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: Authority of the State Soil Conservation Board to compensate Field Planning Engineers in an amount in excess of the salary schedule of other employees of the State Soil Conservation Board.

This document discusses the standards and testing relating to the allowable water shutoff times for reactor tubes and crossheaders are based on theoretical calculations. The resulting limits are believed to be quite conservative and to restrict operations unduly in many instances. They are restrictive because of the conductivity and resistance data on which they are based. It is the purpose of the test to obtain the experimental data necessary to determine new water shut-off curves for the reactors. When reliable information is obtained for elevated temperature lattice conductance then theoretical calculations applying to those values will be far more accurate. The information will be related to water shut-off times, reactor safety considerations such as rod strength and drop time versus uranium fuel melting, etc. It can be roughly estimated that this information will reduce the time delay before tube and/or cross-header water shut-off by as much as 25%. This will save approximately one to two days production per year or about $60,000.

A study of the solubility limits of iron and tin in alpha zirconium at temperatares below 500 deg C is in progress. Dilute alloys were prepared by arc- melting using the highest purity materials. Heat treatment of the alloys involves homogenizntion at 800 deg C followed by severe cold work prior to extended anneals at temperatures between 200 and 500 deg C in 50-degree intervals. Metallographic examination of annealed and quenched structures is the primary mode of investigation. Some magnetic susceptibility studies were also made. (auth)

Iron oxide deposits removed from high pressure system of HRT after the first power run will be annlyzed for Fe/sup 59/ in an attempt to determine the time these deposits were circulated prior to deposition (settling or film formation). Deposits available are film from corrosion specimens (stainless steel, zirconium and titanium) and settled particles. (auth)

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