Final Design Report KAPL-120 High Pressure Recirculating Water Loop (open access)

Final Design Report KAPL-120 High Pressure Recirculating Water Loop

Basic information on the design of the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (KAPL) -120 loop.
Date: January 15, 1956
Creator: Wade, G. E. & Berberet, J. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Surface Dosimetry and Effective Energy Calculations (open access)

Surface Dosimetry and Effective Energy Calculations

Methods of the Radiation Monitoring Operation of the Chemical Processing Department.
Date: September 8, 1956
Creator: Helgeson, G. L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Joint Design for Making Root Pass Welds without Filler Material (open access)

Joint Design for Making Root Pass Welds without Filler Material

Investigation to evaluate some of the designs, techniques, and methods for fabrication of a root pass.
Date: July 9, 1956
Creator: Lemon, L. C. & Smith, W. R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Purex process : a Solvent Extraction Reprocessing Method for Irradiated Uranium (open access)

The Purex process : a Solvent Extraction Reprocessing Method for Irradiated Uranium

Purex process which utilizes solvent extraction to separate and purify uranium and plutonium from each other and from fission products contained in irradiated uranium fuel elements.
Date: April 8, 1957
Creator: Irish, E. R. & Reas, W. H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Martensitic Reaction for Uranium (open access)

A Martensitic Reaction for Uranium

Series of isothermal transformation studies for improvement in fabrication and reactor performance of uranium fuel elements.
Date: June 25, 1957
Creator: Bement, A. L. & Wallace, W. P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Plating Thickness Tester (open access)

Plating Thickness Tester

An electromagnetic eddy current instrument is described that is capable of measuring copper and nickel plating 1 to 8 mils thick plated on bismuth mandrils of various sizes and shapes.
Date: November 15, 1957
Creator: Fitch, C. E., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Design and Installation of a High Precision Temperature and Intimate Contact Monitor for Experimental Vacuum Chucks (open access)

Design and Installation of a High Precision Temperature and Intimate Contact Monitor for Experimental Vacuum Chucks

Describes the design criteria, design details, and final installation of a high precision temperature and intimate contact monitor.
Date: May 15, 1958
Creator: Morrow, G. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Alpha, Beta, Gamma Hand and Shoe Counter - Model 2 (open access)

An Alpha, Beta, Gamma Hand and Shoe Counter - Model 2

Experimental combination hand and shoe counter redesign as a compact, simplified, register readout instrument no larger than the present Five-Fold called Model 2.
Date: June 2, 1958
Creator: Spear, W. G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Factors Affecting Fluidization of Uranium Trioxide Powders (open access)

Factors Affecting Fluidization of Uranium Trioxide Powders

Study of factors, such as the average particle size and particle-size distribution, which affect the fluidization properties of uranium trioxide powders.
Date: March 1, 1958
Creator: Johnson, B. M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Temperature on the Neutron Attenuation of Magnetite Concrete (open access)

The Effect of Temperature on the Neutron Attenuation of Magnetite Concrete

Comparison of experimentally determined relaxation lengths to the value calculated from the concrete composition.
Date: December 11, 1958
Creator: Wood, D. E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Trans-Plutonium Isotope Buildup by Neutron Irradiation of Plutonium (open access)

Trans-Plutonium Isotope Buildup by Neutron Irradiation of Plutonium

Graphs for estimation of plutonium and trans-plutonium isotopic content of irradiated plutonium reactor fuel of various initial isotopic compositions.
Date: December 15, 1958
Creator: Brauer, F. P. & Burley, Helen H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Distribution of the Actinide Elements in the Molten System: KCI-AICI3-AI (open access)

Distribution of the Actinide Elements in the Molten System: KCI-AICI3-AI

Report of data for the distributions of elements 90 through 96 between molten salt solutions of their chlorides and molten aluminum (or alloy) at 725 Celsius.
Date: October 20, 1959
Creator: Moore, R. H. & Lyon, W. L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Automatic Analyzing Monitor for Reactor Effluent Cooling Water (open access)

An Automatic Analyzing Monitor for Reactor Effluent Cooling Water

From objective: "The objective of this work was to design, develop, assemble, and test and automatic analyzing monitor for recording the prominent isotopes in reactor effluent cooling water."
Date: May 1, 1959
Creator: Rieck, H. G.; Ratcliffe, C. A. & Schwendiman, L. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fabrication of the PRTR Zircaloy-2 High Pressure Process Tubes (open access)

Fabrication of the PRTR Zircaloy-2 High Pressure Process Tubes

Development of a fabrication process and the manufacture of 95 PRTR process tubes demonstrates that the commercial fabrication of high quality Zircaloy-2 pressure tubing is feasible.
Date: July 31, 1959
Creator: Knecht, R. L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Final Report on Design Tests PR-50 and PR-51: Reactor Piping Seal Testing and Reactor Piping Structural Integrity (open access)

Final Report on Design Tests PR-50 and PR-51: Reactor Piping Seal Testing and Reactor Piping Structural Integrity

A test program conducted to develop high integrity piping and seal components for Plutonium Recycle Test Reactor installation. Methods of preventing leakage of costly D2O coolant and maintaining operational safety were investigated.
Date: June 26, 1959
Creator: Jackson, P. M.
System: The UNT Digital Library