Thermal Stress Testing of SM-2 Fuel Elements : Interim Technical Report (open access)

Thermal Stress Testing of SM-2 Fuel Elements : Interim Technical Report

To determine thermal stability of SM-2 plate type fuel elements, test specimens were subjected to reactor operating temperature differences.
Date: unknown
Creator: Christenson, J. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
SM-2 Reactor Core and Vessel Monthly Report (open access)

SM-2 Reactor Core and Vessel Monthly Report

This report contains the significant progress made on the SM-2 core and vessel program
Date: February 19, 1960
Creator: Gallagher, J. G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Corrosion Study of Welded Stainless Steel Fuel Elements (open access)

A Corrosion Study of Welded Stainless Steel Fuel Elements

This report covers fuel element corrosion studies conducted from April,1959 through July,1960, designed to aid in selecting and evaluating SM-2 fuel element welding techniques
Date: December 22, 1960
Creator: Bergen, C. R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
SM-2 Clutch Testing (open access)

SM-2 Clutch Testing

The criteria and methods for test evaluation of electro-magnetic clutch characteristics are discussed
Date: March 23, 1960
Creator: Hauenstein, G. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
SM-2 Reactor Core and Vessel Review Report (open access)

SM-2 Reactor Core and Vessel Review Report

This report contains a recapitulation of activity in the SM-2 Core and Vessel Program during the period December 15, 1959 to March 18, 1960.
Date: March 30, 1960
Creator: Hoover, H. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
SM-1 Research and Development Quarterly Report  : October 1 to December 31, 1959 (open access)

SM-1 Research and Development Quarterly Report : October 1 to December 31, 1959

This report covers Research and Development conducted at the SM-1 which includes progress being made in plant water chemistry and health physics practices and progress on individual tasks and tests.
Date: April 8, 1960
Creator: Obrist, C. H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Uranium Occurrences, Fall River Area, Clear County, Colorado [Fiche] (open access)

Uranium Occurrences, Fall River Area, Clear County, Colorado [Fiche]

This report describes the Fall River Area that was examined for favorable areas between known occurrences of pitchblende at Quartz Hill and at Lawson.
Date: October 16, 1951
Creator: Smith, Loren E. & Baker, Kenneth E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Drilling at Temple Mountain, San Rafael Swell, Emery County, Utah [Fiche] (open access)

Drilling at Temple Mountain, San Rafael Swell, Emery County, Utah [Fiche]

This report describes two drilling projects that were successful in discovering ore deposits at Temple Mountain.
Date: August 1952
Creator: Anderson, Andrew H. & Miller, Richard D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Uranium Occurrences, Fall River Area, Clear Creek County, Colorado (open access)

Uranium Occurrences, Fall River Area, Clear Creek County, Colorado

Discussing occurrences of uranium in the Fall River Area of Clear County, Colorado
Date: October 16, 1951
Creator: Smith, Loren E. & Baker, Kenneth E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Drilling at Green Vein Mesa, Emery County, Utah (open access)

Drilling at Green Vein Mesa, Emery County, Utah

Discussing diamond drilling carried out at Green Vein Mesa in the San Rafael Swell.
Date: unknown
Creator: Miller, Richard D. & Rogers, Kenneth J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
SM-1 Reactor Vessel Penetrated Gasket Design and Test Report (open access)

SM-1 Reactor Vessel Penetrated Gasket Design and Test Report

Mechanical compression tests were performed on gasket test specimens machined to the cross-sectional dimensions of a stainless steel ring type gasket to be installed in the SM-1 reactor pressure vessel.
Date: June 10, 1960
Creator: Gebhardt, F. G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Specifications and Fabrication Procedures for SM-1A Core II Control Rod Fuel Elements (open access)

Specifications and Fabrication Procedures for SM-1A Core II Control Rod Fuel Elements

Stainless steel-base fuel components of thin plate-type construction and containing a dispersion of UO2 have been successfully employed in powering the Army Package Power Reactor. The component is designed for radioactive service in pressurized water. Specifications covering loading, materials, and processing are presented.
Date: May 13, 1960
Creator: Nuclear Power Engineering Department
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technical Progress Report (open access)

Technical Progress Report

"Discussions on the high-speed computer program include test control design, core storage unit, magnetic drums and tapes, paper tapes, slow circuits, exponent and main arithmetic units, flow charts for arithmetic control, and speed independent designs. Work done in the circuit research program includes flow-gating systems tests and two-wire low swing circuits. Mathematical methods are described for experiments with a floating-point differential equation solver. Switching circuit theory developments involve simplification techniques for Boolean functions, estimates of the maximum number of prime implicants in Booleans functions oi N variables, a formal algebra for linear graphs, and a technique for obtaining all maximum nodal normal subgraphs of a linear graph. Automatic reduction methods are described for bubble chamber photographic data. The operation, programming, and usages of the ILLIAC and the IBM-650 are described."
Date: April 1958
Creator: Digital Computer Laboratory, University of Illinois Graduate College
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technical Progress Report (open access)

Technical Progress Report

"Discussions on the high-speed computer program include test control design, core storage unit, magnetic drums and tapes, paper tapes, slow circuits, exponent and main arithmetic units, flow charts for arithmetic control, and speed independent designs. Work done in the circuit research program includes flow-gating systems tests and two-wire low swing circuits. Mathematical methods are described for experiments with a floating-point differential equation solver. Switching circuit theory developments involve simplification techniques for Boolean functions, estimates of the maximum number of prime implicants in Booleans functions oi N variables, a formal algebra for linear graphs, and a technique for obtaining all maximum nodal normal subgraphs of a linear graph. Automatic reduction methods are described for bubble chamber photographic data. The operation, programming, and usages of the ILLIAC and the IBM-650 are described."
Date: May 1958
Creator: Digital Computer Laboratory, University of Illinois Graduate College
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electrical and Optical Investigation of Charge-Carrier Trapping in Rutile Single Crystals (open access)

Electrical and Optical Investigation of Charge-Carrier Trapping in Rutile Single Crystals

"Low-frequency absorption centers, observed by electrical measurements in single crystals of rutile, can be produced by thermal quenching or optical irradiation in the edge of the eigen absorption region (600 A). They are observed when electric fields are applied parallel to the optic axis (crystallographic c axis) and are not visible with the field perpendicular to this axis. The temperature dependence of the principal dispersion indicates an activation energy of 0.18 ev. The centers can be explained by a localized electron transfer process along the optic axis. The introduction of silver and copper by thermal diffusion did not produce low frequency absorption spectra."
Date: unknown
Creator: Srivastava, K. G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Photoelastic Study of Stress in Perforated Hemispherical Closures for a Pressure Vessel (open access)

Photoelastic Study of Stress in Perforated Hemispherical Closures for a Pressure Vessel

"Photoelastic ''frozen stress'' tests were made of perforated hemispherical closures for a pressure vessel. Three different hole patterns were investigated. The ''circular'' and ''square'' arrangements of holes showed the highest peak stress, a value of stress + pressure of about 10 being noted in each. In comparison, the ''triangular'' arrangement of holes yielded a peak value of 8.20."
Date: January 9, 1957
Creator: Sampson, R. C. & Leven, M. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elastic Scattering of Protons and Neutrons by Deuterons (open access)

Elastic Scattering of Protons and Neutrons by Deuterons

"It is shown how a momentum space formulation of the p-d and n-d scattering problem makes possible a good calculation of the no polarization approximation. Calculations are carried out for a central Yukawn shaped Serber potential for values of the angular momentum L-o-6 in the energy range 0-95 Mev. These show that Born's approximation is not a good approximation at any energy, even for L-3. It is shown that a Fredholn approximation reproduces the results of the no polarization approximation for L > 1. The results are compared with those of Christain and Gammel and the experimental data."
Date: January 1, 1955
Creator: Bivins, R. L.; Frank, R. M. & Gammel, J. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Diffusion in Metals (open access)

Diffusion in Metals

"Information concerning diffusion is presented, including a study of the relative rates of diffusion of Fe/sup 55/ and Fe/sup 59/ in Ag, diffusion of Ru in Ag, self-diffusion in AgCd and AgIn. chemical and tracer diffusion in Ag-alpha AgCd diffusion couples, the influence of pressure on diffusion in AgZn alloys, the energy of motion of vacancies in Au at high pressure, and ionic conductivity of alkali halides as a function of pressure and temperature. A list of publications containing diffusion information is also included."
Date: May 15, 1958
Creator: Seitz, Frederick & Lazarus, David
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Progress Report (open access)

Progress Report

"This is the fifty-second progress report of the Laboratory for Nuclear Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Progress during the period December 1, 1957 through February 28, 1958 is recorded."
Date: February 28, 1958
Creator: Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report ONR Project A-2049 (open access)

Annual Report ONR Project A-2049

"The objective of this program is to conduct a broad basic program of analytical and experimental research into the fundamental behavior of gas- lubricated bearings and to establish general design criteria for these bearings. The work to date has included both theoretical and experimental phases of hydrodynamic and hydrostatic lubrication phenomena, supplemented by a digital computer program."
Date: July 15, 1958
Creator: Fuller, Dudley D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Final Stress Analysis of FHR Seed I Core I (open access)

Final Stress Analysis of FHR Seed I Core I

"The structural analysis of the PWR Core 1 Seed 1 under prescribed thermal and mechanical loading with the object of predicting the structural reliability of the seed during actual service is described. Static and fatigue tests performed on fusion-welded Zircaloy specimens are described, and the results of these tests are incorporated in the reliability study. The applied stresses in the seed during operation of the reactor are quite low except at the end welds. Here, based upon the test data, a safely factor of about 4 1/2 appears to exist for 6000 cycles of loading."
Date: October 1957
Creator: Mark, R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Resin Attrition (open access)

Resin Attrition

"Uranium metal is produced by the bomb reduction of UF/sub 4/ with Mg. The slag from this reduction contains appreciable quantities of U, either in the metallic or the tetrafluoride form, in addition to the MgF/sub 2/. A process for recovering low enrichment U from this slag has gone into operation. A study of the causes of resin attrition and their relative magnitude both from an over-all point of view and with specific reference to the Higgins' Column and Dowex 21K resin is presented. Equipment was designed, assembled, and tested to investigate the effects of valve action, wall to resin and resin to resin friction, repeated chemical cycling, and column height. Certain mechanical properties of the resin beads were investigated, and some existing plant data were analyzed. A discussion of the probable mechanism of attrition and its contribution to the overall amount of attrition is presented."
Date: April 9, 1958
Creator: Seiler, G. R.; Ammann, P. R. & Newey, A. B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Upper Atmosphere Monitoring Program (open access)

Upper Atmosphere Monitoring Program

"An apparatus designed to test aerosol filter efficiency at pressures equal to or less than atmospheric and at linear face velocities of 5 to 1000 ft/ min is described. Aerosol collection efficiency studies were completed for IPC paper at 20,000 and 40,000 ft. Data developed in these studies indicate that ia the impaction and diffusion regions collection efficiency increases with altitude for all linear face velocities less than 800 ft/min. A propeller-type flowmeter, calibrated to measure the volume of air moved by a blower in a balloon-borne system, was flown on five separate flights to obtain air flow data. These data sre presented. Flowmeter air flow measurement data were approximately 10% lower than telemetered data."
Date: June 13, 1958
Creator: Stern, Sidney; Jones, Sam; Schekman, Al & Stuart, Robley
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Temperature and Phase Effects on the Photolysis of Ethyl Iodide (open access)

Temperature and Phase Effects on the Photolysis of Ethyl Iodide

"The elementary steps in the photolysis of liquid ethyl iodide by light of wavelength 2537 A by determining initial rates of iodine production in the presence of added iodine and hydrogen iodide were analyzed at 25 and --70 d C to get information on the activation energies of competing elementary reactions. Investigations were also made of the effects of additives on the photolysis of glassy ethyl iodide at --180 d C, and evidence for the formation of trapped radicals during photolysis and radiolysis of the solid was sought by electron paramagnetic resonance measurements."
Date: January 1, 1958
Creator: Luebbe, Ray H. Jr. & Willard, John E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library