The Deposition of Plutonium and Certain Fission Products in Bone as a Decontamination Problem (open access)

The Deposition of Plutonium and Certain Fission Products in Bone as a Decontamination Problem

The following report discusses the deposition of radioactive elements during a nuclear fission in the skeleton. Studies are concerned with chronic effects of toxic radiation developing within the bone marrow and decontaminating the cells.
Date: May 15, 1946
Creator: Copp, D. Harold; Greenberg, David M. & Hamilton, Joseph G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Coprecipitation of Thorium and Uranium Peroxides (open access)

The Coprecipitation of Thorium and Uranium Peroxides

From abstract: "Experiments covering the coprecipitation of Thorium and Uranium peroxides are described on synthetic and actual 1300 cycle machine wash effluents."
Date: May 10, 1946
Creator: Oringer, Roy; Woodard, R. W. & Larson, C. E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Analysis of Impurities in Various Stages of Recycled Carbon Tetrachloride and Correlation with Chlorination Properties (open access)

The Analysis of Impurities in Various Stages of Recycled Carbon Tetrachloride and Correlation with Chlorination Properties

The following report discusses findings resulting from experiments on recycled carbon tetrachloride at various stages of the proposed purification process.
Date: May 23, 1946
Creator: Hudson, R. L.; Burkhart, L. E. & Larson, C. E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Production of U₂₃₄ by a Modified Calutron (open access)

The Production of U₂₃₄ by a Modified Calutron

Abstract: Three and nine-tenths milligrams of U234 have been produced using a Calutron. A Beta-size Calutron was modified to produce complete resolution of the U234 beam from the U235 beam. With Beta charge the U234 current was 4 microamperes. The samples were collected upon flat pieces of graphite bent to fit the E curve.
Date: May 21, 1946
Creator: McKinney, C. R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electrolytic Reduction of Uranyl Ion (open access)

Electrolytic Reduction of Uranyl Ion

From introduction: "Due to the hydrogen overvoltage at the surface of a mercury cathode, uranium solutions is hydrochloric acid may be reduced not only to the tetravalent state, but until considerable trivalent uranium is formed. Other metallic ions act as oxidation-reduction catalysts as well as being reduced themselves. The following paper is a study of the various reactions taking place in solution and at the surface of the cathode."
Date: May 27, 1946
Creator: Nichols, Ambrose R., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Beta-Gamma Hand and Foot Counters (open access)

The Beta-Gamma Hand and Foot Counters

Abstract: This is basically a counting rate meter, with an alarm circuit, operating from four GM tubes as the detecting elements. The Hand Counter comprises four logarithmic counting rate meters working from four GM tubes mounted individually, with associated electronic circuits, in suitable shields with a metal mesh type of window. Both sides of both hands are sampled simultaneously. In the Foot Counter, two GM tubes are separately and mounted in a suitable mesh window shielded with the electronic circuit; the foot counter uses only two counting rate meters, and both feet are sampled simultaneously. Each circuit is built in two parts; two tubes are in the shield and the balance of the circuit is in the electronic unit which is a standard 17" x 13" chassis. Circuit diagrams are included.
Date: May 1946
Creator: Bradley, W. H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Preparation of High-Purity Beryllium Oxide (open access)

The Preparation of High-Purity Beryllium Oxide

Abstract. A method for the preparation of beryllium oxide of high purity is presented. Beryllium basic acetate (BeO-3Be(C2H3O2)2) is prepared from the metal or a convenient salt, a chloroform solution of this material extracted with redistilled water, the dried basic acetate distilled in a quartz apparatus, and this purified material converted to the oxide by fuming down with sulfuric acid and igniting at 1000 degrees C. Impurities detectable spectrographically were reduced to a very low level.
Date: May 27, 1946
Creator: Tomkins, F. S.; Cressman, G. W. & Tolmach, L. J.
System: The UNT Digital Library