Halogen Collector Test Program (open access)

Halogen Collector Test Program

Report documenting the Halogen Collector Test program, which was undertaken to provide "methods of removing trace quantities of radioactive iodine from an air stream" (p. 1). The report includes designs of the program and the test facility, test results, analysis of these results, and encountered problems. Appendices begin on page 38.
Date: March 1, 1960
Creator: Arthur D. Little, Inc.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Radio Meteorology (open access)

Radio Meteorology

Report compiling the work done in radio meteorology over the past ten years at the National Bureau of Standards' Central Radio Propagation Laboratory (CRPL). There is an emphasis upon the effects of the lower atmosphere on the propagation of radio waves. The CRPL group has concentrated upon the refraction of radio waves as well as the refractive index structure of the lower atmosphere on both synoptic and climatic scales. Additional chapters on radio-meteorological parameters and the absorption of radio waves by the various constituents of the lower atmosphere.
Date: March 1, 1966
Creator: Bean, B. R. & Dutton, E. J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of High-Temperature Electrical Ground Test Heaters for the SNAP 10A Program (open access)

Development of High-Temperature Electrical Ground Test Heaters for the SNAP 10A Program

Introduction: The development and qualification of the system acceptance test heaters and the reactor simulator heater are described in this progress report.
Date: March 1, 1965
Creator: Blevitt, R.; Paine, G. & Sudar, S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Calibration Procedures for Direct-Current Resistance Apparatus (open access)

Calibration Procedures for Direct-Current Resistance Apparatus

From Object and Scope of This Paper: "This paper describes the apparatus and procedures used at the National Bureau of Standards for the measurement of d-c resistance when an accuracy of a few parts in a million is required. The object will be to explain procedures in detail and as simply as possible, with a minimum reference to theory."
Date: March 1, 1962
Creator: Brooks, Paul P. B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Thermocouple Materials (open access)

Thermocouple Materials

From Introduction: "The purpose of this paper is to present information on materials that are used from 0 degrees C up in thermocouples intended primarily as immersed temperature sensors, and to give so far as is practical properties of these materials that might affect their use in temperature measurement."
Date: March 1, 1962
Creator: Caldwell, F. R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Multi-Channel Boiling Stability for Sodium Graphite Reactors (open access)

Multi-Channel Boiling Stability for Sodium Graphite Reactors

Abstract: This report presents an analysis of coolant boiling in sodium graphite reactors.
Date: March 1, 1962
Creator: Cappel, H. H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Coulometric Determination of Acid (open access)

The Coulometric Determination of Acid

Introduction: "The need for a method of acid determination which could be used for small samples and easily adapted to remote control led to the investigation of the use of electrolytically generated base for the titration of acid in certain solutions. The use of electrolytically generated base for the titration of acetic acid in the presence of nitric acid has been reported (1)."
Date: March 1, 1950
Creator: Carson, W. N. & Ko, Roy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Static Corrosion Behavior of Construction Materials in an Environment of Liquid Bismuth Base Metals at 550° C (open access)

Static Corrosion Behavior of Construction Materials in an Environment of Liquid Bismuth Base Metals at 550° C

Technical report presenting preliminary results obtained in the static corrosion test program to screen promising construction materials for a proposed liquid fuel power breeder reactor.
Date: March 1, 1952
Creator: Cordovi, M. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Error in Airspeed Measurement Due to Static-Pressure Field Ahead of the Wing Tip of a Swept-Wing Airplane Model at Transonic Speeds (open access)

Error in Airspeed Measurement Due to Static-Pressure Field Ahead of the Wing Tip of a Swept-Wing Airplane Model at Transonic Speeds

From Summary: "As part of a study of means of airspeed measurement at transonic speeds the use of static orifices located ahead of the wing tip has been investigated for possible application to service or research airspeed installations. The local static pressure and local Mach number have been measured at a distance of 1 tip chord ahead of the wing tip of a model of a swept-wing fighter airplane at true Mach numbers between 0.7 and 1.08 by the NACA wing-flow method. All measurements were made at or near zero lift. The local Mach number was found to be essentially equal to the true Mach numbers less than about 0.90."
Date: March 1, 1951
Creator: Danforth, Edward C. B. & O'Bryan, Thomas C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hallam Nuclear Power Facility, Reactor Operations Analysis Program: Semiannual Progress Report Number 2, March-August 1963 (open access)

Hallam Nuclear Power Facility, Reactor Operations Analysis Program: Semiannual Progress Report Number 2, March-August 1963

From summary: The full 140 element loading of the core was completed on October 10, 1962. At this point, critical operation was begun for operator training and post-critical testing purposes.
Date: March 1, 1964
Creator: Darley, D. K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Radiation Dose Received by Passengers and Crew on Planes Carrying the Maximum Number of Radiation Units (open access)

Radiation Dose Received by Passengers and Crew on Planes Carrying the Maximum Number of Radiation Units

The dose of ionizing radiation received by passengers and crew members traveling on commercial airlines which transport radioisotopes is of interest to all persons who travel the airways frequently. Tariff regulations permit the air transport of 40 units of radioactive materials where one unit represents a quantity of radioisotopes which when packaged delivers a dose rate of one mr/hr at a distance of one meter from the center of the package. Using five different types of commercial aircraft, shipments of radioisotopes were simulated and dose levels determined at various locations in the aircraft under conditions normal to commercial travel. The survey indicates that the tariff regulations should be amended giving consideration to the type of aircraft involved.
Date: March 1, 1957
Creator: Davis, D. M.; Hart, J. C. & Warden, A. D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Progress Relating to Civilian Applications During February, 1956 (open access)

Progress Relating to Civilian Applications During February, 1956

A report about aluminum-clad fuel elements, fuel-element development, zirconium uranium alloys, corrosion of zirconium, and reactor material development.
Date: March 1, 1956
Creator: Dayton, Russell W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Progress Relating to Civilian Applications During February, 1957 (open access)

Progress Relating to Civilian Applications During February, 1957

A report about the design and construction of equipment for thermal-conductivity measurements of irradiated encapsulated uranium. Metallographic techniques used to confirm solubility limits of uranium in thorium, previously determined by electrical resistivity and X-ray data, have been unsuccessful.
Date: March 1, 1957
Creator: Dayton, Russell W. & Tipton, Clyde R., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Progress to Civilian Applications During February, 1958 (open access)

Progress to Civilian Applications During February, 1958

A report about the fabrication of dummy fuel-pls assemblies which are to be used in the engineering test loop at the MTR.
Date: March 1, 1958
Creator: Dayton, Russell W. & Tipton, Clyde R., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Radiometric Analysis of Thick Samples (open access)

Radiometric Analysis of Thick Samples

Introduction: Measurements of polonium content in solids are usually performed by dissolving the material and preparing a thin sample which can be measured with one of the available instruments. A measurement of the radiation emerging from the thick sample should be sufficient to evaluate the polonium content. For this reason a calculation has been performed and the results have been compared with those obtained by the thin sample method. Obviously this proposed method using thick samples would be faster.
Date: March 1, 1944
Creator: DeBenedetti, Sergio
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Determination of the Coefficient of Thermal Expansion of Alpha Plutonium (open access)

A Determination of the Coefficient of Thermal Expansion of Alpha Plutonium

The coefficient of linear expansion of alpha plutonium has been determined for the range -180 to +100 degree C by the silicon-tube and dial-indicator method. The value of the expansion coefficient is reported as [formula]. Included are a detailed description of the apparatus and a discussion of the method.
Date: March 1, 1952
Creator: Elliott, R. O. & Tate, R. E.
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
System: The UNT Digital Library
Manual of Radiation Protection Standards (open access)

Manual of Radiation Protection Standards

"The following is an alphabetical listing of terms and units in common usage at Hanford Atomic Products Operation. Other terms and definitions may be added as the need becomes apparent or as revisions or additional terms are issued by the NCRP and ICRP."
Date: March 1, 1960
Creator: General Electric Company
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-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Uranium phase equilibria in the TBP process (open access)

Uranium phase equilibria in the TBP process

A report intended to correlate the RA and RC Column uranium equilibrium data presented in the reports cited in the introduction.
Date: March 1, 1951
Creator: Granquist, D. P. & Merrill, E. T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Zirconium Hydride as Moderator in Integral, Boiling Water-Superheat Reactors (open access)

Evaluation of Zirconium Hydride as Moderator in Integral, Boiling Water-Superheat Reactors

This report summarizes the results and conclusions of a study made to evaluate the merits of using zirconium hydride as a solid moderator in an integral boiling water-nuclear superheat reactor of the pressure vessel type.
Date: March 1, 1962
Creator: Gylfe, J. D.; Rood, H.; Greenleaf, J.; Balkwill, K.; Prem, L. & Goldfisher, L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Addendum to a Parametric Study of the Gas-Cooled Reactor Concept (open access)

An Addendum to a Parametric Study of the Gas-Cooled Reactor Concept

From introduction: "This report provides background information regarding the study results presented in the first volume of this report and provides information resulting from the studies made on the gas cooled reactor concept."
Date: March 1, 1958
Creator: Hanford Works
System: The UNT Digital Library
Proposed Revision in Computations of MPC's for Long-Lived Radioisotopes (open access)

Proposed Revision in Computations of MPC's for Long-Lived Radioisotopes

Equations are developed for the computation of MPC's for radioisotopes assuming the excretion or retention to follow a power law rather than an exponential law. Computations are made for four isotopes on which some human data are available. Uncertainties in the initial data due to the use of intravenous injection to obtain the primary data, the definition of retention and the effects of age and diet are discussed.
Date: March 1, 1955
Creator: Healy, J. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fast Neutron Cross Sections: Corrections to LA-1714 and a Correlation of 3 Mev Values (open access)

Fast Neutron Cross Sections: Corrections to LA-1714 and a Correlation of 3 Mev Values

Recent measurements on the long counter efficiency in which comparisons were made with the (n, p) scattering cross section, additional variations in efficiency were found which varied slowly with neutron energy but were still correlated with the total neutron cross section of carbon. Because of these variations in efficiency there are errors in the fission cross sections reported in LA-1714. Corrections to these data have been given here.
Date: March 1, 1957
Creator: Henkel, Richard L.
System: The UNT Digital Library