A status report is given for the N Reactor. Brief summaries are included for the following technical activities: Co-product physics studies; Target melting calculations; Critical mass parameters; Stack flooding calculations; Co-product metal handling; Co-producer demonstration test; Thermal hydraulics; Primary cooling system supply characteristics; Fringe tube orificing; Fuel tube power split; Simulated driver-target test; Fuel element failure evaluation; 1.96% Integral-target production test; Conversion ratio tests; Fuel examination facility; Process tube monitoring; Corrosion monitoring; I-131 concentrations in river influent following ruptures; and Production of Np-237 and Pu-238 in the N Reactor.

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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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether personal property held in Texas by foreign corporations for persons whose last known address is outside Texas or is unknown are required to be reported to the State Treasurer under Article 3272a; and whether unclaimed wages must be reported pursuant to such statute?

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The usual treatment of unsupported detonation, often called the Chapman-Jouguet theory, is based on four assumptions: (1) the detonation approaches a steady state, (2) the flow is laminar and one dimensional, (3) the detonation products approach a state of chemical equilibrium some distance behind the detonation front, and (4) the detonation velocity is the minimum permitted by the conservation conditions. In a recent paper Wood and Fickett (Phys. Fluids 6, 648(1963)) proposed experiments to test the validity of the Chapman-Jouguet "theory", not requiring knowledge or assumptions about the nature of the equation of state of the detonation products, by making variations of the initial state or the explosive. In this paper we report the results of experiments in which (1) the initial state was varied by using mixtures of nitromethane and another liquid made or equal molar parts of nitric acid, acetonitrile, and water, which has the same atomic composition as nitromethane, and (2) the initial state was varied by using TNT as liquid and as solid. These results show that the Chapman-Jouguet theory is violated. The calculated pressures are 15% to 20% below the measured pressures. Results of measurements using other explosives are also presented to support the conclusion …

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Validity of the Central Education Agency’s vouchers issued to colleges and universities which provided teacher training under a State Plan approved by the Agency and the United States Government as authorized in P.L. 88-164, Mental Health Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act.

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This report defines the plan and purpose for the Palanquin post-shot exploration program. This program is necessary to obtain data that is needed in the understanding of the Palanquin experiment, and related explosion phenomena, which can be obtained in no other way.

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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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the Board of Pardons and Paroles has the authority to recommend and the Governor the power to grant a posthumous full pardon to a deceased convicted felon on application of a relative or other interested party.

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Construction of the term “commercial hotel, motel, or other commercial lodging establishment” within the meaning of Section 15 or Article V of the General Appropriation Act of the 59th Legislature.

Thermocouples are used for the control and diagnostic measurement of the thermal behavior of cores in the Kiwi and Nerva reactors of Project Rover. The predominant hostile environmental conditions are those of hot hydrogen, hot graphite, and intense nuclear radiation. W/W Re thermocouples, insulated by BeO and encased in Mo or Ta sheaths, seem to show the most promise. Some aspects of thermocouple development, principally shunt effects and sheath integrity, are discussed.

From ninth meeting of the USAEC reactor decontamination information exchange group; Washington, District of Columbia, USA (1 Sep 1965). The decontamination activity described includes: laboratory studies to evaluate reagents, and actual decontamination of 2 steam generators at New Production Reactor. ln laboratory tests, a proprietery oxalic acid solution appeared to be more effective th:dn sny other tried. No excessive corrosion was noted. Special reegents to dissolve high fired ceramic core materials (UO/sub 2/ and PuO/sub 2/) are being developed and evaluated. Phosphorous acid, sulfuric acid and a mixture of sulfuric and nitric acids were effective. Corrosion of 304 stainless steel was low. Two N Reactor steam generators were decontaminated to facilitate inspection and repair. The APSUL procedure was tried, but control of concentrations was inadequate and decontamination factors were low, ranging from 1.6 to 9.0. No excessive corrosion was noted. (auth)

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether, under the provisions of Article 5159a, V.C.S., city employees doing plumbing work, under the stated facts, must be paid the prevailing wage scale.

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The Purex Plant was originally designed for the chemical processing of irradiated natural uranium. It has been used nearly exclusively for this purpose during its approximately ten-year operating lifetime. However, during the winter of 1964--1965, a special processing campaign was planned and accomplished in which approximately 6 tons of irradiated thoria targets were introduced to the plant, and the thorium-232 and uranium-233 were successfully separated and purified on a demonstration basis. For the demonstration thorium processing operation (6-ton test) of the winter of 1964--1965, process specifications were issued. These specifications were necessarily specific to the particular campaign inasmuch as a rather unusual processing scheme was required, by virtue of the small tonnage involved and the equipment limitations of the plant. Thus, for the relatively large operation subsequently planned, other process specifications are required. The purpose of this present document is to provide these specifications. Depending on the manner and extent of thorium -- uranium-233 production developments, these present specifications may have future application, at least in part. In addition to the process specifications, this document includes a section describing the flowsheet, and a section in which the technological bases for good process control are presented. In conjunction with the specifications, …

From abstract: The Madelung constant and the inverse twelfth power repulsion factor have been calculated for the wurtzite structure for wide ranges of the crystal parameters and u.

From abstract: A development program was initiated to design, fabricate and test an absorber column with a 10 to 12 year lifetime, for use in the proposed LSGR.

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