The latest HAPO Five Year Program review, HW-59633, forecasts substantial increases in Pu production from the eight existing Hanford reactors over the next several years. These production increases would be attained by a combination of several methods which include increased reactor power levels resulting from higher process water flow rates and coolant bulk outlet temperatures, improved time operated efficiency, higher conversion ratios, and reduced transient reactivity losses. In order to provide a realistic basis for budgeting to meet these or other increased production goals, it is necessary that a study program be undertaken to determine in general terms the plant changes required to support these forecasted levels, to evaluate the economic and technical feasibility of achieving the process conditions, and to present an integrated program for achieving these objectives. This study program will necessarily consider the interrelated effects of a number of various facets of reactor and water plant process conditions, operational requirements, and proposed development programs. The purpose of this document is to present a plan for the execution of the proposed study. Included in this outline are a review of the basic study considerations, problem assignments and schedules, and manpower and cost estimates for the performance of the …

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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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of the Finance Commission to expend a portion of the funds of the Banking Department for the purpose of participating in the building program.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Constitutionality of House Bill 353, 56th Legislature, relating to establishment of minimum sales price in the sale of spiritous liquors.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Questions relating to H.B. No. 12, Acts of 56th Leg., Reg. Session, 1959, known as the "Texas Shrimp Conservation Act."

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether County Tax Assessor and Collector may make a refund of alleged overpayment of occupation tax on certain amusement machines collected under Article 7047, V.C.S.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Computation of travel allowance on the basis of the shortest route between points, under provisions of House Bill 4, 56th Legislature, 3rd Called Session, and Senate Bill 272, Acts of the 56th Legislature, Regular Session.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Questions as to amounts of the salaries paid to employees subject to the Teacher Retirement Law, which must be withheld and paid monthly to the Retirement System.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether House Bill 11, Third Called Session, 56th Legislature, 1959, repealed the authority for future annual transfers on August 31 to the Available School 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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Who determines adequacy of transportation and whether a Commissioners' Court may compensate a Sheriff under Subsection (c) when transportation is furnished under Subsection (a) of Article 6877-1, Vernon's Civil Statutes.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Article 21.28 Texas Insurance Code and the payment of contributions under the Texas Unemployment Compensation Act on employees of the State Liquidator.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Amount of fee due the Tax Collector for each correct assessment of land to be sold, under the provisions of Article 7331, V.C.S.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: May an independent school district legally expend its local funds (Article 2827) for the costs or charges incident to the televising of the meetings of its Board of Trustees.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether or not commissions paid to directors on the sale of capital stock is prohibited by Article 3.67 of the Insurance 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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a garage carrying a stock of parts for installation on customers' automobiles for repair is subject to the store tax levied by Article 1111d, Vernon's Penal Code, and related questions.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Duty of the County Clerk to search records.

The Palmolive program is directed toward the recovery of neptunium-237 and production of plutonium-238. The neptunium is recovered during the chemical processing of irradiated uranium and is purified and fabricated into target elements. The target elements are irradiated to produce plutonium-238 by neutron capture of neptunium-237 and are processed to provide plutonium for shipment to the final customer and neptunium for recycle within the system. The following report summarizes a preliminary engineering study of the technical and economic factors involved in installing long-term Palmolive manufacturing facilities at Hanford to meet the reduced production goals. Prime emphasis is placed on the process technology and plant design requirements for fabricating and reprocessing neptunium target elements on a production basis. The relationships of these phases of the target cycle to the recovery and purification of virgin neptunium in the Purex Plant and irradiation of target elements in the Hanford reactors are reviewed in the light of the reduced plutonium-238 demands.

Abstract: Force, moment, and center of pressure information are presented for four models of the Hi-Lo configuration.

Irradiation of solid and I & E fuel elements in B Reactor ribless process tube facility showed reduced hot spot incidence in the self-supported fuel elements. Since it appears expedient to evaluate the concepts of the larger fuel core size and/or greater coolant flow, on a pilot scale, this report presents the design of a pilot test. Up to 100 ribless zirconium process tubes are to be installed in C Reactor, and reactor equipment modifications will be made to permit routine charging of these tubes with self-supported natural U fuel elements.

This material is the outgrowth of the notes prepared for lectures on reactor controls given in 1953-55 at the Oak Ridge School of Reactor Technology. The course on reactor controls was for the purpose of acquainting the student with some of the elementary considerations involved in setting up a control and safety system for a nuclear reactor. Topics are discussed on kinetics, neutron energies, poisoning, analog computing, instrumentation, start-up, neutron sources, etc. (W.D.M.)

Several factors such as alloy composition, hydrogen content of the alloy, surface hydrides, and hydrogen content of the water have been investigated for their effect upon the amount of hydrogen picked up by zirconium alloys during corrosion in 680 deg F water. Metallic additions of nickel increase hydrogen pickup, antimony, chromium, and iron appear to decrease the hydrogen pickup, while the addition of tin has little or no effect. The hydrogen content of the metal (50 to 400 ppm) or of the water (0 in 2 atm of hydrogen pressure) does not appreciably change the amount of hydrogen picked up by the alloys studied. It is proposed that certain intermetallic compounds provide cathodic areas which aid in the concentration of hydrogen at the compound. The amount of corrosion-produced hydrogen entering the metal is controlled by the reaction of hydrogen with the particular compound. The hydriding of Zircaloy-2 by gaseous hydrogen is stopped when small quantities of water vapor are added to the hydrogen. (auth)

Fifteen PWR blanket fuel specimens varying in burnup from 80 to 1100 Mwd/ T, were declad with boiling 6 M NH/sub 4/F-1.0 M NH/sub 4/NO/sub 3/ before the UO/ sub 2/ core was dissolved in 10 M HNO/sub 3/. Uranium and plutonium losses to the decladding solution were less than 0.2% in nearly all runs. While these ments with unirradiated fuel, they are of the same order of magnitude as those obtained in the testing of the hot cell HF was used as the decladding reagent, the uranium and plutonium losses averaged 1.0 and 0.4%, respectively. (auth)

This course on reactor controls is for the purpose of acquainting the student with some of the elementary considerations involved in setting up a control and safety system for a nuclear reactor. This material is the outgrowth of the notes prepared for the lectures on Reactor Controls given in the Oak Ridge School of Reactor Technologu. The lectures given by T. E. Cole in 1953-1955 are the basis of portions of the subject matter on reactor kinetics. Many suggestions and ideas contributed by E. R. Mann are included throughout almost every section. In addition, several members of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and of the Reactor Controls Department in particular, have provided information which has been included in these lectures notes.

The results of a parametric study on a gas cooled reactor are reported on herein. The system considered was a helium cooled, UO2 fueled arrangement with the fuel assemblies consisting of clusters of long cylindrical elements, each element covered b a stainless steel jacket. The axial power distribution was assumed to be a "chopped cosine" having an axial peak-to-average power 1.32.