Investigation of Shawangunk Mine Zinc-Lead Deposit, Near Summitville, Sullivan County, New York (open access)

Investigation of Shawangunk Mine Zinc-Lead Deposit, Near Summitville, Sullivan County, New York

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on the Shawangunk mine near Sullivan County, New York. This study investigated the zinc-lead deposits found at the site. The report includes tables, maps, photographs, and illustrations.
Date: April 1950
Creator: Eilertsen, N. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Uranium in the Phillips Mine-Camp Smith Area, Putnam and Westchester Counties, New York (open access)

Uranium in the Phillips Mine-Camp Smith Area, Putnam and Westchester Counties, New York

Abstract: Uraniferous rock was discovered in the Phillips mine-Camp Smith area in 1953. Precambrian rocks of the Hudson Highlands of the New England physiographic province underlie the area.
Date: January 1957
Creator: Klemic, Harry; Eric, John H.; McNitt, James R. & McKeown, Frank A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sanitary Engineering Aspects of Long-Range Fallout from Nuclear Detonations (open access)

Sanitary Engineering Aspects of Long-Range Fallout from Nuclear Detonations

From abstract: Results of a study of the sanitary engineering aspects of fallout from nuclear weapons are reported. Data were obtained from: a. Weekly surface water samples from 22 stations on streams and reservoirs in Eastern Massachusetts, collected from March, 1952 to July, 1953, and assayed for radioactivity. b. Weekly rain samples from March to July, 1953. c. Stream mud and soil samples collected before and after a large fallout. d. Results of fallout activity measurements by others based on samples from Massachusetts and the vicinity of Rochester, New York. Plots are presented showing the relations of the radiological data to the timing of detonations and the daily precipitation and showing daily deposition of activity and concentration in runoff. Runoff coefficients for fallout radioactivity are calculated.
Date: 1955
Creator: Bell, Carlos G., Jr.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hydrologic and Tracer Studies in Mohawk River at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (open access)

Hydrologic and Tracer Studies in Mohawk River at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory

Preface: In 1948, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Atomic Energy Commission, initiated a study of the hydraulics and hydrology of Mohawk River in the vicinity of the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (KAPL) near Schenectady, N.Y. The purpose of this study was to determine the probable effects of release of low concentrations of radioactive wastes from the Laboratory to Mohawk River.
Date: July 1959
Creator: Simpson, Eugene Sidney; Beetem, W. A. & Ruggles, F. H., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A General Purpose Log Counting Rate Meter Model B (open access)

A General Purpose Log Counting Rate Meter Model B

Abstract: This report is a brief description of a general purpose logarithmic counting rate meter developed at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory. The theory of operation and the circuit design are discussed. The use of a diode as a logarithmic element in the integrating circuit allows extremely accurate counting rate determinations over a five decade range.
Date: November 1, 1954
Creator: Stone, R. S. & Wade, E. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis and Calculation by Integral Methods of Laminar Compressible Boundary-Layer With Heat Transfer and With and Without Pressure Gradient (open access)

Analysis and Calculation by Integral Methods of Laminar Compressible Boundary-Layer With Heat Transfer and With and Without Pressure Gradient

From Introduction: "The purpose of the present report is to present a comprehensive summary of theoretical investigations of comprehensible laminar boundary layers which have been carried out since 1949 at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn under the sponsorship and with the financial assistance of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. The results of these investigations are contained primarily in references 1 to 7."
Date: April 12, 1955
Creator: Morduchow, Morris
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aerodynamics of slender wings and wing-body combinations having swept trailing edges (open access)

Aerodynamics of slender wings and wing-body combinations having swept trailing edges

From Introduction: "In the present paper, a general method is developed for solving low-aspect-ratio problems involving shed vortex sheets. Both direct and inverse problems are considered. The method is applicable for all planar problems where the velocity boundary conditions can be made homogeneous by differentiation in either the streamwise or the spanwise directions."
Date: March 1954
Creator: Mirels, Harold
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geochemical Relations of Zinc-Bearing Peat to the Lockport Dolomite, Orleans County, New York (open access)

Geochemical Relations of Zinc-Bearing Peat to the Lockport Dolomite, Orleans County, New York

From introduction: Geochemical studies of zinc-bearing peats in western New York State show them to be related genetically to underlying mineralized beds of the Lockport dolomite of Niagaran age. (...) Intermittent field work was begun in the area by the United States Geological Survey in September 1946; after some interruptions, field work was completed in June 1948. In 1950, 1,900 feet of diamond drilling was completed in the area.
Date: 1955
Creator: Cannon, Helen L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reconnaissance for Radioactive Materials in Northeastern United States During 1952 (open access)

Reconnaissance for Radioactive Materials in Northeastern United States During 1952

The following report covers a reconnaissance for radioactive materials that was made in parts of Maine, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. It's primary objective was to examine the iron ore deposits and associated rocks in Adirondack Mountains of New York and the Highlands of New Jersey. Additionally, several deposits known or reported to contain radioactive minerals were examined to delimit their extent. However, most of the deposits examined are not significant as possible sources of radioactive elements and the data pertaining to them are summarized in tables provided.
Date: June 1953
Creator: Klemic, Harry & McKeown, Franics A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reconnaissance of Radioactive Rocks of Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Southeastern New York (open access)

Reconnaissance of Radioactive Rocks of Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Southeastern New York

Report discussing a 1948 geological examination of 7,662 miles of roadside rocks in Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and southeastern New York to find deposits of radioactive materials.
Date: June 1951
Creator: McKeown, Frank A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reconnaissance for Radioactive Materials in Northeastern United States During 1952 (open access)

Reconnaissance for Radioactive Materials in Northeastern United States During 1952

Report discussing reconnaissance for radioactive materials in parts of Maine, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania during 1952. From Abstract: "The primary objective was to examine the iron ore deposits and associated rocks in the Adirondack Mountains of New York and the Highlands of New Jersey."
Date: June 1953
Creator: McKeown, Francis A. & Klemic, Harry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Search for Radioactive Intrusive Rocks in New Jersey, New York, and New England (open access)

Search for Radioactive Intrusive Rocks in New Jersey, New York, and New England

Report discussing an investigation of intrusive igneous rocks for radioactivity in New Jersey, New York, and New England during August and September 1951. This was aimed at finding uranium contents of economic significance in these rocks and determining the geological cause for any radioactivity. Results of the investigation are given by region, and a summary is included.
Date: April 1956
Creator: Coats, Robert R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Uranium in the Phillips Mine-Camp Smith Area, Putnam and Westchester Counties, New York (open access)

Uranium in the Phillips Mine-Camp Smith Area, Putnam and Westchester Counties, New York

Report discussing uranium that was discovered in uraniferous rock in the Phillips mine-Camp Smith area of New York in 1953.
Date: January 1957
Creator: Klemic, Harry; Eric, John H.; McNitt, James R. & McKeown, Frank A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reconnaissance of Radioactive Rock of the Hudson Valley and Adirondack Mountains, New York (open access)

Reconnaissance of Radioactive Rock of the Hudson Valley and Adirondack Mountains, New York

Report discussing a geological examination of 3,750 miles of roads in the Hudson Valley and Adirondack Mountains in eastern and Central New York state to find deposits of radioactive materials. The examination took place in August 1949.
Date: May 1952
Creator: Narten, Perry F. & McKeown, Francis A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experimental Rolling of Uranium : Lackawanna No. 3 (open access)

Experimental Rolling of Uranium : Lackawanna No. 3

The following report is one of a series of rolling tests to establish the rolling process for Feed Materials Production Center at Fernold, Ohio. The primary objective of this program is to find a mechanically feasible process for continuous rolling of uranium.
Date: December 13, 1951
Creator: Riches, J. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reconnaissance of Radioactive Rocks of Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Southeastern New York (open access)

Reconnaissance of Radioactive Rocks of Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Southeastern New York

From abstract: In 1948, 7,662 miles of roadside rocks and soils in Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and southeastern New York were traversed with a car-mounted Geiger-Mueller counter. The observed distribution of the abnormally radioactive rocks and soils is limited to certain areas, herein called "radioactive provinces," that are separated from each other by areas of essentially nonradioactive rock.
Date: June 1951
Creator: McKeown, Frank A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conference on "Hot" Laboratory Design Held at Brookhaven National Laboratory on September 19, 1947 (open access)

Conference on "Hot" Laboratory Design Held at Brookhaven National Laboratory on September 19, 1947

From introduction: "This conference represents the first attempt by a project-wide group of scientists and engineers to collaborate on the problem associated with the planning and design of "Hot" Laboratories. The idea, as originally conceived by Dr. W. E. Winsche, was to discuss some general and perhaps some specific aspects of "Hot" Laboratory design with a small group of interests individuals from various sites."
Date: September 19, 1951
Creator: Strickland, Gerald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Industrial Hygiene Survey of Thorium Rolling at Simonds Saw and Steel Company (open access)

Industrial Hygiene Survey of Thorium Rolling at Simonds Saw and Steel Company

Abstract: "The information contained in this report consists of personnel exposures to radioactive dust resulting from a thorium rolling operation."
Date: December 14, 1953
Creator: Schumann, Charles E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Injury Experience in the Coking Industry, 1951 (open access)

Injury Experience in the Coking Industry, 1951

From Introduction and Summary: "Reports from operating companies showed that 25,715 men worked at coke ovens in 1951, about 6 percent more than were employed in 1950 and, except in 1943, the largest work force since 1930, when 28,139 men were employed. The work time for all employees was 70,190,493 man-hours. The returns indicated an average of 344 work days per man as compared with 341 days in the previous year. Accidents at the ovens resulted in the death of 10 and injury to 768 workers, both of these figures representing fewer injuries than in 1950."
Date: 1954
Creator: Reese, Seth T.; Kearney, Naomi W. & Miller, Elizabeth A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mine Pumping Plants: Anthracite Region of Pennsylvania (open access)

Mine Pumping Plants: Anthracite Region of Pennsylvania

From Summary: "To obtain a reliable picture of the anthracite-mine-water problem and to solve that problem, it is necessary to have factual data on the volume and the quality and character of mine water handled by pumping plants in the anthracite region, as well as kinds of pumps utilized and problems concerning their operation. The main conclusion that be drawn from an investigation of drainage practices in the anthracite region is that, although efficient pumping layouts, tunnels for draining active mines, and large-scale surface-drainage facilities for keeping water out of mines are in use, the anthracite industry still is threatened with curtailment, to a major degree, and premature extinction because of the encroachment of water, unless remedial action is undertaken in the vary near future by all interests concerned."
Date: 1953
Creator: Ash, S. H. (Simon Harry), b. 1889; Hower, C. S.; Kennedy, D. O. & Lesser, W. H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Strontium Program: Quarterly Summary Report, November 19, 1958 (open access)

Strontium Program: Quarterly Summary Report, November 19, 1958

From Abstract: "This report up-dates certain sections of HASL-42, "Environmental Contamination from Weapon Tests". In particular, the levels of Strontium-90 in fallout, milk, tap water, air, and soil are included for data available up to November 1, 1958."
Date: November 19, 1958
Creator: Hardy, Edward P., Jr. & Klein, Stanley
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Strontium Program Quarterly Summary Report: November 1958 - January 1959 (open access)

Strontium Program Quarterly Summary Report: November 1958 - January 1959

From Abstract: "This report is one of a sequence of quarterly reports, each designed to up-date its predecessor beginning with HASL-42, "Environmental Contamination from Weapon Tests." Herein are reported data which have accrued since HASL-51. In particular, the levels of strontium 90 in fallout, milk, tap water, vegetation, and foods are given, based on data available from November 1, 1958 to January 30, 1959."
Date: February 24, 1959
Creator: Hardy, Edward P., Jr. & Klein, Stanley
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Further Investigations of Natural Environmental Radiation (open access)

Further Investigations of Natural Environmental Radiation

Report documenting the investigation of cosmic and terrestrial background radiation. "Remeasurements in many locations furnished estimates of dosimetric increase in terrestrial levels due to fallout. Radiation measurement sin residential dwellings in he New York metropolitan areas are described" (p. 1).
Date: November 3, 1959
Creator: Solon, Leonard R.; Lowder, Wayne M.; Shambon, Arthur & Blatz, Hanson
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of Meteorological Tower Data, April 1950 - March 1952, Brookhaven National Laboratory (open access)

Analysis of Meteorological Tower Data, April 1950 - March 1952, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Report issued by the Brookhaven National Laboratory discussing data collected from two BNL meteorological towers. As stated in the introduction, "results are presented in graphic form rather than tabular form" (p. 1). This report includes tables, maps, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: June 1957
Creator: Singer, Irving A. & Raynor, Gilbert S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library