Quarterly progress report on a project to test the radiation effects on metallurgy.

From abstract: "...limited study work was performed on the conceptual design of the proposed fast flux test facility and information was obtained in important areas of supporting technology."

From introduction: "This paper describes a sequence for analyzing the effects of ground water flow on waste transport in natural soils."

The following documents are quarterly progress reports recorded in the chemistry division of the University of California's radiation laboratory.

The following quarterly report covers a period between October, November, December of 1953 to April of 1954. The document provides reports on medical and health physics, particularly on the biological studies of radiation effects, the metabolic properties of various materials, radiation chemistry, health chemistry, and health physics.

Annual progress report of safety program for several laboratory divisions.

Report regarding the mechanical properties of Niobium, Molybdenum, Tantalum, and Tungsten alloys. Includes a review of the scant literature regarding these elements.

An engineering-scale demonstration of the Sulfex process indicated that semi-continuous decladding of unirradiated stainless steel-clad UO2 or U02ThO2 fuels is feasible.

Experimental work concerned with the development of an inexpensive composite fuel plate with a high burnup potential for application in a 500°C sodium environment as Core B of the Enrico Fermi Fast Breeder Reactor.

Program written to perform polynomial least squares fits on the the IBM 7090 computer.

Comparison of the economics of mechanical shear-leach and Sulfex decladding-core dissolution head end treatments for processing typical tubular bundles of stainless steel-jacketed UO2 nuclear fuels.

From Summary: "The major objective of the run was the investigation of fuel stability. The reactor operated for long periods at the design power of 5 Mw with none of the usual indications of instability while the system pressure was kept at 1250 psig. Run 21 ended on January 22, so that the reason for an abrupt change in the mixing rate of fuel between the core and blanket could be investigated and a reactor steam-system valve could be repaired."

Programming research in the construction of a translator to Oracle language from ALGOL.

Quarterly progress report on metallurgy research operations at Hanford Atomic Products Operation in Richland, Washington.

Preliminary study to determine the technical and economic feasibility of a 315 eMW High-Temperature, Integral, Liquid Metal Fuel Reactor (HTIR).

Report concerning the production of gamma ray spectra of gamma rays by the interaction of ~160-MeV protons with beryllium, carbon, oxygen, Aluminum, carbon monoxide, and bismuth. This also includes descriptions of the apparatus used and a discussion of the results.

Report documenting "the design, construction, and operation of the Kilorod Facility and its fabrication equipment" (p. 42) as well as its economic viability.

Report describing various reactors, six thermal conduction capsules, three loop facilities, miscellaneous equipment, and shop facilities maintained by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Report describing a set of high-precision routines for the IBM 7090 that perform efficiently the calculations most often required on axially symmetric magnetic systems. The routines compute the vector potential, field components, and the mixed gradient for current systems and for certain idealized distributions of magnetized matter. The programs for the current systems were developed from a set of six equations in elliptic integrals, which suffice when correlations are fully exploited for all the relevant properties of loops and solenoids.

Report documenting ongoing research and developments at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Gas-Cooled Reactor Project.

Report issued by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory discussing techniques to obtain measurements of alpha for enriched uranium. Descriptions of equipment and experiments used to obtain alpha are presented. This report includes tables, and illustrations.

Report issued by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory discussing optical mapping of experiment tubes. Descriptions of experiment equipment, and designs of the tubes are presented. This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.

This report summarizes only that portion of the injection-casting experiments in which the castings were made with air pressure.

Liquid Metal Fuel Reactor Experiment program quarterly technical report.