The following progress report is part of a series of reports on the study of nonaqueous extractive methods for western uranium ores. This report continues studies on HCl-methanol leaching of Western ores, primarily on Temple Mountain ores.

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: The legality of paying tax refunds on motor fuel to the Civil Air Patrol.

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: Claim of $799.81 of Frank M. Jackson, Secretary-Director of the Teachers Retirement System.

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: May the claim of an employee of the Water Resources Committee for wages due for the period January 8, 1957, through January 31, 1957 be passed for payment out of funds appropriated in Senate Bill 17, Acts of the 55th Legislature, Regular Session 1957?

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 a City Health Officer to assist in enforcing the provisions of House Bill 194, Acts of the 55th Legislature, R.S. 1957.

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: Proper classification for inheritance tax purposes of adoptive parent of decedent adopted in 1925.

This report follows the studies on the interactions of antiproton with ordinary matter.

Abstract: "A dc magnetic mirror machine has been built and tested by the ARC Research Group. Radiofrequency enhancement has been included in the design through the use of rf plates in the vacuum chamber of the machine. For the proton beams of the order of 1[mu]a, the mirror action has been observed as a function of both the rf voltage and the magnitude of the mirror field relative to the main magnetic field. Current measurements were performed with the aid of a Faraday cup with suitable bias grids."

Production rates of the Hanford reactors can be increased in proportion to the quantity of process cooling water which can be supplied to them. This water must be of such a quality that slug and tube corrosion rates are acceptable, the gross activity of the effluent water must not be excessive, the concentration of specific radioactive isotopes constituting a radiological hazard must be minimized, and the film formation rates should be as low as possible. In the Hanford water treatment process, the filter plants are the controlling factor in determining the quality of the water, and one of the elements limiting the quality of water. A major development effort was therefore undertaken to develop methods of increasing the capacity of the existing filter plants. This report presents the result of this development work from its inception in 1951 to its conclusion in 1954.

The intent of this manual is to present a description of the main process building, equipment, and auxiliary facilities as well as a process summary. Material is of a scope nature with more detail devoted to features unlike those of existing separations systems. An attempt is made to convey some of the basic design philosophy and the problems encountered in the development of design criteria. This information is written primarily for Separations Section supervision who have not had an opportunity to become conversant with the Purex Project. The manual may also be of assistance in orientation and training of personnel. In order to avoid repetition and duplication of effort, one line service diagrams, equipment sketches, tables, and detailed data are not a part of this manual.

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 Certificates of Number of motorboats issued by the Texas Highway Department pursuant to House Bill 11, Acts of the 56th Legislature, Regular Session, 1959, Chapter 179, Page 369, are valid for a two year or three year period.

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 Comptroller to set aside in a separate account, $5,000 of moneys appropriated by H.B. No. 1, Acts 56th Legislature, Regular Session, 1959.

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 elector who is within the county of his residence during the period for absentee voting, but who expects to be absent on election day and applies for an absentee ballot on that ground, may vote absentee by mail.

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: Jurisdiction of Railroad Commission and Department of Public Safety over Motor Carrier and Motor Bus Operations Between Contiguous Incorporated Cities.

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, John Ben Shepperd, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of the State disaster officials to spray private residences in the Rio Grande flood area.

From abstract: "The toxicological properties of beryllium and compounds of beryllium are briefly reviewed, together with the historical development of the recommendations for maximum permissible beryllium air concentrations. The application of the enclosure technique presently in use at this laboratory for the control of beryllium hazards is described... Monitoring procedures used to evaluate the performance of enclosures are discussed."

Study approvals are listed with man-months and date specified. Information and safety agreements were reached. Occupational safety and radiation protection, fuel slug development, instrumentation, ingot rolling, and security violations are discussed topics. Appendices contain information on financial status, pile materials program, instrument development program, and technical division study status. (GHH)

The following report records the use of the double-precision THEMIS code to integrate the motion of Mars and Venus in order to obtain a complete set of rectangular equatorial coordinates over the interval 1600-2000 A.D.

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This is the monthly report for the Hanford Laboratories Operation, June, 1958. Reactor fuels, chemistry, dosimetry, separation processes, reactor technology, financial activities, biology operation, physics, instrumentation research, employee relations, operations research, synthesis operation, programming, radiation protection, and laboratory auxiliaries operation are discussed.

This document has been written in part to answer questions concerning the feasibility and advisability of ``quickie`` discharge of ruptures at C Reactor. Justification of full pile operational charge-discharge (OC-D) is based in part on outage savings resulting from improved, rupture removal. Since a portion of the rupture removals might be accomplished within the scram recovery time (quickie) it is necessary to consider recovery time as a function of anticipated future power levels. In addition to answering the questions mentioned above, it was felt worthwhile at this time to discuss equilibrium control problems associated with OC-D which have been apparent during operation of prototype equipment, and on the basis of this information to consider reactor control with full pile OC-D.

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From abstract: The vapor pressure determination of solid ThF4 has been completed. Experiments to determine the heat of formation of ThF4 by studying the reaction of ThF4 with SiO2 are described.

2-Carboxy-4-ketopentitol is converted enzymatically by a cell-free preparation from spinach leaves into a substance undergoing acid-lactone interconversion. This substance has no phosphate or letone group and is probably a dicarboxylic, six-carbon sugar acid or the saccharic or saccharinic acid type. The significance of these findings with regard to the metabolic role of 2-carboxy-4-ketopentitol diphosphate is discussed.