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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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Supplement to Report on the Brookhaven Nuclear Reactor Prepared for Reactor Safeguard Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission

Description: This technical report provides supplementary information on the Brookhaven nuclear reactor. It details added safety systems, tests, expounds on information included in the original report, describes liquid wastes system, and describes different procedures for operating the nuclear reactor.
Date: August 30, 1948
Creator: Brookhaven National Laboratory
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Nuclear Reactor Progress Report

Description: Technical report describing the building of safety devices and features for the Oak Ridge reactor by the Reactor Safeguard Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission. Outlines the difficulties encountered in detailed design and construction operations for the facility.
Date: October 1, 1948
Creator: Brookhaven National Laboratory
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Tabulation or Ore Reserves and Past Production for the Uranium-Vanadium Region of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona

Description: The tabulations on these pages include all of the known areas in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona having economically important uranium-vanadium deposits of the type which are generally referred to by the terms roscoe-lite and/or carnotite. Though similar deposits are known to exist in other areas they are to be viewed as being little more than mineralogical curiosities.
Date: February 16, 1948
Creator: Fetzer, Wallace G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Isolation and Properties of Curium

Description: From introduction: "The discovery of element number 96, curium, was realized by the preparation and identification of the isotope Cm-242 by G. T. Seaborg, R. A. James and A. Ghiorso by cyclotron bombardment of Pu-239 with helium ions."
Date: July 28, 1948
Creator: Werner, Louis Bernard
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Physico-chemical Studies of U-Compounds in Solution : Progress Report, February 1945

Description: This progress report discusses progress on oxidation-reduction studies, including polarography, as well as the Uranium-complex formation including electrical transport and spectro-photometric work. This report covers the work done in the period of February of 1945.
Date: May 26, 1948
Creator: Tishkoff, G. H. & Fanta, Paul E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Acute Radiotoxicity of Injected Na²⁴ for Mice and Rats

Description: The following report describes the results from studies based on the toxicity and metabolism of radioactive substances derived from uranium fission. Rats and mice were administered radioactive sodium and reactions and changes were studied.
Date: April 15, 1948
Creator: Finkle, R. D.; Snyder, R. H.; Kisieleski, Walter E.; Teresi, J.; Broido, A. & Tompkins, P. C.
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Preliminary Report on the Hydrolytic Behavior of Cerium (IV)

Description: The following report analyzes the hydrolytic behavior of cerium and compares them with the actinides of uranium and plutonium.
Date: May 25, 1948
Creator: Kraus, K. A.; Holmberg, R. W. & Nelson, F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Production of Leukopenia by Chronic Irradiation of the Abdominal Viscera of the Cat

Description: This report describes an experiment that produced leukopenia in cats through irradiation. It elaborates that irradiated cats had significant decreases in levels of leukocytes, polymorphonuclear leukocytes, and lymphocytes. The methods and specific results of the experiment are also given and discussed.
Date: 1948
Creator: Adams, William S. & Lawrence, John S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Apparatus for injection of animals with dangerous amounts of hard beta and gamma emitters

Description: Report detailing the development of an apparatus for injection of animals with dangerous amounts of hard beta and gamma emitters. The development of this apparatus was necessitated by the extended period of time that experimenter's had to hold syringes containing radioactive material.
Date: 1948
Creator: Anthony, Davis S. & Norris, William P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Studies of the metabolism and toxic action of injected radium

Description: Report discussing various studies on the effect of radium injections in rats, mice, and rabbits. Specifically, the effects on weight, lethal action, excretion and retention are discussed.
Date: 1948
Creator: Norris, William P. & Evans, H. B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Revised draft of glossary in terms of reactor theory

Description: Report describing multiple terms that are relevant to reactor theory. The terms are broken up into seven categories that are listed on the second page of the report.
Date: 1948
Creator: Smith, Nicholas M.
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Chambers Works Process for the Manufacture of Fluorine in East Area Carbon Anode Cells (M.W.38.0)

Description: Historical: This process is based on experimental work done in Jackson Laboratory, Send Works, Blue Products, and East Area. It supersedes the Tentative Chambers Works Process for the Manufacture of Fluorine Using Carbon Anode Units, dated December 2, 1943.
Date: January 18, 1948
Creator: E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Observation of Mesons Produced by the 184-inch Cyclotron

Description: The following report presents the study of meson tracks produced by a cyclotron of 184-inches, and prompting the question of whether the light mesons all come from decays of heavy mesons, or whether they are produced in a primary process at the target.
Date: 1948
Creator: Lattes, César H. G. & Gardner, Eugene
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Nuclear Synthesis of Element 43 (Tc)#x

Description: The following report on the nuclear synthesis of technetium is based on work performed under contract No. W-7405-eng-26 for the Atomic Energy Project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Date: June 14, 1948
Creator: Motta, E. E. & Boyd, G. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Tracer Chemistry of Americium and Curium in Aqueous Solutions

Description: The following report presents data and conclusions from investigations of the chemical properties of elements 95 (americium, Am) and 96 (curium, Cu) by means of tracer techniques.
Date: May 1948
Creator: Thompson, Stanley Gerald, 1912-1976; Morgan, L. O.; James, R. A. & Perlman, Isadore
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X-ray Analysis of the Uranium-Carbon System

Description: The following report includes an account of the X-ray structures of all he uranium-carbides together with X-ray data on the solid solubilities of these carbides with each other and with uranium and carbon.
Date: 1948
Creator: Rundle, R. E.; Wilson, A. S. & Baenziger, Norman C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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