The Hanford Isotopes Production Plant Engineering Study (open access)

The Hanford Isotopes Production Plant Engineering Study

Report presenting the conceptual design, estimates of capital and operating costs, and details of the operation of a plant "capable of high volume production of encapsulated heat sources" (p. 3) of radioisotopes Sr90, Cs137, Ce144, and Pm147.
Date: July 1963
Creator: La Riviere, J. R.; Michels, L. R.; Riches, H. C.; Rohrmann, C. A.; Smith, C. W. & Swift, W. H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Alpha Scintillation Tester for Uranium Surface Contamination of N-Reactor Fuel (open access)

An Alpha Scintillation Tester for Uranium Surface Contamination of N-Reactor Fuel

Report that "describes a nondestructive tester and some of its applications in measuring 10 to 100 µg of uranium surface contamination on unirradiated, low enrichment, uranium fuel elements" (p. ii).
Date: July 1963
Creator: Jackson, C. N., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Strain Aging and Heat Treatment Properties of N-Reactor Connector Tubes (open access)

The Strain Aging and Heat Treatment Properties of N-Reactor Connector Tubes

Report regarding the determination of "the susceptibility to strain aging and the effect of stress-relief annealing on the properties of N-reactor connecting tubes made from ASTM A-106 Grade B high carbon steel" (p. 2).
Date: July 30, 1963
Creator: Pessl, H. J.
System: The UNT Digital Library