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
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
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
Hanford Radiological Sciences Research and Development Annual Report for 1963 (open access)

Hanford Radiological Sciences Research and Development Annual Report for 1963

Report regarding ongoing research and development undertaken at Hanfdord Laboratories' physics and instruments laboratory and chemical laboratory.
Date: January 1964
Creator: Gamertsfelder, C. C. & Green, J. K.
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
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
Ultrasonic Resin Level Detector (open access)

Ultrasonic Resin Level Detector

This report describes the development of an ultrasonic instrument for resin level measurements in an ion exchange column.
Date: January 15, 1960
Creator: Hunter, D. O. & Pleasance, C. L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Final Report on Design Tests PR-50 and PR-51: Reactor Piping Seal Testing and Reactor Piping Structural Integrity (open access)

Final Report on Design Tests PR-50 and PR-51: Reactor Piping Seal Testing and Reactor Piping Structural Integrity

A test program conducted to develop high integrity piping and seal components for Plutonium Recycle Test Reactor installation. Methods of preventing leakage of costly D2O coolant and maintaining operational safety were investigated.
Date: June 26, 1959
Creator: Jackson, P. M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Factors Affecting Fluidization of Uranium Trioxide Powders (open access)

Factors Affecting Fluidization of Uranium Trioxide Powders

Study of factors, such as the average particle size and particle-size distribution, which affect the fluidization properties of uranium trioxide powders.
Date: March 1, 1958
Creator: Johnson, B. M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Research and Development Activities in the Radiological Sciences, Physical Sciences Portion, January - December 1961 (open access)

Research and Development Activities in the Radiological Sciences, Physical Sciences Portion, January - December 1961

Report regarding ongoing research and development undertaken at Hanfdord Laboratories' physics and instruments laboratory and chemical laboratory.
Date: January 15, 1962
Creator: Junkins, R. L. & Brown, J. E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pneumatic Injection Casting of Aluminum-Plutonium Fuel Elements (open access)

Pneumatic Injection Casting of Aluminum-Plutonium Fuel Elements

This report summarizes only that portion of the injection-casting experiments in which the castings were made with air pressure.
Date: April 1961
Creator: Koler, R. K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Failure Test of a Double Chambered NaK-Filled Irradiation Capsule (open access)

Failure Test of a Double Chambered NaK-Filled Irradiation Capsule

Report describing tests "in which a double chambered irradiation capsule containing NaK (sodium-potassium alloy) in its inner chamber was deliberately perforated to allow NaK (the heat transfer medium) and water to react within the capsule chambers" (p. 2). The report includes descriptions of the materials used in the tests, test procedures, and results.
Date: September 1961
Creator: Kosut, B. S.; Leggett, R. D. & Marshall, R. K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Critical Mass Studies of Plutonium Solutions (open access)

Critical Mass Studies of Plutonium Solutions

Chain reacting conditions for plutonium nitrate in water solution have been examined experimentally for a variety of sizes of spheres and cylinders.
Date: February 15, 1960
Creator: Kruesi, F. E.; Erkman, J. O. & Lanning, D. D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Specifications for Swaged UO2 19-Rod Cluster, PRTR Fuel Element Mark 1 (open access)

Specifications for Swaged UO2 19-Rod Cluster, PRTR Fuel Element Mark 1

Specifications including detail dimension, materials, fabrication steps, acceptance criteria, and final assembly steps for the swaged uranium dioxide, 19-rod cluster Plutonium Recycle Test Reactor fuel element.
Date: March 15, 1960
Creator: Millhollen, M. K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Magnetic Force Welding Sintered Aluminum Powder Materials (open access)

Magnetic Force Welding Sintered Aluminum Powder Materials

Report discussing the use of sintered aluminum powder for nuclear fuel cladding. This report includes descriptions of pertinent materials and experimental procedures.
Date: March 1962
Creator: Mills, L. E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Distribution of the Actinide Elements in the Molten System: KCI-AICI3-AI (open access)

Distribution of the Actinide Elements in the Molten System: KCI-AICI3-AI

Report of data for the distributions of elements 90 through 96 between molten salt solutions of their chlorides and molten aluminum (or alloy) at 725 Celsius.
Date: October 20, 1959
Creator: Moore, R. H. & Lyon, W. L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Design and Installation of a High Precision Temperature and Intimate Contact Monitor for Experimental Vacuum Chucks (open access)

Design and Installation of a High Precision Temperature and Intimate Contact Monitor for Experimental Vacuum Chucks

Describes the design criteria, design details, and final installation of a high precision temperature and intimate contact monitor.
Date: May 15, 1958
Creator: Morrow, G. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Heat Transfer Calculations for the PRTR Pressurized Gas-Cooled Loop Facility (open access)

Heat Transfer Calculations for the PRTR Pressurized Gas-Cooled Loop Facility

A series of calculations are described which evaluated the heat transfer and fluid flow aspects of the Plutonium Recycle Test Reactor Pressurized Gas-Loop Facility.
Date: June 1961
Creator: Muraoka, J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Steady Darcian Transport of Fluids in Heterogeneous Partially Saturated Porous Media: Part 2, the Computer Program (open access)

Steady Darcian Transport of Fluids in Heterogeneous Partially Saturated Porous Media: Part 2, the Computer Program

The subject of this report is the generalized computer program written to solve problems involving steady fluid flow through heterogeneous, partially-saturated porous media.
Date: May 20, 1964
Creator: Nelson, R. William
System: The UNT Digital Library
Beta-Gamma Dose Rates from U232 in U233 (open access)

Beta-Gamma Dose Rates from U232 in U233

This report defines in detail the source of the dose rate of U233 and describes a method by which they may be predicted.
Date: April 1964
Creator: Owen, F. E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Iron- and Nickel-Base Alloys for Medium and High Temperature Reactor Applications, Part 1 (open access)

Evaluation of Iron- and Nickel-Base Alloys for Medium and High Temperature Reactor Applications, Part 1

Report discussing the evaluation of the "behavior of austenitic and ferritic stainless steels, iron-chromium-aluminum base alloys and nickel-base superalloys, in medium and high temperature simulated reactor environments" (p. 2).
Date: February 1961
Creator: Pessl, H. J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Quarterly Progress Report Research and Development Activities Fixation of Radioactive Residues: October - December, 1964 (open access)

Quarterly Progress Report Research and Development Activities Fixation of Radioactive Residues: October - December, 1964

Report presenting research and development activities in the field of radioactive wastes. This particular report is concerned with the fixation of radioactive residues when the failure of a pot liner destroyed the furnace.
Date: April 15, 1965
Creator: Platt, A. M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Automatic Analyzing Monitor for Reactor Effluent Cooling Water (open access)

An Automatic Analyzing Monitor for Reactor Effluent Cooling Water

From objective: "The objective of this work was to design, develop, assemble, and test and automatic analyzing monitor for recording the prominent isotopes in reactor effluent cooling water."
Date: May 1, 1959
Creator: Rieck, H. G.; Ratcliffe, C. A. & Schwendiman, L. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library