Comparative Cost Study of Processing Stainless Steel-Jacketed UO2 Fuel: Mechanical Shear-Leach vs Sulfex-Core Dissolution (open access)

Comparative Cost Study of Processing Stainless Steel-Jacketed UO2 Fuel: Mechanical Shear-Leach vs Sulfex-Core Dissolution

Comparison of the economics of mechanical shear-leach and Sulfex decladding-core dissolution head end treatments for processing typical tubular bundles of stainless steel-jacketed UO2 nuclear fuels.
Date: April 23, 1962
Creator: Adams, J. B.; Benis, A. M. & Watson, C. D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Plutonium Recycle Critical Facility: Final Safeguards Analysis (open access)

Plutonium Recycle Critical Facility: Final Safeguards Analysis

Report discussing the Plutonium Recycle Critical Facility (PRCF). The reactor, building, associated equipment, operating program, safety, and operating procedures are described.
Date: February 1962
Creator: Anderson, J. K. & Winegardner, W. K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Halogen Collector Test Program (open access)

Halogen Collector Test Program

Report documenting the Halogen Collector Test program, which was undertaken to provide "methods of removing trace quantities of radioactive iodine from an air stream" (p. 1). The report includes designs of the program and the test facility, test results, analysis of these results, and encountered problems. Appendices begin on page 38.
Date: March 1, 1960
Creator: Arthur D. Little, Inc.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fast Flux Test Facility Studies Progress Report: April 1965 (open access)

Fast Flux Test Facility Studies Progress Report: April 1965

From abstract: "...limited study work was performed on the conceptual design of the proposed fast flux test facility and information was obtained in important areas of supporting technology."
Date: April 1965
Creator: Astley, E. R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Final Design Report: DR-1 Gas Loop (open access)

Final Design Report: DR-1 Gas Loop

Report describing the performance, fission product tolerance, design, and costs of the DR-1 Gas Loop, which is an in-reactor test facility.
Date: March 1961
Creator: Baars, R. E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Irradiation Performance of Thoria-Urania Fuel Materials: Quarterly Technical Report, Number 2, October - December 1964 (open access)

Irradiation Performance of Thoria-Urania Fuel Materials: Quarterly Technical Report, Number 2, October - December 1964

From introduction: "Complete exploitation of the advantages of thorium as a fertile material in thermal and particular resonant spectrum reactors has been inhibited by the lack of quantitative physical property data for thoria and thoria-urania fuels."
Date: October 1964
Creator: Babcock & Wilcox Company
System: The UNT Digital Library
Irradiation Effects in the EGCR Fuel (open access)

Irradiation Effects in the EGCR Fuel

From foreword: "This is a documentation of the experiments performed and the data accumulated during the early period of the Experimental Gas-Cooled Reactor (EGCR) fuel element design."
Date: June 1965
Creator: Baumann, C. D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chromosomal Aberrations in a Natural Population of Chironomus Tentans Exposed to Chronic Low-Level Environmental Radiation (open access)

Chromosomal Aberrations in a Natural Population of Chironomus Tentans Exposed to Chronic Low-Level Environmental Radiation

From introduction: "Cytological examinations of the irradiated and some unirradiated populations in the radioactive sediments of White Oak Creek and the Clinch River were made."
Date: January 29, 1964
Creator: Blaylock, B. Gordon; Auerbach, S. I. & Nelson, D. J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geophysical Seismic Evaluation Study at Hanford (open access)

Geophysical Seismic Evaluation Study at Hanford

From introduction: "In June, 1963, a geophysical research program was conducted at Hanford to determine the feasibility and desirability of using seismic methods in geohydrologic studies. Detection and delineation were desired of seven different geological features that in some sites affect the movement of liquid radioactive wastes discharged to the ground."
Date: December 1964
Creator: Brown, Ruth E. & Raymond, John R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metallurgy Research Operation: Quarterly Progress Report, January - March 1965 (open access)

Metallurgy Research Operation: Quarterly Progress Report, January - March 1965

Quarterly progress report on a project to test the radiation effects on metallurgy.
Date: April 15, 1965
Creator: Cadwell, J. J.; Bierlein, T. K.; Bement, A. L.; Dillon, R. L. & Wheeler, R. G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Cratering Experience at the Pacific Proving Grounds (open access)

Nuclear Cratering Experience at the Pacific Proving Grounds

Observation of the long-term effects of weathering on 10 nuclear craters over periods as long as 12 years.
Date: November 10, 1964
Creator: Circeo, Louis J., Jr. & Nordyke, Milo D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Reactor Containment Technology: a Compilation of Current Practice in Analysis, Design, Construction, Test, and Operation, Volume 1 (open access)

U.S. Reactor Containment Technology: a Compilation of Current Practice in Analysis, Design, Construction, Test, and Operation, Volume 1

First volume of a compilation of information about reactor containment, written by experts from a variety of organizations.
Date: August 1965
Creator: Cottrell, William B. & Savolainen, A. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Reactor Containment Technology: a Compilation of Current Practice in Analysis, Design, Construction, Test, and Operation, Volume 2 (open access)

U.S. Reactor Containment Technology: a Compilation of Current Practice in Analysis, Design, Construction, Test, and Operation, Volume 2

Second volume of a compilation of information about reactor containment, written by experts from a variety of organizations.
Date: 1965
Creator: Cottrell, William B. & Savolainen, A. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Superposition of Forced and Diffusive Flow in a Large-Pore Graphite (open access)

Superposition of Forced and Diffusive Flow in a Large-Pore Graphite

Report describing an "investigation of steady-state counter-flow of gases in a large pore graphite" by exposing it to streams of helium and argon.
Date: 1961
Creator: Evans, R. B., III; Truitt, J. & Watson, G. M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sulfex Process: Engineering-Scale Semicontinuous Decladding of Unirradiated Stainless Steel-Clad UO2 and UO2-ThO2 (open access)

Sulfex Process: Engineering-Scale Semicontinuous Decladding of Unirradiated Stainless Steel-Clad UO2 and UO2-ThO2

An engineering-scale demonstration of the Sulfex process indicated that semi-continuous decladding of unirradiated stainless steel-clad UO2 or U02ThO2 fuels is feasible.
Date: April 4, 1961
Creator: Finney, B. C. & Hannaford, B. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Plutonium Spike Fuel Elements for the Plutonium Recycle Test Reactor: Part 1 - The Mark 1-G (open access)

Plutonium Spike Fuel Elements for the Plutonium Recycle Test Reactor: Part 1 - The Mark 1-G

Report describing "[t]he fabrication of of the first aluminum-plutonium spike enrichment fuel elements for the Plutonium Recycle Test Reactor (PRTR) at Hanford" Laboratory (p. 2).
Date: March 1961
Creator: Freshley, M. D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Elliptic Integral Computer Package for Magnetic Fields, Forces, and Mutual Inductances of Axisymmetric Systems, and a Versatile Line-Tracing Routine (open access)

An Elliptic Integral Computer Package for Magnetic Fields, Forces, and Mutual Inductances of Axisymmetric Systems, and a Versatile Line-Tracing Routine

Report describing a set of high-precision routines for the IBM 7090 that perform efficiently the calculations most often required on axially symmetric magnetic systems. The routines compute the vector potential, field components, and the mixed gradient for current systems and for certain idealized distributions of magnetized matter. The programs for the current systems were developed from a set of six equations in elliptic integrals, which suffice when correlations are fully exploited for all the relevant properties of loops and solenoids.
Date: April 1965
Creator: Garrett, M. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
INDEX: a Computer Program for Indexing X-ray Diffraction Powder Patterns (open access)

INDEX: a Computer Program for Indexing X-ray Diffraction Powder Patterns

From introduction: "...a logical system has been developed to yield rapidly the indexing of a given powder pattern by using an electronic computer."
Date: January 1965
Creator: Goebel, J. B. & Wilson, Archie Spencer
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experimental Stress Analysis of EGCR Pressure Vessel (open access)

Experimental Stress Analysis of EGCR Pressure Vessel

Report regarding the structural evaluations made of the upper head of the Experimental Gas Cooled Reactor (EGCR). This report includes descriptions of the model, experimental procedures, and analyses of the results. Appendix begins on page 139.
Date: 1961
Creator: Greenstreet, B. L.; Holland, R. W.; Maxwell, R. L.; Witt, F. J.; Shobe, L. R. & LaVerne, M. E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Plutonium Recycle Program Annual Report, Fiscal Year 1958 (open access)

Plutonium Recycle Program Annual Report, Fiscal Year 1958

Report that describes work performed by by the Hanford Laboratories Operation on the Plutonium Recycle Program during the Fiscal Year.
Date: November 11, 1958
Creator: Hanford Atomic Products Operation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Plutonium Recycle Test Reactor Final Safeguard Analysis: Supplement 5, Fuel Element Rupture Testing Facility Analysis (open access)

Plutonium Recycle Test Reactor Final Safeguard Analysis: Supplement 5, Fuel Element Rupture Testing Facility Analysis

This report describes the final design of the Fuel Element Rupture Testing Facility and summarizes the safeguards analyses of the design and plans for operation.
Date: May 1963
Creator: Hanthorn, H. E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health and Safety Laboratory Fallout Program Quarterly Summary Report: June 1, 1965 - September 1, 1965 (open access)

Health and Safety Laboratory Fallout Program Quarterly Summary Report: June 1, 1965 - September 1, 1965

Report documenting radioactive fallout across the world, including material in the atmosphere, on land, and that has deposited into food and water supplies.
Date: October 1, 1965
Creator: Hardy, Edward P., Jr. & Rivera, Joseph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Economic Evaluation of a 300-Mw(e) Supercritical Pressure Power Reactor (open access)

Economic Evaluation of a 300-Mw(e) Supercritical Pressure Power Reactor

Report describing a 300-Mw(e) Supercritical Pressure Power Reactor's facilities, physics, economics, and problems encountered during its development. Appendix begins on page 103.
Date: June 1961
Creator: Harty, H.; Regimbal, J. J.; Toyoda, K. G. & Widrig, R. D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fire Test of Wooden-Jacket Shield for Radioisotope Shipping Container (open access)

Fire Test of Wooden-Jacket Shield for Radioisotope Shipping Container

"This report covers fire tests conducted on an experimental design of a wooden-jacket shield for radioisotope shipping containers" (p. i).
Date: March 23, 1964
Creator: Horn, Leonard H.
System: The UNT Digital Library