The following report records a total of forty-nine graphite core samples that have been bored from process tube blocks in the Hanford piles with the intention to provide results to indicate that core boring is an entirely practical operation over bore scraping in obtaining powder samples.

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This is a progress report of the production on the Hanford Reservation for the month of June 1951. This report takes each division (e.g., manufacturing, medical, accounting, occupational safety, security, reactor operations, etc.) of the site and summarizes its accomplishments and employee relations for that month.

Describes how to select an apple, what it is used for, and the proper way to store it.

A brief guide to selecting and serving oranges and orange juice.

Document HW-21096, inquires regarding changes in equipment, so that various proposed flows of process water to each of the present production units, at several 105 control room pressures, may be effected. The proposed conditions are shown in table form in the report. For the purpose of calculations upon which this letter is based, the pressure used here is that which is recorded at the 105 control room ``inlet`` panel. It is actually the top of riser pressure, plus static head between the recorder and the point of pressure tap.

Report presenting solutions for the lift and pitching moment on a two-dimensional flat plate undergoing a step variation in pitch or vertical displacement. The results are subject to the restrictions of linearized, compressible-flow theory.

Exponential rise times, T, of neutron flux in an Oy-Tu assembly have been measured for a set of points essentially equally spaced reactivity-wise in the interval between delayed and prompt critical corresponding to [infinity] > T > 5 seconds. The relationship between positive period and reactivity thus obtained is used to decide (preferentially) between two currently used but divergent collections of delayed neutron data, specifically with respect to the relative abundances of delayed neutrons in the different decay periods. Results of other reactivity measurements supplementing the positive period data are also given.

Note presenting experimental results that verify an analysis of errors occurring when thermocouples are used to measure the temperature of surfaces exposed at temperatures different from that of the surface. The data indicate that the electrical insulation of the wires is not effective in reducing the errors involved when the thermocouples are placed normal to the surface and exposed to the ambient fluids.

Section data obtained from wind-tunnel tests at Mach number 4.04 and Reynolds numbers of about 5.0 times 10 to the 6th power and 8.4 times 10 to the 6th power are presented for 6- and 9-percent-thick symmetrical circular-arc airfoils with 30 percent chord trailing-edge flaps. Pressure distributions, Schlieren photographs, and force and moment coefficients are included.

Memorandum presenting an investigation of internal film cooling of the combustion chamber of a 1000-pound-thrust liquid-ammonia-liquid-oxygen rocket engine. The three coolants studied were water, ethyl alcohol, and liquid ammonia. Results regarding heat-transfer results, liquid film-cooled length, correlation of heat-transfer data, and effect of film cooling on performance are provided.

Report presenting testing of NACA 64-series airfoil sections to determine the effect of boundary-layer control by means of suction through an airfoil chord on the pressure distribution, lift, and drag characteristics of two different types of airfoil sections. Substantial reductions in wake drag were obtained through a wide range of lift coefficients with relatively moderate flow coefficients and pressure-loss coefficients. Results regarding airfoil-section data and effect of boundary-layer control on lift-drag ratio are provided.

A consideration of the characteristics of fused salt-- ThF/sub 4/ solutions suitable for use in homogeneous reactors is presented, together with a brief survey of the literature pertaining to such solutions and a summary of the experimental work accomplished. (auth)

Monthly report of the U.S. Geological Survey's trace element investigations including an outline of field work, laboratory work, and staff activities that have been completed or are in process.

From introduction: "The prime motive behind the experiments described in this report and in those preceding it in this series is the desire to reduce the number of Redox cycles necessary for decontamination from fission products of the plutonium and uranium streams sufficient to allow final disposition of these two products...This report deals with the mechanics of manganese dioxide handing, laboratory development of manganese dioxide scavenging, and a series of experiments at multicurie level combining ruthenium volatilization and manganese dioxide scavenging in stainless steel equipment."

"The methods of characteristics has been linearized by assuming that the flow field can be represented as a basic flow field determined by nonlinearized methods and a linearized superposed flow field that accounts for small changes of boundary conditions. The method has been applied to two-dimensional rotational flow where the basic flow is potential flow and to axially symmetric problems where conical flows have been used as the basic flows. In both cases the method allows the determination of the flow field to be simplified and the numerical work to be reduced to a few calculations. The calculations of axially symmetric flow can be simplified if tabulated values of some coefficients of the conical flow are obtained" (p. 933).

Report presenting a low-speed wind-tunnel investigation to determine the longitudinal aerodynamic characteristics of a 47.7 degree sweptback wing-fuselage combination with split flaps and several modifications. The lift characteristics, pitching-moment characteristics, drag characteristics, and a comparison with flaps of the slotted type are included.

Describes the investigation of a particular method of extracting ions from an arc. Experimental results of a low extraction voltage ion source are given in some detail.

The following report discusses an equation derived by which the maximum allowable concentration in the atmosphere of a beta-omitting isotope for which lung damage is the limiting consideration can be calculated.

The policy of operating the Hanford Piles at the highest level attainable under existing standards has resulted in pile levels` being occasionally limited by maximum permissible exit water temperatures. The practicability of using refrigeration to reduce the inlet water temperature during peak periods and so increase pile levels has been reviewed and is discussed in this document.

Two important problems in the investigation of reactor hazards are the chemical reactivity of various materials employed in reactor construction and the chracteristics of heat transfer under transient conditions, specifically heat transfer when driven by an exponentially increasing heat source (exp t/T). Although these problems are independent of each other, when studied in relation to reactor hazards they may occur in a closely coupled sequence. For example the onset of a dangerous chemical reactor may be due to structural failure of various reactor components under an exponentially rising heat source originating with a runaway nuclear reactor. For this reason, these two problems should eventually be studied together after an exploratory experimental survey has been made in which they are considered separately.

Report discussing progress made by the Metallurgy Division of the Physics of Solids Institute during the quarter ending January 31, 1951.

Note presenting a method of obtaining the flow of a nonviscous compressible fluid past arbitrary compressor or turbine blades between two neighboring surfaces of revolution. Satisfactory results were obtained by the method described in the investigation of the detailed flow variation of a compressible fluid past typical high-solidity, highly cambered thick turbine blades on a cylindrical surface.

Report presenting a method for calculating the initial tangents of contours of constant destiny, pressure, and Mach number behind a curved, axially symmetric shock wave has been desired. Initial tangents of density contours are obtained that fair well into contours determined from interferograms for the flow about a sphere at Mach number 1.62. the flow field obtianed from the shock wave by the method of characteristics is compared with that obtained by interferometry.