Progress Report on Contract OEMsr-290. Supplement 2 (open access)

Progress Report on Contract OEMsr-290. Supplement 2

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Date: October 1, 1942
Creator: Kraus, C. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Theory of High Frequency Rectification by Silicon Crystals (open access)

Theory of High Frequency Rectification by Silicon Crystals

The excellent performance of British ''red dot'' crystals is explained as due to the knife edge contact against a polished surface. High frequency rectification depends critically on the capacity of the rectifying boundary layer of the crystal. C. For high conversion efficiency, the product of this capacity and of the ''forward'' (bulk) resistance R{sub b} of the crystal must be small. For a knife edge, this product depends primarily on the breadth of the knife edge and very little upon its length. The contact can therefore have a rather large area which prevents burn-out. For a wavelength of 10 cm. the computations show that the breadth of the knife edge should be less than about 10{sup -3} cm. For a point contact the radius must be less than 1.5 x 10{sup -3} cm. and the resulting small area is conductive to burn-out. The effect of ''tapping'' is probably to reduce the area of contact.
Date: October 29, 1942
Creator: Bethe, H. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Brown Oxide by-product Recovery. Part V (open access)

Brown Oxide by-product Recovery. Part V

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Date: October 28, 1943
Creator: Barnes, J. W.; Copenhafer, D. R.; Furnas, T. C.; Opie, J. V. & Reid, G. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technical report for the period August 1, 1944 to September 30, 1944 (open access)

Technical report for the period August 1, 1944 to September 30, 1944

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Date: October 2, 1944
Creator: Willson, K. S.
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
Hanford Engineer Work technical progress letter No. 14, October 6--October 12 (open access)

Hanford Engineer Work technical progress letter No. 14, October 6--October 12

This barely legible document contains information on slug testing results and autoclave performance. Reactor physics, corrosion, chemistry and instrument development are also discussed.
Date: October 14, 1944
Creator: Bugbee, S. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hanford Engineer Works, technical progress letter number 15, October 13 through October 19, 1944 (open access)

Hanford Engineer Works, technical progress letter number 15, October 13 through October 19, 1944

This report documents the progress made for the week in each of the following areas: fuel canning operations; reactor operations (100 area); instrumentation development; and fuel reprocessing (200 area). Detailed information is given for each of these areas. Problems encountered are also discussed.
Date: October 21, 1944
Creator: Bugbee, S. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exposures exceeding tolerance (open access)

Exposures exceeding tolerance

This letter was written in 1944 and applies to the amount of radiation a person could be subjected to under emergency, wartime conditions. Mr. Stone recommends to Dr. Norwood that no man should be ordered to expose himself to more than a tolerance dose (0.1r in a 24 hr period) except in the case of an extreme emergency in which time is of the essence. And that before any man is asked to exceed tolerance that a radiation trained physician be called in for consultation. His recommendations to said physician are that: (a) a single exposure of 1r would cause no harm and could be repeated at long intervals, (b) an exposure of 5 to 10r would produce loss of appetite and nausea and would increase the chances of genetic change but would cause no clinically detectable changes after the incident, (C) an exposure of 25r would do the same as (b) but with greater probability -- he would be personally willing to take a 25r exposure to accomplish an extremely important job, (4) in general keep exposures well below tolerance, (5) due to the genetic effects, women of childbearing age and younger men should be subjected to none and …
Date: October 25, 1944
Creator: Stone, R. S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
SUGGESTIONS FOR A HIGH TEMPERATURE PEBBLE PILE (open access)

SUGGESTIONS FOR A HIGH TEMPERATURE PEBBLE PILE

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Date: October 25, 1944
Creator: Daniels, F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Shock Hydrodynamics and Blast Waves (open access)

Shock Hydrodynamics and Blast Waves

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Date: October 28, 1944
Creator: Bethe, H.A.; Fuchs, K.; von Neuman, J.; Peierls, R.; Penney, W.G. & Hirschfelder, notes written by J.O.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Interpretation of the Isotopic Separation in the Distillation of Methyl Ether-Boron Fluoride Complex (open access)

An Interpretation of the Isotopic Separation in the Distillation of Methyl Ether-Boron Fluoride Complex

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Date: October 1, 1945
Creator: McCaulay, D. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preliminary Report on a Method for teh Determination of Small Quantities of Thorium (open access)

Preliminary Report on a Method for teh Determination of Small Quantities of Thorium

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Date: October 1, 1945
Creator: Fahey, J. J. & Foster, M. D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
July 16th nuclear explosion: Permanent earth displacement (open access)

July 16th nuclear explosion: Permanent earth displacement

A measurement was made of the permanent earth movement in the neighborhood of the tower caused by the nuclear explosion at Trinity. The crater was apparently formed by a compression phenomenon and was noted to be much shallower than craters formed by ordinary high explosives. Scaling up existing information on the radius of craters, the TNT equivalence of the nuclear bomb is given as 10,000 tons to within 50 percent. Observations were made on the damage in the crater region and suggestions are given as to the nature of structure which might be expected to withstand the blast close to the gadget. It is also noted that, despite previous opinion to the contrary, it is apparently possible to reduce greatly the volume of earth blown away by the blast by suitably protecting the ground.
Date: October 3, 1945
Creator: Reines, F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Procedure for improving temperature distribution via rods and columns -- B Pile (open access)

Procedure for improving temperature distribution via rods and columns -- B Pile

Since the development of relationships between rod changes and temperature shifts, the temperature distribution of the B Pile has been improved as much as possible by shifting the rods. Certain unbalances have been found which can only be removed by improvement of the poison pattern. At present the maximum imperfection in the B Pile is 5% diagonal quadrupole unbalance. An estimate of the poison pattern needed to correct these imperfections is given herein. This poison pattern has been calculated as an example of application of the principles and is not intended as a recommendation.
Date: October 5, 1945
Creator: Menegus, R. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Special investigation of unusual incidents of August 29, 1945 at 100-B and September 7, 1945 at 100-F (open access)

Special investigation of unusual incidents of August 29, 1945 at 100-B and September 7, 1945 at 100-F

This report presents a brief synopsis of an investigation of unusual incidents at the 100-B and 100-F areas at HAPO. (CBS)
Date: October 5, 1945
Creator: Lunt, R. R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Solubility of Plutonium(IV) Phosphates and the Phosphate Complexes of Plutonium(IV) (open access)

The Solubility of Plutonium(IV) Phosphates and the Phosphate Complexes of Plutonium(IV)

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Date: October 12, 1945
Creator: King, E.L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
PITCHBLENDE PROCESSING DEVELOPMENT. PRELIMINARY TESTS ON OLIVER FILTER, BATCHES S-104 INCLUSIVE (open access)

PITCHBLENDE PROCESSING DEVELOPMENT. PRELIMINARY TESTS ON OLIVER FILTER, BATCHES S-104 INCLUSIVE

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Date: October 15, 1945
Creator: Ritchie, C.F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exchange Method of Preparing Boron Trifluoride Samples for Mass Spectrometer Analysis of Dimethyl Ether-Boron Trifluoride (open access)

Exchange Method of Preparing Boron Trifluoride Samples for Mass Spectrometer Analysis of Dimethyl Ether-Boron Trifluoride

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Date: October 23, 1945
Creator: Judson, C. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Determination of Tuballoy Uranium With the X-Ray Spectrograph. Summary Report (open access)

Determination of Tuballoy Uranium With the X-Ray Spectrograph. Summary Report

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Date: October 25, 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of Dimethyl Ether-Boron Trifluoride (open access)

Analysis of Dimethyl Ether-Boron Trifluoride

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Date: October 26, 1945
Creator: Judson, Charles M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reactions of Boric Acid and Boric Oxide With Methyl Ether-Boron Fluoride Complex (open access)

Reactions of Boric Acid and Boric Oxide With Methyl Ether-Boron Fluoride Complex

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Date: October 31, 1945
Creator: Webb, A. N. & Rittschof, W. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A STUDY OF THE REACTIONS OF METHYL ETHERBORON FLUORIDE COMPLEX WITH WATER UNDER FRACTIONATION CONDITIONS (open access)

A STUDY OF THE REACTIONS OF METHYL ETHERBORON FLUORIDE COMPLEX WITH WATER UNDER FRACTIONATION CONDITIONS

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Date: October 31, 1945
Creator: Hiebert, E. N.; Rittschof, W. L. & Conn, A. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of Normal Process and Single Process (XC) Uranium (open access)

Comparison of Normal Process and Single Process (XC) Uranium

Certain difficulties have been encountered in attempts to substitute a 'one-step' casting process, developed at Iowa State College, for the 'normal' process generally used for the production of extrusion billets. In the 'one-step' process molten metal is delivered from the reduction bomb to the billet mold instead of allowing the metal to solidify in the bomb with subsequent vacuum remelting of the biscuit metal before casting in the billet mold. Routine analyses had failed to establish significant differences in the composition of normal and one-step metal. The one-step billets had been extruded satisfactorily, and finished slugs were prepared and subjected to the usual canning operation. In subsequent tests however, it was found that a large percentage of the canned slugs were badly defective. An investigation was requested to determine the differences in composition or structure of the X-C and normal metal which would account for the failure of the X-C slugs. Samples of the failed slugs and of metal from various stages of both the one-step and normal processes were supplied by Madison Square Area, for comparison on the basis of analyses, microstructure, or such other tests as seemed desirable.
Date: October 7, 1946
Creator: Cleaves, H. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Graphite expansion committee meeting of October 4, 1946 (open access)

Graphite expansion committee meeting of October 4, 1946

Recent data show that test hole samples out from the center of a bar show greater expansion rates than do samples out from the edge of a bar. The previously noticed irregularities in expansion of test hole samples are attributed to this phenomenon. For unexplained reasons, the expansion of the graphite piles is in close agreement with the smaller expansion rates shown by test hole samples rather than with the larger rates. It is recommended that the neoprene coal on the far side of the F pile be placed before the end of the year. It is recommended that the neoprene seal on the near side of the D Pile be replaced after replacement neoprene is on hand. It is recommended that the compressed cork and about 4 inches of the cement block was in back of the Third Safety Tanks at the D Pile be removed at the time of replacement of the neoprene seal, and that the resulting gap be covered with a flexible air-impermeable membrane such as rubberized canvas. Actual measurement of the length of graphite between the gun barrels of Tube 3671-B confirms the predicted end-wise expansion of the graphite as deduced from jacking tests on …
Date: October 7, 1946
Creator: Woods, W. K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library