Search Results

open access

Progress Report on Waste Concentration Studies: Engineering Results on the BNL Semi-Works Vapor Filtration Vapor Compression Evaporator

Description: Report issued by the Brookhaven National Laboratory discussing progress of waste concentration studies. As stated in the introduction, "the present report covers all experimental hot runs up to the time the still was turned over to the Waste Control Section for intermediate handling of laboratory D waste" (p. 1). This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: August 15, 1951
Creator: Horrigan, R. V.; Fried, H. M.; Manowitz, B.; Kuhl, O.; Baranosky, J. A.; Bellanca, S. et al.
open access

Non-Overload Amplifiers

Description: Report issued by the Brookhaven National Laboratory discussing non-overload amplifiers, including features, performance, and improvements of amplifiers. This report includes illustrations, and photographs, as well as errata at the end of the report.
Date: April 1, 1953
Creator: Higinbotham, W. A.
open access

Area Survey Manual

Description: Report issued by the Brookhaven National Laboratory discussing the area survey manual covering the 15 service stations. Design and operations of the service stations are presented. This report includes tables, illustrations, photographs, and a map.
Date: June 15, 1955
Creator: Weiss, Max M.
open access

LMFR-9 Static Corrosion Behavior of Materials in Bismuth and Uranium-Bismuth Solution at 550°C

Description: Report issued by the Brookhaven National Laboratory discussing corrosion behaviors of materials in bismuth. As stated in the introduction, "this report will present the details of the corrosion testing and the results obtained to date on materials tested under static conditions in bismuth media" (p. 1). This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Atherton, J. E.; Kammerer, O. F.; Klamut, C. J. & Sadofsky, J.
open access

Twin Channel Count Integrator (EH1-503)

Description: Report issued by the Brookhaven National Laboratory discussing a twin channel count integrator. As stated in the introduction, "an accurate and stable recording ratemeter, designed to present the data from two counters on one strip chart recorder, is described" (p. 1). This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: June 1956
Creator: Higinbotham, William A. & Tillinger, J.
open access

Analysis of Meteorological Tower Data, April 1950 - March 1952, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Description: Report issued by the Brookhaven National Laboratory discussing data collected from two BNL meteorological towers. As stated in the introduction, "results are presented in graphic form rather than tabular form" (p. 1). This report includes tables, maps, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: June 1957
Creator: Singer, Irving A. & Raynor, Gilbert S.
open access

Pilot Plant Fluorination of Uranium Fuel Elements by Bromine Trifluoride

Description: Report issued by the Brookhaven National Laboratory discussing methods of processing reactor fuels such as uranium. As stated in the objective, "the primary objective of the project was to determine the effect of temperature, solution composition, and flow rate on the dissolving time for natural uranium slugs of varying history" (p. 2). This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: July 26, 1957
Creator: Strickland, G.; Horn, F. L. & Johnson, R.
open access

Capture - Positron Ratios for Allowed and First-Forbidden Transitions

Description: Report issued by the Brookhaven National Laboratory discussing capture positron ratios. As stated on page 1, "the purpose of this report is to present aids for the simple determination of the relative probabilities of K-electron capture and positron emission for allowed and first-forbidden transitions" (p. 1). This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: January 1958
Creator: Perlman, M. L. & Wolfsberg, Max
open access

Summary Hazards Report on Enriched Fuel Element Loading for the BNL Research Reactor

Description: Report issued by the Brookhaven National Laboratory discussing a hazards report on replacing the research center's current fuel elements with new highly enriched elements. As stated in the introduction, "this report is a summary of the studies, both theoretical and experimental, which have been made so far of the nuclear properties of the "new" pile, of the stability of the new fuel elements, and of the safety and practicability of operation of the "new" pile" (p. 2). This report includes table… more
Date: May 24, 1956
Creator: Corngold, N.; Kaplan, I.; Chernick, J.; Gurinsky, D. H. & Fowell, R. W.
open access

An Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Subcritical BNL Reactor

Description: Technical report outlining the theoretical study of the sub-critical BNL (Brookhaven National Laboratory) reactor, and a comparison of reactor performance with the purpose of presenting the experimental results of the experimental methods. Presents experimental results and and a detailed discussion of the experimental methods along with theoretical analysis and evaluation of the results.
Date: June 15, 1950
Creator: Cwernick, J.; Kaplan, I.; Kunstadter, J.; Sailor, V. & Williams, C.
open access

Classified Progress Report of the Reactor Science and Engineering Department; April 1 - June 30, 1950

Description: Technical report outlining the progress of reactor completion and startup events by the Reactor Theory, Physics, Radioisotope Development, Geology, Meteorology, Waste Concentration, and Waste Disposal groups in the Reactor Science and Engineering Department of Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Date: 1950
Creator: Brookhaven National Laboratory
open access

Preliminary Study of a Uranium - Bismuth Liquid Fuel Power Reactor L. F. R . 2

Description: Technical report and preliminary design calculations describing a type of liquid fuel reactor adaptable for production or breeding on a U-233 cycle based on data at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Describes design calculations for generating significant amounts of power and neutrons by use of uranium-bismuth solutions with fused salts in the reactor system.
Date: April 27, 1951
Creator: Gurinsky, D. H.; Kaplan, I.; Miles, F. T.; Williams, C. & Winsche, W. E.
open access

A Continuous Fission Product Separation Process; I. Removal of the Rare Earths (Lanthanum Cerium, Praseodymium, and Neodymium) From a Typical Liquid Bismuth-Uranium Reactor Fuel by Contact with Fused LiCl-KCl Mixtures

Description: Technical report investigating the distribution of rare earth elements between a liquid bismuth-uranium solution and fused KCI-LiCi mixtures. Report warrants further research on the liquid bismuth-uranium-fused salt system due to the benefit of continuous fission removal processes.
Date: July 1, 1951
Creator: Bareis, D. W.
open access

The Concentration of Deuterium by Chemical Exchange Between Hydrogen and Ammonia

Description: Technical report describing the results of the chemical reaction between potassium amide and liquid ammonia and the exchange of hydrogen between hydrogen gas and liquid ammonia. This report finds that the reactions may be sufficiently rapid to be useful for isotope separations on a larger scale.
Date: December 15, 1951
Creator: Perlman, M. L. & Bigeleisen, J.
Back to Top of Screen