Progress Report on Waste Concentration Studies: Engineering Results on the BNL Semi-Works Vapor Filtration Vapor Compression Evaporator (open access)

Progress Report on Waste Concentration Studies: Engineering Results on the BNL Semi-Works Vapor Filtration Vapor Compression Evaporator

Report issued by the Brookhaven National Laboratory discussing progress of waste concentration studies. As stated in the introduction, "the present report covers all experimental hot runs up to the time the still was turned over to the Waste Control Section for intermediate handling of laboratory D waste" (p. 1). This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: August 15, 1951
Creator: Horrigan, R. V.; Fried, H. M.; Manowitz, B.; Kuhl, O.; Baranosky, J. A.; Bellanca, S. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Area Survey Manual of Brookhaven National Laboratory: Area Radiation Detection Instrumentation, Maintenance, and Results (open access)

The Area Survey Manual of Brookhaven National Laboratory: Area Radiation Detection Instrumentation, Maintenance, and Results

Report issued by the Brookhaven National Laboratory discussing the instrumentation, operation, and maintenance of the established area radiation monitoring stations. This report includes maps, tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: January 1, 1952
Creator: Weiss, Max M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Non-Overload Amplifiers (open access)

Non-Overload Amplifiers

Report issued by the Brookhaven National Laboratory discussing non-overload amplifiers, including features, performance, and improvements of amplifiers. This report includes illustrations, and photographs, as well as errata at the end of the report.
Date: April 1, 1953
Creator: Higinbotham, W. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Area Survey Manual (open access)

Area Survey Manual

Report issued by the Brookhaven National Laboratory discussing the area survey manual covering the 15 service stations. Design and operations of the service stations are presented. This report includes tables, illustrations, photographs, and a map.
Date: June 15, 1955
Creator: Weiss, Max M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
LMFR-9 Static Corrosion Behavior of Materials in Bismuth and Uranium-Bismuth Solution at 550°C (open access)

LMFR-9 Static Corrosion Behavior of Materials in Bismuth and Uranium-Bismuth Solution at 550°C

Report issued by the Brookhaven National Laboratory discussing corrosion behaviors of materials in bismuth. As stated in the introduction, "this report will present the details of the corrosion testing and the results obtained to date on materials tested under static conditions in bismuth media" (p. 1). This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Atherton, J. E.; Kammerer, O. F.; Klamut, C. J. & Sadofsky, J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Twin Channel Count Integrator (EH1-503) (open access)

Twin Channel Count Integrator (EH1-503)

Report issued by the Brookhaven National Laboratory discussing a twin channel count integrator. As stated in the introduction, "an accurate and stable recording ratemeter, designed to present the data from two counters on one strip chart recorder, is described" (p. 1). This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: June 1956
Creator: Higinbotham, William A. & Tillinger, J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of Meteorological Tower Data, April 1950 - March 1952, Brookhaven National Laboratory (open access)

Analysis of Meteorological Tower Data, April 1950 - March 1952, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Report issued by the Brookhaven National Laboratory discussing data collected from two BNL meteorological towers. As stated in the introduction, "results are presented in graphic form rather than tabular form" (p. 1). This report includes tables, maps, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: June 1957
Creator: Singer, Irving A. & Raynor, Gilbert S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pilot Plant Fluorination of Uranium Fuel Elements by Bromine Trifluoride (open access)

Pilot Plant Fluorination of Uranium Fuel Elements by Bromine Trifluoride

Report issued by the Brookhaven National Laboratory discussing methods of processing reactor fuels such as uranium. As stated in the objective, "the primary objective of the project was to determine the effect of temperature, solution composition, and flow rate on the dissolving time for natural uranium slugs of varying history" (p. 2). This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: July 26, 1957
Creator: Strickland, G.; Horn, F. L. & Johnson, R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Capture - Positron Ratios for Allowed and First-Forbidden Transitions (open access)

Capture - Positron Ratios for Allowed and First-Forbidden Transitions

Report issued by the Brookhaven National Laboratory discussing capture positron ratios. As stated on page 1, "the purpose of this report is to present aids for the simple determination of the relative probabilities of K-electron capture and positron emission for allowed and first-forbidden transitions" (p. 1). This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: January 1958
Creator: Perlman, M. L. & Wolfsberg, Max
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Brookhaven National Laboratory Emergency Radiological Monitoring Team (open access)

The Brookhaven National Laboratory Emergency Radiological Monitoring Team

Report issued by the Brookhaven National Laboratory discussing the Emergency Radiological Monitoring Team. Equipment, training, and personnel required for the team is presented. This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: September 1952
Creator: Gemmell, Lee
System: The UNT Digital Library
Summary Hazards Report on Enriched Fuel Element Loading for the BNL Research Reactor (open access)

Summary Hazards Report on Enriched Fuel Element Loading for the BNL Research Reactor

Report issued by the Brookhaven National Laboratory discussing a hazards report on replacing the research center's current fuel elements with new highly enriched elements. As stated in the introduction, "this report is a summary of the studies, both theoretical and experimental, which have been made so far of the nuclear properties of the "new" pile, of the stability of the new fuel elements, and of the safety and practicability of operation of the "new" pile" (p. 2). This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: May 24, 1956
Creator: Corngold, N.; Kaplan, I.; Chernick, J.; Gurinsky, D. H. & Fowell, R. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Static Corrosion Behavior of Construction Materials in an Environment of Liquid Bismuth Base Metals at 550° C (open access)

Static Corrosion Behavior of Construction Materials in an Environment of Liquid Bismuth Base Metals at 550° C

Technical report presenting preliminary results obtained in the static corrosion test program to screen promising construction materials for a proposed liquid fuel power breeder reactor.
Date: March 1, 1952
Creator: Cordovi, M. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Subcritical BNL Reactor (open access)

An Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Subcritical BNL Reactor

Technical report outlining the theoretical study of the sub-critical BNL (Brookhaven National Laboratory) reactor, and a comparison of reactor performance with the purpose of presenting the experimental results of the experimental methods. Presents experimental results and and a detailed discussion of the experimental methods along with theoretical analysis and evaluation of the results.
Date: June 15, 1950
Creator: Cwernick, J.; Kaplan, I.; Kunstadter, J.; Sailor, V. & Williams, C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Carbagel Process for Air Refrigeration for Use With BNL Reactor (open access)

Evaluation of Carbagel Process for Air Refrigeration for Use With BNL Reactor

Technical report outlining the use of the Carbagel process in nuclear reactors, its technical feasibility, and case studies of the Carbagel process and its theoretical and technical use for reactors such as the Brookhaven National Laboratory reactor.
Date: April 12, 1950
Creator: Winsche, W. E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Classified Progress Report of the Reactor Science and Engineering Department; April 1 - June 30, 1950 (open access)

Classified Progress Report of the Reactor Science and Engineering Department; April 1 - June 30, 1950

Technical report outlining the progress of reactor completion and startup events by the Reactor Theory, Physics, Radioisotope Development, Geology, Meteorology, Waste Concentration, and Waste Disposal groups in the Reactor Science and Engineering Department of Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Date: 1950
Creator: Brookhaven National Laboratory
System: The UNT Digital Library
Liquid Reactor Fuels: Bismuth-Uranium System (open access)

Liquid Reactor Fuels: Bismuth-Uranium System

Technical report about the liquidus curve for the nuclear reactors bismuth-uranium system and the need for a suitable container for this fuel.
Date: September 15, 1950
Creator: Bareis, D. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Unit for Continuous Separation of U233 From Thorium Fluoride (open access)

Unit for Continuous Separation of U233 From Thorium Fluoride

Technical report outlining a preliminary design for carrying out the process of producing U233 from Th232.
Date: September 15, 1950
Creator: Dwyer, O. E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preliminary Study of a Uranium - Bismuth Liquid Fuel Power Reactor L. F. R . 2 (open access)

Preliminary Study of a Uranium - Bismuth Liquid Fuel Power Reactor L. F. R . 2

Technical report and preliminary design calculations describing a type of liquid fuel reactor adaptable for production or breeding on a U-233 cycle based on data at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Describes design calculations for generating significant amounts of power and neutrons by use of uranium-bismuth solutions with fused salts in the reactor system.
Date: April 27, 1951
Creator: Gurinsky, D. H.; Kaplan, I.; Miles, F. T.; Williams, C. & Winsche, W. E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Radioactivity Detected in Precipitation and Settled Dust; April - May 1951 (open access)

Radioactivity Detected in Precipitation and Settled Dust; April - May 1951

Technical report examining the precipitation and obtained samples of settled dust at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Date: 1951
Creator: Weiss, M. M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Continuous Fission Product Separation Process; I. Removal of the Rare Earths (Lanthanum Cerium, Praseodymium, and Neodymium) From a Typical Liquid Bismuth-Uranium Reactor Fuel by Contact with Fused LiCl-KCl Mixtures (open access)

A Continuous Fission Product Separation Process; I. Removal of the Rare Earths (Lanthanum Cerium, Praseodymium, and Neodymium) From a Typical Liquid Bismuth-Uranium Reactor Fuel by Contact with Fused LiCl-KCl Mixtures

Technical report investigating the distribution of rare earth elements between a liquid bismuth-uranium solution and fused KCI-LiCi mixtures. Report warrants further research on the liquid bismuth-uranium-fused salt system due to the benefit of continuous fission removal processes.
Date: July 1, 1951
Creator: Bareis, D. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Progress Report of Reactor Science and Engineering Department; July 1 - September 30, 1951 (open access)

Progress Report of Reactor Science and Engineering Department; July 1 - September 30, 1951

Technical report covering the classified tests on two types of nuclear reactors of the Department of Reactor Science and Engineering. Outlines tests on heat transfer and hydraulics, fabrication and corrosion studies on the normal water.
Date: 1951
Creator: Brookhaven National Laboratory
System: The UNT Digital Library
Plate Efficiency in the Exchange of Deuterium Between Ammonia and Hydrogen (open access)

Plate Efficiency in the Exchange of Deuterium Between Ammonia and Hydrogen

Technical report outlining measurements of the equilibrium in the exchange of deuterium between ammonia and hydrogen and of the kinetics of this reaction. Details a series of tests carried out to measure Murphree plate efficiencies.
Date: December 3, 1951
Creator: Perlman, Morris L. & Bigeleisen, Jacob
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reactor Operations Division Monthly Report; November 1951 (open access)

Reactor Operations Division Monthly Report; November 1951

Technical report outlining the downtime given to the Brookhaven National Laboratory nuclear reactor in November compared to previous months.
Date: November 1951
Creator: Powell, R. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Concentration of Deuterium by Chemical Exchange Between Hydrogen and Ammonia (open access)

The Concentration of Deuterium by Chemical Exchange Between Hydrogen and Ammonia

Technical report describing the results of the chemical reaction between potassium amide and liquid ammonia and the exchange of hydrogen between hydrogen gas and liquid ammonia. This report finds that the reactions may be sufficiently rapid to be useful for isotope separations on a larger scale.
Date: December 15, 1951
Creator: Perlman, M. L. & Bigeleisen, J.
System: The UNT Digital Library