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Instrumentation Flow Plan Symbols and Recommended Drawings : a Standard System for ORNL Instrumentation Applications Work (open access)

Instrumentation Flow Plan Symbols and Recommended Drawings : a Standard System for ORNL Instrumentation Applications Work

This report is presented in order to provide a satisfactory system of symbols and identifications for process-instrumentation equipment and to promote a uniformity of practice that will simplify and expedite instrumentation work. It is intended that the systems presented here should be capable of designating and identifying the multitude of instrumentation items which are used for control and operation of conventional processes, as well as for specialized work peculiar to ORNL. Instrument Society of America standards have been adhered to whenever practical.
Date: February 21, 1958
Creator: Adams, R. K.; Davis, D. G. & Hyland, R. G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Final Summary Safeguards Report For The General Electric Test Reactor (open access)

Final Summary Safeguards Report For The General Electric Test Reactor

This report is submitted to the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission as a final summary safeguards and hazards evaluation of a proposed test reactor at its Vallecitos Atomic Laboratory in Alameda County of California. It is the purpose of this report to provide sufficient data to obtain an AEC facility license for the reactor.
Date: February 20, 1958
Creator: Andersen, R. K. & Jacobs, I. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Welding of Plutonium (open access)

Welding of Plutonium

Delta-stabilized plutonium can be welded to itself or almost any other metal using the inert-gas metal-arc process. Equipment and procedures suitable for the welding of delta-stabilized plutonium under various conditions are described.
Date: May 9, 1958
Creator: Anderson, J. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Homopolar Device (open access)

The Homopolar Device

This paper is intended as a preliminary report on the Homopolar configuration (axial magnetic field with radial electric field), which is the rotating configuration most thoroughly studied thus far. The analysis presented in this paper applies principally to the "ideal" Homopolar, that is, the configuration free from electrode-sheath drops and other disturbing but remediable phenomena. Design considerations for various interesting plasma appliances are derived and documented with preliminary experimental results. The experiments have been carried out under high-density (pinch-type) conditions which favor the creation of a totally rotating plasma and the actual physical measurement of the characteristics of such a plasma. When larger models of the Homopolar are built, it will be possible to use the present pinch-type technique of plasma formation at much lower density, just as has been done in the case of the toroidal stabilized pinch.
Date: January 1958
Creator: Anderson, O. A.; Baker, W. R.; Bratenahl, A.; Furth, H. P.; Ise, J., Jr.; Kunkel, Wulf B. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Neutron Remote Area Monitoring Systems (open access)

Neutron Remote Area Monitoring Systems

The following report records measurements and evaluations of fast neutron levels in remote areas monitored by personnel.
Date: April 25, 1958
Creator: Appleby, Charles W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relationship of Carbonate Cement to Lithology and Vanadium-Uranium Deposits in the Morrison Formation in Southwestern Colorado (open access)

Relationship of Carbonate Cement to Lithology and Vanadium-Uranium Deposits in the Morrison Formation in Southwestern Colorado

Report discussing a study on the connection between carbonate content of samples from the Salt Wash member of the Morrison formation and the lithology and vanadium-uranium deposits in the area.
Date: July 1958
Creator: Archbold, N. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Li⁶ and Li⁷ (n. 2n) Cross Sections at 14.1 Mev (open access)

Li⁶ and Li⁷ (n. 2n) Cross Sections at 14.1 Mev

Abstract: "An absolute measurement of the 14.1-Mev (n, 2n) cross sections of Li-6 and Li-7 has been made using the large scintillator technique, resulting in cross sections in barns of 0.070 +/- 0.006 and 0.056 +/- 0.005 for Li-6 and Li-7, respectively."
Date: May 29, 1958
Creator: Ashby, V. J.; Catron, H. C.; Newkirk, Lester L.; Taylor, C. J. & Williamson, M. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Liquid Metal Fuel Reactor Experiment Quarterly Technical Report: July - September 1958 (open access)

Liquid Metal Fuel Reactor Experiment Quarterly Technical Report: July - September 1958

Report containing research and development undertaken regarding the Liquid Metal Fuel Reactor Experiment.
Date: October 1958
Creator: Babcock & Wilcox Company
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transistorized Linear Pulse Amplifiers (open access)

Transistorized Linear Pulse Amplifiers

The basic investigation of transistor feedback amplifiers has proven mathematically simple and of great practical value. The behavior of single-stage common-emitter amplifiers is described and provides a building block with which cascaded feedback amplifiers can be analyzed and designed. From the results of this analysis the conditions for minimum drift for cascaded single-stages and cascaded loops have been derived.
Date: October 27, 1958
Creator: Baker, Stanley C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Equipment And Methods For Automatic Track Analysis (open access)

Equipment And Methods For Automatic Track Analysis

The writer has initiated a comprehensive program of equipment development designed to give the maximum practical aid to the physicists and technicians who are carrying out track measurements. Some attention has also been given to developing systems of data handling using International Business Machine (IBM) equipment and Keysort cards. In addition, some of the steps to insure the accuracy of the emulsion data are taken long before the emulsion is studied under the microscope.
Date: August 14, 1958
Creator: Barkas, Walter H. (Walter Henry), 1912-1969
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Decay Modes Of Charged [Sigma] Hyperons (open access)

Decay Modes Of Charged [Sigma] Hyperons

Apparent [Sigma] hyperon decay events in a large emulsion stack of 240 9" x 12" pellicles have been classified into those judged to have occurred at rest and those in flight. Of 36 decay events at rest, 21 secondaries were observed to be protons of about 1675 microns range. Of the events decaying in flight, 23 were decays into protons and 46 were decays into near-minimum secondaries. Attempts have been made to trace the tracks of 35 of the lightly ionizing secondaries; the results of this effort are summarized in a table.
Date: June 23, 1958
Creator: Barkas, Walter H. (Walter Henry), 1912-1969; Dyer, J. N.; Giles, P. C.; Heckman, Harry H.; Mason, C. J.; Nickols, N. A. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Uranium Exploration on Palangana Salt Dome, Duval County Texas (open access)

Uranium Exploration on Palangana Salt Dome, Duval County Texas

Reporting investigations into the lithologic and structural ore controls as revealed by this exploration program.
Date: December 1958
Creator: Barnes, John C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Instrumentation and Some Related Problems for Neutron Flux Measurement of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Kiwi-A Reactor (open access)

Instrumentation and Some Related Problems for Neutron Flux Measurement of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Kiwi-A Reactor

Abstract: "A description of the instrumentation for neutron flux measurement from Kiwi-A at NTS is given as some discussion of start-up considerations, detector design, system response adjustments, and power calibration of the reactor at some low level of power."
Date: September 1958
Creator: Barton, David M.; Helmick, Herbert H. & Jarvis, G. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fused Lithium Salts : A Bibliography Covering 1950-57 (open access)

Fused Lithium Salts : A Bibliography Covering 1950-57

This is a bibliography referencing documents based on fused lithium salts within the years 1950-57.
Date: May 19, 1958
Creator: Baughman, Dorothy & Maynard, G. R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Two Group Calculations for Flux Distribution and Critical Mass in Clean Cold ORR Cores (open access)

Two Group Calculations for Flux Distribution and Critical Mass in Clean Cold ORR Cores

A series of two-group calculations has been made on the Oracle for the purpose of obtaining critical-mass and flux distribution data for various ORR core configurations. The 3G3R code of Bate, Einstein, and Kinney was used, together with the RSP code developed by Nelson. This made it possible to obtain results for the three-dimensional case. The results, which are presented graphically, are intended to serve as a guide for the design of experiments until such time as actual measurements are available. The calculations were performed for the "clean cold" case, and it should be realized that the presence in the core of experiments and of fission products built up during operation will materially alter the flux patterns found. It is believed that the critical-mass data are accurate to within 10%. Within the fuel region it is believed that the thermal-flux patterns are the also accurate to this degree. Comparison of the results with MTR critical experiments, however, indicates that the thermal flux in the reflector in the vicinity of the fuel-reflector interface may have been underestimated by a factor of as much as 1.3. It should also be recalled that in a two-group calculation the "fast flux" is often a …
Date: March 11, 1958
Creator: Binford, F. T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accelerator Development Department Internal Report (open access)

Accelerator Development Department Internal Report

In this report we present solutions of the design problem in which a system of quadruple lenses is required to carry a particle beam from given focal lines in the x and y planes to other given focal lines. Particular attention will be given to the case of the anastigmatic lens system which takes a beam from one focal point to another focal point. Since the general problem is almost impossibly complicated a simplification is introduced by breaking the lens system into two parts. The first part of the lens system is required to bring the initial beam to the state where it is parallel to the z axis in both planes. The second part carries the initially parallel beam to the required final condition. Each part will involve two quadrupoles so that the complete system will consist of four quadruples; usually, however, the field gradients in the second and third quadrupoles can be made identical so that those quadrupoles can be combined into one and the system becomes a three quadrupole system. The configuration of the lens element will be as shown in the figures below. These figures indicate also the general character of the beam path in the …
Date: October 2, 1958
Creator: Blewett, J. P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fast Neutron Effects on Du Pont 1290 Film (open access)

Fast Neutron Effects on Du Pont 1290 Film

Abstract: "Fast neutron effects on a widely used x-ray film have been investigated. The neutron flux was provided by the (d, t) reaction of a Cockcroft-Walton accelerator. Integrated exposures to 10-10 n/cm-2 were given the film. It was found that perturbations on film that were pre-exposed to Co-60 gamma rays from 10 to 2000 r were negligible. Simultaneous exposure of neutrons plus gammas also indicated negligible effect on the film insofar as the gamma dose was concerned."
Date: June 13, 1958
Creator: Block, Seymour & Hughes, Lewis
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Survey of Non-Fuel-Bearing Materials for the Marine Gas-Cooled Reactor (open access)

A Survey of Non-Fuel-Bearing Materials for the Marine Gas-Cooled Reactor

Results of an initial examination of non-fuel-bearing materials for the Marine Gas Cooled Reactor are presented. Areas given specific attention include structural and cladding materials and graphite moderator. Other areas not included because of classification include zirconium hydride moderator and control materials. In each report section, available pertinent information is summarized and a plan for future work is given.
Date: May 1, 1958
Creator: Bokros, J. C.; Dijkstra, L; & Merten, U.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Foreign Multiplier Phototubes (open access)

Evaluation of Foreign Multiplier Phototubes

"Several multiplier phototubes produced by England, Russia, or Switzerland were evaluated for amplification, photocathode sensitivity, photo-electron collection efficiency, cathode uniformity, and dark current. A description of the various tubes by designation numbers is given, along nth a description of techniques and equipment used in testing."
Date: January 1, 1958
Creator: Bolakas, J. & Parker, P G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Helium-Bearing Natural Gases of the United States: Analyses and Analytical Methods, Supplement to Bulletin 486 (open access)

Helium-Bearing Natural Gases of the United States: Analyses and Analytical Methods, Supplement to Bulletin 486

Supplementary report from the U.S. Bureau of Mines regarding the results of a survey of the natural gas (helium) resources available in the United States. From the summary: "Certain source data and results of analysis pertinent to 1,575 gas samples, which have been obtained from 26 States, Alaska, and Canada (only a few from the latter 2 regions) and analyzed in connection with the helium-survey program of the Bureau of Mines, are presented in tabular form. This publication is supplementary to Bulletin 486 of the Bureau of Mines. Samples analyzed from late 1947 to around May 1956 are included in this bulletin and augment the samples reported in Bulletin 486" (p. 1).
Date: 1958
Creator: Boone, W. J., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fire Ants, Heptachlor, and Fish Kill (open access)

Fire Ants, Heptachlor, and Fish Kill

Report on the plan to kill fire ants in Texas using a specific poison and that poison's effect on fish in the area.
Date: 1958
Creator: Boudreaux, Jack; Strawn, Kirk & Callas, Gerald
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Annual Report of the Boy Scouts of America: 1957 (open access)

Annual Report of the Boy Scouts of America: 1957

Annual report submitted by the Boy Scouts of America to Congress describing highlights from 1957, activities, organizational leadership, and other information about scouting programs.
Date: March 12, 1958
Creator: Boy Scouts of America
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Practical Evaluation of Electrical-Resistivity Surveys as a Guide to Zinc-Lead Exploratory Drilling, Badger-Peacock Camp and Vicinity, Cherokee County, Kansas (open access)

Practical Evaluation of Electrical-Resistivity Surveys as a Guide to Zinc-Lead Exploratory Drilling, Badger-Peacock Camp and Vicinity, Cherokee County, Kansas

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over studies conducted on geophysical surveys for exploratory drilling. Electrical-resistivity techniques are discussed. This report includes tables, maps, and illustrations.
Date: 1958
Creator: Brichta, Louis Chanborn & Ryan, J. Patrick
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Plate I Geologic Map of the Crooks Map District, Freemont District, Wyoming

Geologic map of the Crooks Map District, Freemont District, Wyoming showing core drill holes prepared for a report by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Grand Junction Office.
Date: October 24, 1958
Creator: Bromley, Charles P.
Object Type: Map
System: The UNT Digital Library