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Experimental Evaluation of the Radiation Protection Afforded by Typical Oak Ridge Homes Against Distributed Sources (open access)

Experimental Evaluation of the Radiation Protection Afforded by Typical Oak Ridge Homes Against Distributed Sources

Report regarding experiments made to determine the fallout-radiation protection offered by several typical homes in the Oak Ridge, Tennessee, area.
Date: January 1960
Creator: Strickler, T. D. & Auxier, J. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Determinations of Aerodynamic-Drag Parameters of Small Irregular Objects by Means of Drop Tests (open access)

Determinations of Aerodynamic-Drag Parameters of Small Irregular Objects by Means of Drop Tests

Report concerning the results of an experiment that determined the masses and velocities of over 20,000 objects and laboratory animals by simulating the blast winds of nuclear explosions.
Date: June 1960
Creator: Fletcher, E. R.; Albright, R. W.; Goldizen, V. C. & Bowen, I. G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hazards Evaluation Report Associated with the Operation of EBWR at 100 MW (open access)

Hazards Evaluation Report Associated with the Operation of EBWR at 100 MW

From Introduction: "This hazards report covers the basic modifications to the EBWR plant as designed to increase the present operating design rating of 20 Mwt to a new rating of 100 Mwt. it is written as a supplement to ANL-5781 (the original hazards report) and follows the outline of that report for purposes of cross reference."
Date: October 1960
Creator: Wimunc, E. A. & Harrer, J. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Argonaut Automatic Flux Controller Design Report (open access)

Argonaut Automatic Flux Controller Design Report

Report issued by the Argonne National Laboratory over design studies conducted on Argonaut reactors for training and research purposes. As stated in the abstract, "the design presented in the form of a steady-state analysis based upon the small-signal linearization of the reactor kinetics transfer function. The measured controller performance and construction details of the equipment is given" (p. 7). This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: January 1960
Creator: Gerba, A., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Participation in the OEEC Halden Reactor Project May 1959 to September 1960 (open access)

U.S. Participation in the OEEC Halden Reactor Project May 1959 to September 1960

From Introduction: "This report summarizes the activities of the OEEC Halden Reactor Project, Halden, Norway, during the period of participation in the project by the author, from May 21, 1959 to September 22, 1960. The review is presented here in the interest of completeness of this report, in an effort to provide an impression of the character of research being carried out at Halden."
Date: December 1960
Creator: Fromm, Leonard W., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fast Fuel Test Reactor - FFTR Conceptual Design Study (open access)

Fast Fuel Test Reactor - FFTR Conceptual Design Study

Report describing the design of a Fast Fuel Test Reactor (FFTR), analyses of of the reactor's operations, related costs, and possible future projects.
Date: August 1960
Creator: Brubaker, R.; Hummel, H. H.; McArthy, A.; Smaardyk, A. & Kittel, J. H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Terminal Report on the Boiling Slurry Reactor Experiment (Slurrex) (open access)

Terminal Report on the Boiling Slurry Reactor Experiment (Slurrex)

From Introduction: "This report is a documentation, from inception in 1959 to termination in 1960, of the design and development effort by the Reactor Engineering Division pertinent to construction of an aqueous boiling slurry reactor design, the problems involved, and the various approaches pursued."
Date: December 1960
Creator: Freund, G. A.; Lokay, J. D.; Milak, G. C. & MacAlpine, J. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gas-Cooled Reactors in the USA: A Survey and Recommendation (open access)

Gas-Cooled Reactors in the USA: A Survey and Recommendation

Report that provides "an understanding of the status of gas-cooled reactors as used for unclassified applications" and determining "phases of advanced research and development needed in the field and from these to recommend a program for high-temperature, gas-cooled reactors" (p. 5).
Date: November 1960
Creator: Armstrong, R. H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Lunar Power Plant (open access)

A Lunar Power Plant

Report issued by the Argonne National Laboratory over studies conducted on designs for a lunar power plant. As stated in the abstract, "a concept of a nuclear power plant to be assembled on earth and operated on the moon in presented" (p. 9). This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: December 1960
Creator: Armstrong, R. H.; Carter, J. C.; Hummel, H. H.; Janicke, M. J. & Marchaterre, J. F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preliminary Design and Hazards Report-Boiling Reactor Experiment V (BORAX V) (open access)

Preliminary Design and Hazards Report-Boiling Reactor Experiment V (BORAX V)

From introduction: "The report is preliminary. At the time of writing, the status of the BORAX V project is that design of the reactor buildings and plant, done in collaboration with the architect-engineer with the architect-engineer has been completed and construction has just started; however, the mechanical design of the fuel and cores is still tentative."
Date: February 1960
Creator: Argonne National Laboratory
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transistor Scintillation Spectrometer (open access)

Transistor Scintillation Spectrometer

Report describing "an AC-operated portable scintillation spectrometer consisting of a preamplifier, a linear pulse amplifier, a single-channel pulse-height analyzer, a linear count-rate meter, a scaler, and a high-voltage power supply. The operation and performance of the circuits are discussed" (p. 3).
Date: February 1960
Creator: Strauss, Michael G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Irradiation of an Aluminum Alloy-Clad Ceramic Pellet-Fueled Plate (open access)

Irradiation of an Aluminum Alloy-Clad Ceramic Pellet-Fueled Plate

From Introduction: "An experiment, designated MTR-W10, was designed to determine the effects of high burnup on the cladding and fuel of an aluminum-1% nickel alloy (M-388)-clad ceramic pellet-fuelded plate if the type manufactured at Argonne for the BORAX-IV core. Conditions of irradiation were selected to allow local boiling at the high flux end of the plate at a pressure of 600 psig."
Date: May 1960
Creator: Gavin, A. P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Operational Tests of EBWR Vapor Recovery System (open access)

Operational Tests of EBWR Vapor Recovery System

From Introduction: "This report describes tests conducted on EBWR to evaluate the vapor recovery system."
Date: August 1960
Creator: Gariboldi, R. J. & Jacobson, D. R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aeroradioactivity Survey and Areal Geology of the Savannah River Plant Area, South Carolina and Georgia (ARMS-I) (open access)

Aeroradioactivity Survey and Areal Geology of the Savannah River Plant Area, South Carolina and Georgia (ARMS-I)

Report regarding an airborne radioactivity survey that took place in the 10,000 square mile area near Augusta, Georgia. Topics include the types of bedrock noted in the area as well as their levels of radioactivity.
Date: December 1960
Creator: Schmidt, Robert G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Design of Underground Openings in Competent Rock (open access)

Design of Underground Openings in Competent Rock

From Summary: "This report presents methods and principles useful in designing underground mine openings and pillars in competent rock formations. Two types of formations are considered: (1) Massive formations, in which openings are generally mined with an arched roof, and (2) bedded formations, in which openings are generally mined with a flat roof."
Date: 1960
Creator: Obert, Leonard; Duvall, Wilbur I. & Merrill, Robert H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Safety at Gas-Processing Plants (open access)

Safety at Gas-Processing Plants

From Summary and introduction: "This report presents up-to-date information on design, construction, operation, and maintenance of natural gasoline and gas-processing plants, with particular emphasis on procedures and practices that will promote maximum safety for workers in such installations."
Date: 1960
Creator: Kintz, G. M. & Hill, Frances C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Introduction to Mine Ventilating Principles and Practices (open access)

Introduction to Mine Ventilating Principles and Practices

From Introduction: "This bulletin is written to explain in layman language the basic laws and fundamentals of mine airflow and their application to the solution of common ventilating problems."
Date: 1960
Creator: Kingery, D. S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Control of Fires in Inactive Coal Formations in the United States (open access)

Control of Fires in Inactive Coal Formations in the United States

From Introduction: "The purpose of this Bulletin, in addition to presenting a history and description of Bureau activities in controlling these fires, is to provide the mining industry and the public with information concerning methods of controlling fires in inactive coal formation. The Bulletin is intended to serve as a guide to the public and more specifically to mining supervisory personnel and engineers who may be called upon to extinguish such fires."
Date: 1960
Creator: Griffith, F. E.; Magnuson, M. O. & Toothman, G. J. R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Index of Selected Gasification Patents (In Three Parts): [Part] 1. United States Patents (open access)

Index of Selected Gasification Patents (In Three Parts): [Part] 1. United States Patents

From Introduction: "The material will be presented in three parts, as follows: I. United States Patents. II. United Kingdom Patents. III. Other Foreign Patents. The domestic patents for this bulletin were collected between 1953 and 1955."
Date: 1960
Creator: Klosky, Simon
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Glossary of the Diamond-Drilling Industry (open access)

A Glossary of the Diamond-Drilling Industry

From Introduction: "This Glossary is published by the Bureau of Mines as a contribution to the mining literature to fill a long-felt need for a compilation of the terms used by the diamond-drilling industry." From Scope of Glossary: "This glossary attempts to present by definition the meaning of terms as used by the diamond-drilling industry and to furnish descriptive information regarding the use of diamond-drilling equipment and processes in garnering physical data needed by mining, civil, petroleum, and other professional engineering groups."
Date: 1960
Creator: Long, Albert E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Contributions to the Data on Theoretical Metallurgy: [Part] 13. High-Temperature Heat-Content, Heat-Capacity, and Entropy Data for the Elements and Inorganic Compounds (open access)

Contributions to the Data on Theoretical Metallurgy: [Part] 13. High-Temperature Heat-Content, Heat-Capacity, and Entropy Data for the Elements and Inorganic Compounds

From Introduction: "This publication as its title indicates, contains high-temperature heat-content, heat-capacity, and entropy data for the elements and inorganic compounds. The available experimental and calculated values were compiled and intercompared, and a selection of "best" values was made. The heat-content data are given in tabular form for use by those who make thermodynamic computations by means of tables, and in algebraic form for use by those who prefer equations."
Date: 1960
Creator: Kelley, K. K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Historical Summary of Coal-Mine Explosions in the United States, 1810-1958 (open access)

Historical Summary of Coal-Mine Explosions in the United States, 1810-1958

Purpose of Review: "The purpose of this review is to relate the growth of explosion hazards to the increased number and size of the coal mines and the changes in mining methods. The causes of explosions during each period of years are discussed to show progress or its lack in controlling or eliminating different causes."
Date: 1960
Creator: Humphrey, H. B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study and Development of the Hickman Sea-Water Still (open access)

A Study and Development of the Hickman Sea-Water Still

From Introduction: "The report is organized into three major sections and three appendixes. In first major section are presented a brief historical account of the work done by other organizations prior to November, 1957, and a detailed description of the experiments conducted by Battelle with the No.4 and No. 5 stills. The second major section summarizes the results of cost studies. The third major section gives data, calculations, and derivations pertaining to the heat-transfer aspects of the Hickman still."
Date: September 1960
Creator: Buckel, W. L.; Beck, W. D.; Irwin, J. R.; Putnam, A. A. & Eibling, J. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Corrosion of Metals in Sea Water (open access)

Corrosion of Metals in Sea Water

Report issued by the Office of Saline over the corrosive properties of sea water on metals. As stated in the report, "the following paragraphs outline the major factors which influence corrosion reactions" (p. 2). This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: December 1960
Creator: Fink, Frederick W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library