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Nuclear Reactor Project Progress Report, January 1948

Description: This report is a progress report detailing operations and ongoing projects at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. The report describes new developments with buildings and progress regarding ongoing experiments. The report includes photographs showing progress in the construction of the reactor and other images and figures that accompany the descriptions of projects.
Date: January 1, 1948
Creator: Borst, L. B. & Fox, Marvin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Angular Dependence of Thermal Neutron Spectra in Lattices

Description: This technical report discusses techniques that have been developed for "computing the angular thermal flux spectrum emerging from a lattice. These methods are applied to water lattices and it is found that the computed spectra are sensitive to the geometrical description of the lattice, but insensitive to the anisotropic scattering by water. Comparisons with measured spectra indicate that corrections for gradients and the finite size of the experimental lattice are important." -- from abstract… more
Date: January 1962
Creator: Honeck, Henry C. & Takahashi, Hiroshi
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Determination of Diffusion Cooling in Graphite by Measurement of the Average Neutron Velocity

Description: From Abstract: "The diffusion cooling coefficient in graphite has been determined by measuring the change in the asymptotic average velocity with buckling, by pulsed neutron methods. The times necessary to establish equilibrium spectra in graphite and heavy water have been measured and are reported."
Date: January 2, 1962
Creator: Starr, E. & De Villiers, J. W. L. (Jacobus Wynand Louw)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Supercritical Water Reactor

Description: From summary: "During 1951 NDA has, at the request of ORNL, been studying the supercritical-water reactor as proposed for aircraft propulsion in Wash-24...This study has concerned itself only with the reactor and shield." The report describes the reactor and the processes involved in developing it. The goal of the development of this reactor is identified as a path to supersonic flight.
Date: January 2, 1952
Creator: Nuclear Development Associates, Inc.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Progress Report on Waste Processing Development Project

Description: The work of the BNL Waste Processing Development Project has been concerned with developing means to accomplish three main objectives in handling radiochemical wastes. One is to reduce the corrosiveness of the waste. At present some wastes must be stored in SS vessels at high cost, since other tankage would not resist corrosion for any length of time. Hanford has solved a part of this problem by storing a neutralized or alkaline waste which can be contained more cheaply in 1020 steel vessels, a… more
Date: January 1956
Creator: Zwickler, S.; Manowits, B.; Allen, V.; Helfant, M.; Isler, R. J.; Oriez, R. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Dose-survival Curves for HeLa Cell Cultures Using Thermal Neutrons and the B10 (n,α)Li7 Reaction

Description: The biological evaluation of the thermal neutron capture reaction of boron-10, B10 (n,α)Li7 + 2.786 MeV, has previously been studied, using different particles from the boron-10 thermal neutron capture reaction compared with 250 kvp x-rays has been reported as 1.05 for spleen-thymic weight reduction (1), as 1.5 to 2.0 for skin lesions in pigs (2), and 1.87 for skin lesions of the rabbit's ear (3). The significance of such a calculation is felt to be unreliable for the boron-10 reaction in anima… more
Date: January 13, 1964
Creator: Archambeau, J. O.; Drew, R. M. & Robertson, J. S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Two Lectures on the Magnetic Scattering of Neutrons

Description: In these lectures we will discuss some examples of information about magnetic properties of solids which can be obtained by neutron scattering. We consider a scattering process in which a neutron with wave vector k and spin σ is incident upon a solid in state q>. (Here q stands for all of the quantum numbers which describe the state of the solid, such as spin and orbital electronic states, phonon numbers, etc.) After interacting with the solid, the neutron goes off with wave-vector k' and spin … more
Date: January 13, 1964
Creator: Blume, M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Correlation of Kinetic Isotope Effects with Chemical Bonding in Three Center Reactions

Description: We consider the kinetic isotope effect in three center reactions of the type of A+BC→AB+C. Such model calculations are a good approximation to primary hydrogen isotope effects. For abstraction or transfer reactions, B becomes H, D, or T. The dynamics of the three storm system are calculated for a general quadratic potential, with the assumption that the potential energy is constant along the reaction coordinate (flat top barrier). This model system can be calculated in detail and serves to illu… more
Date: January 7, 1964
Creator: Bigeleisen, Jacob
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Effects of Irradiation on the Optical Absorption and Photoconductivity of Rutile

Description: Optical absorption and photoconductivity measurements have been made on single crystals of pure synthetic rutile (TiO2). Reactor irradiations at 70°C totaling 4.8 x 10 18 nvt fast and 1.69 x10 19 nvt slow did not produce any discernible optical absorption bands; however, the transmission decreased 5 percent at all wavelengths. Reactor irradiation induced a [illegible] five photoconduction peaks in the wavelength range 4200 to 14,000 A. In addition the photopeak at 4065 A (3.05 eV) was enhanced … more
Date: January 7, 1964
Creator: Townsend, P. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Use of Activated Charcoal Iodine Monitors During and Following a Release of Fission Product Iodines

Description: The present core of the Brookhaven Graphite Reactor consists of some 4900 highly enriched uranium fuel loaded in 615 horizontal fuel channels passing through a 25 foot cube of graphite moderator and reflector. The core is divided into two halves (north and south) by an 8 cm. wide vertical gap in the center of the graphite. The cooling air enters the reactor through inlet filters, at the rate of 270,000 CFM, passes into the central gap and flows bi-directionally through the north and south halve… more
Date: January 13, 1964
Creator: Foelix, Charles F. & Gemmell, L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Biological Effects of Thermal Neutrons and the B10 (n,c) Li7 Reaction

Description: Boron-10 has a high thermal neutron capture cross section (3880 barns). Following neutron capture, the subsequent nuclear disintegration produces an alpha particle and a lithium-7 nucleus with the release of an average of 2.34 MeV for the particle irradiation, and in 93% of the reactions there is also the emission of an 0.48 MeV gamma ray: [equation not transcribed]. The kinetic energy is divided between the lithium-7 nucleus and the alpha particle giving the equal and opposite momentums with a… more
Date: January 13, 1964
Creator: Archambeau, J. O.; Alcober, V; Calvo, W. & Brenneis, H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Some Considerations on the Configuration and Stability of the H2 Temperature Control Loops of the 80" Bubble Chamber

Description: There is but little known about the thermal process involving the dynamics and thermodynamics of the cycling liquid H2 in the chamber and those of the H2 fluid flow in the cooling coil as well as the geometrical characteristics of the chamber body. This the physical equations governing this process are involving so many variables that this analysis becomes rather complex even if simplifying assumptions are made. To those difficulties is added the ignorance even of an approximative expression fo… more
Date: January 7, 1964
Creator: Androulakis, John G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Cool-Down Refrigeration Requirements for 80" Bubble Chambers

Description: The purpose of this report is to determine the amount of refrigeration capacity required to cool down the 80" bubble chamber from ambient temperature to liquid hydrogen temperature.
Date: January 7, 1964
Creator: Bamberger, J. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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General Operation and Construction Features of the Undercarriage System for the 80-inch Bubble Chamber

Description: The undercarriage system is required for translating, rotating, and lifting the 450 ton magnet and bubble chamber assemblies so that it can be accurately positioned in the experimental proton beam of the synchrotron. The system must make provision for the two magnet sections to be separated for the purpose of adjustment and maintenance of internal components.
Date: January 7, 1964
Creator: Wright, D. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Design Consideration for 80" Bubble Chamber

Description: The following general description of the theory and operation of a bubble chamber is presented so that firms who are interested in fabricating components for the Brookhaven 80" chamber will have a better understanding of the design parameters associated with it. This understanding, coupled with the fabricator's knowledge of manufacturing techniques, should enable the fabricators to suggest solutions to manufacturing problems consistent with requirements for chamber operation. In an effort to in… more
Date: January 7, 1964
Creator: Kassner, D. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Servo Stabilized RF Vernier Time-of-Flight Analyzer

Description: The analyzer can be operated either internally or externally. The 10 ma germanium discriminator is quiescently biased to 8.5 ma in its low-voltage state. An input signal current of 3.5 ma or more triggers it to its high voltage state. This triggers the oscillator. The oscillator signal is buffered and mixed in the bridge modulator with the reference radiofrequency signal from the cyclotron. The low-frequency beat note from the bridge modulator is squared up and passed to the beat zero univibrat… more
Date: January 15, 1962
Creator: Chase, Robert L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Beam Separators for Bev Particles

Description: The problem of separation of beams of particles of different masses but of the same momentum at Bev energies is the subject of a great deal of study at several high energy laboratories. In this note we shall describe the problem and tabulate a few of the cogent parameters. Frequently the student of high energy interactions is faced with a beam of miscellaneous particles coming from an accelerator. By standard techniques this beam can be rendered approximately parallel and an inch or so in diame… more
Date: January 22, 1963
Creator: Blewett, J. P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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On the Transfer of Heat to Fluids Flowing Through Pipes, Annuli, and Parallel Plates

Description: Nusselt numbers have been calculated for heat transfer to fluids flowing through annuli under conditions of uniform heat flux and fully established velocity and temperature profiles. The following cases were considered: (a) laminar flow, (b) slug flow, (c) turbulent flow with molecular conduction only, and (d) turbulent flow with both molecular and eddy conduction. These Nusselt numbers were determined for two conditions: heat transfer from the inner wall only and heat transfer from the outer w… more
Date: January 8, 1963
Creator: Dwyer, O. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Penetration Effects in Magnetic-Dipole L-shell Internal Conversion

Description: Internal-conversion coefficients may be thought of as consisting of two parts: a usually dominant part which depends only on the atomic number and the nuclear transition energy, and a usually small part depending explicitly on nuclear transition matrix elements. This latter part arises from the penetration of the converting atomic electrons within the transforming nucleus.
Date: January 28, 1963
Creator: Church, E. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Some Further Remarks on Beam Current Measurements in the AGS

Description: A previous report on this subject (Brookhaven National Laboratory, AGS Internal Report, ECR-4) described in detail the methods of measuring the injected and accelerated proton currents in the Brookhaven AGS up to May 1961. At that time the accelerated current was measured by extracting the bunch frequency component of the signal given by a pair of radial position observation electrodes. The injected current was also determined by the signal induced on a similar pair of radial position electrode… more
Date: January 28, 1963
Creator: Raka, E. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Simple Theory of the Process P+P → D+W+

Description: The discovery of the vector meson which mediates the weak interactions, W,1 would be of extreme importance for weak interaction physics and for field theory in general. The W, if it exists, will be made in a variety of processes such as v+N →W+ + e- + N, or n- + P →W- + P, or, as studied in this note, P + P → D + W+. The W couples to leptons with a dimensionless constant [constant not transcribed] where G is the Feral constant defined t=so that [constant not transcribed]. Thus for [equation not… more
Date: January 28, 1963
Creator: Bernstein, Jeremy
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Capture - Positron Ratios for Allowed and First-Forbidden Transitions

Description: Report issued by the Brookhaven National Laboratory discussing capture positron ratios. As stated on page 1, "the purpose of this report is to present aids for the simple determination of the relative probabilities of K-electron capture and positron emission for allowed and first-forbidden transitions" (p. 1). This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: January 1958
Creator: Perlman, M. L. & Wolfsberg, Max
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Review of the Utilization of Fission Fragment Energy for the Fixation of Nitrogen

Description: Report issued by the Brookhaven National Laboratory discussing methods of nitrogen fixation, and their economic impacts. As stated in the introduction, "studies are described on circulating dust fuels, as well as fixed plated, porous bed, and other types of fuels as the basis for chemo-nuclear reactor designs, and the various fuel systems are compared on a technical and economic basis" (p. 3). This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: January 17, 1961
Creator: Steinberg, Meyer; Powell, J. R. & Green, Leon
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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