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Beta Radiation Processing at Rigorous Conditions

Description: Introduction: The literature reflects ever expansive studies of radiation chemistry over the past twenty years However, in the application of radiation processing to chemical reactions, in general and excepting a few isolated cases, the yield of useful products have been so low as to preclude practical utilization. Thus, for many reactions,radiation alone at ambient conditions is not a sufficient agent for economical production. Hence, we are led to the investigation of radiation effects on … more
Date: November 15, 1963
Creator: Yavorsky, P. M. & Gorin, E.
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Nuclear Superheat Quarterly Project Report: Seventeenth Quarter, August-October 1963

Description: From introduction: "This is the seventeenth in a series of quarterly reports which cover the progress and results from the conceptual designs, economic evaluations and research and development work performed by the General Electric Company as part of Contract AT(01-3)-189, Project Agreement No. 13."
Date: November 15, 1963
Creator: Flock, W. L.
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A Uranium Dioxide Fuel Rod Center Melting Test in the Vallecitos Boiling Water Reactor

Description: Technical report describing that as part of the AEC Fuel Cycle Program, tests are being conducted to evaluate the significance of current fuel design limitations that do not permit the maximum fuel temperature to exceed the melting point of UO2. The reliability of prediction of the fuel rod operating conditions that will cause melting of the UO2 was evaluated by means of a calibration test conducted in the Vallecitos Boiling Water Reactor. Conclusions: (a) The central portion of the 3.15-cm dia… more
Date: November 15, 1963
Creator: Williamson, H. E. & Hoffmann, J. P.
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Adenosinetriphosphate Cleavage During the G-Actin to F-Actin Transformation and the Binding of Adenosinetriphosphate to F-Actin

Description: Since the discovery of the Straub and Feuer as well as Laki et al. that ATP bound to G-actin is transformed to ADP and inorganic phosphate during polymerization of actin (1, 2), it has become increasingly clear that the chemical changes in the nucleotide are related to the change in the physical state of the protein. Barany, Biro, Molnar and Straub have shown that highly purified actin preparation free of any enzyme which would use ATP, ADP or AMP as a substrate still catalyze the breakdown of … more
Date: October 15, 1963
Creator: Barany, M.; Koshland, D. E., Jr.; Springhorn, S. S.; Finkleman, F. & Theratil-Anthony, T.
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AGS Performance and Plans

Description: The scope of the AGS complex has expanded rapidly during the three years since an accelerated beam was first obtained. Demand for research time far exceeds the amount available although facilities have been much increased. At the same time, experiments are being designed which are more complicated than previous ones and which make more stringent demands on the accelerator and on its auxiliary equipment. There is a continuous trend of experiments to particle beams of greater momentum, as the exp… more
Date: October 15, 1963
Creator: Green, G. K.
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Cytochemistry of Delayed Radionecrosis of the Murine Spinal Cord

Description: In the vast field of radiation pathology we find pathologists, anatomists, and even physiologists busily at work, but the radiobiologist is conspicuously absent, although, according to Zirkle (1959), this field is clearly within his domain. Perhaps it is wise to take this broad hint of the scientifically so well equipped radiobiologist and to stay clear from an area in which an incalculable array of variables makes clearcut experimentation a hopeless venture, a priori. Perhaps it would be bette… more
Date: October 15, 1963
Creator: Zeman, Wolfgang
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Development of Pulsed Neutron Application to Power Reactor Start-Up Procedures. Sixth Quarterly Progress Report, July 1-September 30, 1963

Description: Activities in a program to develop techniques in the use of pulsed neutron sources to measure shutdown parameters related to large thermal power reactors are reported. The development of pulsed neutron source techniques for large power reactors has led to a new theoretical model recently developed by E. Garelis and J.L. Russell, Jr. The theory is presently based on a bare, one-group model with m-delayed precursors and takes all spatial modes into account. Results indicate, however, that the app… more
Date: October 15, 1963
Creator: Garelis, Edward & Meyer, P.
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Environmental Testing of a B4C-Ni Prototype Control Rod

Description: Summary: A prototype control rod containing absorber plates made from an electro- deposited dispersion of boron carbide in nickel was tested in the VBWR. It was exposed to the reactor environment of 545 degree F boiling water and thermal neutron fluxes (perturbed) which ranged from 0.6 to 1.1 x 10/sup 13/ nv for 2236 hours over a period of six months. The maximum B/sup 10/ burnup achieved during the test period was 1.8 percent. After irradiation, the rod was examined. The results of the examina… more
Date: October 15, 1963
Creator: Megerth, F. H. & Zimmerman, D. L.
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Evaluation of Mitotic Time in Vivo, Using Tritiated Thymidine as a Cell Marker: Successive Labeling with Time of Separate MItotic Phases

Description: The duration of mitosis is of great importance in an evaluation of growth rates in proliferating somatic tissues, since calculations are based on observations of mitotic activity, and therefore final results are directly proportional to an assumed value for mitotic time. This duration cannot be measured directly in vivo at a tissue level, since the mode of distribution of the single cell value is not known. This difficulty is not overcome in extrapolations from in vitro measurements. Also it is… more
Date: October 15, 1963
Creator: Odartchenko, N.; Cottier, H.; Feinendegen, L. E. & Bond, V. P.
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Hematological Effects of Whole Body Irradiation

Description: The development of nuclear arms added the effects of ionizing radiation to the direct and indirect mechanical, chemical or thermal hazards of "conventional" weapons. The biological effects of ionizing radiation are the result of absorption of energy and the morphologically recognizable damage is poorly understood. Although new in their use in weapons and difficult to evaluate in their consequences, ionizing radiations are by no means new to physicians. Furthermore, medical experience has shown … more
Date: October 15, 1963
Creator: Fliedner, T. M. & Cronkite, E. P.
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The Influence of the Centromere of Chromosome Fragment Frequency Under Chronic Irradiation

Description: Studies on a large variety of plant species, particularly by Sparrow and his colleagues, have shown that radiosensitivity, as measured by growth inhibition and lethality, is strongly correlated with various parameters of the cell nucleus. Foremost among these are nuclear volume, SNA content and chromosome number. It is generally accepted that in proliferating cell systems chromosome damage may well be the principal radiobiological lesion, and the observed correlations are in line with the conte… more
Date: October 15, 1963
Creator: Evans, H. J. & Pond, Virginia
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Interactions of High Energy Antiprotons in Hydrogen

Description: In the fall of 1961 an extensive program of investigation of high energy p-p interactions was begun at the Brookhaven AGS. The BNL 20" liquid hydrogen bubble chamber and an electrostatically separated beam were used to obtain a total (to date) of 300,000 exposure with about 15 antiprotons per pulse. The exposures were made at antiproton momenta of 3.25 Bev/c and 3.69 Bev/c in the laboratory. Approximately 80% of the exposures were made 3.69 Bev/c antiprotons. A wide variety of reactions occur i… more
Date: October 15, 1963
Creator: Baltay, C.; Ferbel, T.; Sandweiss, J.; Taft, H. D.; Culwick, B. B.; Fowler, W. B. et al.
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The Kinetics of Some Oxidation-Reduction Reactions Involving Manganese (III)

Description: The kinetics of several oxidation-reduction reactions involving manganese (III) have been studied spectrophotometrically by the use of a flow technique. The free energies of activation for the oxidation of various substituted tris-(1,10-phenanthroline) complexes of iron (II) by manganese (III) in perchloric acid and in pyrophosphoric-sulfuric acid media were found to be linearly related to the standard free energy changes of the reactions. The application of the Marcus theory to the reactions o… more
Date: October 15, 1963
Creator: Diebler, H. & Sutin, N.
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Magnetic Structure of Binary Fluorides Containing Mn2+

Description: Binary fluorides of the type XMnF3 (X= Na, Rb, Cs, and NH4), which were investigated previously by means of x-ray, electron spin resonance specific heat, and magnetization measurements, have been reported to be antiferromagnetic. The present study reports powder neutron diffraction measurements on these compounds undertaken to confirm the antiferromagnetism and to study details of the magnetic ordering. Some information was also obtained concerning the nuclear structures.
Date: October 15, 1963
Creator: Pickart, S. J. & Alperin H. A.
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Method for Comparing Small AC Voltages in the Presence of Large DC Components

Description: A feedback technique has been developed to equalize the DC levels of two signal sources so that AC signal components which are much smaller than the DC levels can be compared accurately without introducing a low frequency cut-off and consequent rate-dependency into the system. A digital integrator in the feedback loop provides a highly stable long-term "memory" so that the correct level will be maintained during intervals when the signals are "frozen" at some arbitrary point.
Date: October 15, 1963
Creator: Rogers, E. J.
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Neutron Diffraction Studies at the Puerto Rico Nuclear Center

Description: A neutron diffraction program was initiated recently at the Puerto Rico Nuclear Center. The two double crystal spectrometers in use were assembled with the aid of staff members of the Brookhaven National Laboratory. The first research problem to be completed was a single crystal structure analysis of CaWO4. Choosing the origin at the 4(a) tungsten site in the tetragonal I41/a cell. the 16(f) oxygen parameters were found to be as follows: x=0.2413 ± 0.0005, y=0.1511 ± 0.0006, z=0.0861 ± 0.0001.… more
Date: October 15, 1963
Creator: Almodovar, I; Bielen, H. J. & Frazer, B. C.
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On the Crystal Chemistry of Salt Hydrates, II. A Neutron Diffraction Study of MgSO4·4H2O

Description: The crystal structure of MgSO4·4H2O has been refined using single crystal neutron diffraction data for the three main zones. The hydrogen positions which were found are essentially those which have been deduced from X-ray data in an earlier investigation.The mean value of the O-H bond lengths is 0.97Å. The O-H-O bonds are bent considerably. One hydrogen atom does not participate in hydrogen bonding, as can be concluded from the geometry of its surroundings and its thermal motion.
Date: October 15, 1963
Creator: Baur, Werner H.
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On the Crystal Chemistry of Salt Hydrates, III. The Determination of the Crystal Structure of FeSO4·7H2O (Melanterite)*

Description: Monoclinic FeSO4·7H2O is the stable solid phase between -1.82° and 56.6° C in contact with a saturated water solution of FeSO4. It occurs in nature as an oxidation product of Fe-containing sulfides an is called melanterite. FeSO4·7H2O belongs to a series of compounds Me2+SO4·nH2O, where Mn2+ is a cation with an approximate ionic radius of 0.7Å. The 1-, 4- and 5-hydrates are known to crystalize each in only one form, whereas the hexa- and the heptahydrates occur both in two different forms. The … more
Date: October 15, 1963
Creator: Baur, Werner H.
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On the Generation of an Arbitrarily Autocorrelated Sequence of Random Variables from a Sequence of Independent Random Numbers

Description: For a wide range of statistical experiments, we require a sequence of random variables [unintelligible], which have prescribed mean values μn and variances σn2, with a given autocorrelation ρt. The [unintelligible] are to be generated as a sequence of real functions of independent random numbers [unintelligible], each of which is uniformly distributed in. The reason for this choice of specification for the [unintelligible] is that most computers have standard subroutines which generate such uni… more
Date: October 15, 1963
Creator: Halton, John H.
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Organization of Genetic Material in Salmonella

Description: Evidence is rapidly accumulating that the genetic material carried in a chromosome is arranged in a highly organized manner. The nucleotides of DNA constituting a gene are grouped in sequence, like the letters of a word, and presumably each word uniformly consists of three letters. Successive words make up a sentence containing the information needed to build a protein molecule. Each word of the sentence is transcribed to form an amino acid of the protein for which the particular gene is respon… more
Date: October 15, 1963
Creator: Demerec, M.
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The Photogrammetry of the Tracks of Elementary Particles in Bubble Chambers

Description: In high-energy particle physics the initial problem is to obtain information about the behavior of particles which are invisible by any known means (the radius of a proton is 10-13 cm) and which may be traveling at speeds greater than 180,000 miles per second, but at less than the speed of light. Some of the work is being done with the use of electronic counters, but the larger fraction is currently done by three techniques which employ the photographic process. These are the silver halide emul… more
Date: October 15, 1963
Creator: Garfield, John F.
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