This document details activities of the Irradiation Processing Department during the month of November, 1962. A general summary is included at the start of the report, after which the report is divided into the following sections: Research and Engineering Operations; Production and Reactor Operations; Facilities Engineering Operation; Employee Relations Operation; and Financial Operation.

This is the monthly report for the Hanford Laboratories Operation, November 1962. Metallurgy, reactor fuels, chemistry, dosimetry, separation processes, reactor technology, financial activities, visits, biology operation, physics and instrumentation research, and employee relations are discussed.

Normal Pile exposure variations and day-to-day operating reactivity adjustments must be compensated by a combination of in-reactor poison and enrichment. The calculation of current reactivity status and the prediction of future trends is an integral part of the Physicist`s responsibility. This document describes the computer program ``CALHOT,`` which is based upon one-group diffusion theory, and is intended to be used in routine reactivity-enrichment calculations. It offers the advantages over present hand calculations of greater accuracy, more flexibility, and, most important, much less calculational time.

Based on process development work at ORNL, a facility was designed for demonstration of the pot calcination process with a variety of high-level radioactive wastes. In this facility, operational and control problems associated with an integrated process can be identified and solved, procedures to improve characteristics of the calcine can be studied, and important aspects of calcine temperature distribution and fission product behavior can be observed. Installation of the facility is planned for the Hanford Atomic Products Operation. The facility can be installed in any cell or cells having certain basic features. (auth)

As TORY II-C is presently designed, a nuclear excursion would occur if the core were flooded with water. This is true even if all of the existing control rods were fully inserted. Indeed ANGIE calculations indicate that the reactor would be about 30% super-critical in such a case. There are several methods by which the core may be forced sub- critical under these extreme conditions. We will here consider only the method of introducing, directly into the core, a material which strongly absorbs neutrons. It must be possible to remove this excess `poison` prior to, or during the boost phase. Since the computer codes can be trusted to only approximately 3%, we will, for safety, insist on 40% negative reactivity to be introduced by the excess poison.

This paper presents thrust calculations for low altitude trajectories for a Tory II-C type propulsion reactor.

Report regarding the process development work at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, including project objectives, design considerations, descriptions of equipment, and estimated costs.