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Research and Investigation Leading to Methods of Generating and Detecting Radiation in the 100 to 1000 Micron Wavelength Range of the Spectrum. Quarterly Progress Report No. 15 for 1 September to 1 December 1959

Description: Purpose of this research is twofold:: (1) to uncover new principles or techniques from which a CW source of electromagnetic radiation for the low millimeter and submillimeter wavelength range can be developed; and (2) to develop suitable detectors, components, and measuring techniques for evaluating and using the radiation as a diagnostic tool for plasma physics
Date: January 1, 1960
Creator: Coleman, P. D.; Baird, J. R.; Enderby, C.; Hakki, B;; Kenyon, R. J.; Stafford, J. et al.
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Paper Presented by M. Minashin

Description: The attached paper is a translation of a rough draft of the paper, "Operating Experience of the APS-1", presented by M. Minashin in Russian at the IAEA Conference on Small and Medium Power Reactors, Vienna, Austria, September 5-9, 1960.
Date: November 1, 1960
Creator: Ullmann, J. W. & Gerrrard, Martha
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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High Power Density Development Project (Contract Pending) Advance Requisition 474-49976 - Second Quarterly Progress Report, July-September, 1960

Description: Development of nuclear reactor cores having high power density, long fuel life, and low fabrication costs is the objective of this program sponsored by the AEC. It will be achieved by extensive development and testing carried out in conjunction with the design, construction and operation of the Big Rock Point plant of the Consumers Power Company in Michigan. This second quarterly report describes the progress achieved from July through September 1960.
Date: October 1, 1960
Creator: Holland, L. K.
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A Study for the Feasibility for the Large Sale Recovery of Ionium (Thorium-230) from the Uranium Ore Milling Industry in the United States

Description: Over the past ten years, there has been considerable interest and expenditure on the recovery of ionium (thorium-230) from certain residues accumulated from the World War II uranium process at St. Louis, Missouri. Most of these efforts were reported in the classified literature. However, an unclassified report was issued recently by the Mallinckrodt Chemical Works on the plant design for ionium recovery. A review of the earlier efforts shows that consideration of ionium recovery was limited to… more
Date: June 1, 1960
Creator: Rohrmann, C. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Thermal Hydraulic Bases for Selected PRTR Process Specifications

Description: This document presents the bases for those PRTR Process Specifications involving considerations of heat transfer and fluid flow. It will be noted that some of the bases incorporate information gained from laboratory experiments with electrically heated test sections simulating PRTR fuel elements. These experiments are described in some detail elsewhere.
Date: April 1, 1960
Creator: Batch, J. M. & Ambrose, T. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Study of the Wear and Galling of Various Fuel Element Support Materials on Autoclaved Zircaloy-2 Interim Report No. 2

Description: This is the second of two reports describing the phases of a study of the wear and galling of autoclaved Zircaloy-2 by various fuel element support materials. The first report (1) showed that increasing contact area between the autoclaved Zircaloy-2 support and the autoclaved Zircaloy-2 process tube will not significantly improve the fuel support performance, and that a large flat contact area between the fuel supports and the process tube would be impractical to endeavor to achieve and maintai… more
Date: March 1, 1960
Creator: Weber, J. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Interim Report -- The Retention of Particles in Ducts Transporting Aerosol Streams

Description: Accurate sampling of particulate in gaseous effluents is required for auditing and control of radioactive wastes released to the environment at installations generating or processing radioactive materials. Over the years a variety of sampling probe configurations, sampling velocities, lengths and sizes of sample delivery lines have been used locally to obtain these samples. Efforts to properly evaluate the validity of samples in most sampling installations have been hampered by a lack of basic … more
Date: February 1, 1960
Creator: Postma, A. K. & Schwendiman, L. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Final Report A CG-791 Containment Test

Description: This report describes and evaluates the Hanford 105 reactor building structures' ability to withstand an internal pressure increase. The means by which their roof and wall surface would contain a pressure buildup 0.3 psi, and prevent contaminant release which might accompany a nuclear incident are discussed. Prototypes of the B, D, DR, F, and H reactor block wall configuration, the corrugated transite roof of the K reactors, and the corrugated transite walls of the K and C reactors are evaluate… more
Date: January 1, 1960
Creator: Jensen, H. F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Critical Tests for PRT Reactor

Description: This document authorizes the performance in accordance with the specifications noted, the PRTR Critical Tests described herein. The experiments described have the following objectives:
Date: July 1, 1960
Creator: Triplett, J. R.; Anderson, J. K.; Peterson, R. E.; Regimball, J. J.; Russell, J. T.; Schmid, L. C. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Portable Radiation Instrumentation Standardization

Description: This development work was undertaken to investigate and standardize scintillation detector and transistorized circuitry techniques in instruments used for detecting and measuring alpha and beta particles, gamma photons, and both slow and fast neutrons. At the present time, the standard radiation detection instrumentation used at Hanford employ vacuum-tube circuitry with typical detectors being ion chambers, G-M tubes, HF3 tubes, etc. The vacuum tubes require excessive battery power, and some of… more
Date: July 1, 1960
Creator: Spear, W. G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Particle Accelerators

Description: The principal types of particle accelerators are described briefly according to operation and history. Known operating particle accelerators are listed with their pertinent dimensions.
Date: August 1, 1960
Creator: Gordon, Hayden S. & Behman, Gerald A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Automatic Scanning And Measuring Of Bubble Chamber Photographs

Description: The development of high-energy charged particle accelerators such as the Bevatron and of improved nuclear-event detection devices such as the Berkeley 72-in. hydrogen bubble chamber has greatly increased the need for high-speed data reduction of nuclear events. Full exploitation of the potential of the 72-in. bubble chamber demands a very high-speed analysis system. This paper describes an approach to such a system.
Date: June 1, 1960
Creator: Grasselli, Antonio
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A Comparison of Radiation--Induced Graft Copolymerization Utilizing Electron Accelerators and Isotope Sources as Radiation Initiators

Description: "The grafting of methacrylic acid, styrene (2: 1 mole ratio) co-monomer mixture on polypropylene film and fabric, was studied to compare electron accelerators and isotopes as sources of radiation. An aluminum block that contalns i/8-in.-deep pockets covered with Mylar film for holding sample and monomer during mutual irradiatlon was developed. A preliminary comparison was made in post grafting polypropylene film and fabric preirradiated with Cow and with an electron accelerator source. It was f… more
Date: December 1, 1960
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Long Range Correlations in a Closed System With Applications to Nonuniform Fluids

Description: "One of the fundamental concepts of macroscopic physics is that of a homogeneous system. The state of such a system is completely described by a set of intensive parameters which make no reference at all to the size or shape of the system, and by the total number of particles, N (unless otherwise specified we deal with one-component fluid). In actual systems, there are always inhomogeneities due to boundaries and to gravitational body forces."
Date: October 1, 1960
Creator: Lebowitz, J. L. & Percus, J. K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Simplified Description of Spherical and Cylindrical Blast Waves

Description: "Investigations into the behavior of the gas flow behind spherical or cylindrical blasts have shown that secondary shocks arise within the original detonation gases. The secondary shock, at first weak, is carried outward with the expanding gases. Subsequently it strengthens and bends back toward the origin, arriving there with high intensity. By using some recently developed techniques in shock dynamics a theory is developed by which the motion of the main shock wave, as well as the formatio… more
Date: August 1, 1960
Creator: Friedman, M. P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Measurement of the Wolfenstein Parameter R at 210 Mev.

Description: "Recent theoretical advances in describing the nucleon-nucleon interaction (particularly in the T=1 state) have emphasized the importance of obtaining an unambiguous experimental determination of the scattering matrix so that the nuclear phase shifts and details of the nuclear potential may be revealed. It is possible to select five experiments, the results of which, in principle at least, determine the scattering matrix and phase shifts uniquely at one energy. Two of these experiments, the cr… more
Date: August 1, 1960
Creator: Gibson, W. A.; England, A. C. (Alan Coulter), 1932-; Heer, E. & Tinlot, J. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Spectrum of a Nuetron Transport Operation

Description: The spectrum of the mono-energetic neutron transport operator for a homogeneous sphere where the neutrons are scattered with spherical symmetry in the laboratory system is considered.
Date: June 1, 1960
Creator: van Norton, Roger N.
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First Quarterly Report - The Study of the Potential Applications of Radioisotope Technology to Water Resource Investigations and Utilization

Description: The objective of the study which is being carried out under contract AT(30-1)-2477 is the exploration of all aspects of research in water resources and supply to determine the potential for using radioisotope technology in this research. Problem areas in the application of tracers in this research are being investigated through the evaluation of past experimentation with radioisotopic techniques and through discussions with those who are active in this work. A series of suggestions relating to… more
Date: June 1, 1960
Creator: Isotopes Incorporated
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A Theoretical and Experimental Study of Optical Fibers

Description: A geometrical treatment has been used to outline the theoretical properties of optical fibers which are imperfect as well as geometrically and optically perfect. Experiments have been performed to measure some to the optical properties of individual fibers and fiber bundles.
Date: April 1, 1960
Creator: Potter, Robert J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Fabrication of Beryllium: a Bibliography

Description: This bibliography contains 147 references on the fabrication of beryllium. References are also given on the brazing, casting, cladding, extrusion and welding of beryllium and some beryllium-rich alloys. The bibliography is limited to the period 1950 - 1959. references are arranged alphabetically by title, with author and subject indexes provided. Sources used in compiling this bibliography are: Abstracts of Classified Reports, ASM Review of Metal Literature, Bibliographies of Interest to the At… more
Date: April 1, 1960
Creator: Cernak, Elizabeth A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Molybdenum, Niobium, Tantalum, Tungsten and Uranium Oxide in the Journal Literatures of the USSR :1955 - June 1960

Description: This bibliography lists selected articles on molybdenum, niobium, tantalum, tungsten and uranium oxide in the journal literature of the U.S.S.R. The following sources were used and also are noted after each citation, Special Library Association Translation monthly 1959-June 1960, U.S. Library of Congress Monthly index of Russian accessions 1955-June 1960, U.S. Office of Technical Services Technical translations 1955-1958.
Date: September 1, 1960
Creator: Wenrich, Carl J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Silver Bromide Crystal Size Distribution as Influenced by Gelatin Concentration in Producing Nuclear Emulsion

Description: At the Montreal colloquium Ahmed urged Oliver to make batches of emulsion which would differ only in gelatin concentration. At that meeting Oliver had reported finding a correlation between grain size and silver ion concentration during precipitation, as implied by Perfilov and his Leningrad colleagues. Ahmad felt that one should have more precise knowledge of the relative influence of gelatin concentration of grain sized and their distribution. The incentive is that, in spite of excellent prog… more
Date: July 1, 1960
Creator: Oliver, Albert J. & Ahmad, Ishfaq
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On the Stability of Certain Difference Schemes for Linear Parabolic PDE with Constant Coefficient

Description: Introduction. The von Neumann stability criterion is used to analyze the stability of three types of difference schemes for partial differential equations. It is shown that, contrary to the usual rule of thumb, there exist symmetric implicit schemes for a class of equations which are unstable for every mesh-ratio but that this cannot occur if (a) there are fewer than three "space" variables or (b) the difference expression is used to approximate the mixed derivative.
Date: June 1, 1960
Creator: Seidman, Thomas I.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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