Report issued by the Brookhaven National Laboratory discussing the shipboard cobalt-60 irradiator. As stated in the introduction, "this report discusses the conceptual design of a cobalt-60 shipboard irradiator for use to improve the keeping quality of fish landed aboard commercial fishing trawlers operating out of ports along the eastern seaboard of the commercial United States" (p. 1). This report includes tables, and illustrations.

This document details the process of casting plutonium for the purpose of reducing the in-process inventory. The plutonium is cast, then rough machined to produce a storable form, then stored for the ten-day waiting period.

This purpose of this test is to acquire data to support further studies aimed at determining whether a normal column of I&E enriched fuel elements or a normal column of natural fuel elements can be flushed from a process tube with the crossheader valved down to shutdown position if the front riser pressure is raised to normal operation pressure.

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 Constitution would have to be amended in order to provide retirement, disability and death benefits to officers and employees of the political subdivisions of Jefferson 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: Whether 100% of the rental receipts received by a corporation, for the leasing of equipment, is “business done in Texas” regardless of where they are used, for purposes of the allocation formula in Article 12.02, 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: Whether credit unions should report personal property subject to escheat under Article 3272a, V.C.S., or report their dormant or inactive accounts under Article 3272b, 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 of Sec. 3, Art. IX of the Constitution relative to vote required for adoption of a county home rule charter.

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, in counties which have adopted voting machines, use of the machines is mandatory in primary elections, and related question.

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 H.B. 86, and Appropriation Cill, regarding “other operating expenses.”

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: Interpretation of the scope and extent of the rule-making power of the Savings and Loan Commissioner and the Building and Loan Section of the Finance Commission with reference to specific sections of the new Texas Savings and Loan Act, codified as Article 852a, Vernon’s Civil Statutes.

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 credit unions should report personal property subject to escheat under Article 3272a V.C.S., or report their dormant or inactive accounts under Article 3272b, V.C.S.

Progress report for the Piqua Reactor Operations Analysis Program describing observations and analyses at the Piqua Nuclear Power Facility (PNPF). The program goals are to monitor operations and collect data in order to ensure that the plant's operation is safe, to improve design and performance, to evaluate the performance and lifetime of the plant's components and systems, to evaluate plant safety and safeguards, and to disseminate all information to the scientific community.

A survey of existing literature relative to the properties and distributions of meteoroids is presented. Of major interest is prediction of the criteria which may be used to calculate the imparing effect of this meteoroidal phenomenon on the SNAP 8 space system and/or its components and other space vehicle structures. (auth)

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Dense UN specimens for property tests were fabricated primarily by an isostatic hot-pressing technique in which consolidated powder sealed in a refractory metal container was subjected to a 10,000-psi external gas pressure at 1480 to 1540 deg C for 3 to 4 hr. The thermal conductivity of uranium mononitride increased from 0.04 cal/(cm)(sec)( deg C) at 200 deg C to 0.06 cal/ (sec)(cm/sup 2/)( deg C) at 1000 deg C, which by an integrated thermal- conductivity criterion, makes it some eight times more effective than UO/sub 2/ in transferring heat. Thermal-expansion coefficients of 9.0 x 10/sup -6/ per deg C and 9.9 x 10/sup -6/per deg C over the ranges 20 to 800 deg C and 20 to 1600 deg C, respectively, were measured. UN retained about 80% of its room- temperature hardness at 1100 deg C. Above this temperature, the hardness dropped rapidly with increasing temperature. The specific heat is cal per g mole can be conveniently described by the equition C = 13.32 + 1.19 x 10/sup -3/ T --2.10 x 10/sup 5/ T/sup -2/ over the range 273 to 142 3 deg K. Electrical conductivity dropped with increasing temperature a metallic characteristic. Anomalies were noted in attempts …

Deformation Mechanisms in BCC Metals. Thin-film microscopic observations are presented for rolled single TA crystals. These observations show numerous areas almost devoid of slip markings. One specimen was annealed in air at 400 deg C to pin all the dislocations; transmission micrography of the annealed specimen indicates a quite low temperature for dialocation rearrangements. A correlation was found between the temperatures of the stages in the amplitude-dependent modulus defect and the deformation-peak temperatures for Nb. It is concluded that much inore extensive dislocation motion is possihle for a given applied stress amplitude at temperatures above the alpha peak than below, and that limited dislocation motion is possible at very low temperatures if the applied stress is great enough. Stored-Energy Release in Deformed Metals. Stored-energy-release measurements were made on Puron and Ferrovac E grades of pure Fe for several grain sizes and strain levels. The results indicate that the stored energies and dislocation densities in Fe are much smaller than in Cu and other metals. (D.L.C.)

Progress in health physics is reported under 20 topics. Separate abstracts were prepared for 19 topics. Education, training, and consultation are also discussed (M.C.G.)

Research on a welding process for closing the ends of pathfinder fuel elements is reported. Optimum parameters for certain variables (amperage, weld travel, preheat, etc.) affecting weld quality were determined, and two modified end cap designs were investigated and found to reduce weld sensitivity to certain variables. Use of chills on the fuel tube greatly improved weld puddie geometry and microstructure. Optimum weld parameters for rods containing UO/sub 2/ fuel were experimentally established. (D.C.W.)

Before a reactor is launched into a satellite orbit about the Earth, the hazards to the population must necessarily be considered in the event that the reactor re-enters the Earth' s atmosphere and possibly impacts with the ground. Analytical and experimental efforts for calculating these potential hazards as they apply to SNAP-2 and -10A are described. (auth)

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A method is described for obtaining an approximate solution to the equations describing a nucleon-meson cascade by using the angular dependence of the secondary particle production kernels as a perturbation. The usefulness of the method lies in the fact that in a slab geometry the equations that must be solved numerically are essentially the same as those that are used in the straight-ahead approximation and have been solved previously. (auth)

The analytical results reported herein are a description of the nuclear environment produced by the Aerospace System Test Reactor at General Dynamics/Ft. Worth in the LRP Mechanical Radiation Test No. 901.