Safety Evaluation of PNPF Modifications (open access)

Safety Evaluation of PNPF Modifications

"The purpose of this report is to examine the safety aspects of PNPF restart on continued operation, after completion of the core cleanup and system modifications."
Date: May 1, 1969
Creator: Huntsinger, M. & Hart, R. S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health and Safety Laboratory Fallout Program Quarterly Summary Report: March 1, 1965 - June 1, 1965 (open access)

Health and Safety Laboratory Fallout Program Quarterly Summary Report: March 1, 1965 - June 1, 1965

Report that summarizes multiple laboratories' reports on global fallout deposition. Reports include data on Strontium-90 deposition recorded by the Health and Safety Laboratory, data from other laboratories, related interpretive reports, and recent publications related to fallout.
Date: July 1, 1965
Creator: Hardy, Edward P., Jr. & Rivera, Joseph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health and Safety Laboratory Fallout Program Quarterly Summary Report: December 1, 1964 - March 1, 1965 (open access)

Health and Safety Laboratory Fallout Program Quarterly Summary Report: December 1, 1964 - March 1, 1965

Report that summarizes multiple laboratories' reports on global fallout deposition. Reports include data on Strontium-90 deposition recorded by the Health and Safety Laboratory, data from other laboratories, related interpretive reports, and recent publications related to fallout.
Date: April 1, 1965
Creator: Hardy, Edward P., Jr. & Rivera, Joseph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of High-Temperature Electrical Ground Test Heaters for the SNAP 10A Program (open access)

Development of High-Temperature Electrical Ground Test Heaters for the SNAP 10A Program

Introduction: The development and qualification of the system acceptance test heaters and the reactor simulator heater are described in this progress report.
Date: March 1, 1965
Creator: Blevitt, R.; Paine, G. & Sudar, S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Final Report: Investigation of Boiling Flow Regimes and Critical Heat Flux (open access)

Final Report: Investigation of Boiling Flow Regimes and Critical Heat Flux

From abstract: A program to investigate the mechanism of the critical heat flux condition from the standpoint of flow regimes has been initiated at Dynatech for the AEC. This report covers the work done on this investigation in the first year.
Date: March 1, 1965
Creator: Suo, M.; Bergles, Arthur E.; Doyle, Edward F.; Clawson, L. & Goldberg, P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Application of Nuclear Power Plants (SNAP Units) to the Manned Orbiting Research Laboratory (MORL) (open access)

Application of Nuclear Power Plants (SNAP Units) to the Manned Orbiting Research Laboratory (MORL)

Abstract: This report describes in detail two designs of a nominal 6-kwe Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), one using thermoelectrics for power conversion and the other using the Mercury-Rankine cycle NPP.
Date: February 1, 1965
Creator: Botts, W. V.; Marko, M.; McCourt, P. E.; Keshishian, V.; Piccot, A. R. & Budney, G. S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Final Design of Sodium-Heated, Modular, Steam Generators for the SCTI (open access)

Final Design of Sodium-Heated, Modular, Steam Generators for the SCTI

Abstract: The following report covers the final design of the modular steam generators.
Date: February 1, 1965
Creator: Casey, D. F.; Hammer, J. J.; Logan, D. & Williams, M. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Flux Control for Irradiation Experiments (open access)

Flux Control for Irradiation Experiments

Abstract: This report reviews various means which have been used to control experimental conditions in irradiation experiments, and presents the concept of local flux control.
Date: February 1, 1965
Creator: McCarty, W. K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Irradiation Swelling, Phase Reversion, and Intergranular Cracking of U-10 wt % Mo Fuel Alloy (open access)

Irradiation Swelling, Phase Reversion, and Intergranular Cracking of U-10 wt % Mo Fuel Alloy

Abstract: A fuel development program has been conducted, to investigate the behavior of U-10 wt% Mo alloy at the fission rates and temperatures anticipated in Core I of the Hallam Nuclear Power Facility.
Date: February 1, 1965
Creator: Willard, R. M. & Schmitt, A. R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The NAA 47 U - 10 Mo Fuel Irradiation Program for HNPF Core 1 (open access)

The NAA 47 U - 10 Mo Fuel Irradiation Program for HNPF Core 1

Abstract: Atomics International conducted a fuel irradiation program to investigate and define the behavior of U-10 Mo fuel at the temperatures and fission rates anticipated in Hallam Nuclear Power Facility (HNPF) Core I.
Date: February 1, 1965
Creator: Schmitt, A. R.; Willard, R. M. & Magnus, D. K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Flight Data and Results of Radiochemical Analyses of Filter Samples Collected During 1961 and 1962 (open access)

Flight Data and Results of Radiochemical Analyses of Filter Samples Collected During 1961 and 1962

Report containing "flight data and (...) results of radiochemical analyses of stratospheric and tropospheric air filter samples collected during Project Star Dust. This report contains data for samples collected during June 1961 to December 1962, the first year and a half of the project" (p. 2).
Date: January 1, 1965
Creator: Feely, Herbert W.; Friend, James P.; Krey, Philip W. & Russell, Barbara A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health and Safety Laboratory Fallout Program Quarterly Summary Report: September 1, 1964 - December 1, 1964 (open access)

Health and Safety Laboratory Fallout Program Quarterly Summary Report: September 1, 1964 - December 1, 1964

Report that summarizes multiple laboratories' reports on global fallout deposition. Reports include data on Strontium-90 deposition recorded by the Health and Safety Laboratory, data from other laboratories, related interpretive reports, and recent publications related to fallout.
Date: January 1, 1965
Creator: Hardy, Edward P., Jr. & Rivera, Joseph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Material Bucklings of Critical and Subcritical Uranium Carbide Fueled Graphite Assemblies: Part 1, Experiment (open access)

Material Bucklings of Critical and Subcritical Uranium Carbide Fueled Graphite Assemblies: Part 1, Experiment

Introduction: A series of critical and subcritical experiments have been carried out as part of the Advanced Sodium Graphite Reactor (ASGR) Critical Experiments program to provide physics information which would be directly applicable to the AGSR concept.
Date: December 1, 1964
Creator: Hillig, O. R. & Latham, D. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Refabrication and Encapsulation of Highly Irradiated Uranium Dioxide (open access)

Refabrication and Encapsulation of Highly Irradiated Uranium Dioxide

Abstract: One hundred gram quantities of uranium dioxide, irradiated to burnup as great as 21,000 Mwd/MTU and previously reprocessed by AIROX (Atomics International Reduction Oxidation), were refabricated into high density pellets and encapsulated for re-irradiation.
Date: December 1, 1964
Creator: Guon, J.; Bodine, J. E. & Sullivan, R. J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Study of SCTI Control System (open access)

Study of SCTI Control System

Introduction: This report has been prepared to document the extensive analytical work required to design the control system for the Sodium Components Test Installation (SCTI), constructed for the Atomic Energy Commission at the Atomics International field laboratory.
Date: December 1, 1964
Creator: Griffin, C. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health and Safety Laboratory Fallout Program Quarterly Summary Report: June 1, 1964 - September 1, 1964 (open access)

Health and Safety Laboratory Fallout Program Quarterly Summary Report: June 1, 1964 - September 1, 1964

Report that summarizes multiple laboratories' reports on global fallout deposition. Reports include data on Strontium-90 deposition recorded by the Health and Safety Laboratory, data from other laboratories, related interpretive reports, and recent publications related to fallout.
Date: October 1, 1964
Creator: Hardy, Edward P., Jr. & Rivera, Joseph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analog Simulation of the Hanford N-Reactor Plant, Part 1: Description of the Overall Simulation Model (open access)

Analog Simulation of the Hanford N-Reactor Plant, Part 1: Description of the Overall Simulation Model

Report that describes Hanford Laboratories' overall N-Reactor plant simulation model and its use to study the characteristics of the plant, plant operational procedures, and the effects of plant, operator, and control system malfunctions.
Date: September 1, 1964
Creator: Swanson, C. D.; Coughren, K. D.; Dionne, P. J. & Thieme, G. G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Boiling Depressurization Transients (open access)

Boiling Depressurization Transients

Abstract: An analytical and experimental effort toward a better understanding of the mechanisms involved in nuclear power reactor loss-of-pressure accidents is presented.
Date: August 1, 1964
Creator: Halfen, F. J. & Berganzoli, F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Continuous Neutron Flux Monitor Project: An Interim Report (open access)

The Continuous Neutron Flux Monitor Project: An Interim Report

Abstract: A new concept for continuously monitoring neutron flux has been successfully tested.
Date: August 1, 1964
Creator: Smith, Charles R. F. & Springer, Thomas H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
UC Fuel Element Design and Fabrication (open access)

UC Fuel Element Design and Fabrication

Abstract: Uranium monocarbide shows considerable potential for use as a fuel in high temperature, high power density, nuclear power reactors. As Atomics International is proposing its use in sodium graphite type reactors, it was necessary to develop a process for fabricaing sodium bonded uranium carbide fuel elements.
Date: August 1, 1964
Creator: Draganchuk, W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Uranium Carbide Transient Heating Experiments - Phase 1 (open access)

Uranium Carbide Transient Heating Experiments - Phase 1

Abstract: Two in-pile capsules containing mock-up uranium carbide fuel rods were subjected to a total of five neutron bursts in the TREAT facility with initial reactor periods ranging from 0.26 to 0.10 sec.
Date: August 1, 1964
Creator: Stachura, S. J.; Silberberg, M. & Cordy, R. N.
System: The UNT Digital Library
HASL Contributions to the Study of Fallout in Food Chains (open access)

HASL Contributions to the Study of Fallout in Food Chains

Report compiling data from previous HASL reports regarding the radioactive contamination of foods. Individual food items as well as total diets are analyzed.
Date: July 1, 1964
Creator: Rivera, Joseph & Harley, John H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health and Safety Laboratory Fallout Program Quarterly Summary Report: March 1, 1964 - June 1, 1964 (open access)

Health and Safety Laboratory Fallout Program Quarterly Summary Report: March 1, 1964 - June 1, 1964

Report that summarizes multiple laboratories' reports on global fallout deposition. Reports include data on Strontium-90 deposition recorded by the Health and Safety Laboratory, data from other laboratories, related interpretive reports, and recent publications related to fallout.
Date: July 1, 1964
Creator: Hardy, Edward P., Jr.; Rivera, Joseph & Collins, William R., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
SNAP 2: Structural and Dynamic Analysis (open access)

SNAP 2: Structural and Dynamic Analysis

Abstract: The structural design criteria and the system basic loads for the SNAP 2 compact power unit are presented.
Date: May 1, 1964
Creator: Castle, R. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library