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Acid-Base Equilibria in Tertiary Butyl Alcohol

Description: From abstract: "The dissociation of acids in tertiary butyl alcohol has been studied by potentiometric, spectrophotometric, and conductimetric methods. Values for the over-all dissociation of perchloric and picric acids and several tetrabutylammonium salts were estimated by the Fuoss-Kraus treatment of conductance data. Potentiometric studies were carried out at constant ionic strength in order to minimize activity coefficient variations. An acidity scale was established from potentiometric mea… more
Date: August 6, 1962
Creator: Marple, Leland & Fritz, James S. (James Sherwood), 1924-
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Cation Exchange Separation of Divalent Metal Ions From Rare Earths

Description: From abstract: "The divalent metal ions of calcium, magnesium, nickel, and strontium are eluted from a cation exchange column with 1.5M nitric acid and separated from trivalent rare earths, aluminum and yttrium. Prior sequential elution of other metal ions with hydrochloric acid in acetone-water or with dilute hydrofluoric acid does not interfere with the present separation method."
Date: June 6, 1962
Creator: Fritz, James S. (James Sherwood), 1924- & Garralda, Barbara B.
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Contraction of graphite: A comparison of laboratory and production reactor data, Part I-B, D, F, H, DR, and C Reactors

Description: A program has been carried on at Hanford for a number of years to study the effect of neutron radiation on the dimensional changes in graphite. This program has been concerned with the changes measured on small graphite samples which have been exposed to various conditions of temperature and neutron flux. Theoretical studies have also been conducted to determine damage mechanisms. The prime purpose of this research program has been to develop, with the support of the carbon companies a radiatio… more
Date: August 6, 1962
Creator: Giberson, R. C. & Morgan, W. C.
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Diffusion in Cobalt-Nickel Alloys, Report No. 4

Description: The self-diffusivities of Co60 and Ni63 in cobalt--nickel solid solutions exhibit a greater activation energy below the Curie temperature (T/sub c/) than above. Values of DELTA Q = Q (ferromagnetic) -- Q (paramagnetic) are approximately equal to RT/sub c/. This observation is interpreted to indicate that the increment in activation energy arises from an increase in the formation energy of a vacancy in the ferromagnetic lattice, with the additional binding energy arising from the interaction of … more
Date: June 6, 1962
Creator: Hirano, Ken-ichi; Agarwala, R. P.; Averbach, B. L. & Cohen, Morris
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Diffusion of Iron, Cobalt, and Nickel in Gold, Report No. 5

Description: "The diffusivities of Fe, Co, and Al in otherwise pure Au were determined by a residual activity technique. It was found that the frequency factors and activation energies of the transition elements into Au are normal relative to the values for Au self-diffusion, and suggest that lattice diffusion is operative, in contrast to the corresponding situation for the diffusion of these elements in Al. This difference in behavior is explained in terms of the marked difference in solid solubilities in … more
Date: June 6, 1962
Creator: Duhl, David N.; Hirano, Ken-ichi & Cohen, Morris
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Improved Zirconium Alloys Quarterly Report: January - March 1962

Description: The following report is one of a series of quarterly reports following the progress and development of improved zirconium alloys for service in superheated water and steam. This report covers the period between January 1 to March 31, 1962 and was conducted by the United States and the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM). The major effort in this period has been devoted to ascertaining and evaluating corrosion behavior of 75 ternary compositions.
Date: April 6, 1962
Creator: Weinstein, Daniel & Holtz, F. C.
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The Influence of Radiation-Produced Defects on the Precipitation of Carbon in Iron

Description: Iron containing approximately 0.01 wt. % carbon was quenched from 700°C and irradiated in the BNL reactor at 57°C for various lengths of time. The rate of decay of the Snoek internal friction peak was observed at 57°C after irradiation. After a 4-hour irradiation the rate of decay of the peak was one order of magnitude faster than the rate of decay in an unirradiated specimen. Longer irradiation times up to 48 hours caused no further acceleration of the decay rate. This observation implies that… more
Date: September 6, 1962
Creator: Fujita, F. E. & Damask, A. C.
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Production Test IP-467-C Supplement B: Reducing minimum downtime, K Reactors

Description: The objective of this Production Test Supplement is to evaluate at a K Reactor the operational aspects of a proposed method for reducing minimum downtime. The proposed method is to partially override the xenon transient with a block of enrichment in the central region of the reactor. The purpose of performing this test at a K reactor in addition to the original test at one of the older reactors, is to examine the operational aspects unique to a K reactor and to evaluate the feasibility of the m… more
Date: June 6, 1962
Creator: Chitwood, R. A.
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Production Test IP-502-I calibration of gas monitoring instrumentation to measure the amount of oxygen in a reactor

Description: This production test is designed to test the feasibility of controlling the amount of air entering a reactor, hence, the burnout of the graphite by monitoring the gas activity. Gas activity comes from the induced activity on argon, which is one of the constituents of air. This production test is basically a test to calibrate the gas activity instruments as a function of various amounts of argon in the reactors gas system. The first two parts of the test are calibration points with different amo… more
Date: April 6, 1962
Creator: Smit, W. R.
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Proposal for charging test fuel element with corrugated outer jacket, GEH-10-62

Description: Localized tensile necking and splitting of the Zircaloy-2 clad on coextruded uranium cored fuel elements may represent an ultimate exposure limit. One way to increase the total energy capability of the fuel element is to corrugate the outside cladding so its perimeter is greater than that of a circle circumscribing the equivalent cross-sectional area. Thus swelling of the core will be accommodated by bending of the cladding rather than by large cladding tensile strains. The principal purpose of… more
Date: July 6, 1962
Creator: Wheeler, R. G. & Heck, E. N.
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Some Applications of the Chase Two-Dimensional Analyzer at Brookhaven National Laboratory

Description: The Chase two-dimensional analyzer is a 64 channel by 64 channel analyzer with a magnetic drum memory and a buffered storage system. The memory capacity is 2 counts per channel. The maximum storage rate is limited by the drum speed and is about 800 counts per second for a featureless spectrum.
Date: November 6, 1962
Creator: Donovan, Paul F.
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Status Report Number Three on Clinch River Study

Description: Report describing the progress made in the Clinch River Study for the period May to October 1961. This report is based off of multiple reports of water sampling conducted across six stations in order to evaluate the safety and radioactive content of the Clinch River.
Date: December 6, 1962
Creator: Morton, R. J.
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Summary Report of Physics Measurements on SM-1 Core I

Description: Abstract: This technical report summarizes all core physics experiments performed on SM-1 Core I and SM-2 Rearranged and Spiked Core I throughout core life. These measurements were obtained on site during the 16.4 MWYR lifetime of SM-1 Core I and 1.6 MWYR lifetime of SM-1 Rearranged and Spiked Core I. SM-1 Core I was the first stainless steel - UO2 dispersion core to burn out in the Army Nuclear Power Program. Experimental techniques are described and a complete history of fuel movements in th… more
Date: February 6, 1962
Creator: Weiss, S. H.
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Target Efficiency Measurements at the AGS

Description: Two methods for measuring target efficiencies are briefly discussed. The second method puts an upper bound on the efficiency and permits observation of instantaneous efficiency, thereby aiding location of losses. Measurements agree well with conventional radiochemical values.
Date: June 6, 1962
Creator: Maschke, A. W.
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