Critical Tests for PRT Reactor (open access)

Critical Tests for PRT Reactor

This document authorizes the performance in accordance with the specifications noted, the PRTR Critical Tests described herein. The experiments described have the following objectives:
Date: July 1, 1960
Creator: Triplett, J. R.; Anderson, J. K.; Peterson, R. E.; Regimball, J. J.; Russell, J. T.; Schmid, L. C. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Cross Section, Volume 7, Number 2, July 1960 (open access)

The Cross Section, Volume 7, Number 2, July 1960

Monthly newsletter of the High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1, discussing the field of underground water. Topics include profiles of water conservation research, annual pre-plant soil moisture survey data, annual Winter Water Level measurement data, and information about the latest water conservation tips.
Date: July 1960
Creator: High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1 (Tex.)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Estimating Safety Probabilities from Fallout Forecasts for Nevada Test Site (open access)

Estimating Safety Probabilities from Fallout Forecasts for Nevada Test Site

Abstract: "Available data on wind persistence and wind forecasting capability have been applied in estimating the probability of a fallout pattern shifting from an uninhabited safe sector into a populated region. Safety probability is computed from win variability, forecasting accuracy, initial height and particle size of radioactivity landing at a point in the predicted fallout pattern, predicted wind speed, length of forecast period, and safe-sector angular width."
Date: July 1, 1960
Creator: Reed, Jack W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Explosives :a Bibliography (open access)

Explosives :a Bibliography

This bibliography is selective, unclassified, and covers the period 1950 - April 1960. Sources consulted were the following: Applied Science and Technology Index (Industrial Arts Index), Chemical Abstracts, Engineering Index, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Nuclear Science Abstract, Armed Services Technical Information Agency Title Announcement Bulletin, and Publisher's Catalogs.
Date: July 1960
Creator: Wenrich, Carl J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology of the Michigan Basin with Reference to Subsurface Disposal of Radioactive Wastes (open access)

Geology of the Michigan Basin with Reference to Subsurface Disposal of Radioactive Wastes

From introduction: The purpose of this report is to describe the geology of the rocks in the different sedimentary basins in relation to problems of disposal of liquid radioactive wastes in the ground.
Date: July 1960
Creator: de Witt, Wallace, Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Note on the Optical Potential with the Pauli Principle (open access)

A Note on the Optical Potential with the Pauli Principle

Abstract. The idea of determining potentials from phase shifts is here called the "optical model" while the construction of an effective single particle scattering potential from the known two-body forces is called the "optical potential." A novel method is given for construction of the optical potential with the Pauli principle and its difficulties are pointed out. In the Appendix one connection between the optical potential and optical model is given.
Date: July 1960
Creator: Mittleman, Marvin H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Portable Radiation Instrumentation Standardization (open access)

Portable Radiation Instrumentation Standardization

This development work was undertaken to investigate and standardize scintillation detector and transistorized circuitry techniques in instruments used for detecting and measuring alpha and beta particles, gamma photons, and both slow and fast neutrons. At the present time, the standard radiation detection instrumentation used at Hanford employ vacuum-tube circuitry with typical detectors being ion chambers, G-M tubes, HF3 tubes, etc. The vacuum tubes require excessive battery power, and some of the circuits are adversely affected by humidity and temperature conditions.
Date: July 1, 1960
Creator: Spear, W. G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Silver Bromide Crystal Size Distribution as Influenced by Gelatin Concentration in Producing Nuclear Emulsion (open access)

Silver Bromide Crystal Size Distribution as Influenced by Gelatin Concentration in Producing Nuclear Emulsion

At the Montreal colloquium Ahmed urged Oliver to make batches of emulsion which would differ only in gelatin concentration. At that meeting Oliver had reported finding a correlation between grain size and silver ion concentration during precipitation, as implied by Perfilov and his Leningrad colleagues. Ahmad felt that one should have more precise knowledge of the relative influence of gelatin concentration of grain sized and their distribution. The incentive is that, in spite of excellent progress in many laboratories and in consistently dependable production from industry (to us, of course, Ilford is most familiar), nuclear emulsions are needed in a wider variety of sensitivities and grain sizes. Available nuclear emulsions have limitations in sensitivity, discriminatory ability, and concentration of hydrogen nuclei. Fine grain size enhances discriminatory ability. An incentive is also in that there is a shortage of literature dealing with the processes involved in the fundamental steps of emulsion production.
Date: July 1, 1960
Creator: Oliver, Albert J. & Ahmad, Ishfaq
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Stresses and Deflection in a Cylindrical Shell Subjected to Concentrated Radial Loads (open access)

Stresses and Deflection in a Cylindrical Shell Subjected to Concentrated Radial Loads

Abstract. The measured stresses and deflections of cylindrical shells with free ends, when subjected to concentrated loads along the central diameter, are presented. An empirical analog is made with a simply supported flat plate for which stresses and deflection are easy to compute. Over the range of parameters studied (ratio of cylinder diameter to wall thickness varied from 32 to 64, ratio of cylinder length to diameter varied for. 0.6 to 5) the agreement is such that the empirical results should have useful application in the design of shells for local loading.
Date: July 1960
Creator: Steidel, Robert F., 1926- & Galasso, Maurice
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Nevada Test Site Wind Variability (open access)

A Study of Nevada Test Site Wind Variability

Abstract: "Wind observations collected at Yucca Flat since 1951 are analyzed for timewise variability. Variability functions of altitude, season, wind speed, and vector wind are described. Derived variability parameters are incorporated into calculations of fallout safety probability for NTS operations."
Date: July 1, 1960
Creator: Reed, Jack W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Study of Remote Military Power Applications: Report 5, NORAD (open access)

Study of Remote Military Power Applications: Report 5, NORAD

From introduction: The study is essentially an economic evaluation of the construction and operation of nuclear power plants at several designated military installations where increased power generating capabilities of 5 to 40 mwe may be required by the Government during the period 1963 through 1970.
Date: July 1960
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Study of Remote Military Power Applications: Report 7, Super Sage Rocky Mountains Area (open access)

Study of Remote Military Power Applications: Report 7, Super Sage Rocky Mountains Area

From introduction: The study is essentially an economic evaluation of the construction and operation of nuclear power plants at several designated military installations where increased power generating capabilities of 5 to 40 mwe may be required by the Government during the period 1963 through 1970.
Date: July 1960
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Game and Fish, Volume 18, Number 7, July 1960 (open access)

Texas Game and Fish, Volume 18, Number 7, July 1960

Monthly magazine discussing natural resources, parks, hunting and fishing, and other information related to the outdoors in Texas.
Date: July 1960
Creator: Texas. Game and Fish Commission. Information and Education Branch.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Libraries, Volume 22, Number 4, July-August 1960 (open access)

Texas Libraries, Volume 22, Number 4, July-August 1960

Bi-monthly journal about library issues in Texas including collection development, programming and activities, managements, and other topics of interest.
Date: July 1960
Creator: Texas Library and Historical Commission
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Use Of Pyroelectric Devices For Measuring Small Temperature Changes (open access)

Use Of Pyroelectric Devices For Measuring Small Temperature Changes

A technique for measuring extremely small temperature changes by means of a pyroelectric device is described. The sensing element is a short thin rod of polarized barium titanate ceramic with electrodes on the ends. The electric charges produced by changes in temperature are measured by a vibrating-reed electrometer. A number of calorimetric and noncalorimetric applications for the device are suggested.
Date: July 1960
Creator: Lang, Sidney B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Wear and Galling of Autoclaved Zircaloy-2 By Various Materials (open access)

A Study of the Wear and Galling of Autoclaved Zircaloy-2 By Various Materials

This is the third of a series of reports describing the phases of a study of the wear and galling of autoclavedZircaloy-2 by various bearing surface materials. The first report (1) showed that increasing contact area between the autoclaved Zircaloy-2 surfaces will not prevent scratching. It also showed that metals softer than Zircaloy-2 in general do not scratch it. The second report (2) described how eight metals and alloys were wear-tested on autoclaved Zircaloy-2 as prospects for fuel element support-bearing surface materials.
Date: July 5, 1960
Creator: Weber, J. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-870 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-870

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 Kleberg County to execute an oil and gas lease on a county road right of way.
Date: July 5, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-871 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-871

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 Secretary of State to accept and file the application for Certificate of Authority of Panhandle Telephone Co-Operative, Inc., a foreign corporation, which proposes to furnish rural telephone service and related questions.
Date: July 5, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Model of the PRTR Mark I Fuel Element for Heat Transfer Experiments (open access)

A Model of the PRTR Mark I Fuel Element for Heat Transfer Experiments

The purpose of this document is to describe the design and construction of a full-scale, electrically-heated model of a 19-rod PRTR fuel element for use in heat transfer experiments.
Date: July 6, 1960
Creator: Hammond, J. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-873 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-873

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: Does the Commissioners Court of Upton County have authority to establish a separate Board of Managers for County Hospitals or must such hospitals be operated by a single Board of Managers.
Date: July 7, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-874 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-874

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 the County Auditor of Smith County can approve for payment a claim by a court reporter for transcript of a tape recording under facts submitted.
Date: July 7, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-877 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-877

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: Increase in premium rates of statewide mutual assessment companies and local mutual aid associations.
Date: July 7, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-875 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-875

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: Application of occupation tax on insurance adjusters, levied by Article 19-01, Section 3, Title 122A, Taxation-General to independent local recording agents.
Date: July 8, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-876 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-876

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: When a "first sale" of gasoline within contemplation of the Motor Fuel Tax Law occurs under a consignment for the purpose of sale.
Date: July 8, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History