The demand for filtered water will be increased when I and E slugs are charged into the reactors. Some of the filter plants are near their ultimate capacity. One of the quickest ways of obtaining increased amounts of filtered water for production use is to restore to normal process service certain filters which are now isolated for exclusive drinking water use. These drinking water filters are isolated because the process water filters are being treated with Separans, a material which has not been approved for use in drinking water. A suitable approved substitute material was found and tested in the model filter at B Area. A full scale plant test was run at F Area for the purpose of confirming the results obtained in the model filter plant. The results of the full scale toot are presented in this report.

This report describes an IBM 704 Computer program for the calculation of transient temperature distribution in axially symmetric solid or hollow bodies. It is the first part of Transient Thermal Stresses in Pressure Vessels. The present report mainly describes the use of the computer program and gives, for two problems, a comparison between computed and analytically known results. The analysis is reported briefly in this report.

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Potassium, the reaction product of graphite with potassium, and the reaction product of irradiated graphite with potassium were subjected to hydrolysis. The gases evolved from the respective samples were analyzed mass spectroscopically. Hydrocarbons (methane and a trace of ethane) were found in the gas evolved from the irradiated graphite compound only, and the quantity was about that which would have been expected from the number of non-aggregated displaced atoms. The result was obtained for a single set of experiments and must be considered suggestive rather than conclusive. (auth)