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: Under the submitted facts, whether the Gross Receipts Tax provided for by Article 11.03m Taxation-General, is due by the stated corporations.

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: Exemption from franchise tax of non-profit corporations under submitted facts.

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 State Building Commission may enter into certain contracts with other state agencies and have certain funds appropriated to such agencies transferred to the Building Commission for payment of services under such contract.

Report issued by the Argonne National Laboratory discussing progress made by the Reactor Development Program during April 1963. Reactor physics, experiments, and safety studies are presented. This report includes tables, and illustrations.

From introduction: "This is the thirteenth in a series of quarterly reports which will cover the progress and results from the conceptual design, economic evaluations and research and development work performed by the General Electric Company as part of the Nuclear Superheat Project."

In Part One they formulate in a general way the problem of analyzing and evaluating the aberrations of quadrupole magnet beam systems, and of characterizing the shapes and other properties of the beam envelopes in the neighborhood of foci. They consider all aberrations, including those due to misalignments and faulty construction, through third order in small parameters, for quadrupole beam systems. One result of this study is the development of analytic and numerical techniques for treating these aberrations, yielding useful expressions for the comparison of the aberrations of different beam systems. A second result of this study is a comprehensive digital computer program that determines the magnitude and nature of the aberrations of such beam systems. The code, using linear programming techniques, will adjust the parameters of a beam system to obtain specified optical properties and to reduce the magnitude of aberrations that limit the performance of that system. They examine numerically, in detail, the aberrations of two typical beam systems. In Part Two, they examine the problem of extracting the proton beam from a synchrotron of 'H' type magnet construction. They describe the optical studies that resulted in the design of an external beam from the Bevatron that is …

Abstract: Various methods and techniques of measuring void fractions in boiling heat transfer media are discussed.

Progress made in the reactor development program at Argonne National Laboratory is reported. Information and data are presented on Borax-V, SL-1, ZPR- III, ZPR-VI, ZPR-VII, ZPR-IX, EBR-I, EBR-II, FARET, EBWR, Treat, nology is presented along with nuclear safety. Reactor fuel element and material development is emphasized. (N.W.R.)

Various methods and techniques of measuring void fraction in boiling heat transfer media are discussed. Details of 17 void-fraction measurement systems are abstracted. A dynamic void-fraction measurement system is described, capable of continuously measuring void fraction at any position along a 12-ft test section. Void fraction (the ratio of vapor volume to total volume of a 2- phase mixture) is measured in boiling organic coolant contained by a test section of 5/8-in.-OD nickel tube with 0.049-in. wall thickness. Measurement of void fraction without physical contact with the test section is achieved through the use of a radiation attenuation method. The intensity of a narrow 100-kev x-ray beam transmitted through the test section is measured and recorded to permit calculation of void fraction. An x-ray tube and scintillation detectors are mounted on a remotely controlled elevator assembly used for horizontal and vertical positioning. Major sources of measurement error due to fluctuations in x-ray tube output and fluctuation of detector power supply voltage are cancelled by using two detectors connected in a differential circuit. Detector cooling and heavy magnetic shielding further reduce measurement errors. Typical measurement accuracies for small and large void fractions are 0.05 surface proces 0.015 and 1.00 surface proces …

A general description is given of the Pre-Buggy chemical explosive experiments. These experiments consisted of a series of single- and multiple- charge detonations designed to refine our knowledge of channel size as a function of charge spacing, and to obtain data on venting of explosion products from a row of spherical charges detonated in alluvium. A basic series of six single-charge detonations and four multiple-charge detonations of five charges in a row was executed in Area 5 of the Nevada Test Site from November 1982 through February 1983. Each charge contained 1,000 pounds of nitromethane with a La/sup 140/ tracer. Preliminary examination of the results indicates that: (1) When charges were spaced at 1.0 single-charge crater radius, the channel depth and width were larger than the diameter and depth of a single-charge crater. (2) Small increases in spacing resulted in considerable reduction of channel depth and a smaller reduction in width. (3) The channel shape at spacings of 1.5 single- charge crater radii was very uneven. (4) When the ratio of the depth-of-burst to depth-of-crater was about two, the venting of explosion products from a row- charge detonation was less than from single-charge detonations. (auth)

This document discusses the leak repair of the 107-D retention basin. Leakage of effluent water from the 107-D Basin had increased from 6000 gallons per minute in November of 1959 to the peak of 8000 gallons per minute in April of 1963. Washout of fines had apparently created large voids beneath the north and west walls and endangered the integrity of the structure by settling the wall 2 in. at one place. The leakage was arrested in March of 1963 by filling the voids with concrete and grout and sealing the repairs with a newly developed sealant. Present total leakage is 3750 gallons per minute.

This is the monthly report for the Hanford Laboratories Operation, April, 1963. Reactor fuels, chemistry, dosimetry, separation processes, reactor technology financial activities, biology operation, physics and instrumentation research, employee relations, applied mathematics operation, programming, and radiation protection operation discussed.

From introduction: "This is the fifteenth in a series of quarterly reports which cover the progress and results from the conceptual designs, economic evaluations and research and development work performed by the General Electric Company as part of Contract AT(01-3)-189, Project Agreement No. 13."