Filling Instructions for the Pratt & Whitney Forced Convection Liquid Metal Inpile Loop Experiment (PW19) (open access)

Filling Instructions for the Pratt & Whitney Forced Convection Liquid Metal Inpile Loop Experiment (PW19)

The apparatus and procedures that are to be used to fill the liquid metal system of the Pratt and Whitney Forced Convection Liquid Metal Inpile Loop are described. The liquid metal to be used is a mixture containing 56% Na and 44% K, which is a liquid at room temperature. In order to simplify the filling procedure at the reactor site, two containers, each of which contains exactly enough liquid metal to fill the experiment to the prescribed level, a fill dolly incorporating a purified helium system, and an evacuation system will be provided at the reactor site. After completion of the liquid metal transfer, the liquid metal fill tube will be crimped, cut, and seal welded. The liquid metal and helium systems will then be pressurized through the helium fill tubes, which will also be crimped, cut, and seal welded. Each tube seal weld will be inspected after completion of the weld by mass spectrometry leak check and dye penetrant fault detection
Date: April 29, 1959
Creator: Heyl, P. T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-610 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-610

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Is the Commissioners' Court compelled to pay $2,900.00, or can the Court excise discretion and pay nothing, or any amount not to exceed $2,900.00, under Section 2A of Senate Bill 78, Acts of the 52nd Legislature, Regular Session, 1951, Chapter 303, Page 485 (Codified as Article 6819a-3, Vernon's Civil Statutes.)
Date: April 29, 1959
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Heat Transfer Study for Self-Boiling Radioactive Wastes (open access)

Heat Transfer Study for Self-Boiling Radioactive Wastes

The temperature characteristics associated with the handling of self-boiling radioactive wastes from the separations extraction processes in the Chemical Processing Department have necessitated several heat transfer studies. Earlier studies 1,2,3 defined the feasibility of self-concentration in existing waste storage facilities by determining the rate of heat generation from the decay of stored fission products and by defining the rate of heat loss from existing storage tanks to the surrounding soil.
Date: April 27, 1959
Creator: Stivers, H.W. & Taylor, H.W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Niobium Phase Diagrams : Manuscript Report on Niobium-Oxygen System (open access)

Niobium Phase Diagrams : Manuscript Report on Niobium-Oxygen System

Abstract: "The niobium-oxygen equilibrium has been determined by metallographic examination of arc-cast alloys made of electron-gun-refined niobium metal and special purity niobium pentoxide. Two intermediate oxides, NbO and NbO2, melt without decomposition at 1945 C and 1915 C, respectively. Eutectic reactions exist between niobium and NbO and 1915 C and between NbO and NbO2 at 1810 C. Experimental supports a peritectic reaction between NbO2 and Nb2O5 1510 C. The maximum solid solubility of oxygen in niobium metal is 0.72 weight per cent."
Date: April 27, 1959
Creator: Elliott, Rodney P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-605 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-605

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Applicability of statutes of limitation to the cause of action involved in House Concurrent Resolution 55 of the 56th Legislature, and related questions.
Date: April 27, 1959
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-601 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-601

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether or not commissions paid to directors on the sale of capital stock is prohibited by Article 3.67 of the Insurance Code.
Date: April 24, 1959
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-606 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-606

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a garage carrying a stock of parts for installation on customers' automobiles for repair is subject to the store tax levied by Article 1111d, Vernon's Penal Code, and related questions.
Date: April 24, 1959
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-607 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-607

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Duty of the County Clerk to search records.
Date: April 24, 1959
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-608 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-608

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of the Finance Commission to expend a portion of the funds of the Banking Department for the purpose of participating in the building program.
Date: April 24, 1959
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-609 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-609

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Constitutionality of House Bill 353, 56th Legislature, relating to establishment of minimum sales price in the sale of spiritous liquors.
Date: April 24, 1959
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shielding of PRTR Gas Loop & Filter (open access)

Shielding of PRTR Gas Loop & Filter

"The PRTR Pressured Gas-Cooled Loop Facility, or Gas Loop, is an experimental facility to be installed in the Plutonium Recycle Test Reactor for use in studies contributing to advancement of the technology of gas-cooled reactors. The facility will provide an in-reactor loop for studying phenomena occurring under conditions likely to exist in gas-cooled reactors.
Date: April 23, 1959
Creator: Reginmbal, J.J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-602 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-602

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: What constitutes "one building site and office building" as used in Article 3.40 of the Insurance Code.
Date: April 23, 1959
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-604 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-604

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Validity of provisions in the general appropriations bill, 56th Leg., relating to payment of rentals and services by special fund agencies.
Date: April 23, 1959
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Preliminary Report on 2% U235-Enriched UF4-C25H52 Critical Assemblies (open access)

Preliminary Report on 2% U235-Enriched UF4-C25H52 Critical Assemblies

A series of critical experiments with blocks of 2% U235-enriched UF4-C25H52 has been initiated at the ORNL Critical Experiments Facility. Thus far assemblies with H:U235 atomic ratios of 195 and 294 have been built in parallelepipedal and simulated cylindrical geometries, both reflected and unreflected. From the results the minimum critical masses for reflected spheres have been determined to be 16.3 and 8.5 kg of U235 for fuel mixtures with H:U235 atomic ratios of 195 and 294, respectively. The minimum critical masses for unreflected spheres of these two fuel mixtures are 24.3 and 12.7 kg of U235, respectively.
Date: April 22, 1959
Creator: Mihalczo, J. T.; Lynn, J.J.; Scott, Dunlap & Connolly, W. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-600 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-600

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Status of funds accruing to the Teacher Retirement System of Texas for the remainder of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1959, and the availability of such funds to pay administrative costs of the Teacher Retirement System.
Date: April 22, 1959
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-603 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-603

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Under the provisions of Article 4413 (32), V.C.S., may the Game & Fish Commission enter into a contract with the State Highway Department for clearing and grubbing a radio tower site.
Date: April 22, 1959
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Wide-Range Neutron Detector and Monitoring Instrument  : Final Report (open access)

A Wide-Range Neutron Detector and Monitoring Instrument : Final Report

This is the final report on the progress, "A Wide-Range Neutron Detector and Monitoring Instrument," ARF 1118-6. This report covers activities from May 8, 1958 to May 8, 1959. This report describes the basic design principles of a proportional counter that has been constructed whose cathode diameter increases towards one end.
Date: April 22, 1959
Creator: Porges, K. G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Remote Area Scintillation Monitoring System (open access)

Remote Area Scintillation Monitoring System

This report was written to describe briefly several possible variations of such systems along with probable cost estimates. Previous work has been shown that the application of scintillation detectors is the simplest and most reliable means for such monitoring. By proper detector selection and measuring methods, the system can be of an approximate gamma dose-rate with gamma energy independence above about 100 Kev. The same system using detector change only is directly applicable to beta, gamma, slow neutron and fast neutron detection. Any type of alarming device desired can be incorporated.
Date: April 21, 1959
Creator: Spear, W. G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Uranium Cold Extrusion (open access)

Uranium Cold Extrusion

Several hollow uranium cores of "C" size I & E diameters were fabricated by cold extrusion (550 to 750 F) at Hunter Douglas Aluminum Corporation. Results show diameter control and reproducibility are excellent. Preferred orientation induced by this process is completely removed by a single standard beta heat treatment.
Date: April 21, 1959
Creator: Riedeman, G. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Automatic Water Deaeration System (open access)

An Automatic Water Deaeration System

Laboratory studies involving fluid flow through porous media require use of fluids having low dissolved gas content. Water is the major fluid used in various and box model and soil permeability studies carried out by the Geochemical and Geophysical Research group. Tap water supplied to the 222-U Bldg. contains a large amount of dissolved air. Under the reduced pressure encountered during model studies, the air is released from solution and gradually clogs the pores of the sand or other porous material. This, of course. leads to anomalous results and cannot be tolerated in precious studies. A system was required to effectively remove the air and make available a continuous supply of desired water for the model studies.
Date: April 20, 1959
Creator: Raymond, J. R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Corrosion of 2R-2 and 304 Stainless Steel Following the Turco-4501 Decontamination Process. (open access)

Corrosion of 2R-2 and 304 Stainless Steel Following the Turco-4501 Decontamination Process.

The build up of contaminated film on the internal surfaces of high temperature in-reactor recirculating water loops has created serious radiation exposure problems to operational and maintenance personnel. A considerable amount of work has been applied to develop an effective decontamination process for the decontamination of these loops and their components.
Date: April 20, 1959
Creator: Larrick, A. P. & Lotsinger, R. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
PRTR Gas-Cooled Loop, Hazards Survey of Preliminary Scope Design (open access)

PRTR Gas-Cooled Loop, Hazards Survey of Preliminary Scope Design

The Atomic Energy Commission has recently developed an enlarged program for the study of graphite moderated, gas cooled power reactor systems. It has been recognized, however, that understanding of radiation damage and radiation induced chemical reactions of graphite at the proposed high moderator temperatures is inadequate and that improved understanding is essential if the design of such reactors is to be optimized. Accordingly, the Atomic Energy Commission requested Hanford to organize a modest research and development program directed toward the study of these graphite problems.
Date: April 20, 1959
Creator: Wittenbrock, N. G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-595 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-595

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether Navarro County can spend tax money to maintain dams constructed in Navarro County by the Navarro-Hill Soil Conservation District.
Date: April 20, 1959
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-598 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-598

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Constitutionality of H.B. 57, 56 Leg., relating to whether or not the State may tax beer sold to and consumed on Military Reservations within the State.
Date: April 20, 1959
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History