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A Computer Program to Optimize Magnets in a Beam Transport System*

Description: A computer program which optimizes the locations and strengths of magnets in a beam transport system has been written for the IBM 704 and 7090 computers Programs have been previously written which trace a ray through a system of magnets and determine its focusing properties When using such a program, one examines the characteristics of the emergent beam and then varies the parameters of the system manually to optimize it In the program which will now be described, the computer itself performs t… more
Date: [..1962]
Creator: Baker, W. F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Invention Report - Development of a Solution to Oxidize and Dissolve Uranium Metal and Its Oxides

Description: Decontamination of a high-temperature pressurizedwater reactor core- coolant recirculation system following a fuel element cladding failure requires the dissolution of uranium oxides + uranium metal. An oxalic--peroxide-peracetic solution was developed which was found to be superior to other solutions for this task. The solution composition is: oxalic acid, 2.3 g/l: sodium oxalate, 32.0 g/ l; hydrogen peroxide, 15.0 g/l; 8-quinolinol, 1.0 g/l; and 40% peracetic acid, 12.5 g/l. 8-Quinolinol supp… more
Date: December 31, 1962
Creator: Weed, R. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Program For The Development of Plutonium Recycle For Use In Light Water Moderated Reactors : Seventh Quarterly Report October 1-December 31, 1962

Description: The objective of this program is the experimental determination of basic physical data and employment of these data to establish and confirm a theoretical model for predicting the long-term changes in isotopic composition and reactivity in plutonium-enriched, light-water-moderated reactors.
Date: December 31, 1962
Creator: Roskin, M. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Reactor Branch monthly reports, January--December 1962

Description: This document details the activities of the Reactor Branch for the months of January through December of 1962. (FI)
Date: December 31, 1962
Creator: Plum, R. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Production of Void and Pressure by Fission Track Nucleation of Radiolytic Gas Bubbles During Power Bursts in a Solution Reactor

Description: The Kinetic Experiment on Water Boiler (KEWB) reactor is a 50-kw aqueous homogeneous research reactor which was designed to study the safety characteristics and dynamic behavior of this class of reactors. When the reactor is placed on a short-period power transient, its aqueous uranyl sulfate fuel solution becomes rapidly supersaturated with H/sub 2/ gas produced by the radiolysis of water. At a critical gas concentration, fission track nucleation of H/sub 2/ bubbles occurs. The rapid formation… more
Date: December 30, 1962
Creator: Spiegler, P.; Bumpus, C. F., Jr. & Norman, A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Acceleration of Deuterons or Alpha Particles in the AGS

Description: The magnetic field of the AGS ring can contain particles of magnetic rigidity about 34 Bv/c. This includes not only protons of kinetic energy 33 Bev, but also 32 Bev deuterons, 64 Bev alpha particles, and conceivably heavier nuclei such as 188 Bev carbon nuclei. It will be shown in this paper that such nuclei can be injected and accelerated in the AGS if some rather small modifications are made in the injection and acceleration systems. What physics could be done with such beams? Several types … more
Date: December 28, 1962
Creator: Courant, E. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Chemical Processing Technology Quarterly Progress Report, July-September 1962

Description: Aqueous zirconium fuel processing studies, directed at adapting the hydrofluoric acid process to continuous dissolution-complexing in order to increase the capacity of the ICPP process, resulted in two successful approaches to the complexing-feed adjustment step. Continuous in-line adjustment (conversion of uranium(IV) to uranium(VI) necessary for extraction) was accomplished in one minute or less at approximately 90 deg C; surges of dissolver product from the operating dissolver up to 1.9 time… more
Date: December 28, 1962
Creator: Bower, J.R. ed.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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HAPO IB Fission Product Shipping Cask Design Evaluation Report

Description: As a result of the interest in fission products for use as heat sources and/or radiation sources, in early 1960. Hanford was authorized to supply a semi-refined cerium-144 rare earth product to Oak Ridge National Laboratories. Facilities were installed for collecting this product and a cask war designed for shipping this product as a stabilized, dry powder. Since that time, numerous improvements have been made in the design of the HAPO I cask as described in Revision O of this document. In add… more
Date: December 28, 1962
Creator: Smith, C. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Heavy Element Isotopic Analysis of UIO$sub 2$ Fuel Irradiated in the VBWR. Report No. 1

Description: Slightly enriched UO/sub 2/ fuel, irradiated in the Vallecitos Boiling Water Reactor (VBWR), with exposures ranging from 100 Mwd/t to 3200 Mwd/t was analyzed for heavy element isotopic composition and compared with computed data. The primary objective of this program is to obtain improved data on the changes in nuclear characteristics with burnup of UO/sub 2/ fuel in a boiling water reactor. This information is important in both evaluating the economics of a given reactor design and also in pro… more
Date: December 28, 1962
Creator: Hackney, M. R. & Ruiz, C. P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Phase Transformations in Calcination of Nitrates of Aluminum, Stainless Steel, and Nichrome

Description: Earlier studies showed that low concentrations of boric acid inhibit the formation of alpha alumina in the fluidized calcination of aluminum nitrate wastes. Studies designed to determine the optimum concentration of boric acid and the relative effectiveness of phosphoric acid were performed by heating synthetic mixtures at moderate pressure; results indicared that they were equally effective at the same molal concentration. Differential thermal analysis of mixtures showed that the boric acid re… more
Date: December 28, 1962
Creator: Eding, H J; Huggins, M L & Brown, A G
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Control of information on Columbia River

Description: This brief report (December, 1962) discusses the effect of effluents from the Hanford Production reactors on the water temperature of the Columbia River.
Date: December 27, 1962
Creator: Johnson, W. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Effect of a reactor fuel element failure on the Columbia River radionuclide concentrations at Pasco, Washington

Description: The failure of a fuel element cladding in one of the water-cooled plutonium production reactors permits the erosion of irradiated uranium metal by the cooling water which is normally disposed to the Columbia River. Monitoring systems at both the reactors and at their effluent basin outlets to the river continuously monitor these streams, and if major fission-products release occurs the coolant can be held in retention basins. In addition to these monitoring systems, a river monitor is located a… more
Date: December 27, 1962
Creator: Perkins, R.W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Centrifugal Distortion Corrections to Calculated Thermodynamic Functions

Description: Complete parition functions for non-rigid rotators are obtained for the linear, spherical top, and symmetric top cases, From these are derived expression giving the corrections to the thermodynamic functions due to centrifugal distortion as functions of the rotational distortion constants D. Numerical examples are given for HCN, methane, and ammonia.
Date: December 26, 1962
Creator: McDowell, Robin S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Correlation for Boiling Heat Transfer to Saturated Fluids in Convective Flow

Description: An additive mechanism of micro- and macro-convective heat transfer was formulated to represent boiling heat transfer with net vapor generation to saturated, non-metallic fluids in convective flow. The final equations are [equations not transcribed]. The second equation will be recognized as the Dittus-Boelter equation with the additional factor F. The two functions F and S are defined as [equations not transcribed] where Re is the effective Reynolds number for the two-phase fluid and ΔTe is the… more
Date: December 26, 1962
Creator: Chen, John C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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CORROSION EVALUATION OF STAINLESS STEELS EXPOSED IN ICPP HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE TANKS

Description: Several 300 series stainless steels were corrosion tested in raffinate storage tanks made of the same materials. After exposure to the rafflnate solutions for periods of up to seven years, maximum penetration rates of 0.1 mil/ yr were noted. (auth)
Date: December 26, 1962
Creator: Hoffman, T. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The effect of chemical additives and coating materials on the adsorption of radionuclide parent elements of aluminum surfaces

Description: Laboratory studies have been conducted under simulated reactor operating conditions to determine the effect of various chemical additives and coatings on the adsorption of trace elements on aluminum surfaces. Of the materials tested, silicate additives and organic ink coatings were by far the most effective, reducing the adsorption of arsenic and phosphorus tracers by as much as one to three orders of magnitude. The laboratory techniques and results are discussed.
Date: December 26, 1962
Creator: Perkins, R. W. & Robertson, D. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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K-Reactor Retubing Program graphite temperature study

Description: A project has been proposed and the funds allocated for the replacement of the central zone aluminum process tubes at both K Reactors with smooth bore zirconium process tubes of approximately the same outside diameter as the original tubes. Associated with this project is the problem of relieving the present graphite stack distortion in the vicinity of the process tube channels and counteracting or prereliving, at this time, the expected graphite stack distortion that, will take place over the … more
Date: December 26, 1962
Creator: Agar, J. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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NBS Viscometer Calibrating Liquids and Capillary Tube Viscometers

Description: Report discussing measurements of viscosity made with relative viscometers. These instruments must be calibrated with liquids whose viscosities are known. NBS provides a series of 10 oils for this purpose. Their viscosities range from 0.02 to 450 poises and their temperature coefficients of viscosity range from 2.1 to 9.4 percent per degree C. The less viscous oils are more stable. Correction formulas for errors or conditions are presented.
Date: December 26, 1962
Creator: Hardy, R. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Special review of selected reactor construction, operation, and program data

Description: This report documents the answers to specific questions posed by management on December 17,1962. The questions asked were: (1) What were the design and construction start and completion dates of project CG-558-600?, what was the percent power level increase design for CG-558-600?, what was the actual power level increase achieved?, what was the construction completion date of DR reactor?, what was the expansion-overbore program initiation date?, on what date was the oral overbore-type proposal … more
Date: December 26, 1962
Creator: Ballowe, J. W.; Brasfield, R. L. & Fifer, N. F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Chemical Processing Department Monthly Report: November 1962

Description: This report, from the Chemical Processing Department at HAPO for November 1962, discusses the following: Production operation; Purex and Redox operation; Finished products operation; maintenance; Financial operations, facilities engineering; research; employee relations; and weapons manufacturing operation.
Date: December 21, 1962
Creator: Hanford Atomic Products Operation. Chemical Processing Department.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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