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From introduction: "The primary objective of the present study was to develop a conceptual design of a large sodium cooled fast breeder reactor of a nominal electrical rating of 1000 Mw operating on the uranium-plutonium cycle."

Report containing plans for a desalination pilot plant for the purposes of evaluating the feasibility of reverse osmosis for the desalination of sea and brackish water with the capacity of 1,000 gallons of potable water produced per day.

Work was continued on the development of a process for the gasification of bituminous coal with heat from a nuclear reactor. Major objectives of the project are: (1) develop and test components for a gas-cooled reactor system that can heat gases to 2000/sup 0/ to 2500/sup 0/F; (2) investigate coal gasification methods compatible with this system; and (3) develop an exchanger that can utilize high-temperature heat to gasify coal or heat chemical process streams. During the past year, work was concentrated on the design, construction and installation of a fluidized-bed gasifier in the high-temperature heat system. Design of the fluidized-bed gasifier was based on information obtained from laboratory and pilot-scale gasifiers. The gasification chamber, a length of 6-inch, schedule 80 stainless steel pipe, is fitted with ten 1/2-inch Hastelloy-X tubes running lengthwise. Hot helium flowing through the 1/2-inch tubes provides heat for the gasification of the steam-fluidized char in the 6-inch pipe. Helium leaving the gasifier generates the superheated steam required for gasification. Fabrication and installation of the gasifier was completed and shakedown runs started. In the gasifier, the heat-exchanger tubes will be heated to 1900/sup 0/F in a mixture of the corrosive gases, including H/sub 2/, CO, CO/sub 2/, …

Cerium sulfate purified by D2EHPA in Semiworks can be precipitated by adjusting pH to between 1 and 2 in tank 6 with 50% caustic. The solution can then be transferred through tank 1 to tank 67, where sodium bisulfate is added to make the solution 0.5M sulfate. A stoichiometric amount (mole for mole) of 50% caustic is added to just neutralize the sodium bisulfate. The precipitate is digested one hour at 60 C, then filtered.

This document details activities of the irradiation processing department during the month of December, 1963. A general summary is included at the start of the report, after which the report is divided into the following sections: Research and Engineering Operations; Production and Reactor Operations; Facilities Engineering Operation; and Financial Operation.

The monthly report for the Hanford Laboratories Operation, December 1963. Reactor fuels, chemistry, dosimetry, separation processes, reactor technology, financial activities, biology operation, and physics and instrumentation research, and applied mathematics, and programming operations are discussed.

Attached is the interpolated uranium burnout values for .570% through 3.000% U-235. Due to increasing interest in higher U-235 values, this document was issued to replace HW-77929 which contained values to 1.519% U-235. The source data was based on the Reactor Cost Studies burnout schedule obtained from Washington -- AEC.

Studies initiated at Hanford in 1961 for the purpose of developing an alternate cladding process for I&D fuel elements for the eight existing production reactors indicated that the hot die sizing diffusion bonding process offered the greatest incentive. Hot die sizing was the most attractive with respect to improved fuel quality and potential reduction in fuel element unit cost when compared to the existing AlSi brazing process. Initial development work consisted of determining optimum process parameters for producing good diffusion bonds on the inner and outer lateral surfaces during sizing. This report summarizes the results of a series of end bonding variables tests designed for producing good diffusion bonds on the ends of hot die sized fuel elements.

Here is a more complete description of the capsule test we discussed in our initial contact in December. I have included as much detailed description of the test as has been decided on to date. Also, there are some factors which, from previous similar test, I have found to be pertinent to the successful charging and irradiation performance of the capsules. There is one critical point that needs to be settled as soon as possible. In order to finish machining the outer diameter of the capsules, the expected approximate specific power generation and enrichment in the surrounding process tubes must be known. In addition, there are several other factors which effect the location of the test in the reactors which Bob Marshall and I would like to go over with one of hour engineers as soon as possible.

The steadily increasing graphite stack distortion in the K Reactors has caused serious operating problems with the existing horizontal control rods. To compound the seriousness of the problems, the high level of reactor operation today and the anticipated higher level of operation in the future demands a reliable control rod system. A flexible control rod has been designed by Reactor Design, IPD, to facilitate reliable operation of the HCR system in spite of channel bowing arising from graphite stack distortion. This flexible control rod design is radically different from the existing K Reactor control rods and in fact, is more closely aligned to the control rods now in use at the older Hanford Reactors. The major difference of the new rod is the elimination of intimate contact between the poison-containing section of the rod and the cooling water. Such a change in design as described above could result in significant changes in the operating temperatures of the rod proper. This study was undertaken to provide a calculated indication of the temperature changes and the relative magnitude of such changes relative to reactor power levels, graphite temperatures, coolant temperatures, etc. In addition to this basic information, the scope of the study …

This invention report suggests a method for drastically increasing the amount of Pu-241 in isotopic mixtures of plutonium. It is felt that with process experience, as much as 70 percent or more of the potential Pu-241 atoms can be concentrated in the fuel at one time. Such a concentration step would double the amount of production obtainable from Pu-241 by nuclear decay. The process to concentrate the Pu-241 consists of two basic steps: 1. Irradiate plutonium consisting largely of Pu-239 isotope until the Pu-239 has largely been converted to Pu-240 and 241 by thermal neutron fission and absorption events. Most of the fuel value has been taken advantage of at this point. The isotopic mixture will be largely Pu-240 but contain smaller percentages of 241 and 239. The irradiation is terminated at this point and the products are separated. 2. The depleted plutonium isotopes from the first irradiation are refabricated for a second irradiation with a thermal neutron absorber surrounding the depleted plutonium isotope. This element is again irradiated, preferably in an epithermal neutron flux with a peak energy slightly above 1 ev. The Pu-240 has a huge resonant cross section at the 1 ev level and will be most …

This report details activities in present reactors and N-Reactor fuel development.

Early in December 1963 eighteen natural uranium columns were discharged from C Reactor. Fifteen (15) of these columns contained alternately charged HDS (test) and AlSi (control) fuel elements in the downstream half (positions 1--16); two columns were charged full length with HDS material; and one column was charged full length with AlSi material. All canned pieces were nominally C5NS dimensions except that the HDS pieces were slightly longer than the standard AlSi pieces. Uranium fabrication history, through heat treatment, was controlled ad equivalent for both test (HDS) and control (AlSi) material. For these eighteen columns average exposure was {approximately}960 Mwd/ton, average tube power was {approximately}1125 kw, and average tube outlet temperature was {approximately}100 C. Two striped charges were discharged in September 1963 @ 370 Mwd/ton. This report presents results of the post-irradiation measurements that have been completed and analyzed as of this date. A second set of measurements for a portion of the material is being programmed.

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Construction the Teacher Retirement System of Texas under stated facts.

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether benefits under the Teacher Retirement System Act, as amended in 1955, are subject to inheritance tax.

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether Acts 1961, 57th Leg., Ch. 487, exempting personal property of charitable institutions from ad valorem taxes is constitutional

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Taxability for inheritance tax purposed of trust accounts which under New York Law are described as Totten Trusts.

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Payment for service of citation.

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Termination agreements with Southwestern Bell Telephone Company.

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the Board of Regents of the State Teachers Colleges have the authority to make a long term lease with the Federal Government on state-owned property.

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a slaughter house or a meat processing house which is within five thousand feet of a city limits is subject to inspection by the city under Section 12 of the Meat Inspection Act, Article 4476-3, 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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether Wesleyan Home is exempt from ad valorem taxation as an institution of purely public charity.

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether local city and county health officers have legal authority to issue warrants of arrest for the removal of persons infected with tuberculosis in an infectious and contagious state to a state tuberculosis hospital.