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Effect of Explosive Impacting on Uranium

Description: Abstract: The tensile and yield strengths of both cast and wrought uranium discs were substantially increased by explosively impacting them at room temperature and at 375 deg F. However, the room-temperature impacting caused gross damage in the cast material and slight internal damage in the wrought material at the highest impacting pressures. Impacting at 375 deg F, which is just above the brittle-ductile transition temperature for uranium, was the most effective method for increasing the stre… more
Date: April 23, 1964
Creator: Burditt, R. B.; Carey, W. T. & Coughlen, C. P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Geology of the Pluto Site, Area 401, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada

Description: Introduction: Geologic studies by the U.S. Geological Survey in support of the U.S. Air Force's Project Pluto in Area 401 of the Nevada Test Site were made on behalf of the U.S. Atomic energy Commission.
Date: April 1964
Creator: Johnson, Ross B. & Ege, John R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Hanford Laboratories monthly activities report, March 1964

Description: The monthly report for the Hanford Laboratories Operation, March 1964. Reactor fuels, chemistry, dosimetry, separation processes, reactor technology, financial activities, biology operation, and physics and instrumentation research, and applied mathematics operation, and programming operations are discussed.
Date: April 15, 1964
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Chemical Processing Department Monthly Report: March 1964

Description: This report, for March 1964 from the Chemical Processing Department at HAPO, discusses the following; Production operation; Purex and Redox operation; Financial operations; facilities engineering; research; employee relations; and weapons manufacturing operation.
Date: April 21, 1964
Creator: Hanford Atomic Products Operation. Chemical Processing Department.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Hanford Atomic Products Operation annual report 1963

Description: This is the annual report (1963) from the Hanford Atomic Products Operation. Various programs are briefly described including new products, N-reactor highlights, research and development, nuclear safety, technical interchange, and plant operations.
Date: April 1, 1964
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Yankee Core Evaluation Program Quarterly Progress Report: January-March 1964

Description: Quarterly report regarding the activities of the Yankee Core Evaluation Program, the purpose of which is to evaluate the performance of the core used in the Yankee Plant and to compare actual performance with predictions, as well as the revision of designs to address any differences between actual and predicted performance.
Date: April 1964
Creator: Westinghouse Electric Corporation. Atomic Power Division.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Thulium Oxide Irradiation

Description: Thulium oxide can be irradiated to meet the desired specific heat generation of 1.5 watts per gram as part of a flux amplification test, which will be conducted the early part of FY-1965. To obtain the heat generation level, is calculated that a 120-day irradiation will be required at a flux of 1.1 {times} 10{sup 14} neutrons/cm{sup 2}-sec. if the proposed target element is modified by reducing the thulium oxide wafer thickness from 0.080 to 0.050 inch. Also, the length of the target element sh… more
Date: April 17, 1964
Creator: Kusler, L. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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N-Reactor co-product target element rupture detection study

Description: At present there seem to be some uncertainties concerning the needs of rupture detection for the co-producer programs Also in question is the method by which ruptures of the target elements should be detected and located. The purpose of this report is to discuss the waste and hazard control of tritium (H{sup 3}) (the product of the co-producer program), which will determine rupture detection needs, and to discuss methods by which rupture detection and location may be accomplished. The scope of … more
Date: April 27, 1964
Creator: Allred, D. O.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Supplement B to production test IP-648-AC evaluation of thorium oxide as a fringe loading

Description: Irradiation of thorium oxide elements of the original test began in January 1964. Twenty columns of thorium oxide elements located in the outermost processing channels of F Reactor, accompanied by 40 columns of enriched, 0.947 w/o U-235, uranium elements in two adjacent lattice unit channels, were charged to permit evaluation of the reactivity effects of the loading and to obtain data on product and contamination build-up rates. Of the two loadings of thoria elements authorized by the initial t… more
Date: April 21, 1964
Creator: Hladek, K. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Production Test IP-550-I, Supplement A routine monitoring for moderator oxidation rates

Description: The objective of this supplement to Production Test IP-550-I is to include the K reactors in the program for routinely monitoring graphite oxidation rates. This supplement does not initiate a new program; it continues one which has been in existence for some time. Oxidation of the reactor graphite weakens its structural capacity. At some degree of oxidation, sufficient loss of strength will occur to significantly affect the ability to maintain and operate the reactors. For this reason it is nec… more
Date: April 29, 1964
Creator: Baars, R. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Production Test IP-584-D, supplement B, irradiation of target assemblies in the KER Loops

Description: The objective of this supplement to Production Test IP-584-D is to authorize low exposure (5--8 GVR) irradiation tests of the following lithium-containing target materials: Magnesium -- 14 percent lithium alloy, Lithium-aluminate (LiA1O2), Lithium-silicate (Li2SiO), Lithium-aluminate -- aluminum cermet, Lithium-silicate -- aluminum cermet. Lithium target materials will be contained in 4.50 inch long aluminum cans which are clad with 35 mil Zircaloy-2 alloy. The target elements will be contained… more
Date: April 28, 1964
Creator: Deobald, T. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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PT-IP-659-AC, Supplement A transition to normal discharge plan using striped target columns

Description: The scheduled termination of PT IP-659-AC, presently being irradiated in F Reactor, will result in discharge of 105 columns of enriched uranium (0.947 w/o U-235) at less than 50 per cent of the goal exposure. The test block is currently scheduled to be replaced with natural uranium columns. Since F Reactor is on a semiblock discharge plan (alternate rows), subsequent operating plans would require that 64 of these replacement columns of natural uranium be likewise discharged during the scheduled… more
Date: April 8, 1964
Creator: Masche, G. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Cold Flow Test of Reactor Cluster and Substitute Reactor Cluster

Description: This report describes a test program which was conducted to determine whether the cold-flow (with Hsub2 gas) thermal characteristics of an NRX-type graphite reactor core can be simulated by a metal core during the transient period of the Cold-Flow Development Test Systems.
Date: April 1, 1964
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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