Report issued by the APDA over studies conducted on the requirements of reactors for fuel testing. As stated in the summary, "the purpose of this study is to determine the requirements for radiation space for fast reactor fuel testing and to determine the capability of existing Commission and private test and power reactors to meet these requirements" (p. 7). This report includes tables, and illustrations.

The longitudinal electromagnetic interaction of an intense coasting beam with itself, including the effect of a resistive vacuum tank, is investigated theoretically. It is shown that even in the range where the particle frequency is an increasing function of particle energy, the beam can be longitudinally unstable due to the resistivity of the vacuum tank walls. In the absence of frequency spread in the unperturbed beam the beam is shown to be always unstable against longitudinal bunching with a growth rate which depends upon (N/{sigma}){sup 1/2}, where N is the number of particles in the beam and {sigma} is the conductivity of the surface material. By means of the Vlasov equation, a criterion for stability of the beam is obtained; and shown in the limit of high-conductivity walls to involve the frequency spread in the unperturbed beam, the number of particles N, the beam energy, geometrical properties of the accelerator, but not the conductivity {sigma}. A numerical example is presented which indicates that certain observations of beam behavior in the MURA 40 MeV electron accelerator may be related to the phenomena investigated here.

This report covers the following titles: (1) Fertility and litter size of normally ovulated and artificially ovulated mice; (2) Further studies on sterility produced in male mice by deuterium oxide; (3) Planarian disaggregation; (4) Uptake of organic compounds by planarians. II; (5) Effects of environmental complexity and training on acetylcholinesterase and cholinesterase activity in rat brain; (6) Effects of environmental complexity and training on brain chemistry and anatomy among mature rats; (7) Improvements in paper chromatographic techniques for labeled cell extracts; (8) measurement and adjustment of pH in small volumes of solutions; (9) Carbon-14 and Nitrogen-15 tracer studies of amino acid synthesis during photosynthesis by Chlorella Pyrenoidosa; (10) Photosynthesis of {sup 14}C-labeled protein from {sup 14}CO{sub 2} by Chlorella; (11) Further studies on carboxydismutase; (12) Electron microscopy of chlorophyll a crystals; (13) The possible role of chromanyl phosphates in oxidative and photosynthetic phosphorylation; (14) Oxidation-reductions of some coenzymes; (15) Preparation of some [{sup 14}C] labeled substances: glucose-6-phosphate, fructose-6-phosphate, 6-phosphogluconic acid, pyruvic acid, and succinic acid; (16) attempt to synthesize high molecular weight polynucleotides using Schramm's purely chemical method; and (17) Optical properties of some dye-polyanion complexes.

Pumping specifications are given for the B, C, D, and DR reactors at Hanford in August 1963. The maximum capacity is given for equipment in use and equipment that could be used.

This invention discloses a method of making a synthetic nuclear fuel by mixing pure U-233 with U-238 fuels, such as depleted uranium, to produce a fuel that combines the most desirable nuclear properties of both the U-233 and U-238 fertile material. The process requires that U-233 be manufactured in such a manner as to be relatively uncontaminated from U-232. The subject of this invention is a method of fuel handling that incorporates the desirable features of both U-233 and U-238. It is proposed that U-233 be formed by short-term irradiations of thorium that will minimize contamination by U-232. At the end of a short thorium irradiation the U-233 is removed and combined with U-238. This combination then makes a synthetic fuel that has all the advantages of each ingredient but does not run into significant U-232 contaminant problems.

A concentrated study of the present manufacturing process was initiated in the Process Engineering Unit, the purpose of the study being to optimize the present operations, procedures, and methods of the AlSi canning process. It is the purpose of this document to report the findings and accomplishments for that portion of the study concerned with the optimization of component preparation and fabrication within the canning furnace. To date, this study has consisted mainly of heating rate studies of the various components used in the fuel element fabrication with some work being done on the optimization of the heating cycle for these components. This work necessarily serves as the basis for further optimization study.

This report details Hanford Production Reactors operating limits and performance and operating restrictions.

The purpose of this letter is to outline the immediate and long-range plans for increasing the H Reactor coolant flow. The flow can be increased, immediately from the present base of about 84,000 gpm to about 88,000 gpm via the following changes: routine purges; use of non-bumpered fuel; increasing the flow through Fringe enrichment and Fringe Poison tubes by changing orifices; and reaming damaged rear fittings to their original size. The flow can be increased to about 94,000 gpm via the following changes: installing larger Venturis throughout the reactor; reaming rear fittings to a larger size; installing rear nozzles that permit higher tube flows; charging I&E Poison elements in Fringe tubes; and some changes in the water pumping facilities may be necessary.

An important parameter which is required in the study of short-term reactor transients is the prompt neutron lifetime. This document presents calculated values for the prompt neutron lifetime in the Hanford IPD lattices under a variety of conditions. The calculated values for the prompt neutron lifetimes in the various Hanford IPD lattices are shown. None of the values shown include any contribution from the neutron slowing down time. Two different values (1{sub o1} and 1{sub o2}) are presented for each lattice spacing and condition studied. This arises from an uncertainty about the correct definition of the thermal neutron lifetime. Generally speaking, it is conservative, from a hazards analysis standpoint, to use the shorter values. This has been done in all of the kinetics studies concerning the production reactors at Hanford during the last several years. A precise definition and more complete discussion of the values presented are given later in this report.

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 a member of the Legislature to sell printed matter prepared at State expense.

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 Tax Assessor and Collector is authorized to issue a 30 day temporary registration permit to a non-resident trucker, under the stated conditions 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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the Railroad Commission has jurisdiction to set down for cancellation a specialized motor carrier operator for failure to obtain permission to use the highways of Texas in Interstate commerce in the transportation of federally exempt commodities.

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 Commissioners Court has authorization to establish an industrial oil and gas and public utilities appraisal department.

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 non-lawyer employee of a corporation may legally file a petition in a small claims court in behalf of the corporation.

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 term “annuities” as used in Article 6228a-5, Vernon’s Civil Statutes, embraces group annuities as well as individual annuity contracts. Should the board of regents of the institutions of higher learning hold the master contract in the name of the board of regents of the respective institutions or should contracts be issued in the name of the annuitant only, even if the contract is classified as a group annuity.

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: Amount of salary due retired judges called to active duty under the provisions of Article 200a, 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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Construction and Application of Article 5118a, V.A.C.S.; Providing for Credit for Good Conduct for County Jail Prisoners.

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: Payment for certain maps and aerial photographs by the Texas Water Commission to be used as evidence in Cause No. B-20,576 -- State of Texas, et al v. Hidalgo County Water Control and Improvement District No. 18, et al, in the District Court of Hidalgo County, 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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: The effect of discharge from a mental hospital of a patient who has been adjudicated by a court to be mentally incompetent.

Abstract: An automatic recording mass spectrometer has been designed; two instruments have been constructed and have operated reliably for more than seven years as process monitors.

Dissolver solution samples were analyzed for neptunium, and the data are plotted as g Np/t U vs g Pu/t U.

The problem of designing storage containers for heat-generating fission products or radioactive wastes is complicated by the interdependence of a number of variables. The permissible maximum surface temperatures and internal temperature; the concentration, age, and type of isotope; the thermal conductivity of the materials, the ambient temperatures, the configuration (annular or cylindrical) of the container; and the mechanism of heat removal, all affect the design of the container 4-n that they affect the permissible size. Existing programs for resolving the interrelationships among the variables in problems of this type, while adaptable to almost any geometry in one, two, or three dimensions, have the disadvantage that considerable time must be spent preparing input data for each different size or configuration to be solved. A program was needed which would accept data in engineering terms and permit the solution for many different container sizes with a minimum of input conditioning. The SIZCAN Code described in this report, meets this need by limiting the problem to two different configurations and considering only one dimensional, steady state, heat flow. It can be used to ``zero in`` on geometries to be examined by more rigorous techniques.

Since transducers used in rocket engine applications measure time varying quantities, the characteristics which define the behavior of a transducer under dynamic conditions are extremely important in their applications by the design engineer. Proper calibration of transducers in the dynamic or frequency domain required a thorough understanding of the dynamic or frequency domain required a thorough understanding of the dynamic characteristics of a transducer. Analytical models are generated in his report, and the techniques based on these models for determining frequency response are discussed.

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