Bronze Furnace History 313 Building (open access)

Bronze Furnace History 313 Building

This study was started in May 1949 to find methods of reducing the number of element failures in the salt bath bronze furnaces. Determining the cause of the failure and methods of eliminating them is followed to completion.
Date: February 6, 1951
Creator: Correy, Thos. B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Westinghouse Creep Test of Zirconium-WAPD-M-106; Memorandum (open access)

Westinghouse Creep Test of Zirconium-WAPD-M-106; Memorandum

Basis: "It is desired to test the effect of neutron flux on the creep rate of zirconium. These data will greatly add to the metallurgical information needed for design specifications of reactor components utilizing this metal."
Date: February 12, 1951
Creator: Loeb, L. M.
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
Decontamination of Dissolver Vent Gases at Hanford (open access)

Decontamination of Dissolver Vent Gases at Hanford

The preceding report follows an extensive study made at Hanford of methods and equipment to remove effectively the dissolver vent gases.
Date: February 16, 1951
Creator: Blasewitz, A. G.; Carlisle, R. V.; Judson, B. F.; Katzer, M. F.; Kurtz, E. F.; Schmidt, W. C. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analytical procedures for the metal fabrication process (open access)

Analytical procedures for the metal fabrication process

From introduction: The present report describes further refinements of the apparatus and the method to meet a need for a sensitive determination of carbon in plutonium.
Date: February 20, 1951
Creator: Leboeuf, M. B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Purex Pulse-Column Studies With Unirradiated Uranium: (Development of Specifications for the O.R.N.L. Pilot Plant) (open access)

Purex Pulse-Column Studies With Unirradiated Uranium: (Development of Specifications for the O.R.N.L. Pilot Plant)

Report summarizing data from Purex tests for pulse column specifications. These test results were used to estimate pilot plant specifications.
Date: February 20, 1951
Creator: Bradley, J. G.
System: The UNT Digital Library