The monthly report for the Hanford Laboratories Operation, May 1963. Reactor fuels, chemistry, dosimetry, separation processes, reactor technology, financial activities, biology operation, and physics and instrumentation research, and applied mathematics, and programming operation are discussed.

This document details activities of the Irradiation Processing Department during the month of August, 1958. A general summary is included at the start of the report, after which the report is divided into the following sections: Research and Engineering Operations; Production and Reactor Operations; Facilities Engineering Operation; Employee Relations Operation; and Financial Operation.

Feed stock prepared from ingot, dingot, and under-saltmelted U was melted by electron bombardment. Analysis of the ingots produced revealed that some Al, Cr, Mg, Mn, and Pb were volatilized from the melt. C was reduced when Zr was present in the feed material. H/sub 2/ and N/sub 2/ also were removed, the latter oniy when there was a relatively high concentration in the feed material. The work indicated the need for very slow melting rates or the casting of large diameter ingots for successful refinement of U. (auth)

A velocity selector of the Dash-Sommers type with straight slits was constructed for use with the MTR crystal spectrometer. The rotor, designed to remove undesirable higher order contaninants from the Bragg beam, is built of magnesium and fiberglas-epoxy laminate to minimize weight and is driven directly by a 1/8-hp synchronous motor. Vanes of fiberglas laminate are set into 235 slots milled around the periphery of a 4'' diameter magnesium core. High strength is attained by winding the assembled rotor with glass filaments impregnated with epoxy resin. Effective helical pitch is obtained by setting the rotor axis at an angle to the Bragg beam. Delow 0.25 ev, the rotor gave good suppression, but the transmission was low. (auth)

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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: Can a retail vendor of bedding in Texas legally sell items of bedding purchased from a wholesaler located outside Texas who has purchased the bedding from a manufacturer outside of Texas who does not hold the permit required by Article 4476a, V.C.S.?