Hardness of Various Valve Seat and Bearing Materials for Possible Use in Thora Slurry Systems (open access)

Hardness of Various Valve Seat and Bearing Materials for Possible Use in Thora Slurry Systems

The hardness of several materials that have been considered for use as valve scats and bearings in thorium oxide slurry systems were measured and are reported for comparison with thorium oxide.
Date: December 9, 1960
Creator: Moyers, J. C. & Randell, H. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Maritime Gas-Cooled Reactor Program: MGCR Prototype Preliminary Design, Volume 1 (open access)

Maritime Gas-Cooled Reactor Program: MGCR Prototype Preliminary Design, Volume 1

From preface: This report presents the status of design of the MGCR prototype plant as of July 1, 1960.
Date: December 9, 1960
Creator: General Dynamics Corporation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Specifications for Fuel Assemblies for Core I of the Experimental Gas-Cooled Reactor (open access)

Specifications for Fuel Assemblies for Core I of the Experimental Gas-Cooled Reactor

These specifications for the fuel assemblies for Core I of the Experimental Gas-Cooled Reactor (EGCR) have been developed for use in procuring the first core loading. A fuel assembly for EGCR consists of a cluster of seven cylindrical fuel elements spaced and supported within a graphite sleeve. Each fuel element consists of a stainless steel tube containing a column of hollow UO2 pellets and having a spacer brazed at the midsection to control the spacing between fuel elements in a cluster. A master specification for the fuel assembly, a supplementary specification for each of the components, and a specification on record keeping during manufacture are included.
Date: December 9, 1960
Creator: Coobs, J. H.; Wick, E. A. & Evans, R. M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Homogeneous Reactor Project Quarterly Progress Report: February-April 1960 (open access)

Homogeneous Reactor Project Quarterly Progress Report: February-April 1960

Report issued by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory discussing quarterly progress made by the Homogeneous Reactor Program. It includes descriptions of progress and studies conducted during the report period, with tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: August 9, 1960
Creator: Briggs, R. B.; Beall, S. E.; Lyon, R. N.; Bohlmann, E. G.; Ferguson, D. E.; McDuffie, H. F. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Uranium deposits of the southern San Juan mineral belt, New Mexico (open access)

Uranium deposits of the southern San Juan mineral belt, New Mexico

This report deals with the structural and lithologic features within and adjacent to the San Juan mineral belt and the relation of these features to the ore deposits.
Date: August 9, 1960
Creator: Dodd, P. H. & Young, Robert G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metastable States of Hyperfragments and the Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Λ-Hyperon (open access)

Metastable States of Hyperfragments and the Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Λ-Hyperon

"We want to point out that there is a possible method for determining the anomalous magnetic moment of the Λ from the observation of metastable states of hyperframents. There are two possible sources for the apparent difference of binding energies of a hyperfragment. One of these comes from the difference of Q values due to the decay into an excited and ground states of the residual nucleus. The other possibility will arise if there exists a metastable state of the decaying hyperfragment."
Date: June 9, 1960
Creator: Iwao, Syurei
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Blast Cleaning Process as an Aid to Visual Weld Inspection (open access)

The Blast Cleaning Process as an Aid to Visual Weld Inspection

Late in 1958 it became apparent that some fuel elements were failing in the Hanford reactors as a result of water entering through the weld. The mode of entry appeared to be first through a void in the weld, then through a non-wet area or a train of voids in the braze, and finally to the uranium core. Defective closures of a similar nature were also typical of many fuel elements which have failed in the autoclaving operation as shown in Figure 1.
Date: March 9, 1960
Creator: Hanson, G. R.
System: The UNT Digital Library