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 certain land in Guadalupe County owned by City of San Antonio, and certain improvements thereon and certain personal properties located thereon are exempt from ad valorem taxes.

Criteria provided in this report delineate the objective, bases, and functional requirements that shall govern the preparation of detail design of the bauxite-sulfuric acid feed facilities to be installed in the 183-KE and KW Buildings. These facilities will produce the chemical coagulant used in the treatment of Columbia River water in the water plants and thus replace the existing liquid alum feed systems used for this purpose. The objective of this document is to define the operational and technical requirements of the new process and to outline the functional requirements of the proposed facilities for the purpose of detail design. The criteria below define the requirements for a single K Area water plant. Unless otherwise stated they shall apply for both K Area water plants.

Declassified 5 Sep 1973. Information is presented concerning LCRE specifications, primary coolant circuit, aaxiliary systems, fuel elements, instrumentation, materials development, and fabrication; and SNAP-50DR-1 specifications, fuel elements, pumps, steam generator, and materials development. (DCC)

A remotely operated pilot piant for the engineering development of the sol-gel---vibratory-compaction procedure is being used to prepare about a thousand Zircaloy-2-clad fuel elements for a zero-power criticality experiment. The feasibility, safety, and economy of remote recovery, preparation, fabrication, and inspection of U/sup 233/O/sub 2/-ThO/sub 2/ fuels are being evaluated. The procedure includes solvent extraction recovery of U/sup 233/ by means of di-sec-butyl phenylphosphonate in diethylbenzene; the sol-gel process, a new procedure for preparing dense oxide fuels; oxide particle sizing; vibratory compaction loading of fuel tubes, followed by end-closure welding, cleaning, and inspecting. Gamma-ray scanning will be used to determine the uniformity of the fuel density. Instruments are provided for remote control of the process and for monitoring the radioactivity and evaluating the hazards to workers at each step of the operation. Twelve pilot-plant runs involving uranium decontamination, sol- gel preparation of 50 kg of oxide, and fuel sizing and ciassification were completed, with only minor difficulties. The results of examination after irradiation of 17 test capsules at burnups to 17,000 Mwd/metric ton of fuel showed the sol-gel-prepared oxide to perform satisfactorily with respect to stability and fission gas release. In laboratory experiments, uranium-thorium dicarbide fragments and microspheres were prepared …

Abstract. By means of the pulse radiolysis technique a short-lived transient species has been observed in irradiated de-aerated ethanol and methanol, exhibiting an optical absorption throughout the visible and near infra-red. This transient is suggested to be the solvated electron on the basis of the nature of the spectrum, the reactivity with hydrogen ion and with various organic electron acceptors, and the formation of mononegative ions of some of these acceptors. The absolute rate constants have been determined for the reactions of the solvated electron with hydrogen ion, oxygen and benzyl chloride in ethanol and methanol. The diphenylide ion was found to be short-lived in ethanol. The absolute rate constant for the first-order decay of the diphenylide ion has been determined.

In-pile loop experiments L-2-15 and L-4-16 were two of a series designed to test the radiation corrosion of Zircaloy-2 and other possible reactor construction materials in UO2SO4 solutions under various conditions of radiation intensities, temperatures, solution compositions, and velocity flow past specimens.