The following report is the third Quarterly Report in a series whose investigative purpose is to determine the extent to which zirconium and zirconium alloys exhibit delayed failure as caused by a combination of absorbed hydrogen and applied stress.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a county clerk may legally prepare certified copies of records in his office and forward same to the purchaser with a bill to be paid after delivery and related question.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether an application for Mineola-Wood County Local Mutual Aid Association was pending before the Commissioner of Insurance or the State Board of Insurance at the effective date of Article 22.21.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether "federal-owned forestry land" should be construed to include National Grasslands recently made a part of the national forestry system for purposes of allowing a deduction in the local fund assignment of a school district pursuant to Section 5 of Article 2922-16 of Vernon's Civil Statutes.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Legality under Article 654, V.P.C., of giving a valuable prize by means of a drawing under the facts submitted.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a city marshall has statutory authority to halt and board a school bus and in the presence of transportee school children perform a "safety inspection" while the bus is in transit and related question.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of the City of Palacios acting as agent for the State of Texas to sell certain tracts of land known as the camp site for Camp Hulen, Texas, in whole or in part for industrial sites under S.B. 95, Acts 57th Leg., Third Called Session, 1962, Ch. 10, p. 25.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Payment of claims for equipment, materials and supplies used in construction of county roads, and related questions.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether it is now too late for the Board of Navigation Commissioners of the Calhoun County Navigation District to advertise for a separate depository for the sole purpose of depositing its tax funds and related question.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether it is necessary for the liquidator to comply with the provisions of Article 3272b, V.C.S., where the banking institution has been closed and is in the process of being liquidated.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether it is necessary for a prisoner who receives a three-day jail sentence to serve a full 72 hours.

The objective of this Production Test Supplement is to evaluate at a K Reactor the operational aspects of a proposed method for reducing minimum downtime. The proposed method is to partially override the xenon transient with a block of enrichment in the central region of the reactor. The purpose of performing this test at a K reactor in addition to the original test at one of the older reactors, is to examine the operational aspects unique to a K reactor and to evaluate the feasibility of the method for reducing minimum downtime at a reactor of that type. It is expected that differences in operating techniques will be indicated at the K plant because of its greater size, of different speed of control restrictions and of the variation in the reactivity effectiveness of enrichment, rods, and poisons. The experience at B Reactor with the use of enriched core to reduce minimum downtime indicates the feasibility of proceeding with a similar test at one of the K reactors.

From abstract: "The divalent metal ions of calcium, magnesium, nickel, and strontium are eluted from a cation exchange column with 1.5M nitric acid and separated from trivalent rare earths, aluminum and yttrium. Prior sequential elution of other metal ions with hydrochloric acid in acetone-water or with dilute hydrofluoric acid does not interfere with the present separation method."

Two methods for measuring target efficiencies are briefly discussed. The second method puts an upper bound on the efficiency and permits observation of instantaneous efficiency, thereby aiding location of losses. Measurements agree well with conventional radiochemical values.

"The diffusivities of Fe, Co, and Al in otherwise pure Au were determined by a residual activity technique. It was found that the frequency factors and activation energies of the transition elements into Au are normal relative to the values for Au self-diffusion, and suggest that lattice diffusion is operative, in contrast to the corresponding situation for the diffusion of these elements in Al. This difference in behavior is explained in terms of the marked difference in solid solubilities in the two series."

The self-diffusivities of Co60 and Ni63 in cobalt--nickel solid solutions exhibit a greater activation energy below the Curie temperature (T/sub c/) than above. Values of DELTA Q = Q (ferromagnetic) -- Q (paramagnetic) are approximately equal to RT/sub c/. This observation is interpreted to indicate that the increment in activation energy arises from an increase in the formation energy of a vacancy in the ferromagnetic lattice, with the additional binding energy arising from the interaction of a spin with the Weiss field."