Project 9536 - HEW - 300 Area: Metals turnings fire hazard (open access)

Project 9536 - HEW - 300 Area: Metals turnings fire hazard

This report discusses the use of coal tar to extinguish potential magnesium fires in stored metal turnings at the Hanford Engineer Works. The report is dated August 11, 1943. (JL)
Date: August 11, 1943
Creator: Huey, W. R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Explosives: TNX Hanford Technical Division weekly report for period ending October 10, 1944 (open access)

Explosives: TNX Hanford Technical Division weekly report for period ending October 10, 1944

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Date: October 11, 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Control of the HF Concentration of Electrolyte by Electrical Conductance Measurements. Problem Report for Period February 23, 1944 to November 27, 1944 (open access)

The Control of the HF Concentration of Electrolyte by Electrical Conductance Measurements. Problem Report for Period February 23, 1944 to November 27, 1944

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Date: January 11, 1945
Creator: Turnbull, S. G., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
METALLURGY DIVISION PROGRESS REPORT FOR THE PERIOD DECEMBER 30 1944 TO JANUARY 6, 1945 (open access)

METALLURGY DIVISION PROGRESS REPORT FOR THE PERIOD DECEMBER 30 1944 TO JANUARY 6, 1945

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Date: January 11, 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rough notes, coefficient tests, original data (open access)

Rough notes, coefficient tests, original data

This report provides the original data in the form of rough notes for production reactor coefficient tests.
Date: January 11, 1945
Creator: Menegus, R. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technical Department report on Production Test No. 313-66-M: Variation in canning yields with ``A`` and ``Z`` slugs (open access)

Technical Department report on Production Test No. 313-66-M: Variation in canning yields with ``A`` and ``Z`` slugs

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Date: April 11, 1945
Creator: Eubank, L. D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Determination of Barium in AAA Pitchblende Gangue (open access)

Determination of Barium in AAA Pitchblende Gangue

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Date: July 11, 1945
Creator: McCoy, J. R. & Martin, G. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Xenon and iodine concentrations in the environs of the T and B Plant (open access)

Xenon and iodine concentrations in the environs of the T and B Plant

A report of seven stack emissions of I-131 at the T and B plants, detailing the relationship between cooling times and dilution factors for the safe emission of the isotope. From the stack sampling, personal exposure limits for an eight and nine hour day are calculated. The effect of atmospheric conditions appears to be negligible, although periods of atmospheric stagnation may have an effect on the I-131 concentration. Environmental effects are minimized by increasing the cooling times of the isotope charge. Downdrafts near the stack emissions during low dilution increase the radiation level, but do not pose any inhalation hazard.
Date: December 11, 1945
Creator: Parker, H. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
100 Areas, January 1 through January 7, 1946 (open access)

100 Areas, January 1 through January 7, 1946

During this period the B Pile operated at its assigned power level of 25 MW below rated level, except for 10 hours on January 5. The operating level of the D Pile remained at 25 MW below rating. The rate gain in excess reactivity during equilibrium operation has been about 1.8 inhours/day. On January 1, the power level of the F Pile was dropped to 25 MW below rating from its previous rated level. Rod A was in a favorable position to make a determination of the reactivity coefficients at the time. The data does indicate an upper limit of {minus}0.21 ih/MW for the metal coefficient. An overall coefficient of 0.20 ih/MW was obtained. The unit was shut down on January 3 for discharge of 129 tubes of metal. A summary of the present reactivity states of the B, D, and F Piles are given. Iron content of process water for the three piles is also given.
Date: January 11, 1946
Creator: Jordan, W. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
300 Area monthly report for January (open access)

300 Area monthly report for January

This report review the work being conducted in the 300 area of the Hanford production facility for the month of January.
Date: February 11, 1946
Creator: Kidder, C. P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
RADON MEASUREMENTS IN WAREHOUSE AND BOX CARS CONTAINING HIGH GRADE ORE (open access)

RADON MEASUREMENTS IN WAREHOUSE AND BOX CARS CONTAINING HIGH GRADE ORE

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Date: February 11, 1946
Creator: Anonsen, S.H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A study of the quartz fiber balance No. II (open access)

A study of the quartz fiber balance No. II

This report describes calibration studies for the quartz microbalance {number_sign}2 and problems with drift.
Date: April 11, 1946
Creator: Nelson, G. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
100 Areas technical activities report -- Physics, November 1946 (open access)

100 Areas technical activities report -- Physics, November 1946

This report divides the activities for November into three sections: D Pile; F Pile; and general physics. During November the D Pile was down twice for regularly scheduled shutdowns. Two scram occurred during the month, both of short duration. Five Special Request 15 tubes were discharged and recharged with Special Request 15. Some 13 inhour of reactivity were gained during the month. Vertical rod thimbles, 10 through 22, were tested. A Production Test was performed to determine the reactivity power coefficients of the F Pile at low power levels and with practically no xenon poison remaining. Additional experience in the use of temporary poison columns during an extended shutdown of the pile was obtained during the month. Four new bismuth columns were charged during the month and six tubes were charged with LiF. The F Pile had not yet returned to xenon equilibrium following the shutdown of November 27 at the end of the month, but conditions just prior to this shutdown indicate a loss of one inhour since October 31. Two sets of specimens were removed from the ``B`` Test Hole of the F Pile on November 4. Samples were also machined from graphite removed from the No. 9 …
Date: December 11, 1946
Creator: Gast, P. F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Extraction of Uranium from Iron Box Sludge (open access)

Extraction of Uranium from Iron Box Sludge

It was desired to establish the adaptability of iron box sludge, a residue recovered in the initial concentration of domestic ores, as a raw material from the production of high purity U{sub 3}O{sub 8}. This report summarizes the experimental work on the extraction of uranium from iron box sludge and that on the removal of V{sub 2}O{sub 5} and P{sub 2}O{sub 5} from the solutions.
Date: March 11, 1947
Creator: O'Connors, R. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
THE EXTRACTION OF IONIUM BY ORGANIC SOLVENTS (open access)

THE EXTRACTION OF IONIUM BY ORGANIC SOLVENTS

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Date: August 11, 1947
Creator: Hyde, E.K. & Tolmach, J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Physics Division. Quarterly Report, Period Covered September, October and November 1947 (open access)

Physics Division. Quarterly Report, Period Covered September, October and November 1947

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Date: December 11, 1947
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Research Progress Meeting for March 11,1948 (open access)

Research Progress Meeting for March 11,1948

The linear accelerator is again in operation after a shutdown fore repairs and minor changes. Radiofrequency checks of the instrument were made while the Van de Graaff was open. The vacuum of the system is now very good, the base pressure being 1.7 x 10{sup -6} mm Hg with a rate of rise of 800 s/{micro}s. Some preliminary results have been obtained on the activation of carbon with protons. The experiments were done using 10 mil, 50 mg/cm{sup 2} polystyrene discs. The activation curve obtained is shown. The break shown in the curve was found on two separate runs and it yet unexplained. In another experiment a proton induced activity in nickel was found. This had a 3.3 second half-life. Positive mesons have been detected on plates exposed in the 184-inch cyclotron with an arrangement shown schematically. The beam ws allowed to strike a 1/16 inch carbon target, and the mesons, which are bent around by the magnetic field, were detected with photographic plaes placed beneath the circulating beam. A series of experiments were done in which the plates were placed at distances varying from 1-1/2 to 3/4 inch from the beam between 1/4 inch plates of copper. The plates …
Date: March 11, 1948
Creator: Wakerling, R.K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lexington Project Report Number 24: Aircraft (open access)

Lexington Project Report Number 24: Aircraft

This report talks about aircraft design demand
Date: June 11, 1948
Creator: Redding, E. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
200 Area stack contamination. Interim report, August 2, 1948--October 11, 1948 (open access)

200 Area stack contamination. Interim report, August 2, 1948--October 11, 1948

In connection with the problem of eliminating contamination of the atmosphere by the exhaust from the 221 Building ventilation air stacks, sand filters were previously recommended. Construction of a sand filter in West Area is about completed and construction of a filter in East Area is well underway. This report summarizes the status, technical findings, and comments and suggestions since the writer`s last Interim Report, dated August 6, 1948, was issued.
Date: October 11, 1948
Creator: Lapple, C. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Ion-Exchange Separation of Zirconium and Hafnium (open access)

The Ion-Exchange Separation of Zirconium and Hafnium

In the course of a rather cursory examination of the elution of tetra-positive ions from the cation exchange resin Dowex 50 with hydrochloric acid solutions, the authors have discovered a very effective method of separating zirconium from hafnimu. In view of the great labor involved in preparing even reasonably pure hafnium compounds by existing methods, they feel that this procedure will prove very valuable to those interested in obtaining hafnium compounds free of zirconium. Although the conditions which give satisfactory separation were first worked out using microgram amounts of material and the radioactive tracer technique, the run described here, involving milligrams of material, illustrates the applicability of the method to the production of significant amounts of pure hafnium and zirconium.
Date: October 11, 1948
Creator: Street, Kenneth, Jr. & Seaborg, Glenn T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Activity of fission products (open access)

Activity of fission products

This report compares the activity and disintegration energy of fission products from metal under two conditions of exposure: 200 Megawatt-days integrated exposure over a period of 180 days, and 400 Megawatt-days integrated exposure over a period of 360 days. (JL)
Date: November 11, 1948
Creator: Garbrecht, M. & Gillette, P. R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
COMPARISON OF VARIOUS METHODS FOR THE REMOVAL OF URANIUM FROM CARBON SALVAGE (open access)

COMPARISON OF VARIOUS METHODS FOR THE REMOVAL OF URANIUM FROM CARBON SALVAGE

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Date: February 11, 1949
Creator: Twichell, L. P.; Petretsky, P. B.; Williams, R. D. & Waldrop, F. B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Office of Hanford Directed Operations events of importance for week ending February 9, 1949] (open access)

[Office of Hanford Directed Operations events of importance for week ending February 9, 1949]

This report details events of importance reported by the Hanford Operations Office for the week ending February 9, 1949.
Date: February 11, 1949
Creator: Travis, J. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oxides of nitrogen exposures accompanying pickling operations 313 Building - 300 Area (open access)

Oxides of nitrogen exposures accompanying pickling operations 313 Building - 300 Area

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Date: March 11, 1949
Creator: Adley, F. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library