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Methods for the Dynamic Calibration of Pressure Transducers (open access)

Methods for the Dynamic Calibration of Pressure Transducers

From Introduction Statement of Objectives: "The purpose of this publication is to provide assistance to the practicing engineer who is faced with the problem of making dynamic measurements of rapidly changing pressures."
Date: December 12, 1963
Creator: Schweppe, J. L.; Eichberger, L. C.; Muster, D. F.; Michaels, E. L. & Paskusz, G. F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Economic Evaluation of a 300 Mwe Fast Supercritical Pressure Power Reactor (open access)

Economic Evaluation of a 300 Mwe Fast Supercritical Pressure Power Reactor

Report regarding Hanford Laboratories' 300 Mwe fast supercritical pressure power reactor. This includes descriptions of the plant and reactor, their operations, safety systems, and plant economics. Appendices begin on page 107.
Date: December 9, 1963
Creator: Aase, D. T.; Fox, J. C.; Hennig, R. J.; Peterson, R. E.; Stewart, S. L. & Toyoda, K. G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Determination of the Nucleon-Nucleon Elastic Scattering Matrix : I. Phase Shift Analysis of Experiments Near 140 MEV (open access)

Determination of the Nucleon-Nucleon Elastic Scattering Matrix : I. Phase Shift Analysis of Experiments Near 140 MEV

A phase shift analysis is an attempt to translate experimental measurements (observables) into well-determined scattering amplitudes, since these are the quantities that can be readily compared with theoretical predictions, In this sense, the phase shift analysis should contain as little theory as possible. The scattering amplitudes (or phase shifts) constitute an experimental statement, and the phase shift analysis should logically be done by the experimental groups who measure the observables.
Date: December 6, 1963
Creator: MacGregor, Malcolm. H. (Malcolm Herbert), 1926-2019; Arndt, R. A. & Dubow, A. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pressure Intensification Provided by External Pressure on a Cylinder Composed of Four Anvils (open access)

Pressure Intensification Provided by External Pressure on a Cylinder Composed of Four Anvils

Results of experimental investigation for improving intensification and to reduce stress concentrations for anvil redesign.
Date: December 6, 1963
Creator: Huddleston, R. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Containment of Fragments from a Runaway Reactor (open access)

Containment of Fragments from a Runaway Reactor

Introduction: This report covers a year's activity in the continuation of a program designed to explore the missile hazard resulting from a reactor excursion.
Date: December 2, 1963
Creator: Botsford, N. B.; Keough, D. D. & White, R. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Delta]I = 1/2 Rule for Non-Leptonic Strangeness-Changing Decay Processes (open access)

[Delta]I = 1/2 Rule for Non-Leptonic Strangeness-Changing Decay Processes

Gell-Mann and Pais were the first to suggest that the non-leptonic decay processes of strange particles may be subject to an isospin selection rule, allowing only those decay transitions which involve a change [delta]I = 1/2 in to total isopin of the system. At present, however, there is really no theoretical framework for the description of weak interactions into which this selection rule fits in a natural and compelling way. The report includes sections on the 91) decay processes of the [caret] hyperon, (2) decay processes, (3) [complex conjugate] decay processes, and (6) K[pi]3 decay processes. We have considered the evidence on all of the known non-leeptonic non-radiative decay modes of strange particles. All of this evidence is in good qualitative accord with the [delta]I = 1/2 selection rule.
Date: December 2, 1963
Creator: Dalitz, R. H. (Richard Henry), 1925-2006.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Two-Phase Pressure Losses Quarterly Progress Report: Seventh Quarter, August 12, 1963 - November 11, 1963 (open access)

Two-Phase Pressure Losses Quarterly Progress Report: Seventh Quarter, August 12, 1963 - November 11, 1963

Technical report describing that the pressure drop along an annular channel with dimensions D(1) = 0.375 inch; D(2) = 0.875 inch, L = 70 inches. Flow was vertical and upward, and only the internal surface was heated. Subcooled conditions existed at the inlet, with two-phase conditions at the exit. Groups of three radial spacer pins on 18-inch centers along the channel, held the inner surface concentric with the outer surface. The single phase loss coefficient for each spacer group is K(8) = 0.21. The single phase friction factor for the annual channel is given by f = 0.16 N(R)(-0.16). The two phase pressure drop increases as the quality increases for G [over] 10(6) = 0.5 ;b/hr ft(2). The effect of heat flux on the pressure drop is very is very slight over the range of fluxes tested (0.55 less than or equal to Q over 10(6).\ less than or equal to 0.8). The two-phase pressure drop gradient in the same annulus, with no heat addition is qualitatively the same as for a 1/4-inch by 1-3/4 inches rectangular channel but is quantitatively greater than for the rectangular channel.
Date: December 2, 1963
Creator: Janssen, E. (Engineer) & Kervinen, J. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accurate Nuclear Fuel Burnup Analyses; Eighth Quarterly Progress Report, (September - November 1963) (open access)

Accurate Nuclear Fuel Burnup Analyses; Eighth Quarterly Progress Report, (September - November 1963)

The objective of the Accurate Nuclear Fuel Burnup Analyses program is to develop more accurate methods for burnup analysis for general use than the current method of analysis of Ca-137 or Sr-90. The program will require from three to five years of effort.
Date: December 1, 1963
Creator: Rider, B. F.; Ruiz, C. P.; Luke, P. S., Jr.; Peterson, J. P., Jr. & Smith, F. R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced Test Reactor: Final Shielding Design Report (open access)

Advanced Test Reactor: Final Shielding Design Report

From abstract: "This report has been prepared as a design reference document describing the calculation methods and engineering results for shielding analysis work done during the design of the Advanced Test Reactor."
Date: December 1963
Creator: Howard, J. O. & Jacks, G. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Class of Shocks With Uniform Pressure (open access)

The Class of Shocks With Uniform Pressure

If a piston with constant velocity moves into a shock tube containing material at rest and at uniform density, the result is well known and trivial. The shock propagates with uniform speed, the state and speed of the material behind the shock is constant. One can ask if similar flows exist for cylindrical of spherical symmetry. Quickly one rules out the possibility of a solution which retains all the properties of this trivial solution. One asks if there are any solutions such that the material behind the shock is not accelerated. Indeed, there are. In the following, it is shown that for a y-law gas, there is a family of densities such that if a piston moves into the material with uniform velocity, the material behind the shock is not accelerated. Further, these are the only densities with this property. In the case of planar symmetry, the trivial case mentioned above is a member of the family, as is to be expected.
Date: December 1963
Creator: Hardy, John W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Data Procurement and Processing for the Fission Product Inhalation Program Using an Automatic Read Out Counting System (open access)

Data Procurement and Processing for the Fission Product Inhalation Program Using an Automatic Read Out Counting System

Report describing the materials and procedures used to obtain data necessary "for correlation with the biological effects of inhaled mixed fission products" -page 1. The study is primarily focused on the biological effects of radioactive materials inhaled by animals and the materials taken from these animals and tested with computers.
Date: December 1963
Creator: Goodrich, R. M. & Thomas, R. G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Engineering Geology of the Proposed Nuclear Power Plant Site on Bodega Head, Sonoma County, California (open access)

Engineering Geology of the Proposed Nuclear Power Plant Site on Bodega Head, Sonoma County, California

From abstract: "This report summarizes the geology of a shaft excavated for the proposed nuclear reactor and discusses geologic features on Bodega Head and on Point Reyes peninsula that relate to geologic aspects of earthquake-resistant design."
Date: December 1963
Creator: Schlocker, Julius & Bonilla, Manuel G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
EVESR Nuclear Superheat Fuel Development Project: Sixth Quarterly Report, September - November, 1963 (open access)

EVESR Nuclear Superheat Fuel Development Project: Sixth Quarterly Report, September - November, 1963

Quarterly report describing progress on the EVESR Nuclear Superheat Fuel Development Project.
Date: December 1963
Creator: Pennington, R. T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fabrication of UO2-Stainless Steel Dispersion Fuel For Borax-V Nuclear Superheat (open access)

Fabrication of UO2-Stainless Steel Dispersion Fuel For Borax-V Nuclear Superheat

Report describing the development, fabrication, and nondestructive and destructive evaluation of stainless steel-clad fuel plates, the evaluation of fuel subassemblies, and the assembly of fuel element components at Argonne National Laboratory.
Date: December 1963
Creator: Kramer, W. C. & Bean, C. H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology of Jackass Flats Quadrangle, Nevada Test Site, Nevada (open access)

Geology of Jackass Flats Quadrangle, Nevada Test Site, Nevada

This is a map of the geology of Jackass Flats quadrangle.
Date: December 1963
Creator: McKay, Edward J. & Williams, W. P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ground Roughness Effects on the Energy and Angular Distribution of Gamma Radiation From Fallout (open access)

Ground Roughness Effects on the Energy and Angular Distribution of Gamma Radiation From Fallout

Report examining "[t]he effect of ground roughness, or surface irregularities, on the radiation field above ground which had been contaminated with fallout from the explosion in the atmosphere of a nuclear device (Smallboy Event)" (p. v).
Date: December 1963
Creator: Huddleston, C. M.; Burson, Z. G.; Kinkaid, R. M. & Klingler, Q. G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
ICPP Waste Calcining Facility : Safety Analysis Report (open access)

ICPP Waste Calcining Facility : Safety Analysis Report

Report documenting a study "made of the radiological hazards associated with operation of the ICPP Waste Calcination Facility" and contains "[d]etails of the safety analysis and extensive information on the process, equipment, and operation procedures" (p. iii). Each section has its own pagination.
Date: December 1, 1963
Creator: Lakey, L. T. & Bower, J. R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
In-Reactor Monitoring of Zircaloy-2 Plutonium Recycle Test Reactor Pressure Tubes: Part 3, July 1963 - November 1963 (open access)

In-Reactor Monitoring of Zircaloy-2 Plutonium Recycle Test Reactor Pressure Tubes: Part 3, July 1963 - November 1963

Report containing the results of a two year program wherein the 85 zircaloy-2 pressure tubes in Hanford Laboratories' Plutonium Recycle Test Reactor (PRTR) were monitored. Experimental procedures and results are described.
Date: December 1963
Creator: Pankaskie, P. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Infrared Spectrophotometric Analysis of Urethane Compounds (open access)

Infrared Spectrophotometric Analysis of Urethane Compounds

Abstract: This report presents a simple, quantitative analytical method for determining the percent of a particular group or structure within a urethane compound by means of the infrared spectrophotometer.
Date: December 1963
Creator: Brumfield, H. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Irradiation of Beryllium at Elevated Temperatures. Part II. Irradiation of Rig X-74 in HIFAR (open access)

Irradiation of Beryllium at Elevated Temperatures. Part II. Irradiation of Rig X-74 in HIFAR

Beryllium metal specimens fabricated by various routes were examined after irradiation to fast neutron doses of 5.5 x 1020 to 9 x 1020 nvt at temperatures of 450, 550, and 650ºC. The results were in general agreement with those reported previously for similar material irradiated to lower doses. Density changes of any significance were observed only at 650ºC. Serious loss of high temperature ductility occurred in all materials and was again attributed to helium bubble formation at grain boundaries. Material fabricated by hot pressing and extrusion showed superior properties, both before and after irradiation, to material prepared by loose sintering and extrusion.
Date: December 1963
Creator: Hickman, B. S. (Brian Stuart) & Bannister, G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
MULGA : a Complex of Codes for the Determination of Multigroup Averaged Neutron Cross Section Data (open access)

MULGA : a Complex of Codes for the Determination of Multigroup Averaged Neutron Cross Section Data

A complex of computer programmes called MULGA is described which will produce multigroup cross sections in a format suitable for input into a selection of reactor codes. Always bearing in mind that the spatial variation of flux will frustrate any determination of "exact" cross sections the maximum accuracy has been striven for within the limitations of urgency and feasibility. The programmes; together with an associated microscopic data library tape, and a specialised monitor system, have been coded for an IBM 1620 computer with 4 magnetic tapes. The basic programmes MULGA 1 and MULGA 2 have already been adapted for an ISM 7090 and the whole series will be modified for the new site computer in 1964.
Date: December 1963
Creator: Clancy, B. E.; Doherty, G.; Keane, A.; Kletzmayr, E. & Pollard, J. P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preselect Address Unit for the IBM 1620 Computer (open access)

Preselect Address Unit for the IBM 1620 Computer

From Abstract: "A device is described which permits the user to stop an IBM 1620 Computer at any preselected instruction address to aid in program debugging. Computer timing considerations are discussed and a circuit description is provided."
Date: December 1963
Creator: Frey, J. J.; Graveson, R. T. & Cassidy, M. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preshot and Postshot Structure Survey (open access)

Preshot and Postshot Structure Survey

From introduction: This report documents the preshot and postshot condition of all structures within 10 miles of Ground Zero, plus structures at Salt Wells and surface structures at mines that were included in the mine survey.
Date: December 1963
Creator: Holmes & Narver
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Safety Analysis Report, Argonne Fast Critical Facility (ZPR-VI) (open access)

Safety Analysis Report, Argonne Fast Critical Facility (ZPR-VI)

Report by the Argonne National Laboratory evaluating the Argonne Fast Critical Facility, ZPR-VI, under construction during the course of the study. The study addresses various functionalities and safety features of the facility.
Date: December 1963
Creator: Kato, W. Y.; Fischer, G. J. & Dates, L. R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library