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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; Whether Article 1436-2, V.P.C., authorizes the prosecution of a person who is customarily engaged in the business of obtaining motor vehicles for scrap disposal, for failure upon demand by the State Highway Department to surrender to such Department certificates of title to such motor vehicles.

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 the appropriation to the Board for Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools, contained in the General Appropriation Bill can be used to purchase land for the stated purpose.

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 it is the duty of the County or District Attorney to represent individual petitioners in alcoholism commitment cases under Article 5561c, V.C.S.

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.

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: Under the provisions of Article 4075b, V.A.C.S., as amended, is the Game and Fish Commission required to issue a Commercial Bay-Bait Shrimp Boat license to any person who, for a valid reason, was unable or failed to make application during the months of January & February?

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: Method of disposing of cigarettes seized by Comptroller's Department under provisions of Chapter 7, H.B. 11, 56th Leg., 3rd C.S.

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.

Discussions held with A. S. Stetson, General George Gordes and W. Compton going over technical aspects of Contract NO-S-935 for the research and development studies on coating materials for SNAP reactors.

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This report addresses the operation and maintenance for Model ME-8W.

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)

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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 …

A method for the preparation of high-density ThO/sub 2/ of the correct particle size for vibratory compaction is under development. The method being developed appears easily adaptable to remote operation. Pure ThO/sub 2/ made by this method was readily compacted to 86% of theoretical density by pneumatic vibration. Preparations of high-density mixed ThO/sub 2/ -UO/sub 2/ and UO/sub 2/ by this general method have been successfully carried out. Densification of arc-fused mixed oxide by a pneumatic vibrator compared favorably with results of tests with the same oxide using electronic vibra tors at both Huntsville, Alabama, and Savannah River. In the limited tests with the electroinic vibrators at the other sites, it appeared that a saw-tooth wave shape gave greater densification than a sine wave or random noise. (auth)

The mechanical cycling test was required to verify the integrity of the welded joints and the thin wall tube bends in the primary loop manifold assembly of a four pack thermo electric module and to help establish structural and mechanical requirements of any possible redesign. The test section was subjected to more severe loading conditions than will be experienced during actual operating conditions. The test was a mechanical simulation of the differential thermal expansion which occurs due to the approximately 600{degrees} F temperature differential in the subassembly. The actual load exerted on the test section represented this deflection. The effects on the joints and tube material were observed. The test was conducted on a test segment of manifold designed to duplicate two of the flexible elbows; the transition joints between the elbows and the tubular module inner clad; and the welded joints of the elbows to the primary loop header. The assembled test segment and hold-down bracket are shown. The bracket was mounted to the base of the Universal Test Machine. Dial indicators measured the relative displacement between the line of applied load (through the vertical axis of the primary loop header) and the attachment point at the holddown bracket. …

Mechanical compression tests were performed on gasket test specimens machined to the cross-sectional dimensions of a stainless steel (Type 304) ring type gasket to be installed in the SM-1 reactor pressure vessel. Testing the mechanical properties of the gasket specimens under varying loads, and subsequent sectioning and inspection of specimens for adequacy of welded and brazed joints, gave the following results: (1) a penetration scheme involving five 0.070-in. diam. holes, spaced 1/4 in. center-to-center for each 6 1/2 in. belt circle span, may be made in a gasket ring without materially increasing the gasket stresses, (2) a lug may be welded to the gasket face to provide a brazed sealing support for 0.0625-in. diam. tubes and thermocouples, and (3) excellent attachments can be made by tungsten-inert gas welding of the lug to the gasket face and induction brazing of the tubes and thermocouples to the lug using Nicrobraz alloy. (auth)

Design details and test results of the jet-centrifugal mercury pump are presented. (auth)

Tantalum fabrication methods primarily for use as a container for molten plutonium are described. One method involved the rolling of a Ta billet into sheet of the desired age, cutting a circular blank, and deep drawing the tantalum blank through successive stages into the desimed shape. Another method used for the fabrication of Ta containers consisted of a combination of impact extrusion and ironing. This method involved the extrusion of the cast billet into rod, swaging the rod to a suitable diameter, and cutting it into slugs of the desired length. The slugs were then impact rod, swaging the rid ti a suitable diameter, and cutting it into slugs of the desired length. The slugs were then impact extruded into heavy walled containers. These starting containers were then taken through successive dies where the wall thickness was ironed down to the desired gage. (auth)

In efforts to improve the neutron economy and lower the capital costs of sodium graphite reactors, several methods of separating the sodium and graphite were investigated including the calandria, the thimble, and the canned moderator reactors. An analysis including nuclear, heat transfer, and economic comparisons was made of these SGR concepts. Based upon neutron economy and feasibility of core fabrication, the calandria concept appears to offer the greatest potential for improvement in 8GR design. The thimble concept provides some improvement in neutron economy but introduced numerous problems requiring developmental work. (auth)

An estimate was made of the fission product activity which would result in the HFIR primary coolant system following a meltdown of the fuel element within the reactor. The rare gases and the halogens appear to be the main contributors to the gamma activity in the coolant system imnmediately after the meltdown, and iodine appears to be the main contributor 24 hours after the meltdown. (auth)