This is a summary report of various technical projects relating to uranium.

This report is applicable to the eight operating production reactors, B, C, D, DR, F, H, KE, and KW. It covers the following: operating parameter limitations; reactivity limitations; control and safety systems; reactor fuel loading; coolant requirements with irradiated fuel in reactor; reactor confinement; test facilities; code compliance; safety instrumentation and set points; and control criteria. Also discussed are administrative procedures for process control, training, audits and inspection, and reports and records.

This document details activities of the Irradiation Processing Department during the month of August, 1958. A general summary is included at the start of the report, after which the report is divided into the following sections: Research and Engineering Operations; Production and Reactor Operations; Facilities Engineering Operation; Employee Relations Operation; and Financial Operation.

The production of plutonium containing 17 to 18 per cent Pu-240 has been proposed for Hanford as part of the over-all process for production of transuranium isotopes. Purpose of this report is to summarize measures that would be taken to ensure good performance of the depleted uranium fuel elements and to predict the performance of the depleted fuel.

This document lists the physics factors for the K Reactors following the transition to the KV fuel element geometry and zirconium tubes. Each new parameter with the zirconium tube lattice has been calculated relative to the factors used with aluminum tubes and the KIV fuel elements. The purpose of this document is to provide working values for plant assistance use during the transition to the zirconium lattice. In some cases, where there are large uncertainties in the absolute values, the conservative end of the range has been provided for present operational use in safety and control administration. Refinement and publication of ``best`` values for the zirconium lattice based on the extensive experimental and calculational studies are included in future Reactor Physics Unit programs.

Reduction of the reactor process water pH from 6.9 to 6.6 at 100-B, D, DR, KF, and H currently is proposed in order to reduce the aluminum corrosion rate and the resultant outage time for water leaks, fuel ruptures, and process tube replacement. This document reviews the current knowledge of the effect of reducing the pH to 6.6 on aluminum corrosion. An estimate of the expected costs and benefits is included.

The completion of Phase III construction in B Plant will provide facilities to meet certain common needs of departmental Waste Management and Fission Product programs. This is an estimate of the total and unit costs of operation in these facilities on a `goin concern` basis, recognizing full well the highly tentative nature of information available with respect to staffing, process rates, equipment, etc., approximately 3 to 4 years in advance of operations. It is planned that this document serve as an operating cost guideline during the interim period, subject to periodic revision as more firm data of significant cost impact becomes available. This review covers those functions performed within B Plant proper plus a PAW feed material preparation function tentatively planned for Purex head end for convenience purposes. Feed material streams from supernatant and sludge removal functions are considered F.O.B. B Plant. No staffing or costs have been included for tank farm activities or the 200 North storage function. Cesium and strontium costs include processing to a solid and packaging in a high integrity container compatible with final confinement requirements. Staffing is provided to perform a peroxyacetate strike or similar function for the cerium-rare earth fraction, but additional study would …

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This monthly technical report details activities in reactor physics research and development during the month of April 1963.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Under the submitted facts, whether the Gross Receipts Tax provided for by Article 11.03m Taxation-General, is due by the stated corporations.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether certain practices of landowners charging a set fee for each deer killed on his premises violated Articles 884 and 923, Vernon’s Penal Code.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of the State Treasurer to dispose of certain personal property transferred to the Treasurer by the State Banking Commissioner for deposit in the State Conservator Fund.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Various questions relative to the “Rule Making Procedure” rule adopted by the Texas State Board of Examiners in Optometry.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether certain advertising on specialized motor vehicles violate Article 1690 in Vernon’s Penal Code?

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of the Commissioners Court to enter into a contract for the sale or rental of IBM data processing cards and copies of microfilms of instruments filed in the County Clerk’s office.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Exemption from franchise tax of non-profit corporations under submitted facts.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Highways over which the authority of the Commissioners Court extends under the terms of Article 827a, Sec. 2, V.P.C.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the State Building Commission may enter into certain contracts with other state agencies and have certain funds appropriated to such agencies transferred to the Building Commission for payment of services under such contract.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Constitutionality and construction of Senate Bill 255 of the 58th Legislature.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Constitutionality of House Bill 92 of the 58th Legislature.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of Commissioners Court of Brazoria County to rent road equipment and/or enter into a lease-purchase agreement for such equipment.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a non-lawyer employee of a corporation may legally file a petition in a small claims court in behalf of the corporation.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the term “annuities” as used in Article 6228a-5, Vernon’s Civil Statutes, embraces group annuities as well as individual annuity contracts. Should the board of regents of the institutions of higher learning hold the master contract in the name of the board of regents of the respective institutions or should contracts be issued in the name of the annuitant only, even if the contract is classified as a group annuity.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the various cities and the Texas Highway Department have the authority to enter into and perform contracts with regard to their respective obligations concerning the construction, maintenance and operation of State Highways within cities, including controlled access highways, or whether all jurisdiction with regard to such highways lies with the Highway Commission and is nondelegable.