Recovery of Plutonium From Slag and Crucible (open access)

Recovery of Plutonium From Slag and Crucible

Report evaluating different methods of preparing nitric acid solution and different methods of separating plutonium from this nitric acid solution of slag and crucible. Methods are explained and experimental data is given.
Date: June 15, 1951
Creator: Groot, C.; Hopkins, H. H. & Schulz, W. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retention of Iodine in Process Solutions by Mercuric Salts (open access)

Retention of Iodine in Process Solutions by Mercuric Salts

Report discussing a study of various types of mercuric salts in order to determine which salt prevents the evolution of iodine which results from sparging.
Date: June 15, 1951
Creator: Holm, C. H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Laboratory Demonstration of Redox Feed Head-End Treatment ; Ruthenium Volatilization and Manganese Dioxide Scavenging (open access)

Laboratory Demonstration of Redox Feed Head-End Treatment ; Ruthenium Volatilization and Manganese Dioxide Scavenging

From introduction: "The prime motive behind the experiments described in this report and in those preceding it in this series is the desire to reduce the number of Redox cycles necessary for decontamination from fission products of the plutonium and uranium streams sufficient to allow final disposition of these two products...This report deals with the mechanics of manganese dioxide handing, laboratory development of manganese dioxide scavenging, and a series of experiments at multicurie level combining ruthenium volatilization and manganese dioxide scavenging in stainless steel equipment."
Date: July 15, 1951
Creator: Hicks, H. G.; McCormack, C. G. & Roake, W. E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Hydrolysis Products of Tributyl Phosphate and Their Effect on the Tributyl Phosphate Process for Uranium Recovery (open access)

The Hydrolysis Products of Tributyl Phosphate and Their Effect on the Tributyl Phosphate Process for Uranium Recovery

This report follows an investigation on how hydrolysis products of tributyl phosphate (such as dibutyl and monobutyl phosphoric acids, orthophosphoric acid and butanol) effect the tributyl phosphate process for uranium recovery.
Date: April 15, 1951
Creator: Wagner, R. M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analytical procedures for the plutonium Metal Fabrication Process (open access)

Analytical procedures for the plutonium Metal Fabrication Process

A report describing a the results of a fluorimetric and volumetric method for the determination of fluoride. This method was developed for the determination of ionizable fluorine in gases in the range of 1-500ppm. This method was chosen because the determination depends on the generation of a color rather than the bleaching effect or on a change of color.
Date: January 15, 1951
Creator: Kendall, L. F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of Furnance Pressures on Quality of Remelted Uranium : Final Report, Production Test 314-59-M (open access)

Effects of Furnance Pressures on Quality of Remelted Uranium : Final Report, Production Test 314-59-M

The following report follows a test for remelting and casting uranium scrap specified that a pressure of 25 microns or less must be attained within the furnace before a charge is melted. The report was made to evaluate the effect of furnace pressures upon the quality if recast uranium metal.
Date: February 15, 1951
Creator: Kattner, W. T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Application of Nuclear Track Emulsions to the Analysis of Urine for very Low Level Plutonium (open access)

The Application of Nuclear Track Emulsions to the Analysis of Urine for very Low Level Plutonium

The following document analyzes plutonium in urine which uses nuclear track film for evaluation of the quantity of separated plutonium.
Date: November 15, 1951
Creator: Schwendiman, L. C.; Healy, John W. & Reid, D. L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Scouting Studies in a 5.05-Inch Diameter Redox Pulse Column (open access)

Scouting Studies in a 5.05-Inch Diameter Redox Pulse Column

Investigation of principles of pulse-column design and effects of operating variables.
Date: January 15, 1951
Creator: Figg, W. S. & Bradley, J. G.
System: The UNT Digital Library