Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Miss Teenage America, 16-year-old Diane Lynn Cox of Richmond, VA., poses during visit to United nations headquarters in New York today."

Daily newspaper from Okemah, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily newspaper from Orange, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.

The Fuel Cycle Development Program is a basic development program for boiling and other water technology. It covers the areas of oxide fuel fabrication. irradiation. and examination; the physics of water-moderated reactore; and boiling-water heat transfer and stability. Schedules for the fuel- cycle program were examined. and it was concluded that portions of the Task A program should be conducted during the period May to Dec. 1959 in order to keep costs of the work as low as possible and to allow initiation of the fuel-cycle program at the earliest possible date after the Vallecitos BWR was returned to service. The basis for the scheduling of the work is discussed. and a chronological summary describing the content of the work is given. Technical progress is outlined and details are summarized. Subsequent reports issued monthly and quarterly will summarize the progress of the prognam. (W.D.M.)

Daily newspaper from Brownwood, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

A discussion is given of a fabrication process for preparing spherical particles of thorium oxides containing 10 wt.% uranium homogenously distributed throughout the thoria matrix from a sol prepared from Th(NO/sub 3/)/sub 4/ reaction with NH/sub 4/OH, in which uranyl nitrate is dissolved. The particles formed are 5 to 50 microns in diameter. The process is felt to be adaptable to large-scale production. (B.O.G.)

Twenty-three papers are included which were presented at the Conference on Organic Scintillation Detectors. The topics treated range from measurements of organic phosphor properties to liquid and plastic scintillation detectors. Separate abstracts were prepared for each of the papers. (D.L.C.)

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Daily newspaper from Chickasha, Oklahoma that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Daily newspaper from Sulphur Springs, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily newspaper from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily newspaper from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily newspaper from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily newspaper from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

The Hallam Power Reactor is described relative to site, buildings, reactor and associated heat-transfer system, instrumentation and control, auxiliary systems, and fuel and component handling facilities. The potential hazards of radioactivity and safeguards for confinement are discussed. Radiation levels and accidental effluent release are considered. Transients with and without protective system action are discussed. (B.O.G.)

"Rates of acetylene polymerization induced by Kr/sup 85/ in d-c fields were up to 15 times greater than those observed when no fields were imposed. Work to determine the relations between acetylene pressure, Kr/sup 85/ concentration, and the field intensity is continuing. In other activities, equipment is being designed to study the effects of megacycle electric fields on radioinduced chemical reactions."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Big chiefs and little chiefs, meaning dads and sons, are preparing for the Indian Guide Longhouse of the YMCA which will be at Camp Classen Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Getting ready for the event, which is to foster a closer relationship between fathers and sons, are Dr. Leonard R. Diehl, 4810 N Larissa Ln., and sons Mark, 8, and Steve, 7."

Experimental work on the preparation and measurement of BaThO/sub 3/ shows that the compound exists and is the most stable compound in the Ba-Th-O system. It is cubic at ordinary temperature, with the perovskite structure, and has a crystal density of 4.59 g/cc. The compound may be prepared from a coprecipitated mixture of the barium and thorium oxalates at 750 deg C, and the reaction is driven to completion below 1000 deg C in the presence of an excess of barium. BaThO/sub 3/ appears to hydrolyze readily in the presence of moisture and/or CO/sub 2/. It does not, therefore, appear to have the chemical stability required in a protective coating, and it is inadvisable to measure other coating parameters at this time. It may, however, serve as a superior thermionic emitter. (auth)

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Generator 2A the design of which was completed last quarter, was fabricated and electrically tested. The generator met all significant design requirements with the exception of the collector work function. During the preparations for environmental tests one of the leadthroughs falled. Metallographic examination revealed that it is necessary to make some design revisions of the leadthrough. Generator 2A was an experimental unit which led to the design of generator 2B. Specifically, the conclusions obtained from 2A confirmed certain processing methods applicable to future units. The latter unit includes provisions for remote control fueling, and its operation should attain anticipated performance characteristics (P/sub o/, w, T/sub e/, T/sub c/ and life). Critical areas of design, construction, and processing of 2B include the facillty for remote control fueling, the attainment of close interelectrode spacing and low collector work function, and the achievement of a rugged genenator. Accordingly, a vigorous theoretical and experimental approach was undertaken. A life test on generator lA was initiated and over 2100 hr of operating time was accumulated. The emitter was not aged prior to incorporation into the generator; as a result, the evaporation of barium from the emitter eventually reduced the diode internal resistance to the point …

"Progress is reported on: design of a continuous flow system for the irradiation of silane using a Cos5 source; pile irradiation of silane samples at elevated temperatures; investigation of materials other than silane, including nonsilicon compounds as well as those containing the silyl group; modification of the existing vacuum system for handling larger quantities of silane as well as increasing the accuracy of the pressure measurements; and use of an electric discharge for the decomposition of silane. The work performed during the period of this report consisted of the following: 1. Preparation of samples of trichlorosilane and hydrogen and subsequent thermal and irradiation studies, and analysis of these samples. 2. Preparation of mixed samples of silane and argon and subsequent thermal and irradiation studies and and analysis. 3. Outlining of future investigations to be conducted on this project."

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"As presented in the original proposal the project consisted essentially of three parts: Phase I, Development and refinement of a radiochemical flow counting technique for the study of kinetics of reactions in solution ; Phase II, The application of this technique to the detailed study of the mechanism of solvolysis of sulfonium salts in mixed solvents ; Phase II, The further application of this kinetic technique, as a longer term aim, to other reacting systems of biochemical or other interest. This report covers the work of the contractual period 1 Sept. 1959 to 31 Aug. 1960."

Separate abstracts were prepared on 11 sections of this report. A list is included of staff publications during the period. (C.H.)