From abstract: "This report summarizes the past year of study of fine, molded, multicrystalline graphites with particular reference to the interrelation among certain properties with the composition, fabricating techniques, and thermal treatments found to influence them."

Quarterly report describing progress on a project to develop and evaluate high-temperature tungsten alloys. This report discusses initial experiments to compare different alloy combinations.

The iron thermal shields of the Hanford reactors are cooled by means of water flow through thermal cooling tubes embedded in the shield blocks. The flow rate, temperature rise, and allowable pressure in the tubes and the conditions under which some of the tubes may be out of service are specified in the process standards. Shield heat formation and heat transfer calculations are necessarily based on broad assumptions and are therefore usually reliable only for order of magnitude and trend predictions. In order to specify condition of shield cooling under which the reactors may be safely and economically operated data must be available regarding operating temperature as related to the flow of cooling water through the shield. Some of the data on which the current standards are based have been determined by extrapolation to present conditions of measurements taken several years ago. The purpose of this test was to establish current data that may be used in updating the thermal shield coolant standards. Measurements were taken of the operating temperatures experienced in an uncooled thermal shield cooling tube in relation to the specific power of the adjacent process tube. Conditions were varied by adjusting the flow in the thermal shield …

This report discusses the use of liquid ammonia as a tracer for the detection of cooling water leaks into the piles. It is both safe and cheap and can be detected by methods adaptable to direct-reading instrumentation on a continuous-flow sample. Moderate capital costs and materials costs of less than $50 per pile test are anticipated.

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The objective of this test is to determine, through in-reactor testing, the resistance to corrosion of nickel plated fuel elements, plated by a chemical deposition technique. This program may eventually be composed of the following portions, the first of which is authorized by this test: (1) Irradiate ten columns of 0.5 mil chemically nickel-plated C-64 OIIN fuel elements having various heat treatments, each alternated with x-8001 control pieces. Two columns will be exposed to 400 MWD/T and eight to 800 NWD/T. (2) Should results from the above test be encouraging, separate authorization for the following tests may be requested: (a) Irradiate four columns of nickel-plated fuel and four of X-8001 clad fuel, both groups having purposely cocked pieces, until two ruptures are sustained in each group or until a factor of improvements of 400 is demonstrated at the 95% confidence level, unless the nickel-plated elements fail first. (b) Irradiate five columns of chemically nickel-plated C-64 clad OIIN fuel elements, alternating 0.2 mil and 0.5 mil plate, heat treated at 300{degrees}C for six hours. Two columns will be discharged at 400 MWD/T and three columns at 800 MWD/T exposure. (c) Irradiate approximately thirty columns of nickel-plated, C-64 alloy clad fuel elements …

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: May an individual, licensed by the State Board of Chiropody Examiners legally use the word "podiatrist" following his name in connection with the professional use of his name on any sign, pamphlet, stationery, etc.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Does Senate Bill 178, Acts 56th Legislature, Regular Session, 1959, require that the Dallas County Hospital District be included in the annual independent audit along with the records and books of Dallas County and related questions.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the Board for Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools, acting under Article 666b, Vernon's Civil Statutes, and through the Board of Control, may rent housing for the business manager of the Denton State School.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Custody and control of Sections 28, 56 and 60 in Block G-9, H.E. & W.T. Ry. Co. Surveys, Sections 6 and 24 in Block G-23, C.T. & M.C. Ry. Co. Surveys and Section 30 in Block M-1 of S.A. Glass Survey, all in Brewster County, Texas.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Validity of an order of the Commissioners' Court providing that voting abstentions shall be recorded in the Minutes of the Commissioners' Court as negative votes.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Must a dismissed employee of an independent school district with less than 500 scholastics appeal directly to the State Commissioner of Education or must such employee appeal first to the County School Superintendent, then the County Board of School Trustees?

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: The effect that a precinct local option election will have upon a city which has heretofore voted dry upon the same issue which is up for vote in the precinct, which includes within its boundaries the dry city, and related questions.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: What constitutes the "Group of Axles" to be used in determining the maximum gross weight for motor vehicles under the provisions of S.B. 11, 56th Leg., R.S.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Validity of tuition payments by the Alabama Coushatti Indian Reservation to the Big Sandy Independent School District.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: May the available University Fund be used at any of the branches of the University of Texas other than the constitutional branches.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Questions arising under the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act (Art. 2328b, Vernon's Civil Statutes).

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether an officer who resigns his office upon becoming a candidate for another office, as provided in Article XVI, Section 65 of the Constitution, is eligible for appointment to fill the vacancy created by his resignation.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a citizen of Texas maintaining a home and business in Texas, but whose wife is a Mexican citizen and lives in Mexico, is entitled to vote in Texas.

Because of difficulties in charging eight-inch fuel elements in bowed process tubes in the upper parts of the old reactors, IPD has requested that four-inch I & E fuel elements be provided for these tubes early in CY1961. Approximately 30,000 fuel elements of this design, Model OVN, will be required per year. Since most of these fuel elements will be charged in the upper fringe zones, they will be in-reactor for an extended period of time. For this reason, the quality of this material should be as high as possible. This report contains a summary of tests made to determine optimum canning conditions and to establish process specifications for canning four-inch I & E fuel elements.

This production test is designed to demonstrate that the K Reactors can be operated. with a higher graphite temperature limit than stipulated in present standards without a significant increase in the rate of either burnout or contraction of the graphite moderator stack. It is intended that the increase in allowable maximum graphite temperature will be utilized to permit operation with slightly higher reactor power levels with substantially the same enrichment level of the total uranium fuel charge as is currently in practice at the K Reactors.

This report addresses the critical mass studies, part X.

The outlet water temperature limits for the Hanford production reactors are based, among other things, on the ability to prevent excessive fuel temperatures during or following inadvertent flow losses or power surges. The analyses involved in the determination of the limits are dependent upon laboratory heat transfer experiments which closely simulate actual reactor conditions in a single process tube. The heat transfer experiments are quite complex in that they involve the recording of rapid changes in pressure, temperature, flow, and heat generation rates. As a preliminary to these transient heat transfer experiments, selected steady state experiments are performed to better plan the experimental program and to aid in the analysis of the problem. This document presents the results of some steady state experiments performed at low tube powers for K-reactor. The results are reported separately from the transient experiments because the data are useful for reactor problems involving shutdown cooling and are also of value to people interested in pressure drop of two phase mixtures.

The purpose of this test is to establish the reactor hydraulic flow vs pressure demand curve in the low-regions of around 4--10,000 gpm.