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Chemical Coolants for Machining Uranium in the Presence of Trace Amounts of Chloride (open access)

Chemical Coolants for Machining Uranium in the Presence of Trace Amounts of Chloride

Discussion of laboratory tests to reduce uranium corrosion.
Date: October 14, 1964
Creator: Sprague, T. P.; Googin, J. M. & Phillips, L. R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Geologic Map of the Cane Spring Quadrangle, Nye County, Nevada

This is a geological map of the Cane Spring quadrangle in Nye County, Nevada.
Date: October 1964
Creator: Poole, F. G.; Elston, Donald Parker & Carr, Wilfred James
Object Type: Map
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geologic Map of the Mine Mountain Quadrangle, Nye County, Nevada (open access)

Geologic Map of the Mine Mountain Quadrangle, Nye County, Nevada

Map of the Mine Mountain Quadrangle in Nye County, Nevada.
Date: October 1964
Creator: Orkild, Paul P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Two-Mile Accelerator Project: Quarterly Status Report, 1 April to 30 June 1964 (open access)

Two-Mile Accelerator Project: Quarterly Status Report, 1 April to 30 June 1964

Introduction: Contract AT(04-3)-400 provides for the construction of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), a laboratory that will have as its chief instrument a two-mile-long linear electron accelerator.
Date: October 1964
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Test of Dribble-Type Structures (open access)

Test of Dribble-Type Structures

From introduction: This task was conducted at Project Shoal to observe the response of simulated Dribble area building foundations to ground motions induced by a nuclear detonation.
Date: October 21, 1964
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preliminary Design Report - Title 1 on Mobile Gamma Irradiator (open access)

Preliminary Design Report - Title 1 on Mobile Gamma Irradiator

Introduction: The Mobile Gamma Irradiator is a semi-production demonstration unit capable of being transported from one area to another for use in irradiating fruit and farm produce, with the capability of furnishing dosages in the pasteurization range.
Date: October 30, 1964
Creator: Lowenberg, H. & Allentuck, J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Re-entry Flight Demonstration No. 1 (RFD-1): Optical Data and Fuel-Element Experiment (open access)

Re-entry Flight Demonstration No. 1 (RFD-1): Optical Data and Fuel-Element Experiment

This report on the RFD-1 optical data and external fuel-element experiment includes a description of the instruments and test components used, a presentation of the data obtained, an explanation of the methods of data reduction employed, and a statement of the conclusions derived. It covers the theory, design, qualification tests, flight-test data, and results of the external fuel-element experiment. Also presented is a theoretical analysis of observed versus predicted ablation times and altitudes for the external fuel elements. In addition, this report presents recommendations for improvements to data acquisition and reduction methods in future, similar flight tests.
Date: October 1964
Creator: White, I. B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of Stresses in Bellows (open access)

Analysis of Stresses in Bellows

Abstract: Design charts and systematic design forms are presented for simplified calculations to check the number of convolutions and thickness required to limit the deflection and pressure stress range in three types of bellows.
Date: October 15, 1964
Creator: Anderson, W. F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Criticality-Accident Dosimetry Studies (open access)

Criticality-Accident Dosimetry Studies

Experiments were carried out to (1) explore possibilities for developing a less expensive device than the Hurst threshold detector unit (TDU) for monitoring possible accidental critical reactions in uranium-processing facilities, (2) to study the precision and accuracy of the TDU, and (3) to evaluate the ORNL film badge in mixed neutron-gama radiation fields.
Date: October 15, 1964
Creator: Bailey, J. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sodium Reactor Experiment Power Expansion Program: Heat Transfer Systems Modifications (open access)

Sodium Reactor Experiment Power Expansion Program: Heat Transfer Systems Modifications

Abstract: Under the Power Expansion Program (PEP), modifications have been made to the Sodium Reactor Experiment (SRE) facility to improve plant reliability and permit an increase in power to 30 Mwt, with a reactor coolant outlet temperature up to 1200°F.
Date: October 9, 1964
Creator: Freede, W. J. & Roberts, J. K.
Object Type: Report
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.
Object Type: Report
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.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Boiling Studies for Sodium Reactor Safety: Part 2, Pool Boiling and Initial Force Convection Tests and Analyses (open access)

Boiling Studies for Sodium Reactor Safety: Part 2, Pool Boiling and Initial Force Convection Tests and Analyses

Abstract: In fulfillment of the general objective of developing information on two-phase flow required in the safety evaluation of sodium cooled reactors, pool and forced-convection boiling of sodium were studied both experimentally and analytically.
Date: October 15, 1964
Creator: Lurie, H. & Noyes, R. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Integral Neutron Thermalization, Annual Summary Report: October 1963-September 1964 (open access)

Integral Neutron Thermalization, Annual Summary Report: October 1963-September 1964

From introduction: This report contains D2O spectral investigations, measurements of scattering angular distributions, BeO spectral measurements, studies of space dependent problems, theoretical studies, and preliminary studies of fast neutron shielding.
Date: October 15, 1964
Creator: Beyster, J. R.; Brown, J. R.; Corngold, N.; Honeck, H. C.; Houston, D. H.; Joanou, G. D. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Cumulative Binomial Distribution Computer (open access)

The Cumulative Binomial Distribution Computer

Acknowledgement: The cumulative Binomial Distribution Computer incorporates valuable suggestions made by supervision and members of the Sandia Corporation Reliability Department.
Date: October 1964
Creator: Muench, J. O.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Design of an Experimental Bowable Fuel Element for the SRE (open access)

Design of an Experimental Bowable Fuel Element for the SRE

Abstract: An experimental bowable fuel element was developed to study temperature oscillations in the second core loading of the SRE.
Date: October 15, 1964
Creator: Peckinpaugh, C. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health and Safety Laboratory Fallout Program Quarterly Summary Report: June 1, 1964 - September 1, 1964 (open access)

Health and Safety Laboratory Fallout Program Quarterly Summary Report: June 1, 1964 - September 1, 1964

Report that summarizes multiple laboratories' reports on global fallout deposition. Reports include data on Strontium-90 deposition recorded by the Health and Safety Laboratory, data from other laboratories, related interpretive reports, and recent publications related to fallout.
Date: October 1, 1964
Creator: Hardy, Edward P., Jr. & Rivera, Joseph
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Spectrometric Techniques for Measuring Environmental Gamma Radiation (open access)

Spectrometric Techniques for Measuring Environmental Gamma Radiation

From Introduction: "We discuss in detail the equipment, calibration procedures, and techniques used to analyze the spectra, present evidence to substantiate the validity of the dose rate estimates, and examine several problems associated with field measurements, in particular the effects of radon migration from the soil, soil moisture, and fallout."
Date: October 1964
Creator: Beck, Harold L.; Condon, William J. & Lowder, Wayne M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Design of a Canine Inhalation Exposure Apparatus Incorporating a Whole Body Plethysmograph (open access)

The Design of a Canine Inhalation Exposure Apparatus Incorporating a Whole Body Plethysmograph

Report regarding a device used to monitor dogs that are being exposed to radioactive aerosols for experimental purposes.
Date: October 1964
Creator: Boecker, B. B.; Aguilar, F. L. & Mercer, T. T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ultramicro Methods in Biochemistry: [Part] 3. The Determination of Serum Cholesterol, [Part] 4. The Determination of Glucose (open access)

Ultramicro Methods in Biochemistry: [Part] 3. The Determination of Serum Cholesterol, [Part] 4. The Determination of Glucose

From Introduction: "The following report details the development of an ultra-micro method for the determination of serum cholesterol."
Date: October 1964
Creator: Van Stewart, E. & Longwell, Bernard B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Education, Experience, Training, and Certification of Reactor Operators at AEC-Owned Reactors (open access)

The Education, Experience, Training, and Certification of Reactor Operators at AEC-Owned Reactors

Results of a questionnaire survey are presented on reactor supervisor and operator education, experience, and training, and on certification procedures by reactor category. The questionnaires were obtained from 362 supervisors, 393 operators, 44 supervisor trainees, and 139 operator trainees.
Date: October 31, 1964
Creator: Wilgus, Walter S.; McCool, Whittie J. & Biles, Martin B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Heat Transfer in the Liquid-Liquid Spray Tower (open access)

Heat Transfer in the Liquid-Liquid Spray Tower

From Summary: "This report is concerned with specifying the heat transfer performance of a liquid-liquid spray tower and with determining if the performance can be augmented with electrohydrodynamic (EHD) means by reducing the drop size."
Date: October 1964
Creator: Sukhatme, S. P. & Hurwitz, M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Heat Transfer And Corrosion Characteristics of Capillary Fluted Aluminum Tubes (open access)

Heat Transfer And Corrosion Characteristics of Capillary Fluted Aluminum Tubes

From Background and Summary: "This report presents a theoretical and experimental study of techniques to improve thin-film evaporation with the use of fluted aluminum tubes."
Date: October 1964
Creator: Kumm, E. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Construction Completion Report: CAI-816, 100-N Reactor Plant (open access)

Construction Completion Report: CAI-816, 100-N Reactor Plant

Report from Hanford Laboratories concerning "the design and construction of the 100-N Reactor and heat dissipation plant complete with the necessary auxiliaries" (p. 2). Details of its construction and the plant's systems and instrumentation are described as well as economic considerations.
Date: October 15, 1964
Creator: Buckner, C. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library