date: 1973~
Creator: Condon, Edward Uhler & Serber, R.
System: The UNT Digital Library