Engineering Study of the Potentialities and Possibilities of Desalting for Northern New Jersey and New York City (open access)

Engineering Study of the Potentialities and Possibilities of Desalting for Northern New Jersey and New York City

Report that includes results and methodology from an engineering study regarding drought in Northern New Jersey and New York City. Topics include the area's water systems, the possible integration of desalting plants, and the potential costs of such plants.
Date: September 1966
Creator: Ralph M. Parsons Company
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preliminary Data on Fallout From the Fall 1961 USSR Test Series: Staff Report (open access)

Preliminary Data on Fallout From the Fall 1961 USSR Test Series: Staff Report

From introduction: "Following the USSR announcement of its intention to resume testing, arrangements were made for the three stations collecting individual rainfall samples to begin analyses for short-lived nuclides. Some of the data are now available and are reported here." From Data: "The available data, including samples for Houston, Texas and Louisville, Kentucky are given in the tables at the end of this report."
Date: February 27, 1962
Creator: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Health and Safety Laboratory.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Camden-Delaware Valley Area (ARMS-II) (open access)

Camden-Delaware Valley Area (ARMS-II)

Report regarding an Aerial Radiological Measuring Survey (ARMS) of the Camden-Delaware Valley area that was part of a national program to measure environmental levels of gamma radiation. 6,000 traverse miles were examined around Camden, New Jersey.
Date: November 10, 1961
Creator: Guillou, R. B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Plates 1-3: Aeroradioactivity Map (ARMS-II), Camden-Delaware Valley Area

Maps of three segments in the Camden-Delaware Valley area surveyed as part of a radiological survey, outlining "Radioactivity levels in hundreds of counts per second normalized to 500 ft above ground." Scale 1:250,000.
Date: November 10, 1961
Creator: Edgerton, Germeshausen & Grier
Object Type: Map
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Merchant Ship Reactor Final Safeguards Report, Volume 6: Environmental Analysis OF NS "Savannah" Operation at Camden (open access)

Nuclear Merchant Ship Reactor Final Safeguards Report, Volume 6: Environmental Analysis OF NS "Savannah" Operation at Camden

"An analysis is presented of the accidental release of activity following the operation of the NS "Savannah" at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation docks in Camden, New Jersey. Although a number of accidents are considered, the report is primarily concerned with the environmental activity levels and subsequent exposures which would result from the "maximum credible accident" (p. v).
Date: January 24, 1961
Creator: Cottrell, W. B.; Parker, F. L.; Mann, L. A. & Schmidt, G. D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library