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The technical feasibility of using an electrolytic reduction process to reduce metal scrap and oxide to usable uranium metal is being studied. The incentives for using electrolytic reduction at Richland may be summarized as follows: (1) reduce the unit and total costs of producing plutonium; (2) increase the flexibility of the Richland reactors for producing isotopes, particularly U-236; and (3) simplify the present fuel cycle complex. The scope of the mission is limited to the evaluation of hollow extruded I and E cores, the evaluation of electro-reduced uranium, an investigation of the solution rate of UO{sub 2} in the electrolyte, and small-scale irradiations of UO{sub 2} fuels in the N and K Reactors. Progress during FY 1966 is summarized.

This document provides reactor operations daily reports for July 1, 1966 through June 30, 1967.

We present "exact" calculations, by the semiclassical method, of vibrational excitation of a harmonic diatomic molecule A-B, in its ground vibrational state, upon collinear collision with an atom C. Results are compared with those of first-order quantum mechanical time dependent perturbation methods and those of purely classical methods.

A concept for interactive time-sharing of a major computer system is developed in which satellite computers mediate between the central computing complex and the various individual user terminals. These techniques allow the development of a satellite system substantially independent of the details of the central computer and its operating system. Although the user terminals' roles may be rich and varied, the demands on the central facility are merely those of a tape drive or similar batched information transfer device. The particular system under development provides service for eleven visual display and communication consoles, sixteen general purpose, low rate data sources, and up to thirty-one typewriters. Each visual display provides a flicker-free image of up to 4000 alphanumeric characters or tens of thousands of points by employing a swept raster picture generating technique directly compatible with that of commercial television. Users communicate either by typewriter or a manually positioned light pointer.

Recently there has been a great surge of interest in almost-exact sum rules for the magnetic moments of nucleons. (By almost-exact we mean: exact to all orders in the strong couplings but only the lowest order in electromagnetic and weak couplings.) Besides providing a means for calculation of the magnetic moments on the same level as the calculation of GA/GV by Adler and Weisberger these sum rules, taken together with the Adler-Weisberger sum rule, constitute a useful tool for investigating the nature of the dynamical approximations that underlie higher symmetry schemes.

There is no evidence to suggest that the adrenal medulla plays a significant role in the production or maintenance of renal hypertension. The decisive experiment was made by Goldblatt and collaborators/who successfully produced experimental hypertension in dogs by renal artery constriction despite the surgical removal of·one entire adrenal and the medulla of the other.

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This report was formed after the study of the Nevada Test Site to examine parts of the thick miogeosynclinical section of the Paleozoic rocks and post-Paleozoic structural features for the sole purpose of determining the walking stops for future field trips to the test site.

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Griffing1 computed the vertical excitation energy for the first electronic transition of benzene as a function of the carbon-carbon distance (rn) within the Sklar valence bond (SVB) and Goeppert-Mayer and Sklar molecular orbital (G1SMO) methods to evaluate the change on excitation of the carbon-carbon equilibrium internuclear separation (rn0) and of the corresponding stretching force constant, f. While ring expansion was correctly predicted, both methods appeared to predict that f increases on excitation, contrary to experiment. We shall demonstrate a) that Griffing's paradox may be resolved if terms higher than the second power in rn are included in the energy expressions for the states and b) that a Huckel calculation leads to results qualitatively similar to those obtained from the more elaborate calculations.

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Compilation of carbon monoxide band positions, molecular constants, energy levels, potential energy curves, and other molecular properties derived from the spectrum.

From abstract: "A summary of work done by The Babcock & Wilcox Company to evaluate thorium fuels for the Heavy Water Organic Cooled Reactor (HWOCR)."

Douglas United Nuclear, Inc., has allocated to the Pacific Northwest Laboratory $542,000 of 02 Research and Development funds and $455,000 of Process Technology funds for FY-1967. Of these, $392,000 of 02 Research and Development funds and $420,000 of Process Technology funds are the responsibility of the Research and Engineering Section. The balance in each case is the responsibility of the Production Fuels Section. Representatives of these Sections have met with Pacific Northwest Laboratory personnel to develop programs to be undertaken in FY-1967. This document briefly summarizes the results of the discussions and delineates the work to be accomplished.

The pages of the report show the status of production test control tube loadings in reactor process tubes containing significant amounts of SS materials. For further description of column headings and the current discharge goal exposure plan refer to Document DUN-1048.

The sodium silicate addition to the coolant reduced the effluent concentrations of certain radionuclides. Nothing was observed during the course of the test to indicate that sodium silicate could not be used at all plants. However, the reductions obtained in effluent activity are not believed commensurate with the cost of silicate usage.

Monthly newsletter of the High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1, discussing the field of underground water. Topics include profiles of water conservation research, annual pre-plant soil moisture survey data, annual Winter Water Level measurement data, and information about the latest water conservation tips.