Report compiling the melting points of 70 metal oxides published prior to January 1963. Both the original melting point and the equivalent value based on the International Practical Temperature Scale of 1948 are presented. Included in the survey is information on pertinent experimental details such as the method of temperature measurement, purity, furnace type, and environmental conditions.

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: Constitutionality of Senate Bill No. 258

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: Under the facts stated, whether the Governor is precluded from appointing a Criminal District Attorney of Polk 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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Constitutionality of a Bill setting the salaries of district attorneys and county attorneys performing the duties of district attorneys, on a graduated scale, according to the population of the various districts.

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 certain land in Guadalupe County owned by City of San Antonio, and certain improvements thereon and certain personal properties located thereon are exempt from ad valorem taxes.

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 of senate Bill 318, Acts of the 58th Legislature, Regular Session, relating to the removal of the ex officio membership of the Attorney General on various State boards and commissions.

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 to execute a lease for a term beyond current appropriations.

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 former member of the Judicial Retirement System is eligible for a retirement annuity under the 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 the Board of Regents of the University of Houston may borrow money for the construction of student parking lots, pledging that portion of student parking fees not actually required for regular repairs and operating personnel for the repayment of the loan.

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 of Article 1.05 of the Election Code as to residence requirements of a county commissioner.

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

In-pile loop experiments L-2-15 and L-4-16 were two of a series designed to test the radiation corrosion of Zircaloy-2 and other possible reactor construction materials in UO2SO4 solutions under various conditions of radiation intensities, temperatures, solution compositions, and velocity flow past specimens.

This is a summary report of various technical projects relating to uranium.

A literature survey was performed in order to provide an adequate basis for selecting models for comparison with the data. A computer program was written that allows calculation of void profiles based on an exponential model. A variable exponent is input data for the program, which also computes an integrated average void fraction. After the test section installation was completed, shakedown tests were performed to assure that all equipment was operating properly. All water and all air reference traverses were run with the gamma attenuation equipment. The first twophase run was accomplished at a superficial liquid velocity of one foot per second. (auth)

A complete spectral representation is given for a class of singular integral operators. The influence of spectral multiplicity is partially taken into account. (T.F.H.)

Three shots were fired in the study of the low-pressure hydrodynamic behavior of U. Plots of target free-surface velocity vs. time are presented for various target thicknesses and pressures. The free-surface deceleration and second gradual acceleration are discussed. The calculation of rarefaction sound speeds is considered. Results are reported of an experiment using the capacitor technique to observe a reflected shock in U. (D L.C.)

The average total neutron cross sections for Nb, Mo, Rh, Ag, Cd, and In are measured at 10 to 100 kev, and the values obtained are used to calculate the optical-model parameters of the nuclei. The neutron energies used fall in the region of the P-wave giant resonances in these nuclei. (T.F.H.) 45Z6 The problem of the evolution of the amounts of nuclides during radioactive transformations is resolved according to the classical laws of radioactivity by using systematics in which the nuclides and their nuclear parameters are indexed. This method involves a simple classification of the nuclear parameters according to their nature. It leads to a matrix equation, which cand be solved by a computer program. Calculations have been made with the IBM 709094 computer. (auth)

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Separate abstracts were prepared for forty of the sixtytwo sections in the report. Three papers included were previously abstracted for NSA. (D.C.W.)

The number and size of Gd/sub 2/O/sub 3/ poison cylinders were computed for a large boiling water reactor with H/sub 2/O-toUO/sub 2/ ratio of 2.6, a U/ sup 235/ enrichment of 3.3 wt%, and Zr clad. The excess reactivity of the poisoned core was computed for the cold-clean, hot-clean non-voided, and hot full- power condition as a function of Mwd/t. For comparison, these calculations were repeated for B/sub 4/C as the burnable poison element for the same reactor. The use of Gd rather than B/sup 10/ as the burnable poison reduces the moderator and void defect and provides a better match to the poison demand curve. For reactors in the lifetime range of 10,000 Mwd/t, the use of Gd results in a smaller poison residual. However, for lifetimes of approximately 20,000 Mwd/t, B/sup 10/ and Gd are comparable. Methods were developed to account for the netron interaction among clusters of Gd/sub 2/O/sub 3/ poison cylinders. Gadolinia cylinders in Al/ sub 2/O/sub 3/ rods were formed and sintered to 3100 deg F. A reaction between Gd/ sub 2/O/sub 3/ and Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/ begins at 2650 deg F. At 3000 deg F the reaction is complete with the integrity of the …

From American Chemical Society Production Technology of Np-237 and Pu- 238, Denver, Jan. 1964. Neptunium is routinely recovered from irradiated fuel elements at Hanford's two main separation plants. Initial development tests were started in the Purex plant in 1958, then in the Redox plant in 1959, and recently culminated in the installation of new production systems in both plants for improved recoveries. Both recovery flowsheets employ solvent extraction techniques based on the relative extractability of neptunium-VI. The neptunium is co-extracted with uranium and plutonium in the plants' first extraction cycles and then partitioned and decontaminated in separate neptanium cycles. Excellent decontamination from fission products is achieved without interfering with mamline uranium and plutonium production. Recovered neptunium is purified by anion exchange and shipped offsite for subsequent irradiation to plutonaim-238. Overall separation factors of uranium and fission products from neptunium are greater than 10/sup 7/ and 10/sup 10/ respectively. (auth)

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