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PILOT PLANT SHUTDOWN AND Pu-Al PROCESSING

Description: The large aqueous pilot plant facilities at ORNL were cleaned and are being put in standby condition. Experience was gained during the year as anion exchange was used to recover more than one kg of plutonium left in the exploded evaporator system. This experience is being applied to a new recovery program just beginning in cell 1 of Building 4507. (auth)
Date: September 25, 1961
Creator: Bresee, J.C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS OF THE SUCTION HEAD REQUIRED BY THE HALLAM PROTOTYPE FREE SURFACE SODIUM PUMP

Description: Hydraulic tests were made on the Hallam Prototype Free-Surface Sodium Pump to determine the net positive suction head (NPSH) required at various sodium flow rates. Pump performance data were also collected. The results indicate that an NPSH of 22 ft sodium is required at the design flow rate of 7200 gpm at approximates 1000 deg F, agreeing with computed values, and that the pump is designed with a safety margin of slightly over l0%. (D.L.C.)
Date: July 25, 1961
Creator: Atz, R.W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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GRAPHITE-STAINLESS STEEL COMPATIBILITY STUDIES

Description: S>The compatibility of type 304L stainless steel in intimate contact with graphite is being studied as a function of temperature and contact pressure. This study is an outgrowth of materials compatibility problems in present and advanced gas-cooled reactors, where structural members in direct contact with graphite provide the possibility of both carburization and self-welding. Initial studies were concerned with surface reactions in the absence of gaseous contaminants under a vacuum of 10/sup -… more
Date: September 25, 1962
Creator: Fleischer, B.; DeVan, J. H. & Coobs, J. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Pakistan: A Bibliography

Description: This report is a bibliography that cites information related to Pakistan. It includes General, History, Government and Politics, Economy and Development, Foreign policy, and defense.
Date: November 25, 1969
Creator: Patitucci, Jean B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Summary of HRT Run 25

Description: Run 25 was the final period of power operational of the HRT. The reactor was operated for periods of 62, 8, 52, and 80 hours at 5 Mw with no outward indication of fuel and core and blanket average temperatures of 270 and 230 deg C, respectively. The uranium concentration in the was 1.7 to 2.0 g U/kg D/sub 2/O. Longer periods of operation were prevented by mechanical difficulties, notably with the fuel feed pump. While the reactor was subcritical after the last of the above runs, the upper patch… more
Date: July 25, 1962
Creator: Engel, J. R.; Bauman, H. F.; Buchanan, J. R.; Haubenreich, P. N.; Piper, H. B. & Richardson, D. M.
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Development of a Fluidized Bed Calcination Process for Aluminum Nitrate Wastes in a Two-Foot-Square Plant Calciner. Part 2. Factors Affecting the Intra-Particle Porosity of Alumina

Description: A seven- to twenty-fold volume reduction can be obtained from fluidized bed calcination of aqueous aluminum nitrate wastes, depending on the operating conditions employed and their effect on the intra-panticle porosity and absolute density of the calcined alumina. Among the calcining variables, only the bed temperature and the fuel aluminum concentration had a significant effect on the intra-particle porosity of alumina generated during studies conducted primarily in a two-foot-square fluidized… more
Date: July 25, 1962
Creator: Wheeler, B. R.; Grimmett, E. S. & Buckham, J. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Spectrographic Determination of Impurities in Hafnium

Description: A spectrographic method using d-c arc excitation in a controlled atmosphere was developed to analyze for seven impurity elements in radioactive hafnium samples. Analysis requires as little as 35 mg of hafnium oxide. (auth)
Date: August 25, 1961
Creator: Ginther, B. E. & Wheeler, G. V.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Murgatroyd-an Ibm 7090 Program for the Analysis of the Kinetics of the Msre

Description: An addition is presented for the IBM-7090 program MURGATROYD to produce a rough graph of reactor power versus time. A sample of output is included for the case given as an example. (J.R.D.)
Date: May 25, 1962
Creator: Nestor, C. W. Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A PROGRAM OF BASIC RESEARCH ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF REACTOR MATERIALS. Quarterly Progress Report for the Period Ending June 30, 1962

Description: The effect of modifying the dislocation structure by room-temperature prestraining on the subsequent yielding behavior at 77 deg K is being studied. Results on tantalum single crystals indicated that a considerable decrease in the early yield stress for a given strain is effected by prestraining at room temperature. Twinning was observed in the tantalum at 77 deg K and normal rates of strain. It is shown that the potential barrler to dislocation motion in crystalline solids can be measured in r… more
Date: July 25, 1962
Creator: Trozera, T.A.; Flynn, P.W.; Chambers, R.H. & White, J.L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Flood Safety of the Mixed Spectrum Superheater

Description: Calculations are presented which show that the reactivity effect of flooding and unflooding the fast superheating section of the Mixed Spectrum Superheater can be made small by the addition of epithermal poisons to the superheater. The reactivity effects of flooding superheater sections ranging in size from 1.25 to 3.5 ft cubes and containing U/sup 23/5/sup >/oxide or Pu/sup 239/ oxide fuel and various amounts o f the epithermal poison europium were calculated. Reactivity changes during several… more
Date: May 25, 1961
Creator: Reynolds, A. B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Low level waste treatment by ion-exchange. II. Use of a weak acid, carboxylic-phenolic ion-exchange resin

Description: Laboratory results are presented for a flowsheet study of a process for decontaminating ORNL low level waste water. The water is adjusted to approximately pH 12 with NaOH, clarified, and passed through a bed of phenolic cation exchange resin. This study, using a phenolic-carboxylic resin, showed essentially the same results as those previously reported using a phenolic-sulfonic resin, i.e., radioactivities in ORNL waste were reduced to the order of 10% of MPC. The phenolic-carboxylic resin has … more
Date: September 25, 1961
Creator: Holcomb, R.R. & Roberts, J.T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Operation of the Sodium Technology Loop for Contamination Meter Evaluations

Description: Report issued by the APDA over studies conducted on the Sodium Technology Loop. Methods, equipment, and results of the studies are presented and discussed. This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: March 25, 1964
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Photographic Study of Boiling Flow

Description: From abstract: A high speed motion picture study was conducted of boiling flow in a vertical, rectangular channel at atmospheric pressure. Three different visual flow regimes were defined and described.
Date: October 25, 1963
Creator: Vohr, John Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Use of total beta counts to estimate GI tract dose rates

Description: It was the practice for several years to estimate the potential dose rate to the gastrointestinal from sanitary water sources by evaluating the results of radiochemical analysis of individual nuclides. The proposed method estimates the GI tract dose from Pasco and Richland domestic water from measurements of the total beta activity, and permits more frequent and more economical evaluation of a variable source of radiation exposure. Beginning with 1964 data, the GI tract dose rate for Richland a… more
Date: October 25, 1965
Creator: Hall, R.B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Needle in a Haystack

Description: Abstract: "Production of [rho]'s and [omega]'s in [pi]- + p and p + [letter p with a bar over it] interactions is discussed. The [rho] is presumably a J = 1-, 1 = 1 state and thus can decay into 2[pi]'s via a strong coupling. The [omega] is probably J = 1-, 1 = 0 which can also decay into 2[pi]'s via electromagnetic coupling. A theoretical description of this situation is presented in terms of coupled time-dependent Schroedinger equations which mix [rho] and [omega] states that are assumed to b… more
Date: May 25, 1962
Creator: Bernstein, J. & Feinberg, Gerald, 1933-1992
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Geologic section and hydrologic observations at station 1A, Tatum salt dome, Lamar County, Mississippi

Description: Station 1A was the emplacement hole for the nuclear device used in the Advanced Research Project Agency's and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's 5-kT nuclear Salmon Event of October 22, 1964. The hole penetrated the Pascagoula and Hattiesburg Formations, undifferentiated, and the Catahoula Sandstone, all of Miocene age, before entering the caprock at a depth of 882 feet. In continued through the calcite, gypsum, and anhydrite units of the caprock, which extend to a depth of 1,469.5 feet,… more
Date: February 25, 1966
Creator: Taylor, R.E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Exposure data, Y test hole - C reactor

Description: This report gives the exposure data for the C Reactor at the Hanford Reservation February 1965.
Date: February 25, 1965
Creator: Ferguson, J. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Waste Management Program: Chemical Processing Department

Description: During the 18-year history of Hanford operations, a high degree of safety has been provided at reasonable cost by the storage of high-activity liquid wastes in underground tanks, by the percolation of low-activity liquid wastes (principally water) through the soil to the ground water, and by the adsorption or filtration of radioactive materials from gaseous effluents prior to their discharge to the atmosphere. Studies of the Hanford area indicate that current practices could be continued almost… more
Date: February 25, 1963
Creator: Tomlinson, R. E
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Draft of physics sections to 100-N technical manual

Description: The information presented is a collection of most of the physics information available for the New Production Reactor. The details of some of the physics information, particularly those dealing with exposure and temperature effects, are by no means to be considered the final word since there has been no experimental verification of these effects. However, the gross physics characteristics described are felt to be reasonable representations of the expected physics behavior of N Reactor and shoul… more
Date: January 25, 1963
Creator: Nilson, R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Recommendations to apply the ``square pile`` total control concept

Description: It is recommended that the ``square pile`` concept be adopted for all disaster total control calculations, and that the basic reactor constants listed in HW-62884, except for Ball 3X local strength at the DR Reactor, be used in applying this method. Curves are included for each reactor type, indicating allowable enrichment based on appropriate local control strengths. (The reactors whose operating methods are affected by disaster total control requirements are B, D, F, and DR Reactors; the rema… more
Date: February 25, 1960
Creator: Bowers, C. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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