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Proposal for an Advanced Engineering Test Reactor : ETR II

Description: Report containing "the results of a study which was directed at providing additional experimental loop irradiation space for the AEC-DRD testing program. It was a premise that the experiments allocated to this reactor were those that could not be accommodated in the MTR, ETR or in existing commercial test reactors" (p. 5).
Date: March 17, 1960
Creator: deBoisblanc, D. R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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MUFT Revision : A Fast Neutron Spectrum Code for the IBM-650

Description: Report documenting the MUFT-R program, which is "designed to solve the fast neutron transport problem for general mixtures of elements and obtain sets of average fast neutron diffusion constants for specified portions of the fast energy spectrum" (p. iii). Includes detailed derivations of utilized equations.
Date: 1962
Creator: Grimesey, Robert A.; Mullen, Frank Edward & Gannon, L. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Preliminary Design 55,000 KW Prototype Natural Uranium, Gas Cooled, Graphite Moderated Nuclear Power Plant (Prototype for an Optimum Plant) for United States Atomic Energy Commission, Idaho Operations Office

Description: Report describing the preliminary design of a 55,000 kW prototype of a natural uranium nuclear power plant for the United States Atomic Energy Commission. Testing of the design and potential requirements for operating the plant are included.
Date: April 1, 1958
Creator: Kaiser Engineers
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Feasibility Study, 44,000 KW Prototype Partially Enriched Uranium, Gas Cooled, Graphite Moderated Nuclear Power Plant (Prototype for an Optium Power Plant) for United States Atomic Energy Commission, Idaho Operations Office

Description: Report that "contains a discussion of the feasibility study and cost estimates for a gas cooled, partial enriched uranium, graphite moderated power plant" (p. 3).
Date: April 1, 1958
Creator: Kaiser Engineers
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Supplement to Standard Practices for Design of MTR and ETR Safety Circuits

Description: Report that offers updated information from the Materials Testing Reactor (MTR) and Engineering Test Reactor (ETR) "experiment safety circuit manual by providing ETR power reduction curves and other information on ETR not yet available at the time the manual was issued, September 15, 1957" (p. 1).
Date: November 21, 1958
Creator: Jones, L. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Distribution of Uranium at Low Acid : Low Uranium Concentrations into 4-1/2 Percent TBP-AMSCO

Description: Report wherein acid free uranyl nitrate hexahydrate was distributed into 4-1/2 percent TBP-Amsco 125-90W and combined with various concentrations of acid in order to study the distribution of uranium and hydrolysis effects.
Date: August 23, 1956
Creator: Andelin, Robert L.; Anderson, Edward L. & McVey, W. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Pilot Plant Development Studies of a Continuous Process for Recovering Uranium from Nichrome Fuels

Description: Report documenting a process for recovering uranium from nichrome fuels (HTRE). This is accomplished by dissipating the fuel into a mixture of HCl-HNO3, stripping away chlorine ions with HN03, and recovering the uranium via tributyl phosphate solvent extraction.
Date: June 20, 1962
Creator: Chamberlain, H. V.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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ICPP Waste Calcining Facility : Safety Analysis Report

Description: Report documenting a study "made of the radiological hazards associated with operation of the ICPP Waste Calcination Facility" and contains "[d]etails of the safety analysis and extensive information on the process, equipment, and operation procedures" (p. iii). Each section has its own pagination.
Date: December 1, 1963
Creator: Lakey, L. T. & Bower, J. R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Quantitative Techniques of Scintillation Spectrometry as Applied to the Calibration of Standard Sources

Description: Report presenting "the determination of absolute gamma emission rates for monoenergetic gamma emitters using a single-channel scintillation spectrometer. Examples are given for Cr⁵¹, Cs¹³⁷, Nb⁹⁵, and Zn⁶⁵. Sources of error are discussed and steps being taken to improve the accuracy of the method are described" (p. 1).
Date: April 25, 1955
Creator: Heath, R. L. & Schroeder, F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Feasibility Study, Optimum Partially Enriched Uranium, Gas Cooled, Graphite Moderated for United States Atomic Energy Commission, Idaho Operations Office

Description: Report that contains "a preliminary design and feasibility studies of gas cooled, graphite moderated, nuclear power plants" (p. 1).
Date: April 1, 1958
Creator: ACF Industries Incorporated. Nuclear Products - ERCO Division.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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