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Final results of production test IP-348-I, K area low-flow calibration test

Description: K area emergency water backup studies have been hampered by poor data on flow through the reactor under various emergency conditions. Various tests have been run where emergency conditions have been simulated and flow measurements attempted. In all previous tests, the accuracy of the flow measurements have been questionable. Flow from the high-pressure crosstie can be measured by an orifice in the crosstie, but there has not been any method of measuring the service water contribution to total r… more
Date: February 16, 1961
Creator: Fuller, N. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Irradiated uranium fire hazard

Description: Earlier this year we briefly discussed the potential hazard of incurring an inadvertent uranium fuel element fire during discharge. This letter will provide data which will be of assistance to you in assessing the potential hazard, and in establishing charge-discharge procedures to minimize the probability of an irradiated fuel element lodged in the discharge area reaching aluminum jacket melting temperature without detection.
Date: February 16, 1961
Creator: Reid, R. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Script: Hospital patient/extradite]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a patient at Fort Worth's Harris Hospital committing suicide and Fort Worth ex-convicts Horace Burt Mullins and Melvin Renfro fighting their extradition to Oklahoma.
Date: February 16, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Wilson]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Donald Ray Wilson being sentenced to the electric chair after admitting to beating his uncle to death.
Date: February 16, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Candidate Hill]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Dallas attorney, Curtis E. Hill's ideas about how to stop the spread of communism.
Date: February 16, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Addison trial]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about John Milton Addison being charged with mail fraud, conspiracy and violation of the Federal Securities Act.
Date: February 16, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Traffic fatal]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a car fatally hitting an 11 year old in a Dallas neighborhood.
Date: February 16, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Extradite]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two ex-convicts attempting to avoid murder charges in Oklahoma.
Date: February 16, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Mayor proclaims]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Mayor Thomas A. McCann calling an alert for national guardsmen to move out of the guard armories in Fort Worth and surrounding areas.
Date: February 16, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Specific activity of the NPR primary coolant loop

Description: In coolant system such as NPR's, the coolant activity level increase with each succeeding pass through the reactor flux until a saturation limit is reached. Therefore, the activity level of the NPR coolant system will be much higher than that of the old reactor once-through systems. This report is the determination of the specific activities (disintegrations/cc{center dot}sec) of the various coolant impurities which determine the total activity of the coolant system. 10 refs., 13 figs., 2 tabs.
Date: February 16, 1961
Creator: Bitz, D.A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Plutonium Release Incident of November 20, 1959

Description: A nonnuclear explosion involving an evaporator occurred in a shielded cell in the Radiochemical Processing Pilot Plant at Oak Ridge National Laboratory on Nov. 20, 1959. Plutonium was released from the processing cell, probably as an aerosol of fine particles of plutonium oxide. It is probable that this evaporator system had accumulated -1100 g of nitric acid-insoluble plutonium in the steam stripper packing; the explosion released an estimated 150 g inside Cell 6, with about 135 g in the evapo… more
Date: February 16, 1961
Creator: King, L. J. & McCarley, W. T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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