Plutonium Spike Fuel Elements for the Plutonium Recycle Test Reactor: Part 1 - The Mark 1-G (open access)

Plutonium Spike Fuel Elements for the Plutonium Recycle Test Reactor: Part 1 - The Mark 1-G

Report describing "[t]he fabrication of of the first aluminum-plutonium spike enrichment fuel elements for the Plutonium Recycle Test Reactor (PRTR) at Hanford" Laboratory (p. 2).
Date: March 1961
Creator: Freshley, M. D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Separation of Iron by Liquid-Liquid Column Extraction (open access)

Separation of Iron by Liquid-Liquid Column Extraction

From abstract: "Iron(III) can be separated from many elements by extraction from 6 to ͟8M hydrochloric acid. The extraction is carried out by passing the aqueous hydrochloric acid solution through a column packed with 2-octanone adsorbed onto a poly-fluorocarbon resin. Fluoride, phosphate, sulfate or citrate cause no interference. Traces if iron(III) can be separated quantitatively from large amounts of copper(II) or zinc(II); traces of titanium(IV) can be separated from large amounts of iron(III)."
Date: March 21, 1962
Creator: Fritz, James S. (James Sherwood), 1924- & Hedrick, C. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reconnaissance for Uranium in the Cuzco-Anta Area, Department of Cuzco, Peru (open access)

Reconnaissance for Uranium in the Cuzco-Anta Area, Department of Cuzco, Peru

Introduction: The specific purpose of the work was to learn whether the selenium indicated by the presence of Astragalus g. was uniformly distributed in one or more formations, i.e., probably syngenetic, or whether it was spatially and, therefore genetically, related to alteration.
Date: March 1959
Creator: Gabelman, John W. & Jordán O., Victor
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Temperature on the Width of a Small-Amplitude, Solitary Wave in a Collision-Free Plasma (open access)

The Effect of Temperature on the Width of a Small-Amplitude, Solitary Wave in a Collision-Free Plasma

"Adlam and Allen and Davis, Lust, and Schluter have studied nonlinear plane-waves, propagating normal to the magnetic field, in a cold plasma. One solution of particular interest is a solitary wave, or single pulse. We present a method for solving the analogous problem for a plasma with finite temperature, in the limiting case where the amplitude of the wave is small and where, consequently, the width of the waver is very large."
Date: March 15, 1961
Creator: Gardner, Clifford S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
On Certain Finite Difference Schemes for the Equations of Hydrodynammics (open access)

On Certain Finite Difference Schemes for the Equations of Hydrodynammics

"We will consider two finite difference schemes for the solution of the Navier-Stokes equations in one space dimension. The first is a method used by Lax and Wendroff. The second method is based on an approximate solution of the centered, implicit difference equations. Since this approximate solution is obtained by successive substitutions, we will refer to this second method as an iterative method."
Date: March 1, 1962
Creator: Gary, John William
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aerial Radiometric and Magnetic Survey: Lovelock National Topographic Map, Nevada, Volume 1 (open access)

Aerial Radiometric and Magnetic Survey: Lovelock National Topographic Map, Nevada, Volume 1

Final report documenting a high-sensitivity airborne gamma radiation and magnetic field survey of the Lovelock National Topographic Map segment (NK 11-10 quadrangle) including a description of the program and results.
Date: March 31, 1978
Creator: Geodata International
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aerial Radiometric and Magnetic Survey: Walker Lake National Topographic Map, Nevada and California, Volume 1 (open access)

Aerial Radiometric and Magnetic Survey: Walker Lake National Topographic Map, Nevada and California, Volume 1

Final report documenting a high-sensitivity airborne gamma radiation and magnetic field survey of the Walker Lake National Topographic Map segment (NJ 11-4 quadrangle) including a description of the program and results.
Date: March 15, 1978
Creator: Geodata International
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Investigations of Domestic Radioactive Raw Materials, Beryllium, and Other Trace Elements Monthly Report: February 1948 (open access)

Investigations of Domestic Radioactive Raw Materials, Beryllium, and Other Trace Elements Monthly Report: February 1948

Monthly report of the U.S. Geological Survey's trace element investigations including an outline of field work, laboratory work, and staff activities that have been completed or are in process.
Date: 1948-03~
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.). Trace Elements Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Investigations of Domestic Radioactive Raw Materials, Beryllium, and Other Trace Elements Monthly Report: February 1949 (open access)

Investigations of Domestic Radioactive Raw Materials, Beryllium, and Other Trace Elements Monthly Report: February 1949

Monthly report of the U.S. Geological Survey's trace element investigations including an outline of field work, laboratory work, and staff activities that have been completed or are in process.
Date: 1949-03~
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.). Trace Elements Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Investigations of Domestic Radioactive Raw Materials, Beryllium, and Other Trace Elements, Monthly Report: February 1951 (open access)

Investigations of Domestic Radioactive Raw Materials, Beryllium, and Other Trace Elements, Monthly Report: February 1951

Monthly report of the U.S. Geological Survey's trace element investigations including an outline of field work, laboratory work, and staff activities that have been completed or are in process.
Date: 1951-03~
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.). Trace Elements Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Monazite in concentrates from Idaho placer operations : memorandum report (open access)

Monazite in concentrates from Idaho placer operations : memorandum report

The Atomic Energy Commission informally requested the Geological Survey to collect samples of concentrates from Idaho placer operations that might be useful for experimental study of monazite recovery.
Date: March 1948
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.). Trace Elements Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Trace Elements February 1951 Monthly Report Illustrations]

Four maps and five tables accompanying a report detailing investigations of domestic radioactive raw materials, Beryllium, and other trace elements. Significant results reported in February for domestic reconnaissance investigations, airborne detection, and Colorado Plateau exploration
Date: 1951-03~
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.). Trace Elements Office.
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Trace Elements Program, Field and Colorado Plateau Projects, February 1948]

Two illustrations showing locations of Trace Elements Offices in the United States and an index map of part of the Colorado Plateau produced for a Febuary 1948 report of the U.S. Geological Survey's trace element investigations.
Date: 1948-03~
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.). Trace Elements Office.
Object Type: Map
System: The UNT Digital Library
Solid-Phase-Reaction Studies of Control-Rod Materials (open access)

Solid-Phase-Reaction Studies of Control-Rod Materials

Report discussing experiments on the interaction of neutron-absorber materials and metal matrix materials used in the fabrication of control rods, such as "boron, cadmium, and some of the rare-earth elements such as gadolinium and europium...In order to evaluate the reactions that might occur during fabrication and use, experiments were carried out in which combinations of the various control materials were heated in intimate contact with the several matrices at elevated temperatures."
Date: March 9, 1956
Creator: Gerds, Arnold F. & Mallett, Manley William, 1909-
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Progress Report on Fuel Element Development for Fiscal Year 1961 (open access)

Annual Progress Report on Fuel Element Development for Fiscal Year 1961

Report that reviews the yearly progress made in Reactor Fuel and Materials Development Program at the Engineering Test Reactor (ETR) and Materials testing reactor (MTR).
Date: March 9, 1962
Creator: Gibson, G. W. & Shupe, O. K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Lindemann and Grüneisen Laws (open access)

The Lindemann and Grüneisen Laws

The Lindemann assumption of direct contact of neighboring atoms at fusion is replaced by the criterion that melting occurs when the root-mean-square amplitude of thermal vibration reaches a critical fraction ρ, presumed the same for all isotropic monatomic solids, of the distance of separation of nearest-neighbor atoms. The Debye-Waller theory of the temperature dependence of the intensity of Bragg reflection of x-rays is used, without further assumptions, to derive a generalized Lindemann law. In contrast to the Lindemann form, all physical quantities involved in this formulation are evaluated at the fusion point, and departure of the average energy of an atomic oscillation from the equipartition value is taken into account by the quantization factor of the Debye-Waller theory. If the Grüneisen constant γm of the solid at fusion is evaluated by its definition from the Debye frequency of the solid, use of the generalized Lindemann law and Clapeyron's equation permits one to express γm in terms of the bulk modulus of the solid at melting and the latent heat and volume change of fusion. By means of Grüneisen's law applied to the solid at fusion, γm can be expressed likewise in terms of the corresponding bulk modulus, thermal expansion, volume, …
Date: March 23, 1955
Creator: Gilvarry, J. J. (John James), |1917-
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reference Design for an OMR-Powered 38,000-DWT Tanker (open access)

Reference Design for an OMR-Powered 38,000-DWT Tanker

Abstract: This report presents a reference design of an organic moderated and cooled reactor for the propulsion of a 38,000-dwt tanker.
Date: March 18, 1957
Creator: Gimera, R. J. & Stanbridge, R. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Containment in Cusped Plasma Systems (open access)

Containment in Cusped Plasma Systems

"A survey of the current theoretical picture of plasma containment in cusped magnetic configurations is presented together with a mention of the points of contact which exist or might soon be made to exist with experiment. A theory of containment was developed which is applicable to the whole range of plasma densities from a tenuous plasma in an essentially vacuum magnetic field to a fully developed plasma which completely excludes the magnetic field from its interior. Also presented are cursory accounts of the situation with regard to stability, cyclotron radiation, and methods of creating this type of plasma configuration."
Date: March 30, 1961
Creator: Grad, Harold, 1923-
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sherwood progress report no. 4, July 1959 - December 1960 (open access)

Sherwood progress report no. 4, July 1959 - December 1960

"Activities related to Project Sherwood are summarized under the following topics: propagation of waves, macroscopic magneto-fluid dynamics, stability, particle orbits, cusped geometries, collisionless shock theory, and other subjects."
Date: March 1, 1961
Creator: Grad, Harold, 1923-
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Transistorized Pulse Height Analyzer for Gamma Spectroscopy (open access)

A Transistorized Pulse Height Analyzer for Gamma Spectroscopy

From abstract: "A scintillation detector has a pulse height output which is a linear function of the energy of impinging gamma radiation. A pulse height analyzer system determines the amplitude distribution of this train of pulses. The system also displays this information graphically in a form which is convenient for further analysis."
Date: March 23, 1959
Creator: Graveson, R. T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Transistorized Logarithmic Counter Ratemeter HASL Type TR-1 (open access)

A Transistorized Logarithmic Counter Ratemeter HASL Type TR-1

Abstract: A four decade log count ratemeter based on a three diode pump section is described. The design equations for this system are included. The unit is contained in a chassis 3 1/2" high by 9 1/2" wide by 6" deep. All circuits are constructed on etched circuit boards to facilitate testing, construction, and servicing.
Date: March 1961
Creator: Graveson, R. T. (Robert T.)
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transient Temperature Variations During the Self-Heating of a Plasma by Thermonuclear Reactions (open access)

Transient Temperature Variations During the Self-Heating of a Plasma by Thermonuclear Reactions

Abstract: "The possibility of transient temperature variations during the self-heating of a plasma by thermonuclear reactions was investigated. Calculations were performed on an IBM Card Program Calculator. Estimates of the time scale for self-heating were obtained. It was concluded that it would be unsafe to assume that the nuclear temperature is always equal to or greater than the electron temperature in a discussion of plasma instabilities for a plasma with 10 percent or greater tritium concentration."
Date: March 21, 1955
Creator: Greyber, Howard D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lecture Notes on Reactor Shielding (open access)

Lecture Notes on Reactor Shielding

Report issued by the Argonne National Laboratory discussing the shielding of radiation produced by nuclear reactors. As stated in the introduction, "these lectures will be an attempt to discuss the design of a reactor shield and the solution of the associated shielding problems by simple hand-computing methods" (p. 19). This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: March 1959
Creator: Grotenhuis, Marshall
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Investigation of Redox D-12 Waste Concentrator No. 2 Coil Nest Failure (open access)

Investigation of Redox D-12 Waste Concentrator No. 2 Coil Nest Failure

Four D-12 coil nests have failed since the start-up of the Redox Separations plant. Due to the high contamination and radiation levels of these vessels, the cost of decontamination has prevented the examination of all but one of the four. It was hoped that the examination of D-12 pot #2 would lead to an explanation of all four failures. This report will deal primarily with the metallurgical examination of the failure of D-12 pot #2.
Date: March 2, 1954
Creator: Groves, N. D. & Smith, W. R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library