MTR Technical Branch Quarterly Report for First Quarter - 1954 (open access)

MTR Technical Branch Quarterly Report for First Quarter - 1954

The following report is a quarterly report for first quarter in 1954 for the Phillips Petroleum Company. During the first quarter of 1954 considerable progress was made on the design, construction and testing required to initiate work on new programs. The result of this is the beginning construction and design on the Reactivity Measurement Facility.
Date: December 5, 1955
Creator: Huffman, J. R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experimentation on the Extraction of Uranium from Western Ores (open access)

Experimentation on the Extraction of Uranium from Western Ores

The following report supplements a previous report by E.R. Saunders and M. C. Carosella and a report by A. J. Gailey and E. O. Brimm based around the same subject. This report describes a number of tests in which leaching temperatures of 115 and 125 C were tried for the extractions of uranium from western ores.
Date: December 27, 1943
Creator: Saunders, E. R. & Carosella, M. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experimentation on the Extraction of Uranium from Western Ores by Leaching with Sodium Carbonate and Sodium Bicarbonate (open access)

Experimentation on the Extraction of Uranium from Western Ores by Leaching with Sodium Carbonate and Sodium Bicarbonate

Purpose: "The purpose of the following experiments was to obtain data on the selective extraction of uranium over vanadiur from samples of vanadium ores by leaching with sodium carbonate or sodium bicarbonate solutions, with the object of establishing the time, temperature, and concentration conditions necessary for satisfactory extractions."
Date: December 3, 1943
Creator: Saunders, E. R. & Carosella, M. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Displaced Atom Densities in Cyclotron Irradiated Metals (open access)

Displaced Atom Densities in Cyclotron Irradiated Metals

From introduction: "The purpose of this report is to present some design and construction data for automatic titrators."
Date: December 3, 1951
Creator: Brooks, F. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Coulometric Determination of Uranium (open access)

The Coulometric Determination of Uranium

The following report describes a study that was made to adapt a redox method that oxidizes uranium(IV) to uranium(VI) by ferric ion into a microcoulometric method.
Date: December 3, 1951
Creator: Carson, W. N., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Leakage of Neutrons from a Heterogeneous Pile (open access)

The Leakage of Neutrons from a Heterogeneous Pile

Abstract: "The leakage of neutrons from a heterogenous pile with finite aides is calculated developing the method used in CP-992. The change in the fraction of neutrons absorbed by the moderator is obtained using the results of the calculation of the leakage."
Date: December 27, 1943
Creator: Plass, Gilbert N.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Literature Survey for the Fluorine Generation Program (open access)

Literature Survey for the Fluorine Generation Program

The following report discusses the production of three types of fluorine cells for the Manhattan Project's fluorine generation program: the high temperature fluorine cell operating at a temperature of 240 C., the low temperature cell operating at a temperature of 30 C., and the medium temperature cell operating at a temperature of 100 C.
Date: December 7, 1951
Creator: Katz, Sidney
System: The UNT Digital Library
Design and economic study of hot off-gas storage system (open access)

Design and economic study of hot off-gas storage system

From introduction: "One of the most important factors which must be considered in the chemical processing of spent fuel elements is the safe and economic disposal of gaseous radioactive fission product wastes given off in the fuel element dissolution operation. For this reason work is underway at ORNL to study the various gas disposal methods that might be used to handle the radioactive fission product gases, krypton, xenon, and iodine."
Date: December 20, 1957
Creator: Johnson, C. S. & Carter, T. J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gas Titration Methods for Uranium Hexafluoride (open access)

Gas Titration Methods for Uranium Hexafluoride

This report studies the reactions between gaseous uranium hexafluoride and several gaseous reagents for possible analytical application that has been underway while using a buggy designed for gaseous titration studies. This study primarily focuses on methods to analyze gases containing uranium hexafluoride and physically absorbed uranium hexafluoride.
Date: December 2, 1953
Creator: Weber, C. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Efficiency of a Three Inch Higgins Column (open access)

Efficiency of a Three Inch Higgins Column

The following report describes the usage of a semi-continuous ion exchange contactor--named the Higgins contactor--fit to operate the Purex process, a process that recovers plutonium and uranium from irradiated natural uranium fuel elements. It is intended to use the contactor in the final purification and concentration stage of the process plutonium streams.
Date: December 20, 1956
Creator: Vaughan, Victor C.; Jansen, George & Bagley, Raymond O.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Expressions for Conversion Ratio in a Th-U²³⁵ Converter (open access)

Expressions for Conversion Ratio in a Th-U²³⁵ Converter

"This memo shall be an attempt to write down in a consistent manner some expressions for conversion ratio so that a comparison can be made with regard to a uniformly loaded core versus a flattered zone surrounded by an unloaded region. The discussion will be limited to the type of loading that is at present being considered for the reactor - a checkerboard array of MTR fuel elements and feed elements; the unloaded reactor will consist of fuel elements only."
Date: December 19, 1951
Creator: Cohen, E. Richard, 1922- & Benton, A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Chlorination of TO₃ (open access)

The Chlorination of TO₃

Abstract: The applicability of specific mixtures and organic chlorocarbons in general toward the chlorination of TO₃ has been tested by means of reactions is sealed glass tubes. The results show that thionyl chloride mixed with tetrachloroethylene or a bromothane of the tyoe CHBrC12 will produce TCI4 directly. This same result is produced by CBr2C12 alone.
Date: December 28, 1945
Creator: Gavlin, Gilbert; Hubbard, J. V. & Clewett, G. H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Ammonia Reduction and its Application to the Preparation of Green Salt (open access)

The Ammonia Reduction and its Application to the Preparation of Green Salt

From introduction: The present report is a summary of the experimental work on a laboratory scale to date involving the ammonia reduction and the one step TF4 processes.
Date: December 29, 1945
Creator: Clinton Engineer Works
System: The UNT Digital Library
Separation of Tuballoy From Metallic Tantalum (open access)

Separation of Tuballoy From Metallic Tantalum

Report discussing a method of removing tuballoy (uranium) from metallic tantalum, which involves a double precipitation of tuballoy tetrafluoride obtained by reduction with stannous chloride.
Date: December 28, 1944
Creator: Wagner, E. L.; Gilpatrick, L. O. & Raeuchle, R. F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Determination of Uranium in Aluminum-Silicon Alloys (open access)

Determination of Uranium in Aluminum-Silicon Alloys

The following report describes methods developed for determination of uranium in the alloy.
Date: December 3, 1951
Creator: Kinderman, Edwin Max, 1916- & Jones, M. M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Theoretical Consideration of the Geometrical Structure of the Uranium Halides (open access)

Theoretical Consideration of the Geometrical Structure of the Uranium Halides

Abstract: The geometrical structure of the uranium halides has been studied from a theoretical viewpoint. This theoretical consideration tends to indicate that the pentavalent uranium halides are geometrically but not energetically capable of existence except as double halide compounds of hexavalent and tetravalent uranium.
Date: December 2, 1946
Creator: Calkins, Vincent P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Spectrophotometric Evidence for the Existence of UCl₅ as the Double Compound UCl₆ and UCl₄ (open access)

Spectrophotometric Evidence for the Existence of UCl₅ as the Double Compound UCl₆ and UCl₄

Abstract: "Spectrophotometric evidence for the existence of UCl₅ as a double compound UCl₆ and UCl₄ has been obtained by studying the absorption spectra of these chlorides in CCl₄ and SOCl2 solutions in the visible and ultraviolet regions of the spectrum."
Date: December 9, 1946
Creator: Sterett, C. C. & Calkins, V. P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Voltage Regulator for Electroplating Control (open access)

Voltage Regulator for Electroplating Control

This report describes an instrument used for electrolytic separation. It was one of four instruments previous used and improved, yet lacked details until now. The instrument's design and operation is described herein.
Date: December 23, 1946
Creator: Rogers, Lockhard Burgess & Pickle, C. B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Industrial Hygiene Survey of Thorium Rolling at Simonds Saw and Steel Company (open access)

Industrial Hygiene Survey of Thorium Rolling at Simonds Saw and Steel Company

Abstract: "The information contained in this report consists of personnel exposures to radioactive dust resulting from a thorium rolling operation."
Date: December 14, 1953
Creator: Schumann, Charles E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dynamic Corrosion and Mass Transfer of Chrome Steel by Bismuth (open access)

Dynamic Corrosion and Mass Transfer of Chrome Steel by Bismuth

From introduction: "This report summarizes the experimental data obtained at the San Pablo Laboratory on the corrosion of 5% Cr - 0.5% Mo steel by bismuth under conditions that allow mass transfer to occur. The bismuth is circulated through a temperature gradient by means of a thermosiphon loop."
Date: December 14, 1951
Creator: Egan, C. J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Neutron Economy of Various Converter Reactor Designs (open access)

Neutron Economy of Various Converter Reactor Designs

The following report determines how many neutrons are being absorbed in various converter reactor designs, how many neutrons leak from the reactor and the breakdown between fast and thermal leakage. Another interest this paper examines is to determine how many neutrons are absorbed in thorium in the resonance region, at thermal energy, and in the blanket.
Date: December 12, 1951
Creator: Balent, Ralph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Research on Reactor Waste Disposal: (Information Report) (open access)

Research on Reactor Waste Disposal: (Information Report)

Report discussing research on the disposal of radioactive waste, specifically second-cycle waste and first-cycle neutralized waste. "In the absence of established environmental tolerances, the investigation reported herein have been directed for the most part in developing general methods of removing radioactivity from certain waste solutions to as low a value as practical."
Date: December 15, 1950
Creator: Lowe, C. S.; McEwen, M.; Mead, F. C., Jr. & Orban, Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reclamation of Contaminated Diffusion Pump Oil and Removal of Tuballoy Therefrom (open access)

Reclamation of Contaminated Diffusion Pump Oil and Removal of Tuballoy Therefrom

Abstract: The possibilities for the removal of tuballoy from diffusion pump oil and reclamation of the oils for reuse are discussed. The report includes specifications of practical equipment, operating instructions, photographs and diagrams of the necessary construction details.
Date: December 6, 1945
Creator: Lee, J. E. Jr. & Susano, C. D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Welding Procedure Specification for Welding of Austenitic Stainless Steel to Carbon Steel by Shielded Metal-Arc Process (open access)

Welding Procedure Specification for Welding of Austenitic Stainless Steel to Carbon Steel by Shielded Metal-Arc Process

The following report describes the welding procedures for welding austenitic stainless steel to carbon steel through a shielded metal-arc process, including the safety precautions and post-production process.
Date: December 11, 1954
Creator: Seran, P.N.
System: The UNT Digital Library