Abstract: The tensile and yield strengths of both cast and wrought uranium discs were substantially increased by explosively impacting them at room temperature and at 375 deg F. However, the room-temperature impacting caused gross damage in the cast material and slight internal damage in the wrought material at the highest impacting pressures. Impacting at 375 deg F, which is just above the brittle-ductile transition temperature for uranium, was the most effective method for increasing the strengths with no damage to either the cast or wrought material. This impacted material retained some of its increased strength after a low temperature (425 deg C) vacuum anneal that greatly increased the elongation. A salt anneal caused a partial recrystallization in the impacted cast uranium. (auth).

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Introduction: Geologic studies by the U.S. Geological Survey in support of the U.S. Air Force's Project Pluto in Area 401 of the Nevada Test Site were made on behalf of the U.S. Atomic energy Commission.

Information is presented concerning coated fuel particle development and evaluation; burnup capabilities of Y/sub 2/O/sub 3/-stabilized UO/sub 2/ and stabilized fuel - BeO matrix materials; high-temperature studies of substoichiometric urania and urania solid solutions; high-temperature carbides and borides research; and high-flux reactor materials gaseous fuels research.

Thulium oxide can be irradiated to meet the desired specific heat generation of 1.5 watts per gram as part of a flux amplification test, which will be conducted the early part of FY-1965. To obtain the heat generation level, is calculated that a 120-day irradiation will be required at a flux of 1.1 {times} 10{sup 14} neutrons/cm{sup 2}-sec. if the proposed target element is modified by reducing the thulium oxide wafer thickness from 0.080 to 0.050 inch. Also, the length of the target element should be reduced to not more than 20 inches to minimize the possibility of sticking in the process tube. This would require four targets rather than a single element as proposed. Prior to undertaking this irradiation, it would be desirable to place a prototype target element in the Hanford Test Reactor to determine the approximate rise factor (change in neutron flux level between the target element and adjacent tubes of fuel elements) in order to more precise data for planning the loading pattern in the production test.

The purpose of the test described in this report was to determine the effect of production reactor flux on ceramic materials being considered for lining the vertical safety rod channels at the production reactors. This document is being written to describe the test, the results to date, and the work which remains to be done. The materials being evaluated in the test are: Aluminum silicate (Maryland Lava Co.); silicon nitride bonded silicon carbide (Norton Co. ``crystalon``); and aluminum oxide 85% (Norton Co. ``Alundum RA-98``).

The monthly report for the Hanford Laboratories Operation, March 1964. Reactor fuels, chemistry, dosimetry, separation processes, reactor technology, financial activities, biology operation, and physics and instrumentation research, and applied mathematics operation, and programming operations are discussed.

The objective of this supplement to Production Test IP-584-D is to authorize low exposure (5--8 GVR) irradiation tests of the following lithium-containing target materials: Magnesium -- 14 percent lithium alloy, Lithium-aluminate (LiA1O2), Lithium-silicate (Li2SiO), Lithium-aluminate -- aluminum cermet, Lithium-silicate -- aluminum cermet. Lithium target materials will be contained in 4.50 inch long aluminum cans which are clad with 35 mil Zircaloy-2 alloy. The target elements will be contained in 1.9 inch OD, 1.5 inch ID Zircaloy-2 flow distributing sleeves. The target element assemblies and N Reactor inner-fuel elements (NIE-1) in Zircaloy-2 sleeves, will be irradiated in KER-1 or KER-2 at operating conditions approximating N Reactor operation.

The scheduled termination of PT IP-659-AC, presently being irradiated in F Reactor, will result in discharge of 105 columns of enriched uranium (0.947 w/o U-235) at less than 50 per cent of the goal exposure. The test block is currently scheduled to be replaced with natural uranium columns. Since F Reactor is on a semiblock discharge plan (alternate rows), subsequent operating plans would require that 64 of these replacement columns of natural uranium be likewise discharged during the scheduled outage in May of 1964 at less than 50 per cent of goal. It appears desirable to minimize the economic costs of the production test by an alternative discharge scheme (e.g., interim poison irradiation). The objective of this supplement is to soften the economic impact of low exposure fuel discharge scheduled by IP-659-AC and simultaneously to obtain a useful alternate product by irradiating nine columns of Li-Al and Bismuth in a ``striped`` charge.

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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: Length of term for which Justice of the Peace, Place 1, and Justice of the Peace, Place 2, Precinct 1, of Titus County, were elected in 1962.

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 a life insurance company is required to comply with the provisions of Article 4.02A (1) and (2), Texas Business Corporation Act, in addition to complying with the provisions of Article 3.05, Texas Insurance Code, in order to effect an amendment to its articles of incorporation.

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: Length of time an inmate must serve in the Texas department of Corrections before he is legally entitled to be considered for a parole if the inmate is serving a sentence of not less than two nor more than eight years.

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 defendant in a misdemeanor case pending in the county court, or his counsel, have a legal right of access to the names on the list of prospective jurors summoned in accordance to the procedure provided in Article 2117, V.C.S., before such jurors report into the court on the date for which they have been summoned and related question.

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: Authority of Highway Department to build entrance and exit ramps and access roads to the Texas Turnpike.

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: Responsibility of the Juvenile Court of Dallas County to grant medical orders for juveniles in certain circumstances, and related questions.

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 property in the custody of the Adjutant General is required to be transferred by the Adjutant General to the Texas National Guard Armory Board under the facts submitted.

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 ballot for use on voting machines in the general election must permit straight-ticket voting by a single operation for voters eligible to vote for federal offices only.

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: Constitutionality of Article 667, Section 10 1/2, V.P.C.

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: Upon a final judgement of conviction for driving a motor vehicle while intoxicated, and the defendant fails to surrender his operator’s license to the court, is the defendant subject to any other action other than a criminal action for failure to surrender the license under Article 6687b, Sec. 44, V.C.S.

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: Questions relating to responsibility for and authority over indigent aged county residents.

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 it would be proper for a County Commissioners Court to pay a fee to one of its Commissioners, which fee was allowed by a District Court, for the representation of an indigent in a felony case under the stated facts.

Irradiation of thorium oxide elements of the original test began in January 1964. Twenty columns of thorium oxide elements located in the outermost processing channels of F Reactor, accompanied by 40 columns of enriched, 0.947 w/o U-235, uranium elements in two adjacent lattice unit channels, were charged to permit evaluation of the reactivity effects of the loading and to obtain data on product and contamination build-up rates. Of the two loadings of thoria elements authorized by the initial test, the first has been discharged. Supplement A to Production Test IP-648-AC authorized two of the columns of thorium oxide elements to be irradiated through both cycles of the fringe loading. This supplement, Supplement B, to the test involves modification of the discharge schedule of the second loading of thoria elements and the two columns of elements authorized by Supplement a to permit discharge of the thoria columns at goal exposure of the supporting enriched uranium fuel columns.

This report provides the Hanford Atomic Products Operation plant acquisition and construction budget for fiscal year 1966 and the revision of budget for fiscal year 1965.