From Abstract: "The electric field is plotted and its construction steps for axial symmetry are given."

Report presenting more than 500 references to the field of temperature measurement. These references were collected from two general sources: Scientific and technical literature and government reports. The period covered is from 1953 to June 1960, with some from earlier dates. References are divided into a number of categories based on the type of instrument used. Some references to calibration of instruments and to scientific theories upon which temperature measurement is based are also presented.

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

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

From introduction: "The contract covers final design of the SM-2 Nuclear Power (PWR) Steam Electric Station, described in the preliminary design report, APAE 40, Volumes I and II."

This report provides an estimation of cost and manpower for construction of the Hanford Isotopes Production Plant.

On 3 March 1960 at 11:30 a.m. a detonation occurred in the 8-inch isostatic press. The press and building were completely destroyed. Operating personnel were protected and no injuries resulted. Adjacent facilities were not affected. The press was housed in a temporary facility located in the southwest portion of Section 26, Site 300. The facility was situated approximately 1000 feet west of the main site road, and 1400 feet north of the county road. The press building was of frangible wood construction and was surrounded by an earth barricade. A remote control building, provided with overhead protection, a mechanical equipment room, and a transportainer magazine were located outside the barricaded press building.

From abstract: The objective is the design, development, fabrication, installation and initial testing and operation of a prepackaged, air-transportable, pressurized water reactor nuclear power plant, the PM-1.

From foreword: This report presents the results of a study of a nuclear steam generator which uses reactor technology during the aircraft nuclear propulsion program to produce superheated steam for marine propulsion.

The following report is one of a series of quarterly reports following the progress and development of improved zirconium alloys for service in superheated water and steam. This report covers the period between January 1 to March 31, 1962 and was conducted by the United States and the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM). The major effort in this period has been devoted to ascertaining and evaluating corrosion behavior of 75 ternary compositions.

The objective of this test is to evaluate the hypothesis that autoclave film damage is a necessary condition for groove pitting of X-8001 alloy fuel cladding.

The data consists of out and inlet temperatures, and panellit and header pressures, sorted according to date and tube-pile.

It was necessary to provide a basis for the design of modifications to the 190-K pumping units to achieve increased process water flow rates. The prototype pumping unit was inspected for cavitation damage after 3 months operation. The low lift pump impeller showed no cavitation damage, while the high lift pump impeller showed excessive damage. The lower max flow capacity and slightly increased power requirements of the third prototype impeller should not preclude its use if its cavitation performance proves satisfactory. Required combined five and six pump flow rates would be achieved with proper sizing of impeller diameter. Adequate margin of safety would exist between design operating points (five and six pump operating points) and max capacity. Under four pump operating conditions, the flow would be reduced 1% below that of the first impeller design, and the bulk outlet temperature surge would be increased one degree following instantaneous reduction to four pump operation.

This production test is designed to test the feasibility of controlling the amount of air entering a reactor, hence, the burnout of the graphite by monitoring the gas activity. Gas activity comes from the induced activity on argon, which is one of the constituents of air. This production test is basically a test to calibrate the gas activity instruments as a function of various amounts of argon in the reactors gas system. The first two parts of the test are calibration points with different amounts of argon. From these calibration points, extrapolation or interpolation can be used to determine expected activities for other amounts of argon. (GHH)

In the past two years a number of process optimization studies have been made with the aid of IBM machine programs. These programs have been designed to calculate optimum power levels and optimum goal exposures so that better insight could be gained for use in resolving plant operating plans. We feel that this approach has been highly successful. In January of 1960, a new program was written for the IBM 709 to incorporate the desirable features of the previous programs and to provide additional output data. This document is a description of the new programs.

In a previous report the adaptation of Stix's ion-cyclotron-wave-heating scheme to the mirror geometry was suggested. An experiment along these lines has been conducted for the past year by E. Chambers, using a tubular P.I.G discharge to provide the basic plasma. The Chambers experiment has been eminently successful in demonstrating the transfer of rf power along the P.I.G. (as along a co-axial conductor), and the resultant acceleration of ions. The power transfer is evident from the predominantly resistive rf impedance of the P.I.G. (1 - 10 ohms), the production of intense luminosity outside the dc P.I.G channel when the rf is turned on, and by the observation large signals with magnetic pick-up loops. The ion heating is demonstrated by direct measurement of ion current on a probe some centimeters outside the P.I.G., and by the observation of energetic charge-exchange neutrals. At the same time, the characteristic features of heating by ion-cyclotron-waves, as described by Stix, are only partly in evidence. The visible broadening of the P.I.G. channel and such fast-ion phenomena as neutral emission do seem to be maximal near the expected cyclotron resonance point. However, the rf impedance is anomalous both in magnitude and parameter dependence, and there are …

A fraction of the energy released by the underground detonation of nuclear explosives is locally deposited as residual thermal energy. An accurate prediction of this usable fraction of the energy released is necessary to evaluate the feasibility of several of the proposed projects in the Plowshare Program. This paper will present a summary of the available data on residual thermal energy from nuclear detonations in three different geological media: tuff, halite, and granodiorite.

The increasing exponential function e-at [a > 0] characterizes such natural events as gas discharges, neutron multiplication, and the transistor avalanche phenomenon. This report describes an instrument for measuring the rate of rise, a, of an increasing electrical exponential signal.