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100 Areas: (For Technical Progress Letter No. 97), May 7--13

Description: Physics information for the D and F piles is presented. Thermal conductivity, reactivity, and irradiation levels are included. Concerning the cooling systems: process water control, pressure drip studies, purging studies, corrosion, and gun barrel clearance of expanded graphite are discussed. (GHH)
Date: May 17, 1946
Creator: Jordan, W. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Summary of Blistering Inspections

Description: A table summarizes all the information on blistered slugs from March 1946 to Oct. 12, 1946, as recorded in weekly technical progress letters.
Date: November 27, 1946
Creator: Woods, W. K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Fission product studies with plant dissolver solutions: IX-Iodine, X-Arsenic. SE-PC No. 61

Description: In continuing studies to characterize and identify fission product activities formed in the piles and appearing in plant dissolver solutions work was done to determine whether or not long-lived isotopes of certain elements were present. Two of the elements in this category were iodine and arsenic. The iodine isotope of particular interest was I{sup 129}. Its tellurium parent has been identified but no daughter activity attributable to iodine has been observed. The arsenic activities of interest… more
Date: January 8, 1946
Creator: Acken, M. F.; Sullivan, W. H. & Leader, G. R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Graphite expansion committee meeting of October 4, 1946

Description: Recent data show that test hole samples out from the center of a bar show greater expansion rates than do samples out from the edge of a bar. The previously noticed irregularities in expansion of test hole samples are attributed to this phenomenon. For unexplained reasons, the expansion of the graphite piles is in close agreement with the smaller expansion rates shown by test hole samples rather than with the larger rates. It is recommended that the neoprene coal on the far side of the F pile b… more
Date: October 7, 1946
Creator: Woods, W. K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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100 Areas: April 9--April 15

Description: Reported are: physics (B Pile, D Pile, F Pile, general physics); and water, corrosion, and engineering (process water control and pressure drop studies, purging studies, corrosion, graphite expansion, downcomer -- B Area).
Date: April 19, 1946
Creator: Jordan, W. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Graphite expansion committee meeting of December 6, 1946

Description: The twelfth meeting of the Graphite Expansion Committee was held on December 6, 1946. A summary of the meeting is as follows. Recent laboratory studies suggest that the rate of graphite expansion decreases with exposure when the samples are exposed in an air atmosphere at ambient pile temperature, through the relative effects of atmosphere and temperature are not known. These observations are in qualitative agreement with the decreased rate of vertical expansion of the piles. The neoprene seal … more
Date: December 12, 1946
Creator: Woods, W. K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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100 Areas technical progress letter No. 105, July 2--July 8

Description: The physics of the shutdown of the D pile on July 2 is emphasized in the operation report. The F pile shutdown and operating specifics are also discussed. Water, corrosion, and engineering are reported for the B, D, and F areas.
Date: July 12, 1946
Creator: Jordan, W. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Technical Department report on production test No. 313-78-M: Study for evaluation of slug dimensions

Description: The present system of classifying slugs intended for canning provides for individual measurement of dimensions on first-run MZ material, but not for their individual weighing. While the total and average weights of this type of material are determined on batches of twenty, this operation is for purposes of accounting only, and no concern is normally attached to the functional aspects of varying weights. It is thought desirable to obtain information relative to this problem. Collection of such i… more
Date: July 9, 1946
Creator: Smith, E. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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300 Area monthly report for January

Description: This report review the work being conducted in the 300 area of the Hanford production facility for the month of January.
Date: February 11, 1946
Creator: Kidder, C. P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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100 Areas technical activities report -- Physics, November 1946

Description: This report divides the activities for November into three sections: D Pile; F Pile; and general physics. During November the D Pile was down twice for regularly scheduled shutdowns. Two scram occurred during the month, both of short duration. Five Special Request 15 tubes were discharged and recharged with Special Request 15. Some 13 inhour of reactivity were gained during the month. Vertical rod thimbles, 10 through 22, were tested. A Production Test was performed to determine the reactivity … more
Date: December 11, 1946
Creator: Gast, P. F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Columbia River Temperature Survey at Hanford Engineer Works: Preliminary Report

Description: It was agreed during a meeting on July 10, 1945 that an investigation should be made by the Technical Department to determine how fast and in what fashion the temperature of the effluent water from the 100 Areas is dissipated in the columbia River. A preliminary report on this investigation is submitted herewith for review by interested parties.
Date: March 1, 1946
Creator: Osterloh, R. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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300 Area, February 12 through February 18

Description: Extrusion was run on one day, February 2, and a total of 271 billets (178 Type G, 12 type BT, and 81 red band) were processed. Two failures occurred among the red band billets; UM 6610 had begun to melt in the furnace and TX 3323 disintegrated on being extruded through the die. Samples of these billets are being checked chemically and metallurgically in an attempt to ascertain the cause for the hot-short characteristics of these billets. A sample cut from a rod which possessed zero strength (fe… more
Date: February 22, 1946
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Method for Measuring Fast Decay of a Near Critical Assembly

Description: This paper contains a description of the apparatus and theories of the methods successfully used for determining the fast decay periods of near-critical assemblies. The methods described are: (1) the modulation method and (2) the delayed coincidence or Rossi method
Date: July 14, 1946
Creator: Woodward, W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Study of the Distribution of Impurities in the Extraction of Uranyl Nitrate with Ether from Aqueous Solutions

Description: Early in 1942 it had been found on a laboratory scale that certain impurities such as the Rare Earths were removed by small water washes from an ether solution of Uranyl Nitrate. It was hoped that in the large production units to be constructed that the water soluble impurities would all be washed out by the time the radioactive Thorium had been removed, so that the decrease in radioactivity could be used as an index of the amount of all kinds of impurity remaining in the ether layer. Experienc… more
Date: April 1, 1946
Creator: Conard, C. R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Treatment of Torbernite

Description: Production of black oxide from torbernite was studied on a laboratory scale from the standpoint of uranium extraction, reagent requirements, and removal of impurities. A small portion of the material was examined for its mineral constituents, using optical properties, X-ray diffraction patterns, and chemical analysis for identification. About 50% of the material was quartz; 30% green crystals of a copper-uranium phosphate; 10% of a black mineral, which was not identified, but which appeared to … more
Date: January 21, 1946
Creator: Brimm, E. O., Dr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Effect of Age on the Radiosensitivity of Mice

Description: Abstract: Mice of different ages ranging from 1.5 to 12 months have been exposed to gamma rays in an effort to determine the change in radiosensitivity with age. The dose necessary to cause 50% killing was determined for each age group and sex. No change in sensitivity with age was observed with either sex, although the experimental error in the case of the males was quite large. The females were found to be more resistant than the males.
Date: April 8, 1946
Creator: Curtis, H. J.; Zirkle, Raymond E. (Raymond Elliot), 1902-1988; Anderson, Ernest C., 1920-2013 & Riley, E. F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Some Studies of the Reactions of Uranium Oxides with Hydrogen, Oxygen and Water

Description: Abstract: The purpose of this research was to obtain data that would be useful in predicting changes that might be expected to occur in the oxidation state and degree of hydration of powdered uranium oxides maintained for long periods of time at temperatures between 30 and 300 degrees C. in the presence of excess water, hydrogen, oxygen and possibly hydrogen peroxide. The reaction of hydrogen and oxygen with water slurries of U3O8 were studied at 100-300 degree C.
Date: June 1946
Creator: Gillies, Daniel M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Column Adsorption Methods in Analytical Chemistry

Description: Technical report. Numerous application of various column adsorption techniques to inorganic analytical chemistry have appear in the literature. The comparatively recent introduction of ion exchange resins has resulted in the development of efficient, simple, and rapid column adsorption methods. the principal service of column adsorption methods to analytical chemistry is that of providing a relatively simple means of separating an element in a sufficiently pure state so that a direct precipita… more
Date: January 11, 1946
Creator: Schubert, Jack
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The U + 4 - U02 ++ Couple in H2SO , and the U + S - u + 4 Couple in HCl

Description: Technical report: Measurements have been made on the equilibrium between Cu, Cu2+, U4+, and UO22+ in H2SO4 in an attempt to establish the value of the U4+ - UO22+ couple potential. The value of the formal potential for the U3+ - U4+ couple in 1N HCl at 0 degrees C was determined to be + 0.65 v.
Date: March 19, 1946
Creator: Cubicciotti, D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Dissolution of Thorium Metal and Thorium Dioxide in HNO3 - HF and HNO3- ( NH4 ) 2 SiF6 Mixtures

Description: Abstract. A satisfactory method has been found for dissolving thorium metal and thorium oxide in heat-treated 25-12 stainless steel vessels without excessive corrosion of the vessels. The dissolution medium consists of strong HNO3 containing a small amount of fluoride or fluo-silicate. the fluoride required has no harmful effects on a subsequent solvent-extraction step for a separation of uranium isotopes from the dissolved thorium.
Date: August 2, 1946
Creator: Schuler, Frederick W.; Steahly, Frank L. & Stoughton, Raymond W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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