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The Alco Products Inc. Criticality Facility : Description and Operation

Description: The Alco Products Criticality Facility, site location, and operating procedures are described in detail, including the handling of fissionable material and the operating procedures for the safe performance of critical experiments.
Date: July 16, 1958
Creator: Noaks, John W.
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Gas-Cooled Reactor Project Semiannual Progress Report: March 1964

Description: Report documenting ongoing research and developments at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Gas-Cooled Reactor Project. From summary: "A study was made of the effect of the energy of extraneous source neutrons on the amplitudes of higher modes in the flux distribution of a subcritical reactor."
Date: July 1964
Creator: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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The Design of a Dynamic Corrosion and Chemical Control Test Loop and Preliminary Out-of-Pile Test Results

Description: From abstract: "This report describes the overall loop design and the means by which this design was developed. These include critical facility measurements, analog computer calculations, hydraulic and heat transfer computations, and the construction and operation of an out-of-pile mock-up loop to determine the dynamic characteristics of the loop."
Date: July 12, 1963
Creator: Zelezny, W. F.
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EDP Procedures in Technical Library Operations

Description: Systems for circulation control, book ordering, journal renewal, printing a book catalog, preparing monthly acquisitions lists.
Date: July 30, 1963
Creator: Griffin, Hillis L.
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Effect of Process Variables on Graphite Purity

Description: Results of four experimental heats run at the end of the G-5 contract in the National Carbon Company Clarksburg production furnaces.
Date: July 20, 1954
Creator: Riley, W. C. & Corners, A. M.
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Fabrication of Fuel Rods by Tandem Rolling

Description: From introduction: "The purpose of this report is to present the details of the exploratory and developmental work on tandem rolling, and the subsequent fabrication of tandem rolled fuel rods for irradiation testing in the Vallecitos Boiling Water Reactor."
Date: July 1961
Creator: Lingafelter, J. W.
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Gas Cooled Nuclear Reactor Study

Description: Study of a gas cooled reactor with design specifications providing for a source of high temperature heat to a stream of helium. This reactor, in turn, is used as a source of heat for the air stream in a gas-turbine power plant.
Date: July 31, 1956
Creator: Thompson, A. S.
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Health and Safety Laboratory Fallout Program Quarterly Summary Report: March 1, 1974 - June 1, 1974, Appendix

Description: Report documenting radioactive fallout across the world, including both material in the atmosphere and that has deposited into food supplies. This appendix includes tables of monthly fallout deposition collections from 116 sites across the Earth and a list of radionuclides and their half-lives.
Date: July 1, 1974
Creator: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Health and Safety Laboratory.
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In-Pile Loop Tests of GCRE Elements (I-IT and I-I'T)

Description: Report documenting two in-pile loop experiments conducted at the Battelle Research Reactor-Gas Cooled Reactor (BRR-GCR). These experiments test heat transfer calculations and the behavior of the fuel element under severe thermal-cycling conditions.
Date: July 2, 1959
Creator: Nakazato, S.; Williams, P. M. & Wilson, W. D.
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Materials for Superheated Fuel Sheaths: Relative Performance of Alloys in Superheated Steam Environments

Description: From abstract: "Study of radiation effects upon the tensile properties of the alloys, corrosion behavior in the absence and presence of stress, effect of prolonged, high temperature exposures upon structure sensitive properties of the alloys, and physical metallurgical changes as a function of exposure in a superheat environment.
Date: July 1963
Creator: Comprelli, F. A.; MacMillan, D. F. & Spalaris, C. N.
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A Neutron Absorption Alignment Chart

Description: From introduction: "Neutron absorption alignment chart for the measurement of neutron flux density."
Date: July 30, 1957
Creator: Nisle, Robert G.
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Numerical Results for EGCR Moderator-Element Stress Problems

Description: From introduction: "A recent report describes the development of a general program for the IBM Type 7090 electronic computer for calculating plane thermal stresses."
Date: July 3, 1961
Creator: Hulbert, Lewis E. & Redmond, Robert F.
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