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Study of EOCR Modifications for Testing Fast Reactor Fuels

Description: Report issued by the APDA over studies conducted on "methods for increasing the power generation in a fast reactor fuel element test sample" (p. 9). The methods investigated are presented and discussed. This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: February 17, 1964
Creator: Ball, G.; DeFelice, J.; Edwards, J. J.; Jens, W. H.; Kovac, L. R.; Poggi, R. et al.
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Flow Stability of Gas-Solids Suspensions: Final Report

Description: From abstract: One of the principal purposes of the work reported was to study the stability of gas-solids suspensions in the presence of a thermal gradient. Previously reported experience with unstable suspensions is summarized.
Date: February 1964
Creator: Wachtell, G. P. & Waggener, J. P.
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Axial flux data for fuel measurement

Description: A survey of the PITA-18 nonpoisonous spline program was conducted in conjunction with a study to determine the best method of eliminating the variability of axial flux on the fuel performance parameter, q. The results of this survey and the conclusions reached in the rupture coefficient study were found to be inter-dependent such that both are presented in this report. The data from the PITA-18 nonpoisonous spline program, as received, is the output of the NOLA-2 computer program. One quantity … more
Date: February 11, 1964
Creator: Popovich, R. P.
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Final report B, D, F reactor side shield hole boring technology

Description: Four years of intermittent development has culminated in the successful test drilling on-reactor, of one step plug hole. Since 1960, several different drive units and many diamond, carbide, and tool steel cutting heads were tried unsuccessfully in attempts to bore a stepped hole in a mockup of B, D, P side shielding. Success was finally achieved in 1963 using a standard horizontal boring mill and tool steel cutters. With slight modifications, this same equipment was successfully used in an on-r… more
Date: February 3, 1964
Creator: Clemans, W. H.
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Fission product security problem

Description: Reference (2) requested that we review the possibilities that classified information might be revealed by isotopic composition of fission products, and suggest methods of making any such compositions. These questions have been reviewed thoroughly by Hanford Laboratories experts; their analysis confirms earlier conclusions (Reference 1). Based on current classification guides, isotopic compositions of cesium, promethium, and probably other rate earths could reveal secret information. Unless clas… more
Date: February 27, 1964
Creator: Warren, J. H.
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Increased coolant flow H Reactor: PITA IP-27-I, Part 1. Supplement A

Description: Purpose of this supplement is to increase the maximum allowable liquid level in the near downcomer for single downcomer operation. The required clearance between the downcomer lid and liquid level is reduced from 24 inches to 18 inches in the near downcomer, providing bulk outlet temperature is maintained less than 93 C.
Date: February 5, 1964
Creator: Spicka, R. E.
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New K Reactor aluminum HCR: Temperature study

Description: Recent (HCR) Horizonal Control Rod operating problems at the K Reactors, caused primarily by graphite stack distortion, have stimulated several designs of HCR`s capable of operating under adverse conditions. One such design is an aluminum HCR, not completely dissimilar to the present HCR`s, conceived by the Research and Engineering Operation of I.P.D. The successful use of aluminum as a structural material is strongly dependent upon the operating temperature of the aluminum. This study was cond… more
Date: February 17, 1964
Creator: Agar, J. D.
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Hanford Laboratories monthly activities report, January 1964

Description: This is the monthly report for the Hanford Laboratories Operation, January 1964. Reactor fuels, chemistry, dosimetry, separation processes, reactor technology, financial activities, biology operation, physics and instrumentation research, applied mathematics, programming operation, and radiation protection are discussed.
Date: February 14, 1964
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Report of GETHC meeting December, 1963 review of IPD Ball 3X safety philosophy

Description: Information resulting from recent graphite investigations in the K Reactors were presented to the Council. Separations as much as three to four inches were reported. Contraction of the graphite within the fueled regions of these reactors is now about one per cent in the direction transverse to the extrusion axis of the graphite and about two per cent in the parallel direction. Saturation is not expected until shrinkage of at least two to three per cent is observed in the transverse direction. T… more
Date: February 3, 1964
Creator: Nilson, R. & Ambrose, T. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Supplement A to production test IP-546-A irradiation of diffusion-bonded fuel elements

Description: The original test authorized the irradiation of about 20 fuel columns containing hot-die-sized, diffusion-bonded fuel elements. Objectives of this supplement are to permit irradiation of an additional ten columns of hot-die-sized, diffusion-bonded fuel elements, and to obtain data on the relation of the coolant temperature distribution and fuel element behavior. These fuel columns will be irradiated in smooth-bore Zircaloy-2 process tubes in the C Reactor.
Date: February 4, 1964
Creator: Hladek, K. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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KER-4 operating report test K-4-15, PT IP-477-A, Supplement B

Description: The purpose of this test was to further evaluate the behavior of N Reactor fuel elements at conditions equivalent to or more severe than those expected at N Reactor. A. Date Charged: June 2, 1963: B. Fuel Elements: A total of fourteen 23.2 inch NAEl elements with an enrichment of 0.947 per cent were charged. C. Exposure: The fuel elements were charged a total of 5,661 hours. Of this period, the reactor operated 3,841 hours and the loop was at desired operating conditions 3, 292 hours or 86 per … more
Date: February 8, 1964
Creator: Oberg, K. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Proposed test for using AlSi made from 8001 scrap

Description: A 40-day uranium core canning test (10,000 lbs of high nickel AlSi) is proposed in which one canning line has only AlSi of 0.78-1.1 % Ni added as makeup; the other canning lines would be operated as usual. Besides monitoring the Ni content and other impurities in the test and control lines, attributes, variables, and destructive fuel element data would be collected and analyzed. Estimates for annual savings are given for 8, 9, and 10-line shifts per day.
Date: February 12, 1964
Creator: Weakley, E. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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EG&G Rover progress report for 1-31 January 1964. Report No. L-64

Description: This report describes EG&G activities in support of the Rover Program for the month of January, 1964. Details are discussed in succeeding sections and in the appendices with respect to the various tasks included in our scope of work. At Test Cell A., the Facility Mapping Test, EP-IV, was success- fully completed. Preparation continued for the NRX-AL program scheduled for February, 1964. At Test Cell C., a high flow acoustics test, EP- 1, was conducted. This was the last experimental plan to be … more
Date: February 15, 1964
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Reactor Physics monthly technical report, February 1964

Description: This monthly technical report details activities of the Reactor Physics Research and Engineering staff of the N-Reactor Department for the month of February 1964.
Date: February 28, 1964
Creator: Nichols, P. F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Chemical Processing Department Monthly Report: January 1964

Description: This report, for January 1964 from the Chemical Processing Department at HAPO, discusses the following: Production operation; Purex and Redox operation; Financial operations; facilities engineering; research; and employee relations. Weapons manufacturing operation; and safety and security.
Date: February 20, 1964
Creator: Hanford Atomic Products Operation. Chemical Processing Department.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Internal graphite moderator forces study supplemental information

Description: This report discusses comments received on the previous report on internal graphite moderator forces (HW-79120); sleeve test channel inspection; and BDF reactor distortion.
Date: February 14, 1964
Creator: Cooley, D. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Technical note on the determination of K-reactor last-ditch cooling adequacy

Description: The Hanford reactors contain a very large inventory of fission products and it is very important that this inventory be contained. In recognition of this, rather stringent reactor cooling requirements have been established for the Hanford reactors. This includes the requirement of three independent cooling systems, including the system for full level operation. The second and last-ditch systems both are usable only after a reactor scram and take-over automatically from the flywheel decay of the… more
Date: February 28, 1964
Creator: Jones, S. S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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February 1963 Production Studies Addendum

Description: This report provides an addendum to the February 1963 production studies and details Neptunium 237 production yields.
Date: February 13, 1964
Creator: Lang, L. W. & McCurry, J. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Progress report on NASA cermet studies identification SNC-12, January 1964

Description: This report details progress in an intensive investigation which was launched to determine the basic mechanisms leading to gross loss of UO{sub 2} fuel upon thermal cycling of UO{sub 2}-W cermets and to suggest means of overcoming this serious operational problem. (This problem was recently uncovered at both Lewis Research Center and at Hanford). More than 40 separate experiments were conducted in four high temperature furnaces, at temperatures to 2600 C, pressures from 10{sup {minus}5} mm vacu… more
Date: February 13, 1964
Creator: Cadwell, J. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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