This report, from the Chemical Processing Department at HAPO for August 1966, discusses the following: Production operation; Purex and Redox operation; Finished products operation; maintenance; Financial operations; facilities engineering; research; and employee-relations, and waste management.

This report, from the Chemical Processing Department at HAPO for July 1966, discusses the following: Production operation; Purex and Redox operation; Finished products operation; maintenance; Financial operations; facilities engineering; research; and employee-relations, and waste management.

Approximately five years ago, the Safe, Secure Dismantlement program was started between the United States and countries of the Former Soviet Union (FSU). The purpose of the program is to accelerate progress toward reducing the risk of nuclear weapons proliferation, including such threats as theft, diversion, and unauthorized possession of nuclear materials. This would be accomplished by strengthening the material protection, control, and accounting systems within the FSU countries. This paper describes: the process involved, from initial contacting to project completion, for the physical protection upgrades now in place at the LNRC; the intervening activities; and a brief overview of the technical aspects of the upgrades.

Following the startup of the KE Reactor on January 16, 1966, a severe power oscillation, which was confined primarily to the top of the reactor, was experienced. The purpose of this report is to describe the transients which occurred and relate the control measure taken to dampen the oscillation.

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This report, from the Chemical Processing Department at HAPO for November 1966, discusses the following: Production operation; Purex and Redox operation; Finished products operation; maintenance; Financial operations; facilities engineering; research; and employee-relations, and waste management.

This report itemizes the irradiations performed by Testing for Battelle-Northwest Laboratories. It lists the material being irradiated, awaiting disposition and material shipped during the report period.

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This report talks about Baseline Configuration Selection, Voyager Task C

This report gives summaries for the reactor plant operations, fuel and target fabrication, technical activities, advanced concepts and planning, and irradiation services. A feature report is included which describes the following: (1) the safety and control rod systems of the production reactors; (2) the problems which have developed with them; and (3) the corrective rod channel renovation and rod modification work which has been accomplished.

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Submitted herewith are source and special nuclear material composition of ending inventory reports for the month of November 1966. The depleted uranium, enriched uranium, plutonium, enriched lithium, U-233, normal uranium, neptunium 237, plutonium 238, deuterium, tritium, and thorium compositions are all broken down.

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This paper shows the calculations for the Gas Volume Ratio, defined as the Total Gas Volume/Target Volume. Using 20 tons of LiAlO{sub 2} as the target, 5028 cubic feet of tritium, protium, and helium are produced. The target volume equals 312.5 cubic feet of aluminate, so that the GVR = 5028/312.5 = 16.1.

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The purpose of this report is to: establish the existing maximum flow capabilities of B, C and D Water Plants, determine the limiting factors under existing flow conditions and, develop a systematic plan, including scope cost estimates, for removal of limitations which can be accomplished without major expenditures.

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If we are to do a workmanlike job of studying the strong interactions it is imperative that we have knowledge of the spin dependence of the forces. This implies that polarization experiments are essential. Already Bareyre, Bricman, Stirling and Villet have shown that pion-proton polarization experiments should be interpreted as indicating two new resonances not previously seen by other methods. The present-day approach to determining detailed pion-proton scattering amplitudes is to use measured differential cross sections, polarization measurements, dispersion relations, and isospin conservation rules. Further assumptions are unitarity of the S matrix and the short-range nature of strong interactions. In the more distant future I hope we may see the day when the scattering experiments will be sufficiently detailed that the dispersion relations will not be necessary to the interpretation of results. Then the dispersion relations may themselves be checked experimentally, rather than being assumed. I see, then, an early period of polarization experiments followed by a later period in which more extensive experimental results will be called for. For the pion-proton system the first period seems well progressed, based on measurements of differential cross section and P, the polarization. In the second period more complex experiments should be required, …

This report deals with the production rate of the D-Reactor at the Hanford Reservation, from the years 1962 through 1967.

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