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Nuclear Reactor Project Progress Report, January 1948 (open access)

Nuclear Reactor Project Progress Report, January 1948

This report is a progress report detailing operations and ongoing projects at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. The report describes new developments with buildings and progress regarding ongoing experiments. The report includes photographs showing progress in the construction of the reactor and other images and figures that accompany the descriptions of projects.
Date: January 1, 1948
Creator: Borst, L. B. & Fox, Marvin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Report on the Brookhaven Nuclear Reactor Prepared for Reactor Safeguard Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission (open access)

Report on the Brookhaven Nuclear Reactor Prepared for Reactor Safeguard Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission

This technical report provides a general description of the Brookhaven National Laboratory, describing the nuclear characteristics of the Brookhaven reactor and more detailed descriptions of the features and instrumentation of the reactor.
Date: June 22, 1948
Creator: Brookhaven National Laboratory
System: The UNT Digital Library
Supplement to Report on the Brookhaven Nuclear Reactor Prepared for Reactor Safeguard Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission (open access)

Supplement to Report on the Brookhaven Nuclear Reactor Prepared for Reactor Safeguard Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission

This technical report provides supplementary information on the Brookhaven nuclear reactor. It details added safety systems, tests, expounds on information included in the original report, describes liquid wastes system, and describes different procedures for operating the nuclear reactor.
Date: August 30, 1948
Creator: Brookhaven National Laboratory
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Reactor Progress Report (open access)

Nuclear Reactor Progress Report

Technical report describing the building of safety devices and features for the Oak Ridge reactor by the Reactor Safeguard Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission. Outlines the difficulties encountered in detailed design and construction operations for the facility.
Date: October 1, 1948
Creator: Brookhaven National Laboratory
System: The UNT Digital Library
Report on Hack's Canyon Uranium Mine, Mohave County, Arizona (open access)

Report on Hack's Canyon Uranium Mine, Mohave County, Arizona

This is a geological report on the uranium mine in Hack's Canyon, Mohave County, Arizona.
Date: September 1, 1948
Creator: Dunning, Charles H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tabulation or Ore Reserves and Past Production for the Uranium-Vanadium Region of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona (open access)

Tabulation or Ore Reserves and Past Production for the Uranium-Vanadium Region of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona

The tabulations on these pages include all of the known areas in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona having economically important uranium-vanadium deposits of the type which are generally referred to by the terms roscoe-lite and/or carnotite. Though similar deposits are known to exist in other areas they are to be viewed as being little more than mineralogical curiosities.
Date: February 16, 1948
Creator: Fetzer, Wallace G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Isolation and Properties of Curium (open access)

The Isolation and Properties of Curium

From introduction: "The discovery of element number 96, curium, was realized by the preparation and identification of the isotope Cm-242 by G. T. Seaborg, R. A. James and A. Ghiorso by cyclotron bombardment of Pu-239 with helium ions."
Date: July 28, 1948
Creator: Werner, Louis Bernard
System: The UNT Digital Library
Physico-Chemical Studies of U Compounds in Solution : Report of Progress for December, 1944 (open access)

Physico-Chemical Studies of U Compounds in Solution : Report of Progress for December, 1944

This report discusses studies of oxidation-reduction, including polarography, and the U complex of U anions and U cations during the period of December, 1944.
Date: 1948
Creator: Tishkoff, G. H.; Dounce, Alexander Latham & Fanta, Paul E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Physico-chemical Studies of U-Compounds in Solution : Progress Report, February 1945 (open access)

Physico-chemical Studies of U-Compounds in Solution : Progress Report, February 1945

This progress report discusses progress on oxidation-reduction studies, including polarography, as well as the Uranium-complex formation including electrical transport and spectro-photometric work. This report covers the work done in the period of February of 1945.
Date: May 26, 1948
Creator: Tishkoff, G. H. & Fanta, Paul E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Acute Radiotoxicity of Injected Na²⁴ for Mice and Rats (open access)

The Acute Radiotoxicity of Injected Na²⁴ for Mice and Rats

The following report describes the results from studies based on the toxicity and metabolism of radioactive substances derived from uranium fission. Rats and mice were administered radioactive sodium and reactions and changes were studied.
Date: April 15, 1948
Creator: Finkle, R. D.; Snyder, R. H.; Kisieleski, Walter E.; Teresi, J.; Broido, A. & Tompkins, P. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preliminary Report on the Hydrolytic Behavior of Cerium (IV) (open access)

Preliminary Report on the Hydrolytic Behavior of Cerium (IV)

The following report analyzes the hydrolytic behavior of cerium and compares them with the actinides of uranium and plutonium.
Date: May 25, 1948
Creator: Kraus, K. A.; Holmberg, R. W. & Nelson, F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Production of Leukopenia by Chronic Irradiation of the Abdominal Viscera of the Cat (open access)

The Production of Leukopenia by Chronic Irradiation of the Abdominal Viscera of the Cat

This report describes an experiment that produced leukopenia in cats through irradiation. It elaborates that irradiated cats had significant decreases in levels of leukocytes, polymorphonuclear leukocytes, and lymphocytes. The methods and specific results of the experiment are also given and discussed.
Date: 1948
Creator: Adams, William S. & Lawrence, John S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Apparatus for injection of animals with dangerous amounts of hard beta and gamma emitters (open access)

Apparatus for injection of animals with dangerous amounts of hard beta and gamma emitters

Report detailing the development of an apparatus for injection of animals with dangerous amounts of hard beta and gamma emitters. The development of this apparatus was necessitated by the extended period of time that experimenter's had to hold syringes containing radioactive material.
Date: 1948
Creator: Anthony, Davis S. & Norris, William P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Studies of the metabolism and toxic action of injected radium (open access)

Studies of the metabolism and toxic action of injected radium

Report discussing various studies on the effect of radium injections in rats, mice, and rabbits. Specifically, the effects on weight, lethal action, excretion and retention are discussed.
Date: 1948
Creator: Norris, William P. & Evans, H. B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Visual Efficiency of a Phosphor Bombarded by Plutonium Alpha Particles (open access)

Visual Efficiency of a Phosphor Bombarded by Plutonium Alpha Particles

This report follows and experiment that was performed to determine the visual efficiency of a phosphor when bombarded by alpha particles.
Date: November 15, 1948
Creator: Wakefield, Ernest
System: The UNT Digital Library
Revised draft of glossary in terms of reactor theory (open access)

Revised draft of glossary in terms of reactor theory

Report describing multiple terms that are relevant to reactor theory. The terms are broken up into seven categories that are listed on the second page of the report.
Date: 1948
Creator: Smith, Nicholas M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chambers Works Process for the Manufacture of Fluorine in East Area Carbon Anode Cells (M.W.38.0) (open access)

Chambers Works Process for the Manufacture of Fluorine in East Area Carbon Anode Cells (M.W.38.0)

Historical: This process is based on experimental work done in Jackson Laboratory, Send Works, Blue Products, and East Area. It supersedes the Tentative Chambers Works Process for the Manufacture of Fluorine Using Carbon Anode Units, dated December 2, 1943.
Date: January 18, 1948
Creator: E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Second-Year Inhalation Toxicity Study of Animals Employing Uranyl Nitrate Hexahydrate at 4 mg/m3 (open access)

A Second-Year Inhalation Toxicity Study of Animals Employing Uranyl Nitrate Hexahydrate at 4 mg/m3

Report discussing a study on chronic toxicity of uranyl nitrate hexahydrate in both dogs and rats. A detailed explanation of the experiment is given, including procedures and experimental results.
Date: 1948
Creator: Sprague, G. F., Jr.; Pettengill, A.; Brown, B. & Stokinger, H. E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Observation of Mesons Produced by the 184-inch Cyclotron (open access)

Observation of Mesons Produced by the 184-inch Cyclotron

The following report presents the study of meson tracks produced by a cyclotron of 184-inches, and prompting the question of whether the light mesons all come from decays of heavy mesons, or whether they are produced in a primary process at the target.
Date: 1948
Creator: Lattes, César H. G. & Gardner, Eugene
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Crystal Structure of Trichlorides, Tribromides and Trihydroxides of Uranium and of Rare Earth Elements (open access)

The Crystal Structure of Trichlorides, Tribromides and Trihydroxides of Uranium and of Rare Earth Elements

Abstract: "The compounds UCl3, UBr3, IaCl3, LaBr3, La(OH)3, CeCl3, CeBr3, PrCl3, PrDr3, Pr(OH)3, HdCl3, and Hd(OH)3 are shown to be isomorphous. They have hexagonal structures with two molecules per unit cell. The complete structures are determined and described."
Date: 1948
Creator: Zachariasen, William H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Synthesis of Element 43 (Tc)#x (open access)

Nuclear Synthesis of Element 43 (Tc)#x

The following report on the nuclear synthesis of technetium is based on work performed under contract No. W-7405-eng-26 for the Atomic Energy Project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Date: June 14, 1948
Creator: Motta, E. E. & Boyd, G. E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Excretion, Retention, Distribution, and Clinical Effects of Strontium⁸⁹ for Individual Dogs (open access)

The Excretion, Retention, Distribution, and Clinical Effects of Strontium⁸⁹ for Individual Dogs

The following report investigates the excretion data of dogs who were injected with strontium89.
Date: June 1948
Creator: Sacher, George A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Tracer Chemistry of Americium and Curium in Aqueous Solutions (open access)

The Tracer Chemistry of Americium and Curium in Aqueous Solutions

The following report presents data and conclusions from investigations of the chemical properties of elements 95 (americium, Am) and 96 (curium, Cu) by means of tracer techniques.
Date: May 1948
Creator: Thompson, Stanley Gerald, 1912-1976; Morgan, L. O.; James, R. A. & Perlman, Isadore
System: The UNT Digital Library
X-ray Analysis of the Uranium-Carbon System (open access)

X-ray Analysis of the Uranium-Carbon System

The following report includes an account of the X-ray structures of all he uranium-carbides together with X-ray data on the solid solubilities of these carbides with each other and with uranium and carbon.
Date: 1948
Creator: Rundle, R. E.; Wilson, A. S. & Baenziger, Norman C.
System: The UNT Digital Library