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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Definition of "coin-operated machine" for taxation purposes in view of possible conflict between House Bills 31 and 307, Acts 52nd Legislature.

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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Legality of payments by Gillespie County to the Fredericksburg Volunteer Fire Department rather than to the City of Fredericksburg for rural area fire protection.

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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of the commissioners' court to require monthly reports upon which to fix each month the compensation of Drainage District Commissioners.

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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Present maximum salary of the County Treasurer of Midland County.

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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of the Board of Plumbing Examiners to adopt a rule that failure of plumbers to comply with city ordinances requiring indemnity bonds will not subject such plumbers to State license revocation.

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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Validity of a commissioners' court order creating new justice precincts without correspondingly changing the boundaries of election precincts.

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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether Bexar County may issue time warrants for purchase of right of way.

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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of the district judge to increase the compensation of the county auditor in the middle of a fiscal year.

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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority to dissolve a joint county junior college district created under Article 2815h, 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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Sufficiency of the submitted wording for ballots at an election on levying farm-to-market or flood-control 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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of the county to sell automobiles the county has stored for more than one year after finding them abandoned on county roads.

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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Continuation of State ad valorem tax levies in county in which tax donations were previously granted to Flood Control District which has no outstanding obligations.

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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Validity of a school superintendent's contract with a rural high school district under he circumstances related.

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.

The study of radiation damage to the graphite moderator is largely dependent upon the availability of graphite samples from the moderator itself. Because of the varied temperature-flux history and complicated structure of the piles, it is impossible to study the problem from the laboratory standpoint alone. The samples of greatest interest are those taken from the sections of the moderator which have received the greatest damage. However, a comprehensive study requires samples from all sections of the graphite moderator. It is desirable that these samples be solid in order that physical and dimensional measurements of all types may be made. Solid samples enable thermal conductivity measurements and the gradients of damage across tube blocks to be measured. To provide such samples, it was necessary to design some device which would cut solid samples from any location in the pile through the process Channels. The graphite core borer was desigred specifically for this purpose. The objective of this Production Test was to test the operation of the core barer and evaluate the results of its performance.

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.

A correlation of spontaneous fission rates with Z and A is made to show that these rates depend on the nuclear type. Some suggestions as to the mechanisms are given and it is also shown how these relate to the mechanism of slow neutron and photo fission.

Resting cells of eleven microorganisms were exposed to radioactive carbon dioxide for 40 minutes. The radioactive compounds formed during this time were separated and identified by paper chromatography. Resting cells of Lactobacillus casei fixed no carbon dioxide and growing cells fixed carbon dioxide primarily in malic and aspartic acids. All of the radioactive compounds formed could have become radioactive by reversal of known decarboxylation reactions.

The operating holdup and flooding rates of uranium hexafluoride, n-heptane, and perfluorodimethylcyclohexane have been studied in a glass still filled with 1/8 inch nickel Heli-Pak. The flooding rates of the latter two substances are 46.0 and 48.0 cc./min. respectively and the flooding rate for uranium hexafluoride, calculated from the Bertetti equation, is 42.9 cc./min. The operating holdups for these three substances on Heli-Pak were measured at several throughput rates up to the flooding rate and an equation derived, based on the method of Jesser and Elgin, for computing the holdup of uranium hexafluoride from a knowledge of the holdup of perfluorodimethylcyclohexane. Observations of the performance of the packing and a measurement of the number of drops of uranium hexafluoride per milliliter at 75 deg C. are also presented.

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The volume of H/sub 2/ evolved on dissolving screened nonroasted U- bearing scrap, slag, and liner in HCl were determined; the values were found to indicate the degree of removal of metallic particles by screening. Digestions of nonroasted plant-pulverized scrap with HNO/sub 3/, NaNO/sub 3/, or Fe/sub 2/(SO/ sub 4/)/sub 3/ in HCl and with HNO/sub 3/ or NaNO/sub 3/ in H/su b 2/SO/sub 4/ were not so effective as digestion with NaClO/sub 3/ in HCl. Doubling the free acid content and addition of FeSO/sub 4/ improved the efficiency of the latter digestion. Removal of CaF/sub 2/ from crude (NH/sub 4/)/sub 2/ UO/sub 4/ by solution of the uranate in acetic acid, HCl, or Hsub 2SO/sub 4/ was limited by slow filtration rates. (W.L.H.)

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)