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High Radiation Levels at the Discharge Faces of the Reactors

Description: Undesirably high radiation dosage rates are being encountered in the discharge areas during reactor outages. This is costly to operations in terms of burn-out time, extra work crews, and extended outages require to complete scheduled work. Significant savings in operating costs would be realized if the rear face radiation levels could be reduced during shutdowns. As a first step towards this some measurements have been made to identify and locate the major sources of this radiation. These resul… more
Date: January 4, 1955
Creator: Greene, M. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Script: Indonesian ambassador]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Moekarto Notwidigo, the Indonesian ambassador to the United States and Mexico, stopping over at Love Field en route to Mexico City.
Date: January 4, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Shepperd]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Attorney General John Ben Shepperd arriving in Fort Worth to address a banquet of the Tarrant County Medical Society.
Date: January 4, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Properties of Uranium-Bismuth Reactors for Computer Programs

Description: "This memorandum is a survey of the properties of [U-Bi] reactors for U235 as a fuel and U233 as a fuel using a larger density for the graphite [for calculations]. This will include properties of the core and various reflectors which will be useful for large machine calculations of reflector savings, fast and thermal fluxes, and quantities of interest based on two-group calculations."
Date: January 4, 1955
Creator: Mozer, B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Extraction of Americium Nitrate with Tributyl Phosphate

Description: The extraction of americium nitrate with tributyl phosphate has been investigated for aqueous solutions containing sodium nitrate and nitric acid. Americium nitrate is found in the organic phase as free molecules or ions and as the complex (Am(NO3)3. Aqueous solutions containing nitric acid introduce a competitive factor through the formation of the TBP-KNO3 complex in the solvent layer. In addition. americium nitrate is complexed in the aqueous phase by nitric acid.
Date: January 4, 1955
Creator: Walsh, K. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: One dead, one wounded in Dallas shooting]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a shooting in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas wounding one man and killing another.
Date: January 4, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 44 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Indonesian ambassador]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Moekarto Notwidigo, the Indonesian ambassador to the United States and Mexico, stopping over at Love Field en route to Mexico City.
Date: January 4, 1955
Duration: 56 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Freeway]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a group including city manager W.O. Jones and Harrell Ashburn going before the state highway commission to propose a freeway for Fort Worth's East Side.
Date: January 4, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 11 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Truck overturns, scatters ice]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a collision of a car and an ice truck causing the truck's load to be scattered across the highway.
Date: January 4, 1955
Duration: 42 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: News Briefs - Manhunt]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the Dallas County Sheriff Bill Decker leading a manhunt to catch David Valentine, accused of shooting William Bryant.
Date: January 4, 1955
Duration: 32 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Ford tractor helicopter]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a heliport constructed at the headquarters of a large tractor company in Dallas.
Date: January 4, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 34 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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A Cost Analysis of the Idaho Chemical Processing Plant

Description: A capital cost breakdown of the Idaho Chemical Processing Plant, a directly maintained remotely operated plant for processing spent enriched uranium fuel assemblies from reactors, is presented. The capital investment in the plant, including design, construction, training, and preoperational costs, an estimate of the direct costs incurred by the Atomic Energy Commission, and a proportional part of the costs of Central Facilities, including the value of the land and improvements theorem when acqu… more
Date: January 4, 1955
Creator: Robertson, P. L. & Stockdale, W. G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Taft urges lower trade barriers]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Charles P. Taft speaking at the second annual meeting of the Texas Council of Churches and calling for lower tariffs.
Date: January 4, 1955
Duration: 3 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Mass vaccination for polio planned]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the plans of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to provide a mass polio vaccination.
Date: January 4, 1955
Duration: 2 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Oaths]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a new elected officer taking oath.
Date: January 4, 1955
Duration: 2 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: New commissioner in land office]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Texas' new land commissioner, J. Earl Rudder, being sworn in in Austin.
Date: January 4, 1955
Duration: 2 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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