Health and Safety Laboratory Fallout Program Quarterly Summary Report: December 1, 1960 - March 1, 1961 (open access)

Health and Safety Laboratory Fallout Program Quarterly Summary Report: December 1, 1960 - March 1, 1961

Report that summarizes multiple laboratories' reports on global fallout deposition. Reports include data on Strontium-90 deposition recorded by the Health and Safety Laboratory, data from other laboratories, related interpretive reports, and recent publications related to fallout.
Date: April 1, 1961
Creator: Hardy, Edward P., Jr.; Rivera, Joseph & Frankel, Robert
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Feasibility of a Small Scale Reprocessing Plant for the Dresden Nuclear Power Station (open access)

A Study of the Feasibility of a Small Scale Reprocessing Plant for the Dresden Nuclear Power Station

Report describing the design, feasibility, and economic concerns of a small-scale reprocessing plant.
Date: April 28, 1961
Creator: Schneider, H.; Fletcher, R. D.; Codding, J. W.; Bearden, R. G.; Erickson, E. E.; Horn, S. J. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Steam Cooled Power Reactor Evaluation - Beloyarsk (Ural) Reactor (open access)

Steam Cooled Power Reactor Evaluation - Beloyarsk (Ural) Reactor

Report evaluating "the effects of nuclear steam superheating, as utilized in the Russian design, on the economics of electric power production, assuming the use of such a design in the United States" (p. 1). This report includes a description of the Beloyarsk Station and modifications made to the Russian designs for use in the United States.
Date: April 1961
Creator: Hanford Works
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fabrication Development of UO2-Stainless Steel Composite Fuel Plates for core B of the Enrico Fermi Fast Breeder Reactor (open access)

Fabrication Development of UO2-Stainless Steel Composite Fuel Plates for core B of the Enrico Fermi Fast Breeder Reactor

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.
Date: April 18, 1961
Creator: Cherubini, J. H.; Beaver, R. J. & Leitten, C. F., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Polfit II, an IBM 7090 Program for Polynomial Least Squares Fitting (open access)

Polfit II, an IBM 7090 Program for Polynomial Least Squares Fitting

Program written to perform polynomial least squares fits on the the IBM 7090 computer.
Date: April 24, 1961
Creator: Lietzke, M. P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mathematics Panel: Annual Progress Report for Period Ending December 31, 1960 (open access)

Mathematics Panel: Annual Progress Report for Period Ending December 31, 1960

Programming research in the construction of a translator to Oracle language from ALGOL.
Date: April 6, 1961
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pneumatic Injection Casting of Aluminum-Plutonium Fuel Elements (open access)

Pneumatic Injection Casting of Aluminum-Plutonium Fuel Elements

This report summarizes only that portion of the injection-casting experiments in which the castings were made with air pressure.
Date: April 1961
Creator: Koler, R. K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Runaway Analysis for a Gas Cooled Reactor (open access)

Runaway Analysis for a Gas Cooled Reactor

From abstract: "This report presents an IBM digital computer program that solves numerically and simultaneously the equations that describe gross reactor behavior under runaway conditions."
Date: April 1961
Creator: Becker, Richard A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Critical Path Scheduling in Maintenance (open access)

Critical Path Scheduling in Maintenance

Summary: The following narrative interspersed with figures and attached reference exhibits is designed to acquaint the reader with the scheduling procedure developed at ORGDP, trial results and evaluation, subsequent improvement, further application, and use in conjunction with our IBM 7090 Computer.
Date: April 10, 1961
Creator: Gritzner, C. L.; Jones, J. P. & Ellis, J. M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
High Temperature Heat Utilization in Industry (open access)

High Temperature Heat Utilization in Industry

Introduction: The United States Atomic energy Commission has guided the development of nuclear reactors for commercial applications for over a decade. the three most important development areas for industrial applications at the present time are for use in electric power generation, for productions of low temperature process steam, and for the supply of high temperature heat to manufacturing processes.
Date: April 1961
Creator: Ferguson, F. Alan; Towle, Leland H. & Tarrice, Richard R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cesium-137 Research Irradiator (open access)

Cesium-137 Research Irradiator

Abstract: A 12,000 curie cesium-137 research irradiator has been designed and installed on the Georgia Tech campus. The evaluation of the physical characteristics of the irradiator has been completed.
Date: April 20, 1961
Creator: Carter, R. W.; Palmer, R. C. & Willis, W. V.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reconnaissance for Uranium in the Antofagasta Area, Province of Antofagasta, Chile (open access)

Reconnaissance for Uranium in the Antofagasta Area, Province of Antofagasta, Chile

Abstract: The Antofagasta area, in the Province of Antofagasta, Chile, was investigated in September and August 1958 by two field parties of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and the Instituto de Investigaciones Geológicas de Chile, who were working under a cooperative agreement between the teo governments. the purpose of the investigation was to examine the area for the possible occurrence of commercial deposits of uranium.
Date: April 1961
Creator: Knowles, Paul H.; Bowes, William A.; C., Mario Serrano & S., Rudolfo Grüenwald
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mechanical Properties of Zircaloy-2 Weld Metal (open access)

Mechanical Properties of Zircaloy-2 Weld Metal

Abstract: Zircaloy-2 weld metal, obtained by inert gas non-consumable-electrode welding, was subjected to tensile, strain fatigue, and creep-rupture testing.
Date: April 15, 1961
Creator: Beitscher, S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hazards Report for the SM-1 Core II Without Special Components (open access)

Hazards Report for the SM-1 Core II Without Special Components

Abstract: This technical report describes the changes incurred in the SM-1 by the insertion of the SM-1 Core II without special components. The SM-1 Core II components were made to specifications very nearly identical to those of SM-1 Core I. The differences consist of europium absorber sections, internal europium flux suppressors in the control rod fuel elements, and low impurity cladding. Each of the SM-1 Core II components with the exception of the five absorber sections new in SM-1 Core I were subjected to a Zero Power Experiment at the Alco Critical Facility. The results of this experiment indicate that the SM-1 Core II will have nuclear characteristics very similar to that of the SM-1 Core I. Since SM-1 Core II will be operated with the same mode of rod control, in the same core support structure, and with the same primary coolant flow conditions, the thermal characteristics should be essentially identical to that of SM-1 Core I. Also, all kinetic characteristics of SM-1 Core II should be identical to those of SM-1 Core I. This report demonstrates that there is no increase in potential for a hazardous situation at SM-1 due to the replacement of SM-1 Core I by …
Date: April 19, 1961
Creator: Gallagher, J. G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
gem-Bis(disubstitutedphosphinyl)alkanes. II. Extraction Properties of Bis(di-n-hexlphosphinyl)methane (open access)

gem-Bis(disubstitutedphosphinyl)alkanes. II. Extraction Properties of Bis(di-n-hexlphosphinyl)methane

From abstract: "Bis(di-n-hexylphosphinyl)methane, HDPM, [(C6H13)2P(O)]2CH2, has been studied as an extractant for a variety of metals. HDPM was evaluated as an extractant for uranium(VI) and compared with tri-n-octylphosphine oxide, TOPO, (C8H13)3PO. In nonpolar solvents, HDPM forms a polymeric-like substance with compounds of uranium(VI). Viscosity measurements indicate that the molecular weight of this polymeric-like substance is about 100 times greater than the corresponding complex with TOPO. Polymer formation occurs only when nonpolar solvents are used as diluents for HDPM and is easily avoided by using polar solvents such as 1,2-aichlorobenzene. HDPM forms 1:1 and 2:1 complexes with uranium(VI) nitrate. Equilibrium constants for these complexes as well as that for the 2:1 TOPO complex were calculated and it was shown that the over-all constant is at least ten times larger for the HDPM complex than for the TOPO complex. The effect of concentration of various mineral acids, extractant concentration, temperature, and diluents on the extraction of uranium are discussed."
Date: April 11, 1961
Creator: Burke, Keith E.; Sakurai, Hiroshi; O'Laughlin, Jerome W. & Banks, Charles V.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Radioactivity Dissemination Near Uranium Processing Mills (open access)

Radioactivity Dissemination Near Uranium Processing Mills

This report follows a preliminary survey made to study radioactive contamination of the soil (and to some extent in the air and waters) in the vicinity of seven uranium processing mills.
Date: April 1, 1961
Creator: Feldman, M. H.; Troianello, Emilio J.; Coates, G. K. & Sheehan, W. R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Lepton Decay Nodes of Hyperons (open access)

The Lepton Decay Nodes of Hyperons

"In spite of the present scarcity of experimental data it appears likely that the lepton modes of hyperon decay will eventually become an important source of information concerning strangeness-changing weak interactions. In this paper we use dispersion relations to estimate the effect of intermediate meson states upon the lepton decay modes of hyperons."
Date: April 1961
Creator: Harrington, David R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Proton-Proton Triple Scattering Parameters R and A at 213 Mev (open access)

The Proton-Proton Triple Scattering Parameters R and A at 213 Mev

"As a part of a program to determine the p-p scattering matrix at 213 Mev, the triple scattering parameters R and A were measured at 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80. and 90 deg in the center-of-msss system. The results are compared with a phase shift analysis by MacGregor and Moravcsik and with the predictions of the boundary condition model of Saylor, Bryan and Marshak."
Date: April 17, 1961
Creator: England, Alan C.; Givson, William A. & Gotow, Kazuo
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Nature of the Axioms of Relativistic Quantum Field Theory (open access)

The Nature of the Axioms of Relativistic Quantum Field Theory

"The formulation of field theories by means of Wightman functions is studied. It is shown that, given two field theories that satisfy all the axioms, one can construct a family of Wightmsn fields with the same properties by a process of superposition of Wightman functions. The condition of unitarity is formulated without reference to asymptotic conditions, and it is proved that the Wightman fields constructed by the superposition process (starting with "unitary" fields) fail to preserve unitarity."
Date: April 26, 1961
Creator: Sudarshan, E.C.G. & Bardakci, K
System: The UNT Digital Library