Proposed Method for Treating Hydrogen Displacement Effects in Critical Mass Measurements (open access)

Proposed Method for Treating Hydrogen Displacement Effects in Critical Mass Measurements

This report discusses a proposed method for treating the effect of increasing critical mass of plutonium solutions, which occurs when hydrogen density is reduced by dilution with heavier nuclei.
Date: May 13, 1952
Creator: Gast, Paul F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Radiation Burst in the Hanford Homogeneous Reactor (open access)

A Study of the Radiation Burst in the Hanford Homogeneous Reactor

Report discussing the details of a radiation burst in a spherical reactor using plutonium nitrate fuel that occurred on November 16, 1951 at Hanford Works.
Date: May 2, 1952
Creator: Leonard, B. R., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library