Los Alamos Power Reactor Experiment and its Associated Hazards (open access)

Los Alamos Power Reactor Experiment and its Associated Hazards

The following report describes the high pressure and temperature homogeneous reactor experiment which has been started at Los Alamos, as well as the hazards and safety aspects for the experiments.
Date: December 2, 1953
Creator: King, L. D. P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
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.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Survey of Some Los Alamos County Canyons for Radioactive Contamination, Spring 1953 to Spring 1955 (open access)

A Survey of Some Los Alamos County Canyons for Radioactive Contamination, Spring 1953 to Spring 1955

Abstract: This document is a survey analysis of soil samples from Los Alamos, Pueblo, Bayo, and Mortandad canyons to determine the presence and activities of radioactive contaminants. Also included are the results of analyses of a few samples of grass and of surface water. This survey covers the period from spring 1953 to spring 1955.
Date: April 1956
Creator: Dodd, Aubrey O.
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.
System: The UNT Digital Library