Purification of Graphite : (Supplementary Document to HW-12780) (open access)

Purification of Graphite : (Supplementary Document to HW-12780)

Report discussing experiments and developments in purification of graphite starting from March, 1949.
Date: October 4, 1949
Creator: Garbrecht, M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Application of Ceramics to Hanford Fuel Elements (open access)

The Application of Ceramics to Hanford Fuel Elements

From introduction: This work is a survey of possible uses of ceramic materials in Hanford-type fuel elements.
Date: September 4, 1953
Creator: King, B. W.; Tripp, H. P. & Duckworth, W. H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electroplated Metals on Uranium for Aluminum Cladding (open access)

Electroplated Metals on Uranium for Aluminum Cladding

Abstract: "Aluminum-clad nickel-plated uranium is corrosion resistant in boiling water. Samples with intentional defects in the aluminum-nickel clodding layers, after testing for more than 300 hr. showed no sign of rapid failure. The study of electroplated metals on uranium for aluminum cladding has defined the effects of several processing variables on the corrosion resistance. The quality of the uranium and the quality of the aluminum-nickel bond were important. Heat treatment and vacuum outgassing of the nickel-plated uranium prior to aluminum cladding were beneficial, and minimizing the amount of air present in the hot-press assembly was desirable. Variation in the steps for electroplating on uranium did not affect the corrosion resistance of aluminum-clad uranium."
Date: May 4, 1955
Creator: Beach, John G.; Schickner, William C.; Hopkinson, Dolores. & Faust, Charles L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Inexpensive, Wide Range Gamma Ray Geiger Survey Meter (open access)

An Inexpensive, Wide Range Gamma Ray Geiger Survey Meter

From abstract: Detailed information is given on the theory, design, parts specifications and assembly data for a new radiation detector for measurement of ionizing radiations.
Date: January 4, 1951
Creator: LeVine, H. D. & DiGiovanni, H. J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Scintillation Spectrometer Measurements of Capture Gamma Rays From Natural Elements: First Quarterly Report (open access)

Scintillation Spectrometer Measurements of Capture Gamma Rays From Natural Elements: First Quarterly Report

From abstract: "The objective of this program is to make a compilation of neutron capture gamma ray spectra of the naturally occurring elements, covering both the low and high energy region, using Na I(TI) scintillation detectors...During this phase of the program a detection system, together with its associated shielding was constructed and tested."
Date: October 4, 1961
Creator: Greenwood, Reginald C. & Stone, C. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improved Zirconium Alloys: Monthly Report 12, April 1961 (open access)

Improved Zirconium Alloys: Monthly Report 12, April 1961

Monthly report the progress and development of improved zirconium alloys for service in superheated water and steam. This report covers the period between April 1 to April 31, 1961 and was conducted by the United States and the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM).
Date: May 4, 1961
Creator: Weinstein, Daniel & Holtz, F. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Progress Relating to Civilian Applications During August, 1956 (open access)

Progress Relating to Civilian Applications During August, 1956

Report discussing the progress of research projects at Battelle Memorial Institute relating to civilian applications during August 1956.
Date: September 4, 1956
Creator: Dayton, Russell W. & Tipton, Clyde R., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Uranium Migration in UOâ‚‚-Bearing Ceramics (open access)

Uranium Migration in UOâ‚‚-Bearing Ceramics

This report follows a preliminary study on uranium migration in pressed and sintered UO2-bearing bodies based on MoSi2 or Al2O3.
Date: September 4, 1953
Creator: Quirk, J. F.; Smalley, A. K.; Duckworth, W. H. & Ferrell, Edward Francis.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Differential Thermal-Expansion Effects on Brazed Joints (open access)

Differential Thermal-Expansion Effects on Brazed Joints

Abstract: "Differential thermal-expansion effects in brazed joints involving Type 310 stainless steel and GE-62 brazing alloy were investigated. The work included dilation and modulus-of-elasticity measurements using homogenous cast specimens and observations on bimetallic cantilevers made of the two constituents. No anomalies were found, although there were irregularities in the expansion of the brazing alloy which were ascribed to a solubility phenomenon. The elastic modulus of the brazing alloy was determined. Cantilever deflections with temperature and with load were measured, and the results were interpreted using equations which treat the specimens as true bimetals consisting of two homogeneous components. The difference in thermal-expansion coefficients obtained in this way from the temperature-deflection data was consistent with the dilation measurements. The load measurements yielded an average elastic modulus for the bimetal which was about two-thirds of what would have been expected from knowledge of the components. This discrepancy probably arose from porosity which was observed in the braze components."
Date: September 4, 1953
Creator: Saller, Henry A.; Baroody, Eugene Michael, 1914-1982; Deem, H. W.; Stacy, J. T. & Klebanow, H. L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Preliminary Survey of Radioactive Constituents in Rainwater at ORNL (open access)

A Preliminary Survey of Radioactive Constituents in Rainwater at ORNL

Technical report surveying radio-chemical analyses by ORNL's Analytical Chemistry Division and Health-Physics Division of large volumes of rainwater for plutonium, uranium, and fission products. Overall, carrying efficiencies for Al(OH)3 scavenging of rainwater were determined for these elements, as well as for Pu and U. [From Abstract, Introduction]
Date: December 4, 1950
Creator: Booksbank, W. A., Jr.; Emmons, A. H.; Gost, J. W. & Reynolds, S. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Possible Test of Time Reversal in Mu-Meson Decay (open access)

A Possible Test of Time Reversal in Mu-Meson Decay

Report that discusses the possibility of testing the T-invariance in μ-meson decay. The author describes a past experiment performed by Lee and Yang, as well as the specifics of the proposed experiment to test the time reversal in μ-meson decay.
Date: March 4, 1957
Creator: Kotani, T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Rf System of the Bevatron (open access)

The Rf System of the Bevatron

Report discussing details of the design for the Bevatron at the University of California Radiation Laboratory. The Bevatron is a "6-billion-electron-volt (Bev) proton synchotron. This device will receive a 10-million-electron-volt (Mev) proton beam from a linear accelerator, and further accelerate a reasonable percentage of these protons, at a nominally constant radius of 600 inches, to a final energy greater than 6 Bev."
Date: June 4, 1954
Creator: Winningstad, C. Norman
System: The UNT Digital Library
Macroscopic Properties of a One-Dimensional Plasma Confined by a Magnetic Field (open access)

Macroscopic Properties of a One-Dimensional Plasma Confined by a Magnetic Field

Abstract: "The quantities of interest in a confined plasma include the electric and magnetic fields, current density, diffusion velocity, temperature, pressure, and particle density. Equations governing the distribution of these seven variables are given in this report and special cases of a one-dimensional steady-state plasma are examined in detail. The solutions are given in graphical form."
Date: September 4, 1956
Creator: Batten, Hugh W. & Woods, Cornelius H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Design of a Pulsed Magnetic Field Coil for Table Top 1 (open access)

The Design of a Pulsed Magnetic Field Coil for Table Top 1

Abstract: "A cylindrical coil has been designed for pulsed field operation suitable for use in a model thermonuclear reactor. The coil has an eight-inch inside diameter and a length of fifty-one inches. Magnetic mirrors at the ends consist of double-layer solenoids six and one-half inches long designed to slip over the main coil. Subsequent models of this coil have been fabricated which improved the electrical insulation provided by the bonding materials and the mechanical rigidity of the coil. Peak central fields of fifteen kilogauss and mirror fields of thirty kilogauss have been obtained."
Date: May 4, 1955
Creator: Ford, Franklin C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Recapitulation of Tolerable Concentration of Radioiodine on Edible Plants (open access)

Recapitulation of Tolerable Concentration of Radioiodine on Edible Plants

Report containing results of a study regarding concentration of radioiodine in edible plants fed to animals.
Date: August 4, 1952
Creator: Parker, H. M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Determination of Fluoride in Plutonium Metal by Thorium Titration (open access)

The Determination of Fluoride in Plutonium Metal by Thorium Titration

Abstract: "A titrimetric method for the determination of fluoride in plutonium is reported. Prior to a steam distillation of the fluoride, the bulk of the plutonium is separated by precipitation of the sulfate. The fluoride in the distillate is titrated at a pH of 3.2 with 0.001 M thorium nitrate, using chrome azurol-S indicator. Applied to samples containing 1 to 15 parts per million fluoride, the recovery is 87% and the precision on the 95% confidence level is +/- 0.65 ppm."
Date: May 4, 1954
Creator: Ferguson, W. S. & Newell, D. M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Precision Rotating Device for the Vacuum-Evaporation Coating of Model 100 Octagonal Mirrors (open access)

Precision Rotating Device for the Vacuum-Evaporation Coating of Model 100 Octagonal Mirrors

Various figures depicting views and components of a device for coating the "Model 100" 8-faced metallic rotating mirror with an equal amount of material on each mirror face.
Date: April 4, 1955
Creator: Taylor, Alfred R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Proceedings of the second symposium on the application of pulsed neutron source techniques : held at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley, California, December 4 and 5, 1958 (open access)

Proceedings of the second symposium on the application of pulsed neutron source techniques : held at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley, California, December 4 and 5, 1958

Report describing the proceedings of the second symposium on the application of pulsed neutron source techniques.
Date: 1958-12-04/1958-12-05
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Response of a Low-Geometry Scintillation Counter to Fission and Other Products (open access)

Response of a Low-Geometry Scintillation Counter to Fission and Other Products

Abstract: The theoretical response of a low-geometry scintillation counter to any photon-emitting nuclide whose decay scheme is known is developed. It is used to compute the counting rate, as a function of time, of (1) individual and total fission products resulting from. 10^4 simultaneous slow-neutron fissions of U^235 and (2) several other nuclides for 10 initial atoms. The calculations extend from ~45 min to 301 days after fission.
Date: February 4, 1959
Creator: LaRiviere, P. D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health Physics Report: October-December 1957 (open access)

Health Physics Report: October-December 1957

Summary: A survey was made of KAPL personnel currently exposed to radiation relating to their previous work with radiation or radioactive materials.
Date: June 4, 1958
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sweeping of Fission Gases from Solutions of U and Plutonium (open access)

Sweeping of Fission Gases from Solutions of U and Plutonium

Technical report describing two experiments performed to compare the amounts of fission gases swept out of UNH solution with those amounts swept out of PU solution under idential condiditons. The charge wire technique was used. The essential date and the results are given in tables in the report.
Date: September 4, 1945
Creator: Adams, R. M. & Finkelstein, H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Synthetic Liquid Fuel Potential of Iowa (open access)

The Synthetic Liquid Fuel Potential of Iowa

Report documenting the suitability of Iowa for plant locations to produce synthetic liquid fuels, based on raw materials. In this study, the only raw material considered in this survey was coal.
Date: June 4, 1951
Creator: Ford, Bacon, and Davis
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Fast Fission on k (open access)

The Effect of Fast Fission on k

The importance of fast neutron fission (i.e., fission caused by neutrons before being slowed down) was recognized by Szilard, and calculations similar to the present one have already been carried out by him, Feld, Ashkin, Wheeler, Wigner and others. The purpose of the present paper is to give a general formula for the contribution of fast fission to the multiplication constant, which will include all the cases already considered and will be applicable to more complicated geometries than those considered by the previous writers.
Date: May 4, 1943
Creator: Castle, H.; Ibser, H.; Sacher, G. & Weinberg, Alvin Martin, 1915-2006
System: The UNT Digital Library
Engineering Group Instrument Specification Report : Tests on Aquadag Treated Polyethylene Cable (open access)

Engineering Group Instrument Specification Report : Tests on Aquadag Treated Polyethylene Cable

Effect of aquadag coating on noise reduction in polyethylene coaxial cable was tested. A satisfactory combination of coaxial cables and connectors interconnecting sources of small ion currents or ionizing impulses with the measuring device is described.
Date: September 4, 1944
Creator: Weller, Barton L. & Dorsey, John M.
System: The UNT Digital Library