Determination of the S. S. N. M. Content of the Shipment to the Davison Chemical Company, Erwin, Tennessee, December 20, 1960 (open access)

Determination of the S. S. N. M. Content of the Shipment to the Davison Chemical Company, Erwin, Tennessee, December 20, 1960

A carrier containing 138.99 liters of solution, uranium concentration 202.04 g/liter with an isotopic concentration of 97.3% U-233, was prepared for shipment. The total uranium was 28,062 +/- 60 g (95% confidence level) and the U-233, 27,305 +/- 66 g (95% confidence level).
Date: January 11, 1961
Creator: Sadowski, G. S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Recrystallized Texture of Alpha Uranium (open access)

Recrystallized Texture of Alpha Uranium

Uranium was plastically deformed 90% at room temperature by unidirectional rolling to a foil 0.002-inches thick. Specimens were recrystallized in the alpha region and several pole figures obtained from 0 to 40 degrees. From these, the preferred orientation was found to be in a spread of idealized (11) [010] about [010].
Date: January 11, 1955
Creator: Seymour, W. & Duffey, J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Calculation of Shield Induced Gamma Radiation Escaping Through Openings in a Biological Shield -- Application to the HRT (open access)

Calculation of Shield Induced Gamma Radiation Escaping Through Openings in a Biological Shield -- Application to the HRT

A method was developed for calculating shield induced gamma radiation escaping through openings in a biological shield. The method was applied to the HRT and the results indicated that the contribution to the dose from induced activity in the HRT shield was around 0.1 r/hr and was insignificant in comparison to to other mechanisms contributing to the escape of gamma rays through shield openings.
Date: January 11, 1957
Creator: Claiborne, H. C. & Fowler, T. B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Methods of Analysis of Anisole-BF3 Solution (open access)

Methods of Analysis of Anisole-BF3 Solution

The methods of analysis given in this report are those which were used in the Analytical Chemistry Division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory for analyzing samples which were derived from the experimental work on the separation of the isotopes of boron by chemical exchange. The samples consisted principally of boron trifluoride solutions in anisole (methyl phenyl ether, CH30C6H5). The boron concentration ranged from a few parts per million to 5 or 6 per cent. Boron was determined on all samples. During the early stages of the project, iron and copper were occasionally determined, while a limited number of aqueous solutions and water extracts of anisole solutions of BF3 were analyzed for fluoboric and hydroxyfluoboric acids, boric acid, total boron, and total fluoride. Boron was determined by the use of either a spectrophotometric or volumetric method, depending on the amount available. Initially, if the amount of sample and boron concentration were such as to provide a total of at least 2 to 4 mg of boron, the volumetric method was utilized and found to be satisfactory. For smaller amount, the spectrophotometric method was used. Later, because of its greater speed and simplicity, the spectrophotometric method was used for samples in …
Date: January 11, 1956
Creator: House, H. P.; Lund, J. R.; French, J. R.; Meyer, A. S., Jr.; Lynn, E. C.; Brady, L. J. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Enthalpies and Heat Capacities of Solid and Molten Fluoride Mixtures (open access)

Enthalpies and Heat Capacities of Solid and Molten Fluoride Mixtures

The enthalpies and heat capacities of seventeen fluoride mixtures in the liquid state have been determined using Bunsen Ice Calorimeters and copper block calorimeters. The fluoride mixtures were composed of the fluorides of two or more of the following metals: lithium, sodium, potassium, beryllium, zirconium, and uranium. The enthalpies and heat capacities of most of these mixtures were studied in the solid state also. Estimates of the heat of fusion have been made. General empirical equations have been developed which represent the enthalpies and heat capacities of the fluoride mixtures in the liquid and in the solid state.
Date: January 11, 1956
Creator: Powers, W. D. & Blalock, G. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Radiological Sciences Department Quarterly Progress Report Research and Development Activities October-December, 1955 (open access)

Radiological Sciences Department Quarterly Progress Report Research and Development Activities October-December, 1955

This twenty-fifth quarterly report of the research and development activities of the Radiological Sciences Department, Hanford Atomic Products operation, as before, includes some items charged to control but included for general interest. The previous report of this series was numbered: HW-39624, October 11, 1955. Progress is reported in the following studies: a radiobiological-ecological survey of the Columbia River; the toxic effects of continuous low-level exposure to I¹³¹ in pigs; Pu metabolism in miniature pigs and rats; the tissue distribution and retention of Ru¹⁰⁶ and Cs in rats and mice; the radiosensitivity of the intestine of rats; the pulmonary absorption of radioactive particles and the pathological effects of such particles in the lungs of mice; the uptake of I¹³¹ and other fission products from the soil and from air by plants; determinations of the relative biological effectiveness for yeast cells of Po²¹⁰ alpha particles and P³² beta particles; the development of chemical and radiological monitoring methods; the separation of fission products from waste streams; and improvements in instruments for monitoring and low-level radiation counting. The status of the research programs of the department is reviewed.
Date: January 11, 1956
Creator: Parker, H. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Column Adsorption Methods in Analytical Chemistry (open access)

Column Adsorption Methods in Analytical Chemistry

Technical report. Numerous application of various column adsorption techniques to inorganic analytical chemistry have appear in the literature. The comparatively recent introduction of ion exchange resins has resulted in the development of efficient, simple, and rapid column adsorption methods. the principal service of column adsorption methods to analytical chemistry is that of providing a relatively simple means of separating an element in a sufficiently pure state so that a direct precipitation, ignition, and weighting, for example, will suffice to complete the quantitative analysis. Systems involving uranyl nitrate will naturally be emphasized in this report but information will be included concerning the separation of the individual members of a series from one another, such as in the alkaline earths and the rare earths.
Date: January 11, 1946
Creator: Schubert, Jack
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chemistry Division, Section C-1, Quarterly Report July, August, and September 1952 (open access)

Chemistry Division, Section C-1, Quarterly Report July, August, and September 1952

Report describing the research and development activities related to nuclear chemistry and radiochemistry and basic chemistry conducted by the Argonne National Laboratory Chemistry Division, Section C-1.
Date: January 11, 1952
Creator: Manning, W. M. & Osborne, D. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Center-Gage and Micrometer (open access)

Center-Gage and Micrometer

Patent for improvements to a center gage and inside micrometer to "provide central support for dividers" (lines 15-16) including illustrations.
Date: January 11, 1921
Creator: Snell, Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Tire (open access)

Vehicle-Tire

Patent for a tire wheel that is resistant to shocks and vibrations when traveling over roads. This tire is more durable and is more resilient, leading to less break-downs on the road.
Date: January 11, 1921
Creator: Pepple, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Leaf-Turner. (open access)

Leaf-Turner.

Patent for a new and improved leaf turner which allows the piano player to turn the pages of their sheet music without taking their hands off the keyboard. This leaf turner is "noiseless and efficient in operation and...will respond instantly to the actuating impulse" (lines 21-23). It is not expensive to make, and securely holds music and releases it without effort.
Date: January 11, 1921
Creator: Holcom, Jarret C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tie-Buckle. (open access)

Tie-Buckle.

Patent for the improvement of tie buckles, specifically for bales of cotton at cotton gins. The paten includes an illustration of the tie buckle, explanations on how to easily use it, and why it is useful for cotton farming.
Date: January 11, 1921
Creator: Wallace, William M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drill-Bit (open access)

Drill-Bit

Patent for new improvement in drill-bits. The object of the invention is to "provide the driller with advanced knowledge of the formation into which he is about to extend his main hole".
Date: January 11, 1921
Creator: Smith, Primus W.; Bookhout, John J. & Monce, Edwin W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Game. (open access)

Game.

Patent for a board game based on finance. The board game uses numbered discs that players own multiple quantities of that indicate their positions on the board.
Date: January 11, 1921
Creator: Sterling, Don L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Edge Heel And Shank Setter. (open access)

Electric Edge Heel And Shank Setter.

Patent for device setting heels and shanks for shoe manufacturing. It is an edged electric device with a rotary wheel.
Date: January 11, 1921
Creator: Lutes, William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Monkey-Wrench. (open access)

Monkey-Wrench.

Patent for a monkey wrench that "can be adjusted for different sizes of nuts by the same hand which is using the wrench...and which may also be used as a pipe wrench" (lines 16-21).
Date: January 11, 1921
Creator: Kirkpatrick, Otey R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nuclear Measurements for Type 3 Replacement Cores for SM-1, SM-1A and PM-2A CE 3 (open access)

Nuclear Measurements for Type 3 Replacement Cores for SM-1, SM-1A and PM-2A CE 3

Abstract: This technical report contains the description and results of an experimental program to evaluate the effect of utilizing Type 3 (SM-2) replacement cores in existing Army field plants SM-1, SM-1A and PM-2A. This program, conducted at the Alco Products Critical Facility, employed SM-2 mockup fuel elements similar in composition to Type 3 fuel elements to determine start-up characteristics of Type 3 cores in SM-1, SM-1A and PM-2A core configurations. measurements include comprehensive power distribution, temperature coefficients, initial critical bank positions, control rod calibrations, critical rod configuration and material coefficients, all obtained under cold, clean, core conditions. The 45 element SM-1 and SM-1A configuration with SM-2 mockup fuel elements contain 36.4 Kg U-235 and an estimated 67.9 gm B-10, while the 37 element PM-2A configuration with SM-2 mockup elements contains 30.0 Kb U-235 and an estimated 56 gm B-10.
Date: January 11, 1962
Creator: Raby, T. M.; Walthousen, L. D.; Kemp, S. N.; McCool, W. J.; Sontheimer, K. C. & Robinson, R. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Register: 2018 Annual Index, Index of Rules, Pages 119-186, and Index of Non-Rulemaking Notices, Pages 187-218, January 11, 2019 (open access)

Texas Register: 2018 Annual Index, Index of Rules, Pages 119-186, and Index of Non-Rulemaking Notices, Pages 187-218, January 11, 2019

This annual index includes both index of rules and Index of Non-Rulemaking Notices published January to December 2017. A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: January 11, 2019
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Reversed field decay times (open access)

Reversed field decay times

A two-fluid equilibrium plasma model with electron-ion drag terms taken from the Spitzer coefficients is used in the analysis. An equilibrium cold electron background is assumed to exist which balances the electrical charge of the rotating ion ring. The ions can be assumed to have a directed velocity which is on the order of their mean thermal velocity.
Date: January 11, 1977
Creator: Morse, E. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Charge transport problem (open access)

Charge transport problem

In a recent report (UCID 17346, ''Relativistic Particle Beam in a Semi-Infinite Axially Symmetric conducting channel extending from a perfectly conducting plane,'' Dec. 13, 1976) Cooper and Neil demonstrate that the net charge transported by a beam pulse injected into a channel of finite conductivity equals the charge of the beam itself. The channel is taken to be infinite in the positive z direction, has finite radius and is terminated by a conducting ground plane at z =0. This result is not an obvious one, and it is restricted in its applicability by the special model assumed for the channel. It is the purpose to explain the result of Cooper and Neil in more qualitative terms and to make similar calculations using several other channel models. It must be emphasized that these calculations are not concerned with the fate of the transported charge after the pulse has stopped, but rather with how much charge leaves the ground plane assuming the pulse does not stop.
Date: January 11, 1977
Creator: Lee, E. P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Register, Volume 44, Number 2, Pages 167-296, January 11, 2019 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 44, Number 2, Pages 167-296, January 11, 2019

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: January 11, 2019
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Preventable Disease News, Volume 46, Number 2, January 11, 1986 (open access)

Texas Preventable Disease News, Volume 46, Number 2, January 11, 1986

Newsletter of the Texas Bureau of Disease Control and Epidemiology discussing the news, activities, and events of the organization and other information related to health in Texas.
Date: January 11, 1986
Creator: Texas. Bureau of Disease Control and Epidemiology.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The National Ignition Facility: Status and Plans for Laser Fusion and High-Energy-Density Experimental Studies (open access)

The National Ignition Facility: Status and Plans for Laser Fusion and High-Energy-Density Experimental Studies

The National Ignition Facility (NIF), currently under construction at the University of California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is a $2.25B stadium-sized facility containing a 192-beam, 1.8-Megajoule, 500-Terawatt, 351-nm laser system. NIF is being built by the National Nuclear Security Agency and when completed will be the world's largest laser system, providing a national center to study inertial confinement fusion and the physics of extreme energy densities and pressures. In NIF up to 192 energetic laser beams will compress small fusion targets to conditions where they will ignite and burn, liberating more energy than is required to initiate the fusion reactions. NIF experiments will allow the study of physical processes at temperatures approaching 100 million K and 100 billion times atmospheric pressure. These conditions exist naturally only in the interior of stars and in nuclear weapons explosions. In the course of designing the world's most energetic laser system, a number of significant technology breakthroughs have been achieved. Research is also underway to develop a shorter pulse capability on NIF for high power applications. We discuss here the technology challenges and solutions that have made NIF possible along with enhancements to NIF's design that could lead to exawatt power levels.
Date: January 11, 2002
Creator: Moses, E I
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hierarchical Volume Representation with 3{radical}2 Subdivision and Trivariate B-Spline Wavelets (open access)

Hierarchical Volume Representation with 3{radical}2 Subdivision and Trivariate B-Spline Wavelets

Multiresolution methods provide a means for representing data at multiple levels of detail. They are typically based on a hierarchical data organization scheme and update rules needed for data value computation. We use a data organization that is based on what we call n{radical}2 subdivision. The main advantage of subdivision, compared to quadtree (n = 2) or octree (n = 3) organizations, is that the number of vertices is only doubled in each subdivision step instead of multiplied by a factor of four or eight, respectively. To update data values we use n-variate B-spline wavelets, which yields better approximations for each level of detail. We develop a lifting scheme for n = 2 and n = 3 based on the n{radical}2-subdivision scheme. We obtain narrow masks that could also provide a basis for view-dependent visualization and adaptive refinement.
Date: January 11, 2002
Creator: Linsen, L; Gray, JT; Pascucci, V; Duchaineau, M & Hamann, B
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library