This report covers studies of the excretion and retention of 'tracer' and toxic doses of the 11.2-day Ra{sup 223} isotope, its acute toxicity (organ weight changes, gross and microscopic pathology, and Fe{sup 59} utilization by the bone marrow), and long-term histopathological changes and alterations in the hemogram.

This document details activities of the irradiation processing department during the month of July, 1958. 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; Employee Relations Operation; and Financial Operation.

This report details activities of the Chemical Processing Department during the month of March 1958.

Output of plutonium from the separations plants Purex, Redox was slightly less than that scheduled; however, year-to-date production exceeds the corresponding commitment. Production of UO{sub 3} met the commitment, and UO{sub 3} shipments conformed to the established shipping schedule. Production of buttons and shapes was slightly less than the commitment as shown in the current Official Forecast. Shipments of buttons conformed to the current Forecast, while large shape shipments were slightly less than those forecasted. Feasibility of neptunium recovery was studied. Employee relations are reported.

None

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: The effect of Section 17, Article I and Section 7a, Article VIII of the Constitution of Texas and your recent opinions numbered WW-45; WW-78; WW-125 and WW-236 on whether or not State and Federal Highway Funds can be legally used by the State Highway Department for the payment of the cost of removal, relocation or adjustment of the telephone facilities belonging to Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, the gas lines belong to South Union Gas Company and the water, electrical and sanitary sewer facilities belonging to the City of Austin which are located within the public right of way along East Avenue and the streets which intersect East Avenue in Austin, Texas.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of the county to condemn a right of way easement over a railroad right of way consisting of four or more tracks.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of Commissioners' Court to cancel valid assessments where delinquent taxes have been paid to an adjoining county by mistake.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a municipal water and sewer contract made with a real estate developer is an authorized investment under Section 1, Article 3, 39, Texas Insurance Code.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Under specified conditions, can the Adjutant General's Department of Texas be reimbursed for travel funds expended from its appropriation by the Texas National Guard Armory Board for the services rendered by employees of the Adjutant General's Department in performing inventories in completing required reports on the facility at Eagle Mountain Lake, Texas, conveyed to the State of Texas by Public Law 85-258, Eighty-fifth Congress, and related questions.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Does the existence of an inactive Junior College District, comprising only a portion of a county, preclude the establishment and operation of a Junior College District embracing the entire county under Article 2815h, Vernon's Annotated Civil Statutes, and related questions.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Questions concerning the eligibility of certain individuals to hold, at the same time, the office of a member of the Board of Regents for Pan American College at Edinburg and City Commissioner for the City of Mission.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Questions concerning the ad valorem taxability against Sun Oil Company as processor of certain gas designated as plant operator's portion.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Proper construction of Article 5421c-3, V.C.S., as same pertains to the acceptance of bids by the School Land Board of the State of Texas.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a certain tract of land in Bosque County may be patented under Article 5421c, Section 5, 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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: The authority of the Comptroller of Public Accounts to refund or give credit on future tax payments for overpayment of taxes on alcoholic beverages damaged or otherwise unfit for human consumption.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: The requirements of the Commissioners' Court in regard to quarterly reports of County Treasurers under Article 1636, Vernon's Civil Statutes, and related questions.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Under the terms of Senate Bill 190 are improvements (houses, outbuildings, etc.) acquired by the Highway Department in connection with the right-of-way building program, correctly considered as surplus property and related questions.

The February, 1958 monthly report for the Chemical Processing Department of the Hanford Atomic Products Operation includes information regarding research and engineering efforts with respect to the Purex and Redox process technology. Also discussed is the production operation, finished product operation, power and general maintenance, financial operation, engineering and research operations, and employee operation. (MB)

Re-appraisal of the available data on flow times of the Columbia River between the reactor areas and Pasco was undertaken to permit extrapolation of the flow-time curves to lower river flow rates. Comparisons were made between data collected by the US Corps of Engineers and Regional Monitoring and with the equation for calculation of flow times developed by H.T. Norton. Extrapolation of the Regional Monitoring float study data to a flow of 3 {times} 10{sup 5} gallons per second was accomplished by comparison with the slope of the curve obtained from the US Corps of Engineers data; the latter covered flow times from 100-F Area to Pasco over a range of 3.4 {times} 10{sup 5} gps to 3.7 {times} 10{sup 6} gps. The revised flow-time curves are illustrated in Figures 1 through 6.

This document details activities of the irradiation processing department during the month of February 1958. 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 operations; employee relations operation; and, financial operation.

This document details activities of the irradiation processing department during the month of June 1958. 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; employee relations operation; and financial operation.

In laboratory scale experiments dilution of a Darex dissolver product from the integral dissolution of Yankee Atomic fuel specimens with at least an equal volume of 15.8M HNO/sub 3/, followed by distillation, produced a solvent extraction feed containing less than 50 ppm of chloride. Properly designed chloride stripping and nitric acid rectification columns are capable of conserving acids for recycle to the dissolver and chloride removal still. In initial experiments about 87% of the nitric acid and 36% of the hydrochloric acid were recovered. (auth)

A cost breakdown is given for stainless steel vs. zirconium in the Yankee Power Reactor. Zirconlum Production capacity is given for the U.S. along with zirconium priees. (W.L.H.)