A Versatile Spectrometer Magnet Power Supply (open access)

A Versatile Spectrometer Magnet Power Supply

Early results from actual laboratory operation of a more versatile magnet supply.
Date: April 15, 1963
Creator: Groppe, W. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metallurgy Research Operation: Quarterly Progress Report, January - March 1965 (open access)

Metallurgy Research Operation: Quarterly Progress Report, January - March 1965

Quarterly progress report on a project to test the radiation effects on metallurgy.
Date: April 15, 1965
Creator: Cadwell, J. J.; Bierlein, T. K.; Bement, A. L.; Dillon, R. L. & Wheeler, R. G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Sequence for Predicting Waste Transport by Ground Water (open access)

A Sequence for Predicting Waste Transport by Ground Water

From introduction: "This paper describes a sequence for analyzing the effects of ground water flow on waste transport in natural soils."
Date: April 15, 1965
Creator: Nelson, R. William
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
SL-1 Annual Operating Report: February, 1960-January 3, [1961] (open access)

SL-1 Annual Operating Report: February, 1960-January 3, [1961]

The Stationary Low Power Reactor No. 1 (SL-1) was a boiling water reactor demonstration plant for remote military bases. The plant had been operated by Combustion Engineering, Inc. from February, l959 until January 3, 1961 at which time a nuclear excursion rendered the plant inoperable, This report summarizes the of operations of maintenance, test, health and safety, and administrative activities for the year February, 1960 until the incident.
Date: June 15, 1961
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Automatic Mass Spectrometer for Isotopic Analysis of Lithium (open access)

Automatic Mass Spectrometer for Isotopic Analysis of Lithium

Report discussing an improvement program on lithium mass spectrometers.
Date: March 15, 1962
Creator: McBryde, W. T. & Gammon, E. F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Progress Report on Waste Concentration Studies: Engineering Results on the BNL Semi-Works Vapor Filtration Vapor Compression Evaporator (open access)

Progress Report on Waste Concentration Studies: Engineering Results on the BNL Semi-Works Vapor Filtration Vapor Compression Evaporator

Report issued by the Brookhaven National Laboratory discussing progress of waste concentration studies. As stated in the introduction, "the present report covers all experimental hot runs up to the time the still was turned over to the Waste Control Section for intermediate handling of laboratory D waste" (p. 1). This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: August 15, 1951
Creator: Horrigan, R. V.; Fried, H. M.; Manowitz, B.; Kuhl, O.; Baranosky, J. A.; Bellanca, S. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Factors at Proposed Site of Dresden Generating Station of Commonwealth Edison Company (open access)

Environmental Factors at Proposed Site of Dresden Generating Station of Commonwealth Edison Company

From introduction: This report is a compilation of the presently available data pertaining to the proposed reactor power plant site which may be used in evaluating the proposed measures for protecting the public from possible radioactive hazards, both during normal operation and under unusual hazards.
Date: June 15, 1955
Creator: Kiefer, W. M.; Chiarottino, M. N.; Geue, D. W.; Veras, A. F. & Bonilla, Charles F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Final Report to U.S. Atomic Energy Commission: Low-Temperature Heavy Water Plant (open access)

Final Report to U.S. Atomic Energy Commission: Low-Temperature Heavy Water Plant

From purpose of report: The primary purpose of this report and its appendices is to transmit to the AEC the principal results of the experimental and engineering work done on the low-temperature process and to describe the factors which led to the designs finally adopted.
Date: March 15, 1951
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Research and Development Progress Report (open access)

Research and Development Progress Report

"The St. Louis Refinery produced its first UO3 and UO2 in 1942, and its first UF4 and U metal in 1943. The accent has always been on production, and the function of the extremely small research and development groups has been to aid the production units in their job. ... Recently, there has been a growing realization of the need for a broader and more detailed knowledge of both the chemical and technological aspects of all phases of work. ... This is the first of a series of quarterly progress reports on the research and development activities at the St. Louis Refinery."--p. 6
Date: October 15, 1952
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation and Consolidation of Electrolytic Thorium (open access)

Evaluation and Consolidation of Electrolytic Thorium

Abstract: "Sound, fabricable ingots of thorium were produced by triple are melting of electrolytic thorium. Consumable electrodes were fabricated by tack welding of cold-pressed and vacuum-sintered bars of the granular thorium electrodeposited from a molten-salt bath. The hydrogen content of the electrodeposited material was reduced from 80 to 4 ppm by vacuum sintering at 1250 C at pressures below 1 x 10-(-3) mm of mercury. Both sodium and chlorine content were reduced during melting; sodium from 250 to 25 ppm and chlorine from 1000 to 30 ppm. Oxygen and HCl acid-insoluble contents increased during sintering and melting. Oxygen content increased from 0.35 to 0.50 w/o and HCl acid-insoluble content from 0.8 to 4.0 w/o. A starlike includion revealed by metallographic examination of the as-cast thorium was identified as ThO2."
Date: June 15, 1955
Creator: Saller, Henry A.; Dickerson, Ronald F. & Foster, Ellis L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The X-Ray Spectra of Polonium Atomic Number 84 (open access)

The X-Ray Spectra of Polonium Atomic Number 84

From abstract: "Two samples, each containing an estimated 10 curies (2 mg) of polonium-210, were purified by vacuum distillation and evaporated onto oblique sections of X-ray targets made of copper. Four lines of the K series and ten lines of the L series of the X-ray spectrum of polonium were recorded with a one-meter transmission crystal spectrograph and a 25-centimeter Bragg spectrograph, respectively. Measured wavelengths agree approximately with values predicted by extrapolation of Moseley's law and with those claimed by Hulubei. Decay of polonium-210 (half life = 138 days) and growth of lead-206 (stable) were observed over a period of 180 days."
Date: April 15, 1952
Creator: Peed, W. F.; Burkhart, L. E.; Staniforth, R. A. & Fauble, L. G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Subcritical BNL Reactor (open access)

An Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Subcritical BNL Reactor

Technical report outlining the theoretical study of the sub-critical BNL (Brookhaven National Laboratory) reactor, and a comparison of reactor performance with the purpose of presenting the experimental results of the experimental methods. Presents experimental results and and a detailed discussion of the experimental methods along with theoretical analysis and evaluation of the results.
Date: June 15, 1950
Creator: Cwernick, J.; Kaplan, I.; Kunstadter, J.; Sailor, V. & Williams, C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Liquid Reactor Fuels: Bismuth-Uranium System (open access)

Liquid Reactor Fuels: Bismuth-Uranium System

Technical report about the liquidus curve for the nuclear reactors bismuth-uranium system and the need for a suitable container for this fuel.
Date: September 15, 1950
Creator: Bareis, D. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Unit for Continuous Separation of U233 From Thorium Fluoride (open access)

Unit for Continuous Separation of U233 From Thorium Fluoride

Technical report outlining a preliminary design for carrying out the process of producing U233 from Th232.
Date: September 15, 1950
Creator: Dwyer, O. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Concentration of Deuterium by Chemical Exchange Between Hydrogen and Ammonia (open access)

The Concentration of Deuterium by Chemical Exchange Between Hydrogen and Ammonia

Technical report describing the results of the chemical reaction between potassium amide and liquid ammonia and the exchange of hydrogen between hydrogen gas and liquid ammonia. This report finds that the reactions may be sufficiently rapid to be useful for isotope separations on a larger scale.
Date: December 15, 1951
Creator: Perlman, M. L. & Bigeleisen, J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Reaction Between Hydrogen and Oxygen by Catalysis and the Thermal Reaction (open access)

The Reaction Between Hydrogen and Oxygen by Catalysis and the Thermal Reaction

From abstract: "The reaction between hydrogen and oxygen with the aid of various catalysts (especially platinum on aluminua) has been studied, and the operating variables such as flow rates, space velocity, temperature, and gas composition have been examined rather extensively. It has been found that hydrogen and oxygen in stoichiometric proportions and mixed with either steam or helium may be made to react to the extent of 99.5% or greater at space velocities up to 30,000 hr-1, or even higher, at temperatures from 100[degrees] to 900[degrees]C, and with mixtures ranging from less than 1% hydrogen to mixtures containing 12% hydrogen and 6% oxygen. Richer mixtures, including undiluted electrolytic gas (H2 + 1/2 O2) have been used with catalysts less active than platinum (e.g. copper, silver, nickel and V2O5) but here the gas mixture is explosive and care must be taken to prevent explosions. The thermal reaction between hydrogen and oxygen diluted with steam has also been investigated at temperatures between 500[degrees] and 800[degrees]C."
Date: January 15, 1952
Creator: Kuhn, D. W.; Ryon, A. D.; Palko, A. A. & Clewett, G. H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology of the Uniferous Bog Deposit at Pettit Ranch, Kern County, California (open access)

Geology of the Uniferous Bog Deposit at Pettit Ranch, Kern County, California

Abstract: Uranium associated with peat humus was discovered in a boggy meadow in the Sierra Nevada of Kern County, California, in the fall of 1955.
Date: October 15, 1957
Creator: Bowes, William A.; Bales, W. E. & Haselton, G. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Investigational Drilling, Hoskinnini Mesa (open access)

Investigational Drilling, Hoskinnini Mesa

From to the files: To date, all the mineralization seen in the Monument Valley area in the Shinarump formation has been in scour channels. The mineralized rock occurs at or near the bottom of the channel. On Hoskinnini Mesa, all the channels examined to date contain some mineralized material. Channels observed may in some cases contain copper without apparent uranium mineralization; others definitely exhibit copper-uranium mineralization.
Date: May 15, 1952
Creator: Chester, John W. & Pitman, R. K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aerial Radiometric and Magnetic Survey Tularosa National Topographic Map, Nex Mexico: Volume 1 (open access)

Aerial Radiometric and Magnetic Survey Tularosa National Topographic Map, Nex Mexico: Volume 1

From Operational Program: This final report includes a general geologic description of the area, including descriptions of the various geologic units and correlates the airborne data to the geologic units as provided by the geologic maps. Also included is a frequency distribution study of the data as a function of the geologic units encountered over the NTMS area including the tie line data.
Date: December 15, 1978
Creator: United States. Department of Energy. Grand Junction Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Radiolysis of Organic Fluids, Annual Progress Report: October 1, 1961-September 30, 1962 (open access)

Radiolysis of Organic Fluids, Annual Progress Report: October 1, 1961-September 30, 1962

From introduction: This report reviews the Susie program (particularly reactor dosimetry and data analysis) as well as other items that represent a smaller share of the total effort.
Date: January 15, 1963
Creator: Bolt, R. O.; Burrous, M. L.; Carroll, J. G.; Hall, K. L.; Sweeney, M. A. & Tobriner, M. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
OMR Control-Safety Rod Component Development Tests (open access)

OMR Control-Safety Rod Component Development Tests

Abstract: A magnetic-jack control-safety rod is under development for the 45.5 thermal megawatt Organic Moderated Reactor. The rod is "unitized," i.e., the poison element, drive, position indicator, and shock absorber are contained in a compact assembly which is inserted in a regular fuel channel opening in the core. Tests to develop components capable of operating under these conditions are described and results are reported.
Date: September 15, 1959
Creator: Howell, J. D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coolant Flow and Outlet Temperature: Computer-Monitors for the Hallam Nuclear Power Facility Plant Protective System (open access)

Coolant Flow and Outlet Temperature: Computer-Monitors for the Hallam Nuclear Power Facility Plant Protective System

Abstract: The design and application of two computers for the HNPF protective system is discussed.
Date: September 15, 1961
Creator: Schlein, H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Power Flattening in Sodium Graphite Reactors by Spatial Variation of Moderator Properties (open access)

Power Flattening in Sodium Graphite Reactors by Spatial Variation of Moderator Properties

Abstract: In the present study, the variation of moderator composition was postulated to be effected by the inclusion of varying amounts of beryllium oxide in the graphite of an SGR.
Date: December 15, 1959
Creator: Connolly, T. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hot-Pressure Bonding of OMR Fuel Plates (open access)

Hot-Pressure Bonding of OMR Fuel Plates

Abstract: An alluminum-clad low-enrichment, uranium-alloy fuel element of flat plate configuration has been proposed for the Organic Moderated Reactor (OMR).
Date: November 15, 1959
Creator: Alm, G. V.; Binstock, M. H. & Garrett, E. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library