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Study of Requirements and Suitability of Available Reactors for Fast Fuel Tests

Description: Report issued by the APDA over studies conducted on the requirements of reactors for fuel testing. As stated in the summary, "the purpose of this study is to determine the requirements for radiation space for fast reactor fuel testing and to determine the capability of existing Commission and private test and power reactors to meet these requirements" (p. 7). This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: February 23, 1963
Creator: Doyle, T. A.; Duffy, J. G.; Jens, W. H.; McHugh, W. E.; Page, E. M. & Warberg, H. S.
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Waste Management Program: Chemical Processing Department

Description: During the 18-year history of Hanford operations, a high degree of safety has been provided at reasonable cost by the storage of high-activity liquid wastes in underground tanks, by the percolation of low-activity liquid wastes (principally water) through the soil to the ground water, and by the adsorption or filtration of radioactive materials from gaseous effluents prior to their discharge to the atmosphere. Studies of the Hanford area indicate that current practices could be continued almost… more
Date: February 25, 1963
Creator: Tomlinson, R. E
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Test Results for Unrestrained Reactor, Gunbarrel-Nozzle Assemblies

Description: These tests were performed in accordance with a letter fran R. C. Breisch to J. R. Spink, May 7, 1962. An unrestrained gunbarrel condition was simulated for each of the standard process tube inlet assemblies for B,C and K type reactors. Primary objects of the testing were to obtain data on movement, pigtail damage, and effect on flow to the process tube in case of a Van Stone flange failure without key restraint of the gunbarrel. All test conditions were relative to actual conditions, but these… more
Date: February 14, 1963
Creator: Goff, J. M., Jr.
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Hanford Laboratories monthly activities report, January 1963

Description: This is the monthly report for the Hanford Laboratories Operation January 1963. Reactor fuels, chemistry, dosimetry, separation processes, reactor technology, financial activities, biology operation, physics and instrumentation research, operations research and synthesis, programming, and radiation protection operation are discussed.
Date: February 15, 1963
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Production Test IP-560-A: Half-plant low dichromate, low pH water treatment at C Reactor

Description: This report details test plans for production test IP-560-A. The objective of which is to determine the corrosion effects resulting from reducing the amount of sodium dichromate corrosion inhibitor added to process water from 1.8 to 1.0 ppm at a process water pH of 6.6.
Date: February 18, 1963
Creator: Geier, R. G.
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Chemical Processing Department Monthly Report: January 1963

Description: This report, for January, 1963 from the Chemical Processing Department at HAPO, discusses the following: Production operation; Purex and Redox operation; finished products operation; financial operations; facilities engineering; research employee relations; weapons manufacturing operation; and power and several maintenance operation.
Date: February 21, 1963
Creator: Hanford Atomic Products Operation. Chemical Processing Department.
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Production reactor process tube film composition and radionuclide inventory studies. Status report

Description: The discharge of radioactivity from Hanford production reactors to the Columbia River has been studied for a number of years. The primary purposes of these studied have been to learn of the factors influencing production reactor effluent radioactivity concentrations and to develop methods for lowering the discharge concentrations of these radionuclides. In 1962 the Coolant Systems Development Operation (CSDO) began work on this program to determine the in-reactor film compositions and the inven… more
Date: February 12, 1963
Creator: Perrigo, L. D.
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Reactor Branch monthly reports, January--December 1963

Description: This document details activities of the Reactor Branch during the months of January through December 1963. (FI)
Date: February 11, 1963
Creator: Plum, R. L.
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Yankee Core Evaluation Program Quarterly Progress Report: October-December 1962

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: February 1963
Creator: Westinghouse Electric Corporation. Atomic Power Division.
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Performance of Cesium Thermionic Diodes Operated in Series-Parallel Circuits

Description: Introduction: The purpose of this experiment is to determine the loss of electrical power output due to operating many unequally-heated cesium diodes, connected in series and parallel circuits.
Date: February 1, 1963
Creator: Holland, J. W.
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Niobium-Tin-Aluminum Alloy Studies

Description: From Abstract : "A proposed constitutional diagram was developed from equilibrium data obtained for the niobium-tin binary alloy system. ... Alloying Nb3Sn with Nb3Al appears to raise the zero field superconducting transformation temperature of Nb3Sn slightly."
Date: February 1963
Creator: Ellis, Thomas Gordon & Wilhelm, Harley A.
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Short Time Strength Data for CS 1830 Series Cb-1Zr, Annealed at 2200F

Description: This technical report is a summary of short time strength data for CS1830 series Cb-1Zr material. The data are presented as a function of fabrication history or the amount of cold work received during fabrication. Three fabrication categories were considered for comparison: forgings and extrusions; bar, plate, rod and pipe; and sheet and tubing. Forgings and extrusions having received no cold work showed the highest strength over the entire temperature range 68F to 2800F; bar, plate, rod and pi… more
Date: February 8, 1963
Creator: Watson, W. L.
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Research on the Basic Nature of Stress Corrosion for Various Structural Alloys at Room and Elevated Temperatures, Part 2

Description: Report discussing research on the basic nature of stress corrosion for various structural alloys at room and elevated temperatures. Program objectives were: (1) to study the effect of microstructure on susceptibility to stress corrosion cracking in the short-transverse direction of 7075-T6 aluminum alloy; and (2) to study the kinetics of stress-corrosion cracking at elevated temperature of candidate materials for structural applications in the trisonic transport in the presence of sea salt. Str… more
Date: February 1963
Creator: Crossley, Frank A.
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Comments on E-Mad Phase II Drawings Received February 6, 1963

Description: This document reflects our comments on the drawings and design information that we have received. It is therefore contingent upon the drawings and specifications which we have not as yet received from Vitro Engineering Company.
Date: February 13, 1963
Creator: Svasek, A.J.
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Reactor instrumentation and safety circuit status review and program document

Description: This document has been prepared for internal use by the General Electric Company to serve as a program for evaluating reactor instrumentation and safety circuit equipment needs. It is intended that this document be used as a guide for defining, planning and scheduling engineering effort; budgeting of capital money; and project planning for new instrumentation systems. Effort will be made to periodically evaluate the status of the programs presented and provide updating information accordingly.A… more
Date: February 15, 1963
Creator: Deichman, J. L.
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Status of Harvey aluminum component evaluation: Production test IP-12-A

Description: About 298,000 OIIIN aluminum components were received from Harvey for evaluation after major steps were take in the vendor`s plant to upgrade product quality. This material met HAPO specifications and was comparable to Alcoa control components. Finished fuel elements (non-bumper and bumper) canned in the test and control components are tabulated by uranium core type and canning month. Non-destructive and destructive test data did not show any differences in clad fuel elements attributable to co… more
Date: February 13, 1963
Creator: Blanton, W. A.
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Porosity gain from increase in core radius and fuel mass in Tory II-C

Description: A set of calculations has been done to determine the amount by which the volume of solid material in a Tory II-C core can be reduced with respect to the total core volume. Three separate problems were studied. In each case, some change was made which by itself would increase the K[sub eff] of the reactor. Then, in order to keep K[sub eff] unchanged, a certain amount of core material was removed. The calculations were done by means of the one-dimensional neutronic diffusion code ZOOM. The base p… more
Date: February 14, 1963
Creator: Kane, W.E. & Cole, A.G.
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Preliminary report on CX-2 N-inner fuel tube number 1055-8

Description: The real cost of metallurgical examination of irradiated fuel elements is several times that of fuels before irradiation. Since post-irradiation study is necessary to determine the performance of prototype fuel designs in a reactor environment, complete physical characterization before irradiation provides an economical and efficient basis for comparing experimental data. Without such comparative study, unexpected damage to fuels in the reactor would be difficult, if not impossible, to interpre… more
Date: February 7, 1963
Creator: Kuhlken, L. E. & Wheeler, R. G.
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Final report PT IP-513-C recalibration of horizontal control rods at H Reactor

Description: The control rod calibrations in the E-N core loading and in the natural uranium core with an E-N blanket yielded results which indicate that the controls are approximately 10 per cent less effective in an E-N core due to shadowing of the rod strength by the E-N lattice; it had been expected from theoretical, calculations that the E-N shadowing effect would be approximately 10 per cent. The tests thus indicate that there has been approximately 25 per effective rod calibration value since the 195… more
Date: February 8, 1963
Creator: Vaughn, A. D.
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NPR tritium production

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Date: February 14, 1963
Creator: Baranowski, F. P.
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Interim report one to Production Test-IP-549-A, half-plant low alum feed water treatment at F Reactor

Description: A half-plant low alum water treatment test began at F Reactor on January 16, 1963 at startup from the scheduled January 3 tube replacement outage. The test, which was prompted by results obtained from a statistical analysis of fuel ledge corrosion attack, will demonstrate whether or not high alum feed is responsible for increasing the frequency of ledge corrosion attack on fuel element surfaces. The effect will be evaluated by comparing visual examination results obtained from normal production… more
Date: February 11, 1963
Creator: Clinton, M. A. & Geier, R. G.
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