Pressure Intensification Provided by External Pressure on a Cylinder Composed of Four Anvils (open access)

Pressure Intensification Provided by External Pressure on a Cylinder Composed of Four Anvils

Results of experimental investigation for improving intensification and to reduce stress concentrations for anvil redesign.
Date: December 6, 1963
Creator: Huddleston, R. L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geophysical Seismic Evaluation Study at Hanford (open access)

Geophysical Seismic Evaluation Study at Hanford

From introduction: "In June, 1963, a geophysical research program was conducted at Hanford to determine the feasibility and desirability of using seismic methods in geohydrologic studies. Detection and delineation were desired of seven different geological features that in some sites affect the movement of liquid radioactive wastes discharged to the ground."
Date: December 1964
Creator: Brown, Ruth E. & Raymond, John R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Application of Data Processing Techniques to a Maintenance Work Control Program (open access)

The Application of Data Processing Techniques to a Maintenance Work Control Program

Description of a data collection and reporting system which was devised and installed in the Union Carbide Nuclear Company's Y-12 Plant Maintenance Division.
Date: December 18, 1963
Creator: Westbrook, J. D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cost-Benefit Study of Selected Products in Atomic Energy Commission's Low-Dose Food Irradiation Program (open access)

Cost-Benefit Study of Selected Products in Atomic Energy Commission's Low-Dose Food Irradiation Program

From foreword: This report presents findings and conclusions from a study of prospective costs and benefits of selected products within the AEC low-dose food irradiation program.
Date: December 1966
Creator: Daniel Yankelovich, Inc.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Competition in the Nuclear Power Supply Industry (open access)

Competition in the Nuclear Power Supply Industry

From purpose and scope: The Justice Department and the AEC embarked upon this joint study so as to provide the basis for preparation and consideration of guidelines for the nuclear industry best designed to foster vigorous growth and to provide a sound basis for government action.
Date: December 1968
Creator: Arthur D. Little, Inc.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Containment of Fragments from a Runaway Reactor (open access)

Containment of Fragments from a Runaway Reactor

Introduction: This report covers a year's activity in the continuation of a program designed to explore the missile hazard resulting from a reactor excursion.
Date: December 2, 1963
Creator: Botsford, N. B.; Keough, D. D. & White, R. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reconnaissance for Uranium in the Chanaral-Taltal area, Provinces of Antofagasta and Atacama, Chile (open access)

Reconnaissance for Uranium in the Chanaral-Taltal area, Provinces of Antofagasta and Atacama, Chile

Abstract: In the Chañaral-Taltal area of northern Chile irregular replacement type iron deposits are especially well developed along a somewhat radioactive lithologic belt in andesite volcanic rocks and Cretaceous dioretic intrusions to the east of the Atacama fault, a prominent shear zone.
Date: December 1961
Creator: Bowes, William A.; Knowles, Paul H.; Moraga B., Aldo & C., Mario Serrano
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reconnaissance for Uranium in the Arica Area, Province of Tarapaca, Chile (open access)

Reconnaissance for Uranium in the Arica Area, Province of Tarapaca, Chile

Abstract: In August 1958 two geologists of the Instituto de Investigaciones Geológicas de Chile made a one-week reconnaissance for uranium of the Arica area in northern Chile.
Date: December 1960
Creator: C., Mario Serrano & H., Erik Klohn
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reconnaissance for Uranium in the San Pedro de Atacama and Laco areas, Province of Antofagasta, Chile (open access)

Reconnaissance for Uranium in the San Pedro de Atacama and Laco areas, Province of Antofagasta, Chile

Abstract: A reconnaissance for uranium in and a general geologic study of the San Pedro de Atacama and Laco areas of nothern Chile disclosed no significant radioactivity in the Laco area, but near San Pedro de Atacama slight anomalies were detected in limey silts of the San Pedro formation.
Date: December 1961
Creator: Knowles, Paul H.; Bowes, William A.; C., Mario Serrano & Moraga B., Aldo
System: The UNT Digital Library
Status of the Application of Nuclear Reactors in the Process Industries: 1961 (open access)

Status of the Application of Nuclear Reactors in the Process Industries: 1961

From preface: This report is a detailed summary of the evaluation studies of civilian power reactor concepts. It is intended to present the current state of the use of nuclear reactors in process industries and current AEC program in this field.
Date: December 1961
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Structural Survey of Private Mining Properties (open access)

Structural Survey of Private Mining Properties

From introduction: The pre-shot and postshot mine surveys indicated that no damage attributable to the Shoal event occurred to any of the sixteen private mining properties.
Date: December 1963
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preshot and Postshot Structure Survey (open access)

Preshot and Postshot Structure Survey

From introduction: This report documents the preshot and postshot condition of all structures within 10 miles of Ground Zero, plus structures at Salt Wells and surface structures at mines that were included in the mine survey.
Date: December 1963
Creator: Holmes & Narver
System: The UNT Digital Library
N.S. Savannah Safety Assessment: Summary Report of Volumes 1 through 5 (open access)

N.S. Savannah Safety Assessment: Summary Report of Volumes 1 through 5

From title page: This report has been prepared at the request of the Government of Germany for consideration under their Atomic Energy Act for a license for the operation of the N.S. Savannah in German ports.
Date: December 1962
Creator: Barrett, James M. & Carrico, Paul E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Literature of Nuclear Science: Its Management and Use (open access)

The Literature of Nuclear Science: Its Management and Use

From preface: Proceedings of a conference of AEC contractor and depository librarians on the operations of the Division of Technical Information
Date: December 1962
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Study of SCTI Control System (open access)

Study of SCTI Control System

Introduction: This report has been prepared to document the extensive analytical work required to design the control system for the Sodium Components Test Installation (SCTI), constructed for the Atomic Energy Commission at the Atomics International field laboratory.
Date: December 1, 1964
Creator: Griffin, C. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Refabrication and Encapsulation of Highly Irradiated Uranium Dioxide (open access)

Refabrication and Encapsulation of Highly Irradiated Uranium Dioxide

Abstract: One hundred gram quantities of uranium dioxide, irradiated to burnup as great as 21,000 Mwd/MTU and previously reprocessed by AIROX (Atomics International Reduction Oxidation), were refabricated into high density pellets and encapsulated for re-irradiation.
Date: December 1, 1964
Creator: Guon, J.; Bodine, J. E. & Sullivan, R. J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Gamma to Gamma Prime Transformation in the Uranium-Molybdenum System (open access)

The Gamma to Gamma Prime Transformation in the Uranium-Molybdenum System

Abstract: Electrical resistance measurements and metallography were employed in a study of the kinetics of the gamma to gamma prime transformation in the uranium-molybdenum system at 16 wt% molybdenum.
Date: December 31, 1961
Creator: Kramer, D. & Rhodes, C. G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Piqua Nuclear Power Facility Operations Analysis Program Progress Report Number 4: January-June 1964 (open access)

Piqua Nuclear Power Facility Operations Analysis Program Progress Report Number 4: January-June 1964

Progress report for the Piqua Reactor Operations Analysis Program describing observations and analyses at the Piqua Nuclear Power Facility (PNPF). The program goals are to monitor operations and collect data in order to ensure that the plant's operation is safe, to improve design and performance, to evaluate the performance and lifetime of the plant's components and systems, to evaluate plant safety and safeguards, and to disseminate all information to the scientific community.
Date: December 15, 1964
Creator: Cole, H. S.; Hausknecht, D. F.; Jenkins, O. G., Jr.; Lew, D. E.; Mandel, H.; Pearson, E. N. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Material Bucklings of Critical and Subcritical Uranium Carbide Fueled Graphite Assemblies: Part 1, Experiment (open access)

Material Bucklings of Critical and Subcritical Uranium Carbide Fueled Graphite Assemblies: Part 1, Experiment

Introduction: A series of critical and subcritical experiments have been carried out as part of the Advanced Sodium Graphite Reactor (ASGR) Critical Experiments program to provide physics information which would be directly applicable to the AGSR concept.
Date: December 1, 1964
Creator: Hillig, O. R. & Latham, D. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Piqua Nuclear Power Facility Operations Analysis Program Progress Report Number 8: 1966 (open access)

Piqua Nuclear Power Facility Operations Analysis Program Progress Report Number 8: 1966

The following progress report describes the examination of elements removed in comparison to a previous study on the power facility reactor operations.
Date: December 31, 1966
Creator: North American Aviation. Atomics International Division.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Quarterly Technical Progress Report, AEC Unclassified Programs: July-September 1965 (open access)

Quarterly Technical Progress Report, AEC Unclassified Programs: July-September 1965

Quarterly report describing progress on unclassified research programs funded by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission during the first quarter of the 1966 fiscal year.
Date: December 22, 1965
Creator: North American Aviation. Atomics International Division.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Steady-State Tests of a Reactor Safety Device (open access)

Steady-State Tests of a Reactor Safety Device

Introduction: This is the fourth report in a series of reports dealing in particular with a reactor safety device of a double diaphragm type.
Date: December 15, 1960
Creator: Springer, T. H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Device for Continuous Detection of Hydrogen in Sodium (open access)

A Device for Continuous Detection of Hydrogen in Sodium

Abstract: A device to detect the presence of hydrogen in sodium has been developed. Such a device, installed in a sodium heated steam generator, would signal the presence of water in the sodium resulting from a leak in the sodium-water barrier.
Date: December 15, 1960
Creator: Strahl, H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technical Feasibility and Economic Potential of the Variable Moderator Reactor: Final Report (open access)

Technical Feasibility and Economic Potential of the Variable Moderator Reactor: Final Report

Foreword: This report covering the technical feasibility and economic potential of the VMR completes the requirements of Phases II and III of the program outlined in American-Standard Proposal No. P-470A.
Date: December 15, 1960
Creator: Advanced Technology Laboratories
System: The UNT Digital Library