This document has been prepared for internal use by the General Electric Company to serve as a program for evaluating reactor instrumentation and safety circuit equipment needs. It is intended that this document be used as a guide for defining, planning and scheduling engineering effort; budgeting of capital money; and project planning for new instrumentation systems. Effort will be made to periodically evaluate the status of the programs presented and provide updating information accordingly.After a plant has been built and operated for a number of years, it becomes apparent to operating and engineering personnel that certain modifications in controls and monitoring systems would provide both tangible and intangible benefits. Systems which were once thought to be the primary points of control shift in importance as others become recognized. As time passes this shifting spreads the main control focus from the central control desk to various other areas in the control room. Production rate increases cause instrument ranges and scales to be changed so that information on the process can still be obtained from existing equipment. Response times, sensitivity, limits, and time constants which were figured for one level must be used or revised for new levels. Further, it is discovered …

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 County Clerk of Midland County should charge as part of the costs in a probate case the commission provided for in Article 3926 of 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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether Article 6.03 V.C.S., applies to motor vehicles brought into this state by residents of this state even though the resident has registered the motor vehicle in the foreign state and related questions.

This is the monthly report for the Hanford Laboratories Operation January 1963. Reactor fuels, chemistry, dosimetry, separation processes, reactor technology, financial activities, biology operation, physics and instrumentation research, operations research and synthesis, programming, and radiation protection operation are discussed.

Discussion of theories on particle motion in electric and magnetic fields precedes examination of theories on the source of the inner and outer Van Allen belts. Theories for the inner belt propose solar cosmic ray injection and galactic cosmic ray injection as the source of the protons. Neutron albedo is particularly examined but seems to be unaccountable for the proton belt. Neutron albedo and injection from the sun are also considered as possible sources of the electrons in the outer belt. Fluctuations, intensities, and distributions of the belts are also discussed, and the connection between the belts and aurora displays is examined. Fluxes, spectra, and particle intensities are displayed, and the effects of magnetic storms on the belts are analyzed. 150 references. (D.C.W.)

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An extensive development, fabrication, and design analysis program was completed on 2 wt% boron stainiess steel for Pathfinder boiler and superheater control rods. Results indicated that the control rods will operate satisfactorily in the reactor under all foreseeable conditions. It was concluded that the maximum local burnup on the boiler rods is limited to 1.0 core at.% and the superheater rods to 0.5 core at.% to remain well below the onset of any deleterious effects. All stresses imposed on the material were found to be below yield strength. The deflections were calculated and were not sufficient to restrict any movement of the cruciform during reactor operations and scrams. A welding development program produced a sound fabrication method for producing the control rods. A prototype rod was extensively tested in the hot control rod drive test, including a large number of scrams. The rod showed no deleterious effects. The rods were designed to accommodate any helium release and swelling that may occur. (M.C.G.)

Cr{sup++} in solution produces a paramagnetic shift in the NMR absorption of 0{sup17} in C1O{sub4}{sup-}, as well as the expected paramagnetic shift for 0{sup17} in H{sub2}O. As the concentration of C1O{sub4}{sup-} increases, the shift in the H{sub2}O{sup17} absorption is diminished, and eventually changes sign. The effects are ascribed to preferential replacement by C1O{sub4}{sup-} of water molecules from the axial positions in the first coordination sphere about Gr{sup++}.

Research and development activities are reported on Borax V, ZPR- III, - VI, and -IX, EBR-I, EBR- II, and FARET. Reactor technology investigations are reported in reactor physics, reactor fuel development, viewing systems, heat engineering, and chemical separations. Research on advanced systems is reported on reactors and undersea nuclear power applications. Nuclear safety development in thermal and fast reactors is also reported. (J.R.D.)

This document details activities of the irradiation processing department during the month of January, 1963. 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; and Financial Operation.

Report documenting the progress of the Army Gas-Cooled Reactor Systems Program to develop a mobile nuclear power plant for military field operation.