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Chemical Processing Department Monthly Report: September 1963

Description: This report, from the Chemical Processing Department at HAPO for September 1963, discusses the following: Production operation; Purex and Redox operation; Finished products operation; maintenance; Financial operations, facilities engineering; research; employee relations; weapons manufacturing operation; and power and crafts operation.
Date: October 21, 1963
Creator: Hanford Atomic Products Operation. Chemical Processing Department.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Production of special nuclear materials in N-Reactor

Description: In the summer of 1962, a brief scoping study of the N-Reactor`s capability as a producer of tritium concurrently with plutonium and steam was completed and documented. This study indicated that there might be considerable incentive in pursuing the development of a multi-product mode of operation of the N-Reactor. Early in 1963 reports presented the preliminary production and cost data, and brief discussions of the potential technical problems which mav arise in a multi-product mode of operation… more
Date: October 21, 1963
Creator: Condotta, D. L. & Pierick, E. G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Script: TB seals]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Women of Rotary who met at the Dallas TB Association to stuff Christmas Seals into envelopes.
Date: October 21, 1963
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Fire]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about three children who were burned in a fire at their home.
Date: October 21, 1963
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Congressman Rogers]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about congressman Walter Rogers, who comes to speak at the Cabana Motel about some concerns he has.
Date: October 21, 1963
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Hope]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Bob Hope doing a book signing at Dallas' Neiman Marcus.
Date: October 21, 1963
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Scientists]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a breakfast at the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth to honor three science students from the Fort Worth area who were invited to the National Youth Conference on the Atom in Chicago.
Date: October 21, 1963
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Army move]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about "Operation Big Lift": the biggest long-range air lift of military personnel in history, taking 16,000 troops from Fort Hood to Germany and France.
Date: October 21, 1963
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Love Field ruling]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the construction of the parallel runaway at Lovefield that will not be deterred bu the ruling.
Date: October 21, 1963
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Pen pals]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a wife who began a pen pal correspondence with a young English girl whom she'll get to meet in person after thirteen years.
Date: October 21, 1963
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Specifications and Procedures Used in Manufacturing U$sub 3$O$sub 8$- Aluminum Dispersion Fuel Elements for Core I of the Puerto Rico Research Reactor

Description: A thin plate-type element containing a dispersion of 20% enriched U/sub 3/O/sub 8/ was developed and successfully used in the 5-Mw pool-type research reactor at the Puerto Rico Nuclear Center. The underlying criteria that guided the design are presented. The technological factors, such as compatibility, corrosion resistance, and irradiation behavior, which led to the selection of U/ sub 3/O/sub 8/ as the fissile compound and aluminum as the cladding and matrix material, are reviewed. The fabric… more
Date: October 21, 1963
Creator: Kucera, W. J.; Leitten, C. F. Jr. & Beaver, R. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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EVALUATION OF ULTIMATE DISPOSAL METHODS FOR LIQUID AND SOLID RADIOACTIVE WASTES. PART III. INTERIM STORAGE OF SOLIDIFIED WASTES

Description: The costs of interim storage of solidified Purex and Thorex wastes in water-filled canals were estimated as the third part of a study to evaluate, from the standpoint of econoNonemics and hazards, the various steps leading to and including the permanent disposal of highly radioactive liquid and solid wastes. The wastes were assumed to have been solidified following their production in a plant proccessed 1500 metric tons per year of uranium converter fuel it a burnup of 10,000 Mwd/ton and 270 to… more
Date: October 21, 1963
Creator: Blomeke, J O; Perona, J J; Weeren, H O & Bradshaw, T L
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Specifications and Procedures Used in Manufacturing U₃O₈-Aluminum Dispersion Fuel Elements for Core I of the Puerto Rico Research Reactor

Description: Report containing the description and design of U₃O₈-Aluminum Dispersion Fuel Elements for Core I of the Puerto Rico Research Reactor. Topics include the requirements of core materials, materials specifications, manufacturing procedures, and shipping preparation.
Date: October 21, 1963
Creator: Kucera, W. J.; Leitten, C. F., Jr. & Beaver, R. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Cosmic Rays From Large Supernovae

Description: The theory of the hydrodynamic origin of cosmic rays proposed by Johnson and the author (Colgate) has developed to the point where the final evolution of a star to the supernova instability and subsequent explosion can be described with sufficient detail such that cosmic rays with appropriate intensity, composition, and spectrum to account for observations are a logical and necessary result. In the first publication it was pointed out that nuclei in the surface of the star may acquire many orde… more
Date: October 21, 1963
Creator: Colgate, S. A. & White, R. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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