A modification of the pyroelectric sodium fluoride carrier distillation method for analysis of impurities in plutonium metal is described. The metal is dissolved. Plutonium is precipitated and treated with nitric acid. The slurry obtained is dried and ignited. The resultant low density oxide is mixed with sodium fluoride and pressed into a pellet for arcing. Cobalt is used as the internal standard for densitometric using visual comparisons against prepared standards. The procedural modifications improve reproducibility and sensitivity of most of the elements involved. (auth)

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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; Authority of the State Board of Education to contract with the Texas Department of Corrections for the production in Braille of textbooks adopted by the State Textbook Committee.

Direct AEC sponsored programs report that: a new mathematical simulation model to handle reactor effluent dispersion was started, final arrangements were concluded for the proposed test of the effectiveness of activated carbon for inorganic ion removal at the Richland Water Plant, the whole body counter used to measure the burdens of radionuclides in Richland school children is being calibrated for persons of small size and with different weight to height ratios; controlled intake of oysters that have accumulated zinc-65 is being used as one phase of this calibration. Assistance to Douglas United Nuclear is reported for missions 1, 10, 11, 13, and 14. Topics discussed here include: diffusion bonding of nickel-aluminium, PCTR experiments, code development, aluminium jacketed uranium fuel elements, and radiochemical analysis of radioarsenic in effluents. The General Electric N-Reactor department reports on:analysis and theoretical interpretation for ice and water, radiometallurgical examination on Al canned targets containing ceramic cores, inspection of irradiated zircaloy-2 clad fuel rods,resonance absorption cross section calculations, and visual inspection of Inconel steam generator tubes. Isochem reports on: dissolution of zircaloy studies, subcritical neutron interaction experiments, carbon monoxide disproportionation on exposure to bismuth oxide, dissolution rates of British alloys in nitric acid, Sr and rare earth …

This report has the following sections: Summary; Civilian Power Reactors; Applied and Reactor Physics; Reactor Fuels and Materials; Engineering Development; Plutonium Recycle Program; and Nuclear Safety.

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This report addresses the development of improved strength large hastelloy by forgings.

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