Annual progress report of safety program for several laboratory divisions.

Report describing a set of high-precision routines for the IBM 7090 that perform efficiently the calculations most often required on axially symmetric magnetic systems. The routines compute the vector potential, field components, and the mixed gradient for current systems and for certain idealized distributions of magnetized matter. The programs for the current systems were developed from a set of six equations in elliptic integrals, which suffice when correlations are fully exploited for all the relevant properties of loops and solenoids.

Report issued by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory discussing techniques to obtain measurements of alpha for enriched uranium. Descriptions of equipment and experiments used to obtain alpha are presented. This report includes tables, and illustrations.

Report issued by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory discussing optical mapping of experiment tubes. Descriptions of experiment equipment, and designs of the tubes are presented. This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.

Report concerning the production of gamma ray spectra of gamma rays by the interaction of ~160-MeV protons with beryllium, carbon, oxygen, Aluminum, carbon monoxide, and bismuth. This also includes descriptions of the apparatus used and a discussion of the results.

From the questions which have been asked, I gather that I am expected to bring you the news of the latest exciting developments in desalination at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. However, the agenda for this meeting does not include reports of unfinished investigations; moreover, although there are some new ideas afoot at Oak Ridge, they are aimed toward the very large stations which are somewhat beyond the scope of the more current interests represented here. So instead of presenting new developments, I would like today to talk about where to look for them--to give you some purely analytical considerations that assess the incentives we have to seed certain improvements in this or that portion of the equipment in a dual-purpose station.

Report regarding the mechanical properties of Niobium, Molybdenum, Tantalum, and Tungsten alloys. Includes a review of the scant literature regarding these elements.

Five recent investigations of the critical heat flux in water systems are described. These studies were conducted in the interval from early 1963 through the present. The five studies are (1) Pool studies: inherent uncertainty in the critical heat flux; (2) Pool studies: heat transfer inside of horizontal, open ended heated tubes immersed in a pool; (3) Pool studies: natural-convection burnout of closed vertical channels; (4) Forced-convection investigations; subcooled boiling and burnout with heated twisted tapes; and (5) Forced-convection investigations; swirl-flow forced-convection bulk-boiling loop.

Report describing various reactors, six thermal conduction capsules, three loop facilities, miscellaneous equipment, and shop facilities maintained by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Report documenting "the design, construction, and operation of the Kilorod Facility and its fabrication equipment" (p. 42) as well as its economic viability.

Report summarizing ongoing nuclear work performed by the ORNL for the United States Army.

Quarterly progress report discussing activities related to the Vallecitos Boiling Water Reactor (VBWR) and related facilities.

Report documenting research and developments made by the Maritime Reactor Program of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

This bibliography represents the first cumulative edit of the literature examined by the Radiation Shielding Information Center recently established at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Its two major sections consist of a list of documents by subject category and of an author index. The document list covers nine major subjects with a total of 118 categories; however, literature specimens have not yet been entered for all categories. If a document applies to more than one category, it is listed under each. The author index includes cross references to the categories under which each author's publications appear. Preceding the bibliography is a list of the subject categories, their corresponding category numbers and the pages on which they appear in the bibliography,

Quarterly report discussing progress on the Fast Ceramic Reactor Development Program, "an integrated analytical and experimental program directed toward the development of fast reactors employing ceramic fuels, with particular attention to mixed plutonium-uranium oxide" (p. 1).

Comparison of the economics of mechanical shear-leach and Sulfex decladding-core dissolution head end treatments for processing typical tubular bundles of stainless steel-jacketed UO2 nuclear fuels.

Report documenting ongoing research and developments at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Gas-Cooled Reactor Project.

Program written to perform polynomial least squares fits on the the IBM 7090 computer.

Experimental work concerned with the development of an inexpensive composite fuel plate with a high burnup potential for application in a 500°C sodium environment as Core B of the Enrico Fermi Fast Breeder Reactor.

Programming research in the construction of a translator to Oracle language from ALGOL.

An engineering-scale demonstration of the Sulfex process indicated that semi-continuous decladding of unirradiated stainless steel-clad UO2 or U02ThO2 fuels is feasible.

From Summary: "The major objective of the run was the investigation of fuel stability. The reactor operated for long periods at the design power of 5 Mw with none of the usual indications of instability while the system pressure was kept at 1250 psig. Run 21 ended on January 22, so that the reason for an abrupt change in the mixing rate of fuel between the core and blanket could be investigated and a reactor steam-system valve could be repaired."

The fabrication, irradiation and evaluation of the first two superheat fuel assemblies is described in detail. Experimental data indicate that, in general, the nuclear superheat fuel elements have performed satisfactorily under the testing conditions used. Certain problem areas which will influence future fuel element designs have been defined.