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Design for a Fast Flux Liquid Metal Loop in the Advanced Test Reactor

Description: The purpose of this document is to present criteria for the Titles I and II design of the Fast Flux Loop Facility which is to be a part of the Advanced Test Reactor. This facility is to be used for irradiation of fast reactor assemblies under simulated fast reactor operating conditions.
Date: July 1962
Creator: Babcock & Wilcox Company. Atomic Energy Division.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Pilot Plant Development Studies of a Continuous Process for Recovering Uranium from Nichrome Fuels

Description: Report documenting a process for recovering uranium from nichrome fuels (HTRE). This is accomplished by dissipating the fuel into a mixture of HCl-HNO3, stripping away chlorine ions with HN03, and recovering the uranium via tributyl phosphate solvent extraction.
Date: June 20, 1962
Creator: Chamberlain, H. V.
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MUFT Revision : A Fast Neutron Spectrum Code for the IBM-650

Description: Report documenting the MUFT-R program, which is "designed to solve the fast neutron transport problem for general mixtures of elements and obtain sets of average fast neutron diffusion constants for specified portions of the fast energy spectrum" (p. iii). Includes detailed derivations of utilized equations.
Date: 1962
Creator: Grimesey, Robert A.; Mullen, Frank Edward & Gannon, L. J.
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EOCR Control Rod and Driver Fuel Hydraulic Tests

Description: Report discussing the results of experiments on an EOCR prototype control rod, control rod drive, and driver fuel assembly that were extensively tested in 500 deg F Santowax and 132 deg F water. These tests not only established the operating characteristics of these assemblies but also revealed a number of deficiencies in the various components. It includes descriptions of the control rod, control rod drive, and driver fuel assembly together with descriptions of their method of operation.
Date: October 19, 1962
Creator: Harrison, L. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Chemical and Physical Character of Ground Water in the National Reactor Testing Station, Idaho

Description: Report documenting "the chemical and physical properties of the ground water beneath the National Reactor Testing Stations (NRTS), Idaho. The chemical properties described are chiefly the concentration and proportions of the dissolved constituents" (p. 1).
Date: May 1962
Creator: Olmsted, F. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Idaho Operations Office Health and Safety Division Annual Report: 1961

Description: Report containing documentation of projects undertaken by the multiple branches of the Health and Safety Division of the Idaho Operations Office at the Nuclear Reactor Testing Station (NRTS).
Date: May 21, 1962
Creator: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Idaho Operations Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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