Resource Type

ABWR Design and Development Quarterly Progress Report, January 1 Through March 31, 1962 (open access)

ABWR Design and Development Quarterly Progress Report, January 1 Through March 31, 1962

Quarterly design and development progress report on the activities of the Army Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR) Program.
Date: April 15, 1962
Creator: Combustion Engineering, inc. Nuclear Division.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accurate Nuclear Fuel Burnup Analyses; First Quarterly Report, (December 1961 - February 1962) (open access)

Accurate Nuclear Fuel Burnup Analyses; First Quarterly Report, (December 1961 - February 1962)

The objective of the Accurate Nuclear Fuel Burnup Analyses program is to develop more accurate methods for burnup analysis for general use than the current method of analysis of Ca-137 or Sr-90. The program will require from three to five years of effort.
Date: April 1, 1962
Creator: Rider, B. F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accurate Nuclear Fuel Burnup Analyses; Second Quarterly Progress Report, (March - May 1962) (open access)

Accurate Nuclear Fuel Burnup Analyses; Second Quarterly Progress Report, (March - May 1962)

The objective of the Accurate Nuclear Fuel Burnup Analyses program is to develop more accurate methods for burnup analysis for general use than the current method of analysis of Ca-137 or Sr-90. The program will require from three to five years of effort.
Date: July 1, 1962
Creator: Rider, B. F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced Indirect Cycle Water Reactor Studies for Maritime Applications: Part 1. Cost Analysis and Future Development (open access)

Advanced Indirect Cycle Water Reactor Studies for Maritime Applications: Part 1. Cost Analysis and Future Development

First part of the "final report of a study directed toward the evolution, design, and demonstration of the principle design features of interim indirect cycle water cooled and moderated nuclear power plants which will be useful in early cooperative programs between the Atomic Energy Commission and the United States maritime industry" (p. I-ii).
Date: April 1962
Creator: Combustion Engineering, inc. Nuclear Division.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced Indirect Cycle Water Reactor Studies for Maritime Applications: Part 2. Plant Conceptual Studies (open access)

Advanced Indirect Cycle Water Reactor Studies for Maritime Applications: Part 2. Plant Conceptual Studies

Second part of the "final report of a study directed toward the evolution, design, and demonstration of the principle design features of interim indirect cycle water cooled and moderated nuclear power plants which will be useful in early cooperative programs between the Atomic Energy Commission and the United States maritime industry" (p. II-i).
Date: March 1962
Creator: Combustion Engineering, inc. Nuclear Division.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Progress Report on Fuel Element Development for Fiscal Year 1961 (open access)

Annual Progress Report on Fuel Element Development for Fiscal Year 1961

Report that reviews the yearly progress made in Reactor Fuel and Materials Development Program at the Engineering Test Reactor (ETR) and Materials testing reactor (MTR).
Date: March 9, 1962
Creator: Gibson, G. W. & Shupe, O. K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Army Gas-Cooled Reactor Systems Program Semiannual Progress Report: January 1 - June 30, 1962 (open access)

Army Gas-Cooled Reactor Systems Program Semiannual Progress Report: January 1 - June 30, 1962

Report documenting the progress of the Army Gas-Cooled Reactor Systems Program to develop a mobile, low-power, nuclear power plant for Military field operation.
Date: August 17, 1962
Creator: Aerojet-General Corporation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Automatic Mass Spectrometer for Isotopic Analysis of Lithium (open access)

Automatic Mass Spectrometer for Isotopic Analysis of Lithium

Report discussing an improvement program on lithium mass spectrometers.
Date: March 15, 1962
Creator: McBryde, W. T. & Gammon, E. F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Calculated Costs of Fabrication of Plutonium-Enriched Fuel Elements (open access)

Calculated Costs of Fabrication of Plutonium-Enriched Fuel Elements

Report regarding the study of the calculated costs of fabricating plutonium-enriched fuel elements for Hanford Laboratories' Plutonium Recycle Program. Topics include descriptions of the process, design study of plants that use U235 and plutonium enriched fuel, and estimates of costs.
Date: August 1962
Creator: Hanthorn, H. E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Capsule Irradiation of Unalloyed Uranium at High Temperatures (open access)

Capsule Irradiation of Unalloyed Uranium at High Temperatures

Abstract: Cast and Wrought specimens and restrained wrought specimens of unalloyed uranium were irradiated in the Materials Testing Reactor, as the first in a series of experiments to develop fuel materials for sodium cooled reactors.
Date: August 15, 1962
Creator: Harrington, D. G. & Newton, J. B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chemical Technology Division Annual Progress Report: for Period Ending June 30, 1962 (open access)

Chemical Technology Division Annual Progress Report: for Period Ending June 30, 1962

Report issued by Oak Ridge National Laboratory that discusses progress and work performed by the Chemical Technology Division.
Date: September 21, 1962
Creator: Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Chemical Technology Division.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Computer Program for Determining First-Collision Neutron Doses (open access)

A Computer Program for Determining First-Collision Neutron Doses

Data processing program written to compute the neutron dose received by individuals exposed in a nuclear excursion.
Date: May 21, 1962
Creator: McMurray, C. S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Computer Programs Using Zonal Harmonics for Magnetic Properties of Current Systems with Special Reference to the IBM 7090 (open access)

Computer Programs Using Zonal Harmonics for Magnetic Properties of Current Systems with Special Reference to the IBM 7090

Report that "discusses the magnetic vector and scalar potentials, magnetic field components and their derivatives, and flux linkage for single current systems, and the mutual inductance, forces and torques between two such systems, whose axes are coplanar but not necessarily coincident" (p. 1).
Date: December 4, 1962
Creator: Garrett, M. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Consolidated Nuclear Steam Generator for Merchant Ship Application: A Conceptual Design (open access)

Consolidated Nuclear Steam Generator for Merchant Ship Application: A Conceptual Design

Report concerning the economic feasibility of pressurized water reactors for use aboard merchant ships. This includes conceptual designs and work remaining for the future of a Pressurized Water Reactor.
Date: August 1962
Creator: Babcock & Wilcox Company
System: The UNT Digital Library
Corrosion of Zircaloy in Crevices under Nucleate Boiling Conditions (open access)

Corrosion of Zircaloy in Crevices under Nucleate Boiling Conditions

Abstract: The MSAR corrosion test loop was used to study the effect of VKE-shaped crevices on the corrosion resistance of Zircaloy under boiling heat-transfer condtions in both ammoniated and lithiated water at pH 10.5.
Date: April 1962
Creator: Anderson, W. Kermit & McGoff, M. J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Critical Path Scheduling of ETR and MTR Reactor Shutdowns (open access)

Critical Path Scheduling of ETR and MTR Reactor Shutdowns

Report describing a method for planning shutdown projects and scheduling the manpower to shut down Materials Testing Reactors (MTR) and Engineering Test Reactors (ETR).
Date: January 10, 1962
Creator: Jacobs, R. T. & Myers, L. L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Design of a Pilot Plant Facility for Radioactive Demonstration of the Pot Calcination Process (open access)

Design of a Pilot Plant Facility for Radioactive Demonstration of the Pot Calcination Process

Report regarding the process development work at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, including project objectives, design considerations, descriptions of equipment, and estimated costs.
Date: December 14, 1962
Creator: Wheeler, B. R. & Buckham, James Andrew
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Device for Recording Fuel Element Dimension on Punched Paper Tape (open access)

A Device for Recording Fuel Element Dimension on Punched Paper Tape

Report that "describes a system for translating the position of a strip-chart recorder potentiometer shaft into decimal digital form" (p. ii).
Date: December 1962
Creator: Driver, G. E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of Major Parameters on Cycle Efficiency and Cost for a Gas-Cooled Reactor Turbine Power Plant (open access)

Effects of Major Parameters on Cycle Efficiency and Cost for a Gas-Cooled Reactor Turbine Power Plant

Cycle study performed on a closed loop Brayton cycle incorporating a gas-cooled nuclear reactor, regeneration, and compressor intercooling. The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of various cycle parameters on efficiency and cost.
Date: October 5, 1962
Creator: Miskell, R. V.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Monitoring Semiannual Report: January-June 1962 (open access)

Environmental Monitoring Semiannual Report: January-June 1962

From summary: This report summarizes environmental monitoring results for the first six months of 1962.
Date: November 1962
Creator: Moore, J. D.; Fisher, W. L. & Rowe, P. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
EOCR Control Rod and Driver Fuel Hydraulic Tests (open access)

EOCR Control Rod and Driver Fuel Hydraulic Tests

Report discussing the results of experiments on an EOCR prototype control rod, control rod drive, and driver fuel assembly that were extensively tested in 500 deg F Santowax and 132 deg F water. These tests not only established the operating characteristics of these assemblies but also revealed a number of deficiencies in the various components. It includes descriptions of the control rod, control rod drive, and driver fuel assembly together with descriptions of their method of operation.
Date: October 19, 1962
Creator: Harrison, L. J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of Four Processes for Recovering Uranium from Zirconium Fuels at the Idaho Chemical Processing Plant (open access)

An Evaluation of Four Processes for Recovering Uranium from Zirconium Fuels at the Idaho Chemical Processing Plant

Report evaluating the technical and economic feasibility of four zirconium fuel processes: the present STR process, the modified Zirflex process, the barium fluozirconate process, and the sodium formate process.
Date: April 27, 1962
Creator: Burn, P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Properties of Irradiated Zircaloy-2 Pressure Tube from KER Loop 1 (open access)

Evaluation of Properties of Irradiated Zircaloy-2 Pressure Tube from KER Loop 1

Report describing the evaluation of the effects of irradiation on a high pressure water loop that ruptured while testing fuel elements. Includes photographs of the damaged tube as well as chemical analyses.
Date: December 1962
Creator: Defferdin, L. J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Zirconium Hydride as Moderator in Integral, Boiling Water-Superheat Reactors (open access)

Evaluation of Zirconium Hydride as Moderator in Integral, Boiling Water-Superheat Reactors

This report summarizes the results and conclusions of a study made to evaluate the merits of using zirconium hydride as a solid moderator in an integral boiling water-nuclear superheat reactor of the pressure vessel type.
Date: March 1, 1962
Creator: Gylfe, J. D.; Rood, H.; Greenleaf, J.; Balkwill, K.; Prem, L. & Goldfisher, L.
System: The UNT Digital Library