The present method used for handling multichannelanalyzer data at the ORNL 86-Inch Cyclotron is stated. FORTRAN subroutines for reading the analyzer data into the IBM-7090 computer and for printing out the processed data and punching processed data on cards are presented. (auth)

The SNAP-2 Primary System Test loop fabrication was completed with associated flight prototype components including reactor core and boiler mockups for volume and DELTA P simulation, CRU-IIII NaK pump, compact heater, and expansion compensator. A mobile loading system was designed and fabricated with the capability of cleaning the NaK prior to final loop sealing. Loop descriptions, test objectives, and operating procedures are presented. (auth)

Thermal stresses in the HFIR beryllium reflector were computed for the unlikely case where the reactor is scrammed with a simultaneous loss of coolant flow and for the case following an electrical power outage where the reactor power level and the coolant flow rate are reduced simultaneously. For the case where the reactor is scrammed with a sudden loss of the coolant flow, the resulting maximum tensile thermal stress following the scram is 22,500 psi. In case of an electrical power outage, the maximum tensile thermal stress following a reduction of the fission power level from 100 Mw to 10 Mw with the lowering of the coolant flow rate to 10% of the normal value is 12,800 psi. (auth)

This document details the monthly activities of the Reactor Branch for the period of January 1960 through December 1960.

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The objective of the test was to evaluate the behavior during irradiation of nominally 1.739 inch OD, 1.074 inch ID, Zircaloy-2 jacketed single tube fuel elements with brazed end closures at operating conditions somewhat more severe than those expected for N Reactor fuel element outer tubes. The test elements were fabricated with the Be-Zr alloy brazed end closure planned for use on N Reactor fuel elements. Iron supports were used to minimize process tube scratching during charge-discharge.

This investigation report discusses the exposure of a maintenance craftsman to a radioactive particle found on his face which could have contributed to a dose as high as 4.6 rads. The craftsman had been working at the discharge area. (JL)

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a defendant, in operating a motor vehicle upon a public highway and struck and killed a child, and did not stop but fled from the scene of the accident, should be indicted under the provisions of Article 1150 of the Penal Code or under Sections 38 or 40 of Article 6701d, V.C.S.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether voting machines must be used in school elections, where the commissioners court of a county has adopted the use of voting machines as the method of holding elections in that county.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a Commissioners Court is authorized to discontinue the Veterans Service Office under Article 5798a-2, V.C.S., and the facts stated.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a person who refuses on February 1, 1961 to answer the census trustee as to a child under his control and who is within the prescribed age, is subject to be prosecuted for such failure under the provisions of Article 294 of Vernon's Penal Code.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Under the facts stated, whether the Corsicana Independent School District is entitled to the 1959 taxes collected by the County Tax Assessor-Collector on the territory added to it by the County Board on August 28, 1959, and related questions.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of Commissioners Court of El Paso County to convey 1.67 acres of land, dedicated and used as a county park, back to its grantor, the United States of America, under the facts stated, and related questions.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Construction of the compulsory school attendance laws in reference to children attaining their sixteenth birthday after a school term begins.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: May a Cooperative Marketing Corporation organized under Art. 5937, et.seq., Vernon's Civil Statutes, use an assumed name by virtue of Art. 2.05B of the Texas Business Corporation Act?

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the Commissioner's Court, without paying compensation therefor, can require a gas pipeline company to encase in metal and vent its pipeline under the facts stated.

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B-Plant is currently being evaluated for use as an integrated fission product plant operating in conjunction with the Purex Plant and a waste calcination system. If the forecasted demands for fission products should increase to rates exceeding present capabilities and if private enterprise continues to remain outside the recovery field, present budget plans are to develop the use of B-Plant in three phases. In Phase 1, the B-Plant canyon would be activated and provisions made for preparing and storing fission product concentrates. In Phase 2, additional equipment would be installed to provide a single-line demonstration system for purifying and packaging fission products. In Phase 3, the plant would be converted to a double-line production system for recovering, segregating and storing, purifying and packaging fission products. The purpose of this document is to present the technical bases for B-Plant project scoping studies, including: Design flowsheets for the preparation and storage of fission product concentrates in the scope design of Phase 1 activities; and conceptual flowsheets for the purification of stored concentrates in the engineering studies of Phase 2 activities.

Selected physical and biological data bearing upon the environmental variations created by nuclear explosions are presented in simplified form. Emphasis is placed upon the ``early`` consequences of exposure to blast, thermal radiation, and ionizing radiation to elucidate the comparative ranges of the major effects as they vary with explosive yield and as they contribute to the total hazard to man. A section containing brief definitions of the terminology employed is followed by a section that utilizes text and tabular material to set forth events that follow nuclear explosions and the varied responses of exposed physical and biological materials. Finally, selected quantitative weapons-effects data in graphic and tabular form are presented over a wide range of explosive yields to show the relative distances from Ground Zero affected by significant levels of blast overpressures, thermal fluxes, and initial and residual penetrating ionizing radiations. However, only the ``early`` rather than the ``late`` effects of the latter are considered.

Antiproton-production and nucleon-interaction cross sections were investigated for antiprotons in the energy range 0.5 to 1.0 Bev. The antiprotons were distinguished from other particles produced at the Bevatron by a system of scintillation- and velocity-selecting Cherenkov counters. The excitation function and momentum distribution were recorded for antiproton production in carbon and compared with statistical model expectations. The antiprotons were directed by a system of bending and focusing magnets to a liquid hydrogen target. An array of plastic scintillation counters, which almost completely surrounded the hydrogen target, was used to determine the p-p total, elastic, inelastic, and charge-exchange cross sections. Near 500 Mev the total d-p cross section was about 120 mb, and it slowly decreased to 100 mb near 1 Bev. The inelastic cross section, which is principally due to the annihilation process, represented nearly 2/3 of the total cross section. The elastic scattering distribution was highly peaked in the forward direction and could be fitted by an optical model. The total and partial cross sections were also determined for the collisions of antiprotons with deuterons. The p-d total and inelastic cross sections were found to be approximately 1.8 times the p-p cross sections. Corrections were made for the shielding …

An investigation was conducted to determine the load at which each of the governor valves open when the primary average temperature is at 500 deg F. Data compilations for the test are presented along with comparisons with past performances. (J.R.D.)