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Study of SCTI Control System (open access)

Study of SCTI Control System

Introduction: This report has been prepared to document the extensive analytical work required to design the control system for the Sodium Components Test Installation (SCTI), constructed for the Atomic Energy Commission at the Atomics International field laboratory.
Date: December 1, 1964
Creator: Griffin, C. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
SNAP 10A FSEM-3 Agena Compatibility Test (open access)

SNAP 10A FSEM-3 Agena Compatibility Test

From abstract: This report summarizes the results of SNAP-10A/Agena developmental testing and final vehicle systems tests.
Date: June 15, 1965
Creator: Teresa, M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Basic Chemistry of High Temperature Inorganic Systems, Semiannual Progress Report: July-December 1956 (open access)

Basic Chemistry of High Temperature Inorganic Systems, Semiannual Progress Report: July-December 1956

From abstract: The vapor pressure determination of solid ThF4 has been completed. Experiments to determine the heat of formation of ThF4 by studying the reaction of ThF4 with SiO2 are described.
Date: July 15, 1957
Creator: Yosim, S. J. & Milne, T. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Piqua Nuclear Power Facility Operations Analysis Program Progress Report Number 2: 1963 (open access)

Piqua Nuclear Power Facility Operations Analysis Program Progress Report Number 2: 1963

Progress report for the Piqua Reactor Operations Analysis Program describing observations and analyses at the Piqua Nuclear Power Facility (PNPF). The program goals are to monitor operations and collect data in order to ensure that the plant's operation is safe, to improve design and performance, to evaluate the performance and lifetime of the plant's components and systems, to evaluate plant safety and safeguards, and to disseminate all information to the scientific community.
Date: November 30, 1963
Creator: Auleta, J. J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Irradiation Swelling, Phase Reversion, and Intergranular Cracking of U-10 wt % Mo Fuel Alloy (open access)

Irradiation Swelling, Phase Reversion, and Intergranular Cracking of U-10 wt % Mo Fuel Alloy

Abstract: A fuel development program has been conducted, to investigate the behavior of U-10 wt% Mo alloy at the fission rates and temperatures anticipated in Core I of the Hallam Nuclear Power Facility.
Date: February 1, 1965
Creator: Willard, R. M. & Schmitt, A. R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Refabrication and Encapsulation of Highly Irradiated Uranium Dioxide (open access)

Refabrication and Encapsulation of Highly Irradiated Uranium Dioxide

Abstract: One hundred gram quantities of uranium dioxide, irradiated to burnup as great as 21,000 Mwd/MTU and previously reprocessed by AIROX (Atomics International Reduction Oxidation), were refabricated into high density pellets and encapsulated for re-irradiation.
Date: December 1, 1964
Creator: Guon, J.; Bodine, J. E. & Sullivan, R. J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The NAA 47 U - 10 Mo Fuel Irradiation Program for HNPF Core 1 (open access)

The NAA 47 U - 10 Mo Fuel Irradiation Program for HNPF Core 1

Abstract: Atomics International conducted a fuel irradiation program to investigate and define the behavior of U-10 Mo fuel at the temperatures and fission rates anticipated in Hallam Nuclear Power Facility (HNPF) Core I.
Date: February 1, 1965
Creator: Schmitt, A. R.; Willard, R. M. & Magnus, D. K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dynamic Void Fraction Measurement System (open access)

Dynamic Void Fraction Measurement System

Abstract: Various methods and techniques of measuring void fractions in boiling heat transfer media are discussed.
Date: May 15, 1963
Creator: Kendron, J. H.; Stoner, E. E. & Taylor, G. M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Properties and Irradiation Behavior of U₃Si₂ (open access)

The Properties and Irradiation Behavior of U₃Si₂

Abstract: A limited study of the compound U₃Si₂ has been made in reference to its use as a prospective nuclear fuel in sodium cooled reactors.
Date: July 25, 1965
Creator: Shimizu, H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Coolant Impurity Removal Equipment at the OMRE (open access)

Evaluation of Coolant Impurity Removal Equipment at the OMRE

Abstract: The experimental application of centrifugal clarification, precoat filtration, conventional filtration, and adsorption to the removal of impurities from a bypass stream of irradiated reactor coolant at the Organic Moderated Reactor Experiment is described and evaluated.
Date: October 15, 1964
Creator: Barbour, P. & Davis, W. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of High-Temperature Electrical Ground Test Heaters for the SNAP 10A Program (open access)

Development of High-Temperature Electrical Ground Test Heaters for the SNAP 10A Program

Introduction: The development and qualification of the system acceptance test heaters and the reactor simulator heater are described in this progress report.
Date: March 1, 1965
Creator: Blevitt, R.; Paine, G. & Sudar, S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Performance of Cesium Thermionic Diodes Operated in Series-Parallel Circuits (open access)

Performance of Cesium Thermionic Diodes Operated in Series-Parallel Circuits

Introduction: The purpose of this experiment is to determine the loss of electrical power output due to operating many unequally-heated cesium diodes, connected in series and parallel circuits.
Date: February 1, 1963
Creator: Holland, J. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
KEWB Program Quarterly Progress Report: July-September 1956 (open access)

KEWB Program Quarterly Progress Report: July-September 1956

From abstract: The response of the reactor to forced oscillations has been investigated with the pile oscillator technique and the data are presently being analyzed.
Date: March 1, 1957
Creator: North American Aviation. Atomics International Division. Kinetic Experiments on Water Boilers Program.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Gamma to Gamma Prime Transformation in the Uranium-Molybdenum System (open access)

The Gamma to Gamma Prime Transformation in the Uranium-Molybdenum System

Abstract: Electrical resistance measurements and metallography were employed in a study of the kinetics of the gamma to gamma prime transformation in the uranium-molybdenum system at 16 wt% molybdenum.
Date: December 31, 1961
Creator: Kramer, D. & Rhodes, C. G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Calculations of the Madelung Constant and Inverse Twelfth Power Repulsion Factors for the Wurtzite Crystal Structure (open access)

Calculations of the Madelung Constant and Inverse Twelfth Power Repulsion Factors for the Wurtzite Crystal Structure

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.
Date: July 25, 1965
Creator: Gehman, William G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Final Design of Sodium-Heated, Modular, Steam Generators for the SCTI (open access)

Final Design of Sodium-Heated, Modular, Steam Generators for the SCTI

Abstract: The following report covers the final design of the modular steam generators.
Date: February 1, 1965
Creator: Casey, D. F.; Hammer, J. J.; Logan, D. & Williams, M. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Carbide Fuels in Fast Reactors (open access)

Carbide Fuels in Fast Reactors

Abstract: Cladding and fuel material processing prospects are reviewed, and fuel system possibilities for near-term (~1 mill/kwh) and long-range (<0.5 mil/kmh) fuel cycles are described.
Date: September 15, 1965
Creator: Wheelock, C. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Organic Moderated Reactor Experiment Progress Report: October 1955-July 1956 (open access)

Organic Moderated Reactor Experiment Progress Report: October 1955-July 1956

Report describing technical progress on the design and construction of an Organic Moderated Reactor Experiment (OMRE), to be operated at the National Reactor Testing Station in Arco, Idaho. "This is the first report of the series and coves the period from the initiation of the project to July 31, 1956. Also included as an appendix to the report is a detailed description of the OMRE facility" (p. 3).
Date: March 15, 1957
Creator: Trilling, C. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Radiolysis Products of Polyphenyl Coolants: Part 3, Omre High Boilers (open access)

Radiolysis Products of Polyphenyl Coolants: Part 3, Omre High Boilers

Abstract: The nature of the high boiling radiolysis products of OMRE coolants was studied extensively.
Date: October 15, 1964
Creator: Keen, R. T.; Orr, W. L.; Miller, L. J.; Sullivan, R. J. & Shepard, R. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hallam Nuclear Power Facility, Reactor Operations Analysis Program: Semiannual Progress Report Number 2, March-August 1963 (open access)

Hallam Nuclear Power Facility, Reactor Operations Analysis Program: Semiannual Progress Report Number 2, March-August 1963

From summary: The full 140 element loading of the core was completed on October 10, 1962. At this point, critical operation was begun for operator training and post-critical testing purposes.
Date: March 1, 1964
Creator: Darley, D. K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Piqua Nuclear Power Facility Operations Analysis Program Progress Report Number 4: January-June 1964 (open access)

Piqua Nuclear Power Facility Operations Analysis Program Progress Report Number 4: January-June 1964

Progress report for the Piqua Reactor Operations Analysis Program describing observations and analyses at the Piqua Nuclear Power Facility (PNPF). The program goals are to monitor operations and collect data in order to ensure that the plant's operation is safe, to improve design and performance, to evaluate the performance and lifetime of the plant's components and systems, to evaluate plant safety and safeguards, and to disseminate all information to the scientific community.
Date: December 15, 1964
Creator: Cole, H. S.; Hausknecht, D. F.; Jenkins, O. G., Jr.; Lew, D. E.; Mandel, H.; Pearson, E. N. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Material Bucklings of Critical and Subcritical Uranium Carbide Fueled Graphite Assemblies: Part 1, Experiment (open access)

Material Bucklings of Critical and Subcritical Uranium Carbide Fueled Graphite Assemblies: Part 1, Experiment

Introduction: A series of critical and subcritical experiments have been carried out as part of the Advanced Sodium Graphite Reactor (ASGR) Critical Experiments program to provide physics information which would be directly applicable to the AGSR concept.
Date: December 1, 1964
Creator: Hillig, O. R. & Latham, D. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
SNAP 10A-PSM-1: Test Results (open access)

SNAP 10A-PSM-1: Test Results

Introduction: On November 14, 1961, an environmental test program commenced on the first SNAP 10A system structure, S10A-PSM-1.
Date: July 15, 1964
Creator: Oliva, R. M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effect of Carburization on the Low Strain Rate Behavior of Type 304 Stainless Steel: Interim Report (open access)

Effect of Carburization on the Low Strain Rate Behavior of Type 304 Stainless Steel: Interim Report

Abstract: Pressure stress-rupture specimens of thin walled Type 304 stainless steel tubing have been tested at temperatures to 1300°F in the presence of an internal diffusion limited carbon source.
Date: August 31, 1965
Creator: Stone, D. H. & Schwartz, A. D.
System: The UNT Digital Library