The objective of this supplement to Production Test IP-584-D is to authorize low exposure (5--8 GVR) irradiation tests of the following lithium-containing target materials: Magnesium -- 14 percent lithium alloy, Lithium-aluminate (LiA1O2), Lithium-silicate (Li2SiO), Lithium-aluminate -- aluminum cermet, Lithium-silicate -- aluminum cermet. Lithium target materials will be contained in 4.50 inch long aluminum cans which are clad with 35 mil Zircaloy-2 alloy. The target elements will be contained in 1.9 inch OD, 1.5 inch ID Zircaloy-2 flow distributing sleeves. The target element assemblies and N Reactor inner-fuel elements (NIE-1) in Zircaloy-2 sleeves, will be irradiated in KER-1 or KER-2 at operating conditions approximating N Reactor operation.

This invention report suggests a method for drastically increasing the amount of Pu-241 in isotopic mixtures of plutonium. It is felt that with process experience, as much as 70 percent or more of the potential Pu-241 atoms can be concentrated in the fuel at one time. Such a concentration step would double the amount of production obtainable from Pu-241 by nuclear decay. The process to concentrate the Pu-241 consists of two basic steps: 1. Irradiate plutonium consisting largely of Pu-239 isotope until the Pu-239 has largely been converted to Pu-240 and 241 by thermal neutron fission and absorption events. Most of the fuel value has been taken advantage of at this point. The isotopic mixture will be largely Pu-240 but contain smaller percentages of 241 and 239. The irradiation is terminated at this point and the products are separated. 2. The depleted plutonium isotopes from the first irradiation are refabricated for a second irradiation with a thermal neutron absorber surrounding the depleted plutonium isotope. This element is again irradiated, preferably in an epithermal neutron flux with a peak energy slightly above 1 ev. The Pu-240 has a huge resonant cross section at the 1 ev level and will be most …

A modification program is now in progress at the C and K Reactors consisting of an extensive renovation of the graphite channels in the vertical safety rod ststems. The present VSR channels are being enlarged by a graphite coring operation and channel sleeves will be installed in the larger channels. One problem associated with the coring operation is the danger of damaging top thermal shield cooling tubes located close to the VSR channels to such an extent that these tubes will have to be removed from service. If such a condition should exist at one or a number of locations in the top shield of the reactors after reactor startup, the question remains -- what would the resulting temperatures be of the various components of the top shields? This study was initiated to determine temperature distributions in the top shield complex at the C and K Reactors for various top thermal shield coolant system conditions. Since the top thermal shield cooling system at C Reactor is different than those at the K Reactors, the study was conducted separately for the two different systems.

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Is it mandatory that employees of the City of Dallas, operating the City of Dallas, operating the Dallas Transit Co. buses, have a commercial chauffeur’s license?

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Under Article 893, Section 1, of the Penal Code, is the forfeiture or restoration of the license discretionary with the court: or, is the right vested in the defendant under such Article?

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether is would be constitutional for the Legislature to provide that districts created under Article 7880-1 through 7880-147zl could authorize terms of office for the members of the governing bodies of the disctricts for more than two years.

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Taxation of property which is under an option to purchase after January 1st, and whether property should be taxed at its true and full value in money.

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Construction of Article 4477-2, V.C.S., relating to the levying of a tax for mosquito control.

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a discharged veteran of World War II, under the stated facts, is eligible to receive benefits of the Hazelwood 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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether Galveston County is authorized to pay for gasoline used by its Sheriff in privately owned motor boats that are used in the performance of his official duties.

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Construction of Article 4477-2, V.C.S., relating to the levying of a tax for mosquito control.

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a county may provide funds to participate with the State Highway Department in an overall survey of the county’s traffic needs so that both the State Highway Department and the County Commissioners Court can make future plans concerning the road systems for which each are responsible.

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: In the event that the office of County School Superintendent be abolished by a vote of the people under Article 2688e, and a person at the same election is elected to fill a vacancy caused by the death of the school superintendent, would it be mandatory that a salary be paid to the elected person, if any, for the unexpired term of the deceased?

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Can the Commissioners Court expend money derived from taxes levied under Article 6790, V.C.S., for the purchase of right-of-way for federal, state and county highways and lateral roads.

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Per diem of a district judge on an assignment to one county under three administrative judicial orders.

This report provides the Hanford Atomic Products Operation plant acquisition and construction budget for fiscal year 1966 and the revision of budget for fiscal year 1965.

This monthly technical report details activities of the Reactor Physics Research and Engineering staff of the N-Reactor Department for the month of February 1964.

The horizontal control rods presently installed in the older Hanford Reactors have inadequate heat transfer characteristics for present and predicted future operation of the reactors. Continued graphite stack distortion, coupled with higher graphite temperatures, has resulted in ECR failure during reactor operation, such as swelling of the outer aluminum sheaths to the extent that rod movement in the graphite channel is severely restricted. Continued graphite stack distortion will tend to further aggravate the problem of rod operation. A new HCR design concept,was developed by P. H. Hutton of Reactor Design, IPD, to alleviate some of the pressing operational problems. Prior to the acceptance of such a design, the important rod operating parameters should be known to some degree of accuracy. This study was conducted to detexmine, by calculational methods, the temperature distributions that could be expected to occur in such an HCR when used at the present operating power levels and at 120% of the present power levels.

The Hanford reactors contain a very large inventory of fission products and it is very important that this inventory be contained. In recognition of this, rather stringent reactor cooling requirements have been established for the Hanford reactors. This includes the requirement of three independent cooling systems, including the system for full level operation. The second and last-ditch systems both are usable only after a reactor scram and take-over automatically from the flywheel decay of the process pumps. In 1962, two projects were completed that affected the last-ditch cooling adequacy of the K reactors, One project increased the reactor pumping capacity and, therefore, its power level; and the other considerably modified the emergency cooling systems. Since this time, three tests have been conducted to determine this last-ditch cooing adequacy. In order to provide a uniform approach to this adequacy determination, the method employed by Reactor Engineering is presented herein. The report presents a method for determining the maximum reactor power level for which measured last-ditch flows will provide adequate emergency cooling, A number of pertinent charts are included, A method is also presented for determining the last-ditch flow that should be measured during a test for any desired level of normal …

The present study was undertaken for the purpose of determining the feasibility, establishing the required development program, and estimating the cost of a turbocirculator to provide the pumping power for a 1000-Mw(e) high-temperature gas-cooled reactor power plant as part of the TARGET program. This necessitated preliminary design of the turbocirculator in conjunction with the reactor power plant as well as the investigation of methods for the optimization of the turbocirculator and for its development. This study was carried out in sufficient detail to fix the methods required to resolve the problems that would be encountered during the course of a prototype program resulting in a turbocirculator for the TARGET power plant.

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A number of documents dealing with the Hallam moderator element development and design were critically reviewed. Comments clarifying some specific points of the reviewed documents were listed. Critical areas needing further investigation were depicted and a brief outline of the required analysis given.

The torquemotor, potentiometer, and piston-seals used in the first Generation Control Actuator were tested operationally to 10/sup/16 nvt at approximately 560°R.