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 counties to impose an occupation tax upon insurance adjusters, and related questions.

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: Can a surety be bound on a bail bond where the surety's name was not signed in person but was signed by a professional bondsmen acting under a valid power of attorney specifically authorizing the signing of surety bonds?

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 a school district may levy a minimum tax of one dollar per tax statement regardless of the amount of the tax due from each property owner on the basis of property valuation.

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 a County Clerk is required to furnish to a Veterans County Service Officer of another county a birth certificate without cost, such birth certificate to be used to establish a claim for benefits on behalf of a minor child of a deceased veteran.

The results of examinations of UC compounds having nominal compositions of uranium-4.6, -4.8, and 5.0 wt. % carbon after irradiation to burnups of from 400 to 15,000 Mwd/t of uranium are given. Density changes were small. varying from a minimum of 0.3% to a maximum of about 2.5%. Cracking occurred in all specimens; however. it can probably be largely attributed to thermal stresses and to oxidation. after decapsulation. of NaK entrapped in microcracks. Depletion of carbon appears to be occurring in the specimens having the nominal uranium-5 wt.% carbon composition. Metallographic examination shows that the UC/sub 2/ phase disappears at high temperature and high burnup. The fission-gas-retention properties of the compounds appear quite good. In all cases. the amount of fission gas released was comparable with the calculated amount released by recoil. (auth)

This report for June 1960, from the Chemical Processing Department at HAPO, discusses the following: Production operation; Purex and Redox operation; Finished products operation; maintenance: Financial operations; facilities engineering; research; and employee relations.

The mechanisms and kinetics of uranium corrosion and fuel element ruptures were investigated in water and steam at 170 to 500 deg C and at 100 to 2800 psig. The fuel element samples were coextruded Zircaloy-clad uranium-core rods and tubes which were defected prior to exposure. Uranium corrosion was found to be the sum of two processes; direct oxidation by water, and oxidation of uranium hydride intermediate. Fuel element ruptures occur in two stages; an initial induction period followed by an accelerating corrosion of the core causing the cladding to blister, swell, and fracture. Uranium corrosion and fuel element ruptures were examined with respect to temperature, pressure, steam versus liquid water, heat treatment, carbon content of uranium, zirconium content of uranium, cladding thickness, fuel geometry, annular spacings, defect geometry and size, coolant flow, hydriding of Zircaloy components, and irradiation effects. (auth)

It has been thoroughly documented in previous Bridgeport Brass Company reports that a problem exists in the production of HAPO I and E ``O`` size slugs via the extrusion route due to an excessive number of rejects for I.D. seams. As a result of a previous short-run experiments, it was suggested that smaller I.D. billets be employed, thus reducing the reduction ratio on the I.D. It was thought that this factor may contribute to the seam formation in the extreme flow demanded of the metal. It was also thought that the long billets, half of an ingot, could contribute to this defect. Therefore in this extrusion, some short billets, one-third of an ingot, were employed. Other methods or techniques for reducing the incidence of this I.D. defect will be studied later. It was intended to limit the present experiment to a study of the potential reduction involved in the above; namely, billet length and billet I.D., in an extrusion experiment with sufficiently large quantity of billets to give a fairly large number of slugs. By proper design, other contributors to the defect were held constant or randomized. This experiment proved definitely that a reduction in I.D. rejects due to seams …

The Hanford water treatment plants were operated for a number of years with alum as a coagulant and activated silica as a coagulant and a polyacrylamide as a filter conditioning agent. (other polyelectrolytes may be used.) Sufficient time has elapsed to make a comparison of the two methods of operation valid and useful. Such a comparison is the purpose of this paper.