327 Basin Aluminum Corrosion Test (open access)

327 Basin Aluminum Corrosion Test

An investigation of corrosion in the 327 Building's water storage basin was made to determine whether the static storage of aluminum jacketed fuel elements could cause corrosion effects that would interfere with studies of in-pile corrosion.
Date: February 9, 1956
Creator: Mallett, G. R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Absolute Cross Sections for Secondary Particles Produced in High-Energy Nuclear Bombardments (open access)

Absolute Cross Sections for Secondary Particles Produced in High-Energy Nuclear Bombardments

From abstract: Absolute cross sections for the production of charged secondary particles is the bombardments of aluminum, nickel, silver, and gold by 332-Mev protons, 187-deuterons, and 380-Mev alpha particles have been determined.
Date: April 20, 1956
Creator: Bailey, L. Evan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Absorption by Soil of Strontium From 216-S Crib Waste (open access)

Absorption by Soil of Strontium From 216-S Crib Waste

A preliminary soil column experiment with a waste sample from the 207-S-11 well, which monitors the 216-S cribs, indicated that cesium was absorbed almost completely by the soil but that strontium breakthrough to ground water in the near future seemed likely. Accordingly, it was suggested that the 216-S wastes be discharged to a new disposal site, and that samples of the wastes which are currently being discharged to the 216-S cribs be obtained for soil absorption tests. The primary purpose of these tests was to obtain data which could be used to suggest ways and means of improving the absorption of strontium by soil from the process condensate stream (D-2_ and the cell drainage stream (D-1), both of which have been discharged to the 216-S cribs for the past several months.
Date: February 15, 1956
Creator: Rhodes, D. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Absorption Spectra of Complexes of Uranium (VI) with Some [beta]-Diketones (open access)

The Absorption Spectra of Complexes of Uranium (VI) with Some [beta]-Diketones

Abstract: "The absorption spectra of the complexes of uranium (VI) with four [beta]-diketones were determined under various conditions of pH, concentration of uranium, and alcohol concentration. Under optimum conditions, the maximum molar absorptivity (31,200) is obtained using 2-furoyltri-fluoroacetone. This compares with about 4,000 and 19,000 for the thiocyanate and dibenzoylmethane complexes, respectively."
Date: October 1956
Creator: Feinstein, H. I.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Abstract of All Original Grants and Locations Comprising Texas Land Titles to August 31, 1956 (open access)

Abstract of All Original Grants and Locations Comprising Texas Land Titles to August 31, 1956

Supplement updating the list of Texas land grants and patents as of 1956, outlining information documenting acreages, grantees and patentees, patent dates, abstract numbers, and other relevant data, organized by county.
Date: 1956
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Abundance and Distribution of Uranium and Thorium in Zircon, Sphene, Apatite, Epidote, and Monazite in Granitic Rocks (open access)

Abundance and Distribution of Uranium and Thorium in Zircon, Sphene, Apatite, Epidote, and Monazite in Granitic Rocks

The following report covers investigations of uranium and thorium discovered within host minerals in the earth's crust, zircon, sphene, apatite, epidote, and monazite. The object of this investigation has been to obtain an approximate measure of the abundance and distribution of uranium and thorium among these five mineral phases.
Date: November 1956
Creator: Hurley, P. M. & Fairbairn, H. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Adsorption of He3 and He4 on Activated Charcoal (open access)

The Adsorption of He3 and He4 on Activated Charcoal

The adsorption on activated charcoal of pure He3 at 2.5 and 3°K, and of pure He4 at 4°K has been measured. The volume of gas necessary to form a monolayer is approximately the same for the two isotopes. It is shown that capillary condensation does not occur in this adsorbent at low saturations. The data have been analyzed by a number of methods with consistent results.
Date: 1956
Creator: Hoffman, C. J.; Edeskuty, F. J. & Hammel, Edward F. (Edward Frederick), 1918-
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aerodynamic characteristics and flying qualities of a tailless triangular-wing airplane configuration as obtained from flights of rocket-propelled models at transonic and supersonic speeds (open access)

Aerodynamic characteristics and flying qualities of a tailless triangular-wing airplane configuration as obtained from flights of rocket-propelled models at transonic and supersonic speeds

Report discussing a flight investigation of rocket-powered models of a tailless triangular-wing airplane configuration was made through the transonic and low supersonic speed range at the Langley Pilotless Aircraft Research Station at Wallops Island, Va. An analysis of the aerodynamic coefficients, stability derivatives, and flying qualities based on the results obtained from the successful flight tests of three models is presented.
Date: November 1956
Creator: Mitcham, Grady L.; Stevens, Joseph E. & Norris, Harry P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aeronautical Climatology: Thunderstorms (open access)

Aeronautical Climatology: Thunderstorms

This report describes how thunderstorms affect aviation
Date: February 1, 1956
Creator: United States. Weather Bureau.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Aguilete Creek Quadrangle

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:62500
Date: 1956
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air, Precipitation, and Surface Contamination at Certain Localities in New Mexico from Operation Teapot, Spring 1955 (open access)

Air, Precipitation, and Surface Contamination at Certain Localities in New Mexico from Operation Teapot, Spring 1955

The following report describes the findings of air samplings taken that followed the Wasp detonation of Operation Teapot.
Date: 1956
Creator: Johnson, William S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
An airborne radiometric reconnaissance of the Fillmore-Ojai area, California, final report (open access)

An airborne radiometric reconnaissance of the Fillmore-Ojai area, California, final report

A report discussing an airborne radiometric survey of the Fillmore-Ojai Area, California.
Date: June 1956
Creator: Mallory, Neil S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Project Quarterly Progress Report for Period Ending December 10, 1955 (open access)

Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Project Quarterly Progress Report for Period Ending December 10, 1955

This quarterly progress report of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Project at ORNL records the technical progress of the research on circulating-fuel reactors and other ANP research at the Laboratory under its Contract W-7405-eng-26. The report is divided into three major parts: I. Reactor Theory, Component Development, and Construction, II. Materials Research, and III. Shielding Research. The ANP Project is comprised of about 530 technical and scientific personnel engaged in many phases of research directed forward the achievement of nuclear propulsion of aircraft. A considerable portion of this research is performed in support of the work of other organizations participating in the national ANP effort. However, the bulk of the ANP research at ORNL is directed toward the development of a circulating-fuel type of reactor. The design, construction, and operation of the Aircraft Reactor Test (ART), with the cooperation of the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Division, are the specific objectives of the project. The ART is to be a power plant system that will include a 60-Mv circulating-fuel reflector-moderated reactor and adequate means for heat disposal. Operation of the system will be for the purpose of determining the feasibility, and the problems associated with the design, construction, and operation, of a …
Date: March 12, 1956
Creator: Jordan, W. H.; Cremer, S. J.; Miller, A. J. & Savelainen, A. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Project Quarterly Progress Report for Period Ending June 10, 1956 [Declassified Version] (open access)

Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Project Quarterly Progress Report for Period Ending June 10, 1956 [Declassified Version]

Progress report of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Project providing updates on various projects, experiments, and other work. This report includes summaries of project activities in: aircraft reactor test design, ART physics, ART instruments and controls, component development and testing, procurement and construction, ART, ETU, and in-pile loop operations, phase equilibrium studies, chemical reactions in molten salts, physical properties of molten materials, production of fuels, compatibility of materials at high temperatures, chemistry, analytical chemistry, metallurgy, dynamic corrosion studies, general corrosion studies, fabrication research, welding and brazing investigations, mechanical properties studies, ceramic research, nondestructive testing studies, heat transfer and physical properties, radiation damage, fuel recovery and reprocessing, critical experiments.
Date: September 4, 1956
Creator: Jordan, W. H.; Cramer, S. J.; Miller, A. J. & Savelainen, A. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Project Quarterly Progress Report for Period Ending June 10, 1956 [Secret Version] (open access)

Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Project Quarterly Progress Report for Period Ending June 10, 1956 [Secret Version]

Progress report of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Project providing updates on various projects, experiments, and other work. This report includes summaries of project activities in: aircraft reactor test design, ART physics, ART instruments and controls, component development and testing, procurement and construction, ART, ETU, and in-pile loop operations, phase equilibrium studies, chemical reactions in molten salts, physical properties of molten materials, production of fuels, compatibility of materials at high temperatures, chemistry, analytical chemistry, metallurgy, dynamic corrosion studies, general corrosion studies, fabrication research, welding and brazing investigations, mechanical properties studies, ceramic research, nondestructive testing studies, heat transfer and physical properties, radiation damage, fuel recovery and reprocessing, critical experiments.
Date: September 4, 1956
Creator: Jordan, W. H.; Cromer, S. J.; Miller, A. J. & Savelainen, A. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Project Quarterly Progress Report for Period Ending March 10, 1956 (open access)

Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Project Quarterly Progress Report for Period Ending March 10, 1956

This quarterly progress report of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Project at ORNL records the technical progress of the research on circulating-fuel reactors and ether ANP research at the Laboratory under its Contract W-7405-eng-26. The report is divided into three major parts: I. Reactor Theory, Component Development, and Construction, II. Materials Research, and III. Shielding Research.
Date: June 13, 1956
Creator: Jordan, W. H.; Cromer, S. J. & Miller, A. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Aldine Quadrangle

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24000
Date: 1956
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Aledo Quadrangle

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24000
Date: 1956
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Alpha, Beta, Gamma Transistorized Survey Meter (open access)

An Alpha, Beta, Gamma Transistorized Survey Meter

A portable, light weight transistorized alpha, beta, and gamma survey meter was designed and fabricated.
Date: February 10, 1956
Creator: Spear, W. G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Alpha-Decay Studies in the Heavy Element Region (open access)

Alpha-Decay Studies in the Heavy Element Region

Thesis describing a research conducted to extend observations on nuclear energy levels and how they effect the nucleus itself, and an investigation on the gamma rays associated for the even-even isotopes and to obtain additional data for the oddmass neclei in the hope that more regularities will become apparent for that class of nuclides.
Date: July 3, 1956
Creator: Hummel, John Philip
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Alpha Energy Analyzer (open access)

An Alpha Energy Analyzer

This report provides an overview of a gridded ionization chamber, instructions on how to operate the instrument, and then discusses the performance of the instrument so far.
Date: January 27, 1956
Creator: Campbell, Don A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
ALPR Preliminary Design Study (Argonne Low Power Reactor) Phase 1 (open access)

ALPR Preliminary Design Study (Argonne Low Power Reactor) Phase 1

A preliminary design study, Phase I of the ALPR project, has been made in accordance with the Army Reactors Branch specifications for a nuclear "package" power plant with a 200-260-kw electric and 400 kw heating capacity. The plant is to be installed at the Idaho Reactor Testing Station as a prototype for remote arctic installations. The "conventional" power plant as well as the exterior reactor components are described in the accompanying report and cost estimate by Pioneer Service and Engineering Company, Architect-Engineers for the project."Nuclear" components of the reactor are designed by Argonne National Laboratory as described in the present report.
Date: April 20, 1956
Creator: Treshow, M.; Pearlman, H.; Rossin, D. & Shaftman, D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Alternating Current and Square-Wave Polarography (open access)

Alternating Current and Square-Wave Polarography

A exploratory study was made of a polarographic technique in which an alternating sine or square-wave potential is superimposed upon the applied d.c. potential of the polarographic scan. Recording of the a.c. component of the polarographic current results in derivative-type waves. It was shown that the technique yields greater sensitivity and greater selectivity than normal polarographic technique.
Date: September 11, 1956
Creator: Hamm, Randall E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analyses of Ash from United States Coals (open access)

Analyses of Ash from United States Coals

Report summarizing analyses done on ash of coal from the United States.
Date: 1956
Creator: Selvig, W. A. & Gibson, F. H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library