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History of operations, 1 January 1944--20 March 1945

Description: The objectives of Hanford operations are the production of sufficient quantities of plutonium and secondary products in time to meet adequately military requirements at the lowest cost of manpower, money, and materials commensurate with the maximum degree of certainty in attaining the objectives. The facilities operations at Hanford are described.
Date: December 31, 1945
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Questions on the toxicity and behavior of product in the body

Description: This May 1945 report deals with how best to estimate the toxicity of ``Product`` to workers at Clinton Laboratories. Discussed are the issues of how toxic product is relative to radium, methods of analysis of product in the body, means of elimination from and distribution of product within the body, and what therapeutic measures are available. The principal concern of the author is that of protection of personnel who regularly handle in the laboratory large amounts of this material.
Date: December 31, 1945
Creator: English, S.G.
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Technical progress report on the metabolic studies of plutonium for month of August 1945

Description: This monthly report briefly describes ongoing studies including urinary and fecal excretion of Plutonium 238 by human subjects and by rats, exploring way to facilitate the removal of Plutonium 238 from rat bone, the absorption of Plutonium 238 by barley plants, and use of inert iodine to block absorption of Iodine-131 in the rat.
Date: December 31, 1945
Creator: Hamilton, J.G.
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A method for the calculation of external lift, moment, and pressure drag of slender open-nose bodies of revolution at supersonic speeds

Description: An approximate method is presented for the calculation of the external lift, moment, and pressure drag of slender open-nose bodies of revolution of supersonic speeds. The lift, moment, and pressure drag of a typical ram-jet body shape are calculated at Mach numbers 1.45, 1.60, 1.75, and 3.00; and the lift and moment results are compared with available experimental data. The agreement of the calculated lift and moment data with the experimental data is excellent. The pressure-drag comparison was… more
Date: December 29, 1945
Creator: Brown, Clinton E. & Parker, Hermon M.
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The Chlorination of TO₃

Description: Abstract: The applicability of specific mixtures and organic chlorocarbons in general toward the chlorination of TO₃ has been tested by means of reactions is sealed glass tubes. The results show that thionyl chloride mixed with tetrachloroethylene or a bromothane of the tyoe CHBrC12 will produce TCI4 directly. This same result is produced by CBr2C12 alone.
Date: December 28, 1945
Creator: Gavlin, Gilbert; Hubbard, J. V. & Clewett, G. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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300 Area: December 11 Through December 17

Description: This report discusses the operation of the Hanford Reservation`s 300 Area for December 11 through December 17, 1945. They discuss: extrusion, canning, slug testing, a magnesium chloride flux, and the composition changes of a aluminium-silicon dip bath.
Date: December 21, 1945
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Analysis of TH( NO3 ) -Ca( NO3 )2 –HNO3 Solutions

Description: Abstract. Methods of analysis for thorium, calcium, and nitric acid in solutions from thorium extraction purification columns are described and the results and errors are outlined. A brief description of methods of analysis that were not successful is included.
Date: December 20, 1945
Creator: Warf, James C.; Patterson, J. H. & Banks, Charles V.
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TO₃ Reduction and Chlorination in the Experimental Glass Fluidizer

Description: Abstract: "Temperatures above 400 C are required before reduction will take place with AH3. Above 500 C, a pyrophoric product was obtained. The chlorination temperature should be about 350 C initially and above 450 C at the end of the reaction to achieve 99% chlorination."
Date: December 20, 1945
Creator: Lowrie, Robert Sydney & Hubbard, J. V.
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Bending-Torsion Flutter Calculations Modified by Subsonic Compressibility Corrections

Description: From Summary: "A number of calculations of bending-torsion wing flutter are made at two Mach numbers, m=0 (incompressible case) and m=0.7, and results are compared. The air forces employed for the case of m=0.7 are based on Frazer's recalculation of Possio's results, which are derived on the assumption of small disturbances to the main flow. For ordinary wings of normal density and of low bending frequency in comparison with torsion frequency, the compressibility correction to the flutter speed… more
Date: December 18, 1945
Creator: Garrick, I. E.
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Effect of stainless steel thimbles on pile reactivity

Description: Failure of a vertical safety rod thimble at 105-B has led to consideration of a stainless steel (SS) thimble as replacement. 1/16 in. SS would result in 4% loss in control power of that safety rod. If all thimbles were replaced by 1/16 in. SS, there would be a reactivity loss of 790 ih.
Date: December 14, 1945
Creator: Marshall, L. W.
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Xenon and iodine concentrations in the environs of the T and B Plant

Description: A report of seven stack emissions of I-131 at the T and B plants, detailing the relationship between cooling times and dilution factors for the safe emission of the isotope. From the stack sampling, personal exposure limits for an eight and nine hour day are calculated. The effect of atmospheric conditions appears to be negligible, although periods of atmospheric stagnation may have an effect on the I-131 concentration. Environmental effects are minimized by increasing the cooling times of the … more
Date: December 11, 1945
Creator: Parker, H. M.
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Reclamation of Contaminated Diffusion Pump Oil and Removal of Tuballoy Therefrom

Description: Abstract: The possibilities for the removal of tuballoy from diffusion pump oil and reclamation of the oils for reuse are discussed. The report includes specifications of practical equipment, operating instructions, photographs and diagrams of the necessary construction details.
Date: December 6, 1945
Creator: Lee, J. E. Jr. & Susano, C. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Relation between spark-ignition engine knock, detonation waves, and autoignition as shown by high-speed photography

Description: "A critical review of literature bearing on the autoignition and detonation-wave theories of spark-ignition engine knock and on the nature of gas vibrations associated with combustion and knock results in the conclusion that neither the autoignition theory nor the detonation-wave theory is an adequate explanation of spark-ignition engine knock. A knock theory is proposed, combining the autoignition and detonation-wave theories, which introduces the idea that the detonation wave develops in auto… more
Date: December 5, 1945
Creator: Miller, Cearcy D.
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Polonium production neutron flux in bismuth columns

Description: On the basis of polonium assays by the customer, an improved equation for the prediction of the polonium content of a bismuth tube has been developed.
Date: December 3, 1945
Creator: Wende, C. W. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Analysis of V-G Records From the SNJ-4 Airplane

Description: Report discusses an attempt to adapt a method of analysis of V-G data to predict the occurrences of large values of airspeed and acceleration from an SNJ-4 airplane; the data are presented as "flight envelopes". The flight envelopes "predict that, on average, in a stated number of flight hours, one airspeed, one positive acceleration, and one negative acceleration will exceed the envelope with equal probability of the accelerations being experienced at any airspeed" (from Discussion). The analy… more
Date: December 1945
Creator: Wilkerson, M. & Bennett, S. A.
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Calculations of Economy of 18-Cylinder Radial Aircraft Engine With Exhaust-Gas Turbine Geared to the Crankshaft at Cruising Speed

Description: Report presenting calculations based on dynamometer test-stand data on an 18-cylinder radial engine made to determine the improvement in fuel consumption that can be obtained by gearing an exhaust-gas turbine to the engine crankshaft in order to increase the engine shaft work.
Date: December 1945
Creator: Hannum, Richard W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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