349 Matching Results

Search Results

Advanced search parameters have been applied.
in subjects: "Isotopes"  
Results: 1 - 24 next
open access

Boron reclamation

Description: A process to recover high purity /sup 10/B enriched crystalline boron powder from a polymeric matrix was developed on a laboratory basis and ultimately scaled up to production capacity. The process is based on controlled pyrolysis of boron-filled scrap followed by an acid leach and dry sieving operation to return the powder to the required purity and particle size specifications. Typically, the recovery rate of the crystalline powder is in excess of 98.5 percent, and some of the remaining boron… more
Date: July 1, 1980
Creator: Smith, R. M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Measurement of energy deposited by charged-particle beams in composite targets

Description: We have measured the energy deposited in two types of composite targets by a number of charged-particle beams: targets made of /sup 238/U, Lucite, and polyethylene were exposed to 0.26-GeV protons and 0.33-GeV deuterons, and aluminum-Lucite composites were exposed to 0.5-GeV electrons. In addition, we measured neutrons and gamma rays emitted from solid targets of various materials (including /sup 238/U and iron) exposed to 0.26-GeV protons and 0.33-GeV deuterons. We used passive detectors (ther… more
Date: July 2, 1980
Creator: Farley, E.; Becker, J.; Crase, K.; Howe, R. & Selway, D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Measurements of /sup 234/U, /sup 238/U and /sup 230/Th in excreta of uranium-mill crushermen

Description: Uranium and thorium levels in excreta of uranium mill crushermen who are routinely exposed to airborne uranium ore dust were measured. The purpose was to determine whether /sup 230/Th was preferentially retained over either /sup 234/U or /sup 238/U in the body. Urine and fecal samples were obtained from fourteen active crushermen with long histories of exposure to uranium ore dust, plus four retired crushermen and three control individuals for comparison. Radiochemical procedures were used to s… more
Date: July 1, 1982
Creator: Fisher, D. R.; Jackson, P. O.; Brodacynski, G. G. & Scherpelz, R. I.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Statistical methods for including two-body forces in large system calculations

Description: Large systems of interacting particles are often treated by assuming that the effect on any one particle of the remaining N-1 may be approximated by an average potential. This approach reduces the problem to that of finding the bound-state solutions for a particle in a potential; statistical mechanics is then used to obtain the properties of the many-body system. In some physical systems this approach may not be acceptable, because the two-body force component cannot be treated in this one-body… more
Date: July 1, 1980
Creator: Grimes, S.M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Input and decayed values of radioactive liquid wastes discharged to the ground in the 200 Areas through 1975

Description: Low and intermediate level liquid wastes from chemical separations processing of spent reactor fuel elements have been discharged to the ground in the 200-Areas since 1944. Large volumes of process cooling water, normally free of radioactive contaminants, are discharged to surface ditches or natural surface depressions (ponds). Lesser volumes of liquid waste such as steam condensates, process condensates, scavenged process waste supernatants, and plutonium processing wastes have been, or are be… more
Date: July 8, 1976
Creator: Anderson, J. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Radiation standards and calibrations. FY-1981 annual report

Description: The research program encompasses: reviewing calibration standards, regulations, and handbooks; assuring that calibration procedures used are in agreement with technically accepted methods; maintaining basic radioactive sources and instruments that serve as radiological standards; and providing traceability to the National Bureau of Standards where possible. In addition, major efforts are being expended to upgrade the 318 calibration facility. This report focuses on major accomplishments during … more
Date: July 1, 1982
Creator: Roberson, P. L.; Yoder, R. C.; Fox, R. A.; Hooker, C. D.; Hogan, R. T.; Holbrook, K. L. et al.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

/sup 56/Ni and the light curve of Type I supernova

Description: The explanation of SN Type I by radioactive decay of /sup 56/Ni requires a relatively small value of the transparency function M/sub ej//v/sub 9//sup 2/ = 0.22 in units of M/sub solar/'s and 10/sup 9/ cm s/sup -1/ to explain the light curve. A minimum mass of /sup 56/Ni is required to explain the peak and near peak luminosity. Subsequent radioactive decay energy must escape in some other form than optical light in order to explain the rapid early and late time decay. Early ultraviolet and infra… more
Date: July 24, 1980
Creator: Colgate, S.A. & Petschek, A.G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Po-210 as long-term integrating radon indicator in the indoor environment

Description: The general objective is to improve the knowledge about the transferring processes leading from airborne radon/radon daughters to embedded Po-210 in hard surfaces in the indoor environment. The specific goal of the research is to identify situations in which the surface activity of Po-210 can be used as a long-term indicator of lung cancer risk from past or future radon exposures.
Date: July 1, 1990
Creator: Samuelsson, C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

REMOTE DISSOLUTION AND ANALYTICAL PROGRAM FOR IRRADIATED THORIUM

Description: A remote dissolution and analytical program for irradiated thorium is given. The aluminum jacket on the slug was dissolved with 6M nitric acid and 0.005M mercuric nitrate. After a water wash, the thorium dissolution was accomplished with concentrated nitric acid made 0.04M in hydrofluoric acid. Weighing, dissolving, and sampling were done remotely in the multicurie cell at the Idaho Chemical Processing Plant. Handling techniques for weighing and dissolving the slugs are described. Transferring … more
Date: July 14, 1961
Creator: Huff, G. A.; Doggett, I. L.; Fletcher, R. D. & Jacobson, M. E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Potential of pyroprocessing for partitioning purex wastes

Description: The processes are extremely compact. The process reagents are highly resistant to radiation damage and, therefore, can be used to handle short-cooled, highly concentrated waste with negligible degradation. Most reagents can be recycled back through the process many times, thereby minimizing the generation of waste products, and also reducing the process cost. Fission-product wastes are discharged from the process as concentrated, solid wastes, typically in a metal matrix suitable for permanent … more
Date: July 23, 1980
Creator: Coops, M. S. & Sisson, D. H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

/sup 3/H(p,n)/sup 3/He differential cross sections below 5 MeV and the n-/sup 3/He cross sections. [2. 5 and 4. 0 MeV]

Description: Complete angular distributions for the /sup 3/H(p,n)/sup 3/He reaction were measured at 2.5 and 4.0 MeV with the /sup 1/H(t,n)/sup 3/He reaction used to obtain the backward yields. Because the distributions are peaked about 17% more strongly in the backward direction than the best previous elevation suggests (based on extrapolated data), the /sup 3/H(p,n)/sup 3/He reaction cross sections below 5 MeV were re-evaluated without the extrapolated data. The results were compared with recent total n-/… more
Date: July 1, 1980
Creator: Drosg, M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Quarterly report on the strontium heat source development program, Advanced Nuclear Systems and Projects Division for April-June 1980

Description: Oak Ridge National Laboratory completed metallographic examination of the metal specimens from the 30,000-h compatibility tests with /sup 90/SrF/sub 2/. Electron microprobe analysis of the specimens is now under way. Results show that chemical attack of the 30,000-h specimens was not much greater than that observed in the 6000- to 20,000-h tests. Work continues on qualification testing of the as-fabricated prototype outer capsules. As-fabricated Hastelloy S and Hastelloy C-4 outer capsules pass… more
Date: July 1, 1980
Creator: Fullam, H. T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Transport of radon and thoron at the earth's surface

Description: This report covers progress under the current funding period 1 Jan 1992 to 1 Jan 1993 and presents the continuation proposal for 1 Jan 1993 to 1 Jan 1994. The previous progress report was submitted in June 1991, so activities during the last half of 1991 will also be included. Our major activities over the last year have continued to focus on measurements and modeling of the disequilibrium of radon and thoron progeny outdoors, and analysis of data on indoor thoron and thoron progeny.
Date: July 1, 1992
Creator: Schery, S.D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Radionuclide distributions and migration mechanisms at shallow land burial sites. Annual report of research investigations on the distribution, migration and containment of radionuclides at Maxey Flats, Kentucky. [Maxey Flats]

Description: Subsurface waters at Maxey Flats are anoxic systems with high alkalinity and high concentrations of dissolved ferrous ion. Americium and cobalt in these trench waters are made more soluble by the presence of EDTA, while strontium and cesium are unaffected under the same conditions. EDTA is the major organic complexing component in waste trench 27 leachate, but other polar, water-soluble organics are also present. Evidence points to the migration of plutonium between waste trench 27 and inert at… more
Date: July 1, 1982
Creator: Kirby, L. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Multicomponent mass transport model: a model for simulating migration of radionuclides in ground water

Description: This report presents the results of the development of a one-dimensional radionuclide transport code, MMT2D (Multicomponent Mass Transport), for the AEGIS Program. Multicomponent Mass Transport is a numerical solution technique that uses the discrete-parcel-random-wald (DPRW) method to directly simulate the migration of radionuclides. MMT1D accounts for: convection;dispersion; sorption-desorption; first-order radioactive decay; and n-membered radioactive decay chains. Comparisons between MMT1D … more
Date: July 1, 1980
Creator: Washburn, J.F.; Kaszeta, F.E.; Simmons, C.S. & Cole, C.R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Conceptual design study of spheromak reactors

Description: Preliminary design studies are carried out for a spheromak fusion reactor. Simplified circuit theory is applied to obtain characteristic relations among various parameters of the spheromak configuration for an aspect ratio A greater than or equal to 1.6. These relations are used to calculate the parameters for the conceptual designs of three types of fusion reactor: (1) DT two-component, (2) DT ignited, and, (3) catalyzed DD ignited reactors. With a total wall loading of approx. 4 MWm/sup -2/, … more
Date: July 1, 1980
Creator: Katsurai, M. & Yamada, M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Flight-systems safety program. Progress report, March 1982

Description: This technical monthly report covers studies related to the use of /sup 238/PuO/sub 2/ in radioisotope power systems carried out for the Office of Coordination and Special Projects of the US Department of Energy by Los Alamos National Laboratory. Most of the studies discussed here are ongoing. Results and conclusions described may change as the work continues. Published reference of the results cited in this report should not be made without the explicit permission of the person in charge of th… more
Date: July 1, 1982
Creator: Bronisz, S. E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Dynamic-angle spinning and double rotation of quadrupolar nuclei

Description: Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy of quadrupolar nuclei is complicated by the coupling of the electric quadrupole moment of the nucleus to local variations in the electric field. The quadrupolar interaction is a useful source of information about local molecular structure in solids, but it tends to broaden resonance lines causing crowding and overlap in NMR spectra. Magic- angle spinning, which is routinely used to produce high resolution spectra of spin-{1/2} nuclei like carbon-13 … more
Date: July 1, 1991
Creator: Mueller, K.T. (Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (United States) California Univ., Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Chemistry)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project Monthly Report

Description: The objective of the Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project is to estimate the radiation doses that individuals and populations could have received from nuclear operations at Hanford since 1944. The project is being managed and conducted by the Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL) under the direction of an independent Technical Steering Panel (TSP). The project is divided into the following technical tasks. These tasks correspond to the path radionuclides followed, from release to impa… more
Date: July 1, 1991
Creator: Finch, S.M. (comp.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

The effect of limiter conditioning on the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor edge plasma

Description: Measurements by moveable Langmuir probes and edge spectroscopy diagnostics have documented the conditioning effect of low density helium-initiated discharge sequences on the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) edge plasma. Langmuir probe measurements show in general that the edge electron density n{sub e} decreases by less than a factor of 2 while the edge electron temperature T{sub e} doubles. Radial profiles to the plasma boundary show that the density scrape-off length increases somewhat whil… more
Date: July 1, 1991
Creator: Kilpatrick, S. J.; Manos, D. M.; Nyberg, I.; Ramsey, A. T.; Stratton, B. C.; Timberlake, J. et al.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Physiopathology of blood platelets and development of platelets substitutes. Progress report, August 1, 1976--October 31, 1977. [/sup 51/Cr]

Description: Progress is reported on the following research projects: the effect of estrogen on platelet aggregability and thrombus formation; the antithrombotic effect of platelet inhibiting agents in a bench model of artificial kidney; the arrest of hemorrhage in severely alloimmunized thrombocytopenic patients; and in vivo elution of /sup 51/Cr from labeled platelets induced by antibody. (HLW)
Date: July 31, 1977
Creator: Baldini, M G
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Results of the radiological survey at Kennedy Park, Money and Sidney Streets, Lodi, New Jersey (LJ062)

Description: Maywood Chemical Works (MCW) of Maywood, New Jersey, generated process wastes and residues associated with the production and refining of thorium and thorium compounds from monazite ores from 1916 to 1956. MCW supplied rare earth metals and thorium compounds to the Atomic Energy Commission and various other government agencies from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s. Area residents used the sandlike waste from this thorium extraction process mixed with tea and cocoa leaves as mulch in their yards.… more
Date: July 1, 1989
Creator: Foley, R.D.; Cottrell, W.D. & Floyd, L.M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Isotope effect on the zero point energy shift upon condensation

Description: The various isotope-dependent and independent atomic and molecular properties that pertain to the isotopic difference between the zero point energy (ZPE) shifts upon condensation were derived. The theoretical development of the change of the ZPE associated with the internal molecular vibrations, due to the condensation of the gaseous molecules, is presented on the basis of Wolfsberg's second-order perturbation treatment of the isotope-dependent London dispersion forces between liquid molecules.… more
Date: July 1, 1977
Creator: Kornblum, Z.C. & Ishida, T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Back to Top of Screen