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Biological Effects of Blast. Technical Progress Report

Description: The current state of knowledge relevant to biological blast effects was summarized in a selective manner. Initially, five problems of concern to those who would relate the environmental variations produced by nuclear weapons with biological response and hazard assessment were pointed out. Primary, secondary, tertiary, and miscellaneous blast effects were defined and selected interspecies experimental data of a physical and pathophysiological nature useful in estimating human response were prese… more
Date: December 1, 1961
Creator: White, C. S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Phase Transformations in Alumina. Technical Report, May to December 1961

Description: e transformation studies showed that synthetic aluminas produced in the laboratory were not transformed to alpha alumina at 400 to 700' deg n the presence of nitric acid and water vapor. Amorphous aluminn produced in the pilot plant was transformed to alpha alumina. This indicated that the amorphous alumina produced in the pilot plant is structurally predisposed to form alpha alumina. Most additives did not appear to have any special effects. Lithium formed zeta alumina, LiAl/sub 5/O/sub 8/. Ph… more
Date: December 1, 1961
Creator: Eding, H J; Huggins, M L & Brown, A G
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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SNAP-8, the First Electric Propulsion Power System

Description: The SNAP-8 Electrical Generating System is a nuclearturbo-electric space power plant -which is ideally suited for utilization with electric propulsion. Several applications, the program objectives, the over-all system, and the design of the major components are described. The program status is delineated and future plans leading to an early flight test and equipment endurance demonstration are defined. (auth)
Date: January 1, 1961
Creator: Wood, P. I.; Forrest, D. L. & Wilner, B. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Mechanism Explaining the Instability of EBR-I, Mark III

Description: Presented at the International Atomic Energy Agencysponsored Seminar on the Physics of Fast and Intermediate Reactors. Vienna, August 3-11, 196l. A feedback model, was developed to account for resonant instabilities in the Mark II core. In this model, the prompt positive power coefficient effect is ascribed to fuel rod bowing and the delayed negative power coefficient effect to thermally lnduced motions in the lower shield plate. Since this model is supported by observations, it is concluded th… more
Date: September 1, 1961
Creator: Smith, R. R.; Matlock, R. G.; McGinnis, F. D.; Novick, M. & Thalgott, F. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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SPALLATION-FISSION COMPETITION IN ASTATINE COMPOUND NUCLEI FORMEDBY HEAVY-ION BOMBARDMENT

Description: Cross sections for neutron-evaporation reactions from compound nuclei produced by bombardment of gold with carbon ions and of platinum with nitrogen ions have been determined. The magnitudes of the cross sections are considerably lower than would be predicted on the assumption that neutron emission is the only important mode of decay of the intermediate nuclei. This observation is explained on the basis of fission competition with neutron emission. To a much lesser extent, charged-particle evap… more
Date: November 1, 1961
Creator: Thomas, T. Darrah; Gordon, Glen E.; Latimer, Robert M. & Seaborg, Glenn T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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BIO-ORGANIC CHEMISTRY QUARTERLY REPORT DEC. 1960 THROUGH FEB.1961

Description: The current interest in the subject of fiber optics has brought about, among its many achievements, the development of a new technique for measuring refractive index. An instrument designed as a light-pipe refractometer or rod photorefractometer has been described by Kapany and Pike. these authors have presented both a theoretical study of the phenomenon and experimental results arising from a prototype apparatus. The range of applicability of such a device is limited, however, by the availabil… more
Date: April 1, 1961
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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QUANTUM CONVERSION IN PHOTOSYNTHESIS

Description: A new suggestion is made based on model work associated with similar measurements on the biological material itself. The primary quantum conversion act is an ionization occurring in a charge transfer complex. This is what it amounts to in chemical terms. But this process cannot occur in isolated charge transfer molecules in solution because the products cannot escape from each other. The primary quantum conversion as it occurs in modern photosynthesis can only take place in a laminated structur… more
Date: January 1, 1961
Creator: Calvin, Melvin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Response of dual-purpose reinforced-concrete mass shelter. Project 30. 2 of Operation Plumbbob

Description: A reinforced-concrete dual-purpose underground parking garage and personnel shelter designed for a long-duration incident pressure of 40 psi was tested. The shelter was exposed to shot Priscilla, an approx. 37-kt 700-ft balloon burst (June 24, 1957), at a ground range of 1600 ft (predicted 35-psi peak incident-pressure level). The recorded peak incident pressure at the shelter was approximately 39 psi. Postshot soil borings were made to obtain undisturbed samples for determining soil characteri… more
Date: April 1, 1961
Creator: Cohen, E.; Laing, E. & Bottenhofer, A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Waste Treatment and Disposal Progress Report for April and May1961

Description: Progress is reported on developments in waste treatment and disposal in terms of: high-level-waste calcination; low-level-waste treatment; engineering, economics, and hazards evaluation; disposal in deep wells; disposal in natural salt formations; Clinch River studies; fundamental studies of minerals; and White Oak Creek Basin study.
Date: August 1, 1961
Creator: Blanco, R. E. (Raymond Eugene), 1918-1987 & Struxness, E. G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Health and Safety Laboratory Fallout Program Quarterly Summary Report: March 1, 1961 - June 1, 1961

Description: Report that summarizes multiple laboratories' reports on global fallout deposition. Reports include data on Strontium-90 deposition recorded by the Health and Safety Laboratory, data from other laboratories, related interpretive reports, and recent publications related to fallout.
Date: July 1, 1961
Creator: Hardy, Edward P., Jr.; Rivera, Joseph & Frankel, Robert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Radiation Safety and Control Training Manual

Description: Introduction: The Laboratory follows the recommendations of the National Committee on Radiation Protection concerning permissible exposure limits for those working with radiation. A system of controls and regulations has been established which should ensure that no person at the Laboratory will receive more than the permissible exposure. This manual is intended to provide the minimum background necessary for intelligent cooperation with the regulations.
Date: June 1, 1961
Creator: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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MANHATTAN DISTRICT HISTORY PROJECT Y THE LOS ALAMOS PROJECT VOL. I INCEPTION UNTIL AUGUST 1945

Description: THESE TWO VOLUMES CONSTITUTE A RECORD OF THE TECHNICAL, ADMINISTRATIVE , AND POLICY-MAKING ACTIVITIES OF THE LOS ALAMOS PROJECT (PROJECT Y) FROM ITS INCEPTION UNDER THE MANHATTAN DISTRICT THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ATOMIC BOMB (VOL. I), AND DURING THE PERIOD FOLLOWING THE END OF WORLD WAR II UNTIL THE MANHATTAN DISTRICT RELINQUISHED CONTROL TO THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION AS OF JANUARY 1947 (VOL. II). ALTHOUGH SECURITY REGULATIONS HAVE REQUIRED SOME DELETIONS IN THE ORIGINAL TEXT OF THE TWO… more
Date: December 1, 1961
Creator: Hawkins, D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Final Safeguards Summary Report for the Piqua Nuclear Power Facility

Description: Summary: This report contains a description of the final design of the Piqua Nuclear Power Facility (PNPF); an outline of the test and operating procedures, and the organization and responsibilities; and a summary of the hazards and safeguards analyses that have been conducted to evaluate the safety of the facility operations.
Date: August 1, 1961
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Primordial Organic Chemistry. I. Compounds Resulting from Electron Irradiation of C<sup>14</sup>H<sub>4</sub>

Description: C{sup 14}-labeled methane, together with a number of other presumed primordial gases of the earth's atmosphere, has been subjected to electron bombardments. The products formed have been examined by paper chromatography, ion exchange chromatography, mass spectrometry, and ultraviolet light spectrophotometry. A number of minor molecules have been specifically identified, and urea has been found as a major component in the absence of added phosphine; the formation of urea is inhibited by added ph… more
Date: December 1, 1961
Creator: Palm, Christopher & Calvin, Melvin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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SNAP Building Requirments for SNAP 2, 4, 8, and 10A Programs

Description: System descriptions, construction summary sheets, composite program schedules, overall building functions, and individual sheets showing purpose, construction features, and work loads of each building.
Date: December 1, 1961
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Report of trip to YTS - C91 test projectile

Description: As a part of the RAIL feasibility study, Operation Dorothe (March 1961) was conducted to determine if a liquid explosive could survive the acceleration of launch from a 155 mm howitzer. This operation was successful, although some structural difficulty was experienced with the test round (C-90). Upon completion of that exercise, it was decided to design a test round that could be used with the more viscous slurry-type explosives, and to fire several of these new rounds with inert filler prior t… more
Date: May 1, 1961
Creator: Mickel, L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Speed-of-control limits, 105-DR

Description: The current operating conditions at 105-DR, because of the recent Ball 3X drop, dictate temporary lower speed-of-control limits. While is si still not expected that this reactor will be limited by the speed-of- control criterion, it is felt that the limit curves have been temporarily sufficiently reduced as to warrant publication of former limits. Limit curves as a function of weighted graphite temperature for the continuous and block discharge schemes are included in this document. The two sou… more
Date: August 1, 1961
Creator: Nechodom, W. S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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