Operation Plan and Hazards Report - Operation BREN (open access)

Operation Plan and Hazards Report - Operation BREN

Report discussing "descriptions of the HPRR and the Co^60 source, their operating procedures, the manner in which they will be used, and possible hazards are included."
Date: January 1962
Creator: Sanders, F. W.; Haywood, F. F.; Lunin, M. I.; Gilley, L. W.; Cheka, J. S. & Ward, D. R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U-233 Power-Breeder Reactor: Reactor Design and Feasibility Problem (open access)

U-233 Power-Breeder Reactor: Reactor Design and Feasibility Problem

Report containing information regarding several designs of breeder reactors that utilizes the circulation of solid particles consisting of a fuel-moderator mixture, from the core to a separate heat exchanger vessel from which the solids flow freely to and through the core by gravity" (p. 13). Appendix begins on page 117.
Date: January 1954
Creator: Halik, R. R.; Beckberger, L. H.; Haibeck, J. M.; Mealia, J. E.; Northrop, W. A.; Rees, D. R. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Merchant Ship Reactor Final Safeguards Report, Volume 6: Environmental Analysis OF NS "Savannah" Operation at Camden (open access)

Nuclear Merchant Ship Reactor Final Safeguards Report, Volume 6: Environmental Analysis OF NS "Savannah" Operation at Camden

"An analysis is presented of the accidental release of activity following the operation of the NS "Savannah" at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation docks in Camden, New Jersey. Although a number of accidents are considered, the report is primarily concerned with the environmental activity levels and subsequent exposures which would result from the "maximum credible accident" (p. v).
Date: January 24, 1961
Creator: Cottrell, W. B.; Parker, F. L.; Mann, L. A. & Schmidt, G. D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reconnaissance in the Western Part of the Trans-Pecos Region of Texas (open access)

Reconnaissance in the Western Part of the Trans-Pecos Region of Texas

Abstract: The Trans-Pecos region of southwest Texas is noted for the production of quicksilver, lead, silver, and copper from its several mining districts. Reconnaissance, which was concentrated in and around these districts, revealed many areas of slightly abnormal radioactivity. Only a few areas, however, showed uranium mineralization.
Date: January 23, 1953
Creator: Hadfield, Jonathan P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Buffalo Creek Monazite Placer, Cleveland and Lincoln Counties, North Carolina (open access)

Buffalo Creek Monazite Placer, Cleveland and Lincoln Counties, North Carolina

Introduction: The investigation of monazite deposits in the southeastern states by the Bureau of Mines and the Geological Survey on behalf on the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission was prompted by the history of past production and the many communications reporting the occurrence of monazite in this area.
Date: January 1953
Creator: Griffith, R. F. & Overstreet, William C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Airborne Reconnaissance Project, Green River Basin, Wyoming (open access)

Airborne Reconnaissance Project, Green River Basin, Wyoming

Abstract: A part of the Green River Basin airborne reconnaissance project, re: memo to Phillip L. Merritt, March 12, 1954, Proposed Airborne Reconnaissance Project, Green River Basin, Wyoming, was completed during the months from July though October 1954. No uranium mineralization of commercial value was found.
Date: January 1955
Creator: Magleby, Dan N. & Meehan, R. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reconnaissance for Uranium in the Uinta Basin of Colorado and Utah (open access)

Reconnaissance for Uranium in the Uinta Basin of Colorado and Utah

Abstract: Weak uranium mineralization is widespread throughout the Uinta Basin of northeastern Utah and northwestern Colorado, in rocks ranging in age from Permian to Eocene. No commercial ore bodies are known, although formations there have characteristics elsewhere considered favorable for ore deposition.
Date: January 1957
Creator: Noble, E. A. & Annes, E. C., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experimental Simulation of Plateau Type Uranium Deposits (open access)

Experimental Simulation of Plateau Type Uranium Deposits

From abstract: Experimental simulation of Colorado Plateau type uranium deposits is divided into seven parts. The first three summarize the essential features of geological occurrence for the ores. The last four parts outline the results of experimental investigation arranged according to each geological group of features influencing mode of occurrence.
Date: January 1953
Creator: Bain, George W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Potential Radiological Implications of Nuclear Facilities in the Upper Mississippi River Basin in the Year 2000: The Year 2000 Study (open access)

The Potential Radiological Implications of Nuclear Facilities in the Upper Mississippi River Basin in the Year 2000: The Year 2000 Study

From introduction: This study considered the region comprising the Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri River basins and to assess the contributions to the radiation potentially received by the populace from airborne radionuclides originating in adjacent areas, an "air envelope" zone, some 200 miles wide.
Date: January 1973
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Knob Creek Monazite Placer, Cleveland County, North Carolina (open access)

Knob Creek Monazite Placer, Cleveland County, North Carolina

From abstract: The area comprising the first flood plain downstream from the headwaters of Knob Creek was one of three monazite placer deposits near Shelby, N. C., recommended by the Geological Survey for investigation by the Bureau of Mines as a joint effort by the above two agencies. Past production of monazite from the headwaters of this stream and its drainage of an area of known source rocks were factors influencing this selection. Drilling of the deposit was started on November 26, 1951, and completed December 29, 1951. Twenty-two churn-drill holes were completed to bed-rock on 112 acres of this flood plain for a total depth of 433 feet of vertical drilling.
Date: January 1953
Creator: Griffith, R. F. & Overstreet, William C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Investigation of Shinarump Channels on Oljetoh Mesa, Arizona - Utah (open access)

Investigation of Shinarump Channels on Oljetoh Mesa, Arizona - Utah

From to the files: The Shinarump-Moenkopi contact on Oljetoh Mesa in the Monument Valley district, Arizona-Utah, was examined from November 5 to 15, 1951, to determine the location of and the mineralization in Shinarump channels. Twenty-seven distinct channel outcrops were located and examined. Three of these channel outcrops are mineralized and the remaining 24 are barren. Plate I shows the distribution of the Shinarump, the Moenkopi, and the DeChelly member of the Cutler formation; the location of the Shinarmp channel outcrops; the channel trend where there is good evidence for such a trend. The Hoskinrnini tongue of the Cutler was mapped with the Moenkopi as it is not a good mappable unit in this area. The three mineralized outcrops are indicated by the letters A, G, and AA while the barren outcrops bear the letters B to F and H to Z.
Date: January 29, 1952
Creator: Cutter, R. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reconnaissance Geology of the Southern Muggins Mountains Yuma County, Arizona (open access)

Reconnaissance Geology of the Southern Muggins Mountains Yuma County, Arizona

Summary and conclusion: More than 4000 feet of Lower Miocene lake sediments were deposited upon a gneissic basement rock, at least locally. The sediments have been gently folded into broad anticlines and synclines and have been cut by high-angle faults with displacements on the order of 100 feet. Both basaltic (?) and acid andesitic lavas have intruded the sediments. A Pleistocene (?) conglomerate unconformably overlies all older exposed rocks. The lake sediments were considered to overlie the adjacent thick series of andesite flows (l). This was not established by a cursory examination. The sediments appeared to be in fault contact with the lavas although the relationship was always obscured by the younger conglomerate or alluvial cover. Since a dike of this acid andesitic composition was observed cutting the sediments, there is a possibility that the lake sediments are older than or contemporaneous with the thick extrusive andesite series.
Date: January 1958
Creator: Reyner, Millard L. & Ashwill, Walter R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mesaverde Uranium Deposits in the Yale Point-Black Mountain Area, Arizona (open access)

Mesaverde Uranium Deposits in the Yale Point-Black Mountain Area, Arizona

Abstract: To date uranium deposits have been confined to a thin sandstone in a zone near the contact of the Middle and Lower Members of the Toreva Formation and as a leach in the Lower Sandstone Member. On a large scale the deposits are apparently restricted to zones of tectonic deformation. Locally mineralization is primarily controlled by small intraformational channels and cross bedding, and is usually associated with carbonaceous material and quartzose sand lenses.
Date: January 1956
Creator: Meador, John P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Investigation of Uranium Mineralization of the Liba Number 2 and Liba Number 17 Claims Near Cameron, Coconino County, Arizona (open access)

Investigation of Uranium Mineralization of the Liba Number 2 and Liba Number 17 Claims Near Cameron, Coconino County, Arizona

Subject: This report presents an investigation of a reportedly large low-grade ore body in the vicinity of Cameron, Arizona.
Date: January 14, 1957
Creator: Gray, Irving B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annie Laurie Prospect, Santa Cruz County, Arizona (open access)

Annie Laurie Prospect, Santa Cruz County, Arizona

From introduction: The Annie Laurie 'cranium Prospect, in the Oro Blanco district of southern Arizona, is located in the southwest quarter of Sect. 3, T233, R=13. The nearest United States post office is Nogales, about 25 miles east, and the nearest settlement is Ruby, a nearly abandoned mining camp about 3 miles north. Access to the Ruby area is by gravel road from US highway 39 at Kinsley or Nogales. The Ruby quadrangle (1940) includes the area surrounding the prospect.
Date: January 1951
Creator: Wright, Robert J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Investigation of Uranium Potential of Precambrian and Metasedimentary Rocks, Central Laramie Range, Wyoming: Final Report (open access)

Investigation of Uranium Potential of Precambrian and Metasedimentary Rocks, Central Laramie Range, Wyoming: Final Report

From abstract: This study is directed toward evaluation of potential uraniferous quartz-pebble conglomerate occurrences or strata-bound uranium occurrences in the Laramie Range.
Date: January 1981
Creator: Graff, P. J.; Sears, J. W. & Holden, G. S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Distribution of Calcretes and Gypcretes in Southwestern United States and Their Uranium Favorability: Based on a Study of Deposits in Western Australia and South West Africa (Namibia) (open access)

The Distribution of Calcretes and Gypcretes in Southwestern United States and Their Uranium Favorability: Based on a Study of Deposits in Western Australia and South West Africa (Namibia)

From summary: The procedure has been to search for areas in which nonpedogenic calcrete or gypcrete may have developed and where additional study or exploration might be justified.
Date: January 6, 1978
Creator: Carlisle, Donald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Uranium Potential in Precambrian Conglomerates of the Central Arizona Arch: Final Report (open access)

Uranium Potential in Precambrian Conglomerates of the Central Arizona Arch: Final Report

From purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the Precambrian conglomerates of central Arizona in sufficient depth to determine whether they contain any obvious uranium concentrations and whether their geologic environment of deposition was permissive or prohibitive of conditions favoring uranium concentration.
Date: January 1981
Creator: Anderson, Phillip & Wirth, Karl R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dynamic Test Range 1-Follow-On: Narrative Report (open access)

Dynamic Test Range 1-Follow-On: Narrative Report

This report contains aerial gamma-ray and magnetic survey maps of the Lake Mead Dynamic Test Range.
Date: January 1981
Creator: L.K.B. Resources, Inc.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology and Recognition Criteria for Sandstone Uranium Deposits in Mixed Fluvial-Shallow Marine Sedimentary Sequences, South Texas: Final Report (open access)

Geology and Recognition Criteria for Sandstone Uranium Deposits in Mixed Fluvial-Shallow Marine Sedimentary Sequences, South Texas: Final Report

From summary: As the principal objective of this study is to identify the most useful geologic characteristics, referred to as recognition criteria, and develop a method for their systematic use in resource studies and exploration, the important geologic observations on the uranium deposits of South Texas are briefly summarized below.
Date: January 1981
Creator: Adams, Samuel S. & Smith, R. B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology and Recognition Criteria for Veinlike Uranium Deposits of the Lower to Middle Proterozoic Unconformity and Strata-Related Types: Final Report (open access)

Geology and Recognition Criteria for Veinlike Uranium Deposits of the Lower to Middle Proterozoic Unconformity and Strata-Related Types: Final Report

From synopsis: The discovery of the Rabbit Lake deposit, Saskatchewan, in 1968 and the East Alligator Rivers district, Northern Territory, Australia, in 1970 established the Lower-Middle Proterozoic veinlike-type deposits as one of the major types of uranium deposits. The term "veinlike" is used herein for this type of deposit in order to distinguish it from the classical magmatic-hydrothermal "vein" or "veintype" deposits. The veinlike deposits exhibit distinct geologic features and are now known to include the largest and the richest uranium deposits of the world. At present they account for between a quarter and a third of the Western World's proven uranium reserves.
Date: January 1981
Creator: Dahlkamp, Franz J. & Adams, Samuel S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Genesis of the Bokan Mountain, Alaska Uranium-Thorium Deposit (open access)

Genesis of the Bokan Mountain, Alaska Uranium-Thorium Deposit

From preface: This study was funded by the Department of Energy through Bendix Field Engineering Corporation subcontract 78-245-E dated September 20, 1978. The project is part of the National Uranium Resource Evaluation (NUBE) Program conducted by Bendix for the Department of Energy and is specifically part of an effort to geologically define and explain the significant occurrences of uranium throughout the world.
Date: January 1980
Creator: Thompson, Tommy B.; Lyttle, Thomas & Pierson, John R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Design of a Groundwater Sampling Network for Minnesota (open access)

Design of a Groundwater Sampling Network for Minnesota

From introduction: This folio was compiled to facilitate the use of groundwater as a sampling medium to aid in exploration for hitherto undiscovered deposits of uranium in the subsurface rocks of Minnesota. The report consists of the following sheets of the hydrogeologic map of Minnesota: 1) map of bedrock hydrogeology, 2) generalized cross sections of the hydrogeologic map of Minnesota, showing both Quaternary deposits and bedrock, 3) map of waterwells that penetrate Precambrian rocks in Minnesota. A list of these wells, showing locations, names of owners, type of Precambrian aquifers penetrated, lithologic material of the aquifers, and well depths is provided in the appendix to this report.
Date: January 1978
Creator: Kanivetsky, Roman
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Uranium Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Pilot Survey of the Estancia Valley, Bernalillo, Santa Fe, San Miguel, and Torrance Counties, New Mexico: Part 1. Text and Data Listings (open access)

Uranium Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Pilot Survey of the Estancia Valley, Bernalillo, Santa Fe, San Miguel, and Torrance Counties, New Mexico: Part 1. Text and Data Listings

As part of the LASL portion of the US EROA NURE program, water samples from 534 locations and sediment samples from 2936 locations were taken over a 7770 square kilometers area of the Estancia Valley in 1975 and analyzed for uranium.
Date: January 1977
Creator: Olsen, Clayton Edward
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library