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Facilities of the National Bureau of Standards (open access)

Facilities of the National Bureau of Standards

From forward: Every laboratory in this country is a valuable national resource. Along with the people who work in these facilities, U.S. laboratories constitute the basic foundation of this country's scientific and industrial strength. As the nation's foremost science and engineering measurement laboratory, the National Bureau of Standards has some of the premier research and testing facilities in the United States, and several of our laboratories are unequaled anywhere in the world. Bureau scientists and engineers use these special facilities to pursue the measurement-related work that U.S. science and industry need to grow and prosper. This brochure highlights only a small number of the special facilities available at NBS and provides information about their availability for collaborative or independent research and testing.
Date: December 19, 1984
Creator: United States. National Bureau of Standards.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Errata Sheet Number 1 for National Bureau of Standards Building Science Series 144, September 1983 (open access)

Errata Sheet Number 1 for National Bureau of Standards Building Science Series 144, September 1983

Errata sheet for a report issued by the National Bureau of Standards containing corrections to be added to NBS Bulletin 144.
Date: January 19, 1983
Creator: Crenshaw, Richard & Clark, Roy E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Computer Analysis,  NURE-HHSR Data, Pueblo Quadrangle, Colorado: Test Project (open access)

Computer Analysis, NURE-HHSR Data, Pueblo Quadrangle, Colorado: Test Project

A computer analysis of NURE-HSSR data.
Date: May 19, 1980
Creator: Proctor, Paul Dean
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aerial Radiometric and Magnetic Survey of the Amarillo National Topographic Map, NI 14-1, Texas (open access)

Aerial Radiometric and Magnetic Survey of the Amarillo National Topographic Map, NI 14-1, Texas

From introduction: Geodata International, Incorporated, conducted an airborne gamma ray and total magnetic field survey which covered a region of North Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma. The specific area of this report as outlined on Figure 1 was surveyed from an aircraft using large-volume radiation detectors with computer controlled airborne equipment. Each map line was flown in an east-west direction with an average length of 120 miles and each tie line was flown in a north-south direction with an average length of 69 miles. Map lines and tie lines were surveyed spaced at intervals indicated on Figure 2. The data for the total area of Figure 1 were gathered between March-July, 1976.
Date: August 19, 1976
Creator: Geodata International
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aerial Radiometric and Magnetic Survey of the Brownfield National Topographic Map, NI 13-9, Texas and New Mexico (open access)

Aerial Radiometric and Magnetic Survey of the Brownfield National Topographic Map, NI 13-9, Texas and New Mexico

From introduction: Geodata International, Incorporated, conducted an airborne gamma ray and total magnetic field survey which covered a region of North Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma. The specific area of this report as outlined on Figure 1 was surveyed from an aircraft using large-volume radiation detectors with computer-controlled airborne equipment. Each map line was flown in an east-west direction with an average length of 120 miles and each tie line was flown in a north-south direction with an average length of 69 miles. Map lines and tie lines were surveyed spaced at intervals indicated on Figure 2. The data for the total area of Figure 1 were gathered between March-July, 1976.
Date: August 19, 1976
Creator: Geodata International
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aerial Radiometric and Magnetic Survey of the Clovis National Topographic Map, NI 13-6, Texas and New Mexico: Volume 1 (open access)

Aerial Radiometric and Magnetic Survey of the Clovis National Topographic Map, NI 13-6, Texas and New Mexico: Volume 1

From objective and plan: The airborne data gathered were reduced using ground-based computer facilities to give the basic uranium, thorium and potassium equivalent gamma radiation intensities, ratios of these intensities, aircraft altitude above the earth's surface, total gamma ray and earth's magnetic field intensity, correlated as a function of geologic units indicated from available geologic maps. Results of analyses of these field data are presented as profile plots of the gamma radiation and earth's magnetic field.
Date: August 19, 1976
Creator: Geodata International
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aerial Radiometric and Magnetic Survey of the Tucumcari National Topographic Map NI 13-3, Texas and New Mexico: Volume 1 (open access)

Aerial Radiometric and Magnetic Survey of the Tucumcari National Topographic Map NI 13-3, Texas and New Mexico: Volume 1

The airborne data gathered were reduced using ground-based computer facilities to give the basic uranium, thorium and potassium equivalent gamma radiation intensities, ratios of these intensities, aircraft altitude above the earth's surface, total gamma ray and earth's magnetic field intensity, correlated as a function of geologic units indicated from available geologic maps. Results of analyses of these field data are presented as profile plots of the gamma radiation and earth's magnetic field.
Date: August 19, 1976
Creator: Geodata International
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geophysical and Geologic Field Measurements for the U16a.04 Tunnel, Nevada Test Site, Nevada with a Discussion of Geophysical Measurements in Horizontal Holes (open access)

Geophysical and Geologic Field Measurements for the U16a.04 Tunnel, Nevada Test Site, Nevada with a Discussion of Geophysical Measurements in Horizontal Holes

This report summarizes the results of the U.S. Geological Survey geophysical and geological studies of the rock in the U16a.04 tunnel in the Nevada Test Site.
Date: December 19, 1967
Creator: Carroll, Roger D.; Ege, John R.; Cunningham, M. J.; Muller, D. C. & Way, R. J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
International Geophysical Year Oceanographic Program of the Argentine Republic (open access)

International Geophysical Year Oceanographic Program of the Argentine Republic

The report is about the geophysical year oceanographic program of the Argentine Republic.
Date: July 19, 1967
Creator: Capurro, Luis R. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Silicon Nitride As A High-Temperature Radome Material (open access)

Silicon Nitride As A High-Temperature Radome Material

LRL has the responsibility of demonstrating the feasibility of a reactor for use as a power plant for a low-altitude, high-Mach-number missile. This reactor is literally a very high power air heater which must work at temperatures in excess of 2000' F. The reactor is exposed to high loads so one of the primary problems is providing high temperature structure. Considerable effort has been devoted to developing ceramic structural elements. One of the materials considered for this purpose is silicon nitride. In ceramic structural elements operating over large temperature ranges, a major problem is coping with thermal stress. In this respect there is a similarity with the radome problem. The work on silicon nitride at LRL consisted of limited fabrication studies (principally for familiarization), measurement of properties of interest to the application, and funding of fabrication scale-up efforts.
Date: May 19, 1964
Creator: Wells, William M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Feasibility of a Liquid Phase Chemonuclear Ozone Process (open access)

Feasibility of a Liquid Phase Chemonuclear Ozone Process

At the Chemonuclear Workshop held at Brookhaven National laboratory in November 1962 it was pointed out that the production of ozone from oxygen by a liquid phase fission fragment chemonuclear process appears to have reasonable economic potential. The maximum theoretical reaction yield for the formation of ozone from oxygen is a "G" value of 68 molecules for 100 ev based on heat of reaction data. The authors felt a "G" value of 15 to be reasonable for this study. the reactor system chosen has liquid oxygen as its moderator and the operating pressure and temperature were selected so as to allow boiling of the oxygen-ozone mixture. The total plant investment cost is estimated to be in the range of $100,000,000. Other system designs will be considered in the future.
Date: November 19, 1963
Creator: Cagnetta, J. P.; Goellner, D. & Steinberg, M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lens Opacification in Mice Exposed to Monoenergetic Fast Neutrons (open access)

Lens Opacification in Mice Exposed to Monoenergetic Fast Neutrons

Early effects obtained with monoenergetic fast neutrons in mice have been described elsewhere. Emphasis in this report will be placed on the late effects of lens opacification (cataractogenesis), particularly during the period soon after irradiation with low or fractionated doses of neutrons at two energy levels, or X-rays. Considerations will also be given to the influence of age at time of irradiation upon the induction of lens opacities. Both studies are continuing, with periodic slit-lamp microscope examinations, but findings to date warrant this initial report at this conference.
Date: November 19, 1963
Creator: Bateman, J. L.; Bond, V. P. & Rossi, H. H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Time-Shared Computer Data Collection System at the Brookhaven Graphite Research Reactor (open access)

A Time-Shared Computer Data Collection System at the Brookhaven Graphite Research Reactor

The increasing complexity of the data of nuclear physics has led to widespread interest in the possibility of utilizing a digital computer for on-line data collection. Through the combined efforts of the Instrumentation Division and the Neutron Physics group at Brookhaven such a system has been placed into operation. Several features of this system are believed to be unique and of interest to research groups centered about a major facility like a reactor or an accelerator.
Date: November 19, 1963
Creator: Chrien, R. E.; Rankowitz, S. & Spinrad, R. J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
N-Reactor Operational Safety Review (open access)

N-Reactor Operational Safety Review

Report describing a series of tests performed to review the safety procedures and systems of Hanford Laboratories' N-Reactor.
Date: August 19, 1963
Creator: Trumble, R. E.
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
Wave Functions for Antishielding Factors of Ions and for the Electronic Polarisabilities of the Alkali Atoms (open access)

Wave Functions for Antishielding Factors of Ions and for the Electronic Polarisabilities of the Alkali Atoms

The purpose if this paper is to present tables of perturbed wave functions which have been obtained in three recent investigations: (1) wave functions v1'(nℓ→ℓ') which pertains to the perturbation of the d electrons of various ions as a result of the potential due to a nuclear quadrupole moment Q3 (2) wave functions v1',H(nℓ→ℓ) which represent the antishielding of the d electrons for a possible nuclear hexadecapole moment H; (3) wave functions u2'(ns→p) which pertain to the dipole perturbation of the valence (ns) electrons of the alkali atoms. Throughout this paper, the notation is the same as in a previous report in which a similar tabulation of perturbed wave function was made.
Date: October 19, 1962
Creator: Sternbeiner R. M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annealing of Radiation Induced Defects in Fused Silica (open access)

Annealing of Radiation Induced Defects in Fused Silica

Technical report describes how glasses and crystals subjected to ionizing radiation develop absorption bands and become colored. The coloring of defects can be used to determine how nuclear reactor induced defects anneal out or disappear as an irradiated sample is heated.
Date: June 19, 1962
Creator: Levy, Paul Warren
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Biological Effects of heavy Cosmic Ray Particles (open access)

The Biological Effects of heavy Cosmic Ray Particles

Technical report investigates creating a microbeam of deuterons to simulate cosmic rays and the results of brain irradiation, irradiation of the eye, and irradiation of hair follicles of mice. The report's conclusion was that "astronauts exposed to heavy primary particles over a period of some weeks would be expected to develop gray hairs, but this is the only significant biological damage they would suffer."
Date: June 19, 1962
Creator: Curtis, Howard J. (Howard James), 1906-
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Bond-Cell Method for Complex Molecules and Metals (open access)

A Bond-Cell Method for Complex Molecules and Metals

This technical report introduces "some approximations into the basic quantum mechanical theory" so that the theory of the covalent bond and the molecular orbital method "can be combined into one which will yield quantitative rather than qualitative binding energies and cohesive energies and also distinct energy levels and band structure." This approach will provide a common method "suitable to both solid state physicists and physical chemists, for calculating the energy levels in metals and complex molecules." This report also contains figures detailing the findings. (Quotations taken from introduction)
Date: June 19, 1962
Creator: Carlson, C. M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cell Population Studies on the Intestine of Continuously Irradiated Rats (open access)

Cell Population Studies on the Intestine of Continuously Irradiated Rats

This technical report introduces a new method to capture entire cell populations in the intestines of rats, which have been continuously exposed to radiation.This report finds that the "total number of cells per crypt found after 5 days of irradiation decreases with increasing dose rate." This report includes four figures and two tables detailing findings.
Date: June 19, 1962
Creator: Wimber, Doris R. & Lamerton, Leonard F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electron Microscopy of Fission Fragment Damage in Aluminum-Uranium Fuel Element (open access)

Electron Microscopy of Fission Fragment Damage in Aluminum-Uranium Fuel Element

Technical report covering an extensive investigation of the nature of fission fragment "damage" in various metals. During the investigation electron micrographs of fission fragment tracks in the BNL Graphite Reactor fuel element cores were made.
Date: June 19, 1962
Creator: Kelsch, J. J. & Kammerer, O. F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Extinction and Diffuse Neutron Intensity Measurements (open access)

Extinction and Diffuse Neutron Intensity Measurements

Technical report which reports a study of the effects of extinction upon diffuse x-ray measurements.
Date: June 19, 1962
Creator: Keating, D. T. & Walker, C. B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Genetic Control of Nicotiana Plant Tumors (open access)

Genetic Control of Nicotiana Plant Tumors

Technical report summarizing the evidence that "the capacity for spontaneous tumor formation is certain Nicotiana hybrids is genetically controlled and that genetic change during plant development, i.d. somatic mutation, is not causal to tumor formation." from the introduction.
Date: June 19, 1962
Creator: Smith, Harold H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Irradiation Induced Effects in Magnesium Oxide Catalysts (open access)

Irradiation Induced Effects in Magnesium Oxide Catalysts

Technical report that investigates the the correlation between changes in catalytic activity caused by high energy radiation and the changes in the physical and chemical structure of magnesium oxide catalysts. The investigation of magnesium oxide catalysts might help clarify a complex and poorly understood field.
Date: June 19, 1962
Creator: Hoigné, J. & Ballantine, D.
System: The UNT Digital Library