CRLR - 603
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SURVEY OF RW AGENT AVAILABILITY FROM INDUSTRIAL POWER
REACTORS, 1960-1980 (C).
luther M. Hardin, 3 April 1956.
SECRET-RESTRICTED DATA, Special Report
A survey of the availability of the Zr79-Nb?? fraction of
the waste fission products from reactors used for the production of
1. Waste fission products resulting from the industrial reactor
program can serve as a source of RW agent material.
2.
The amount of Zr??-Nb?? resulting from nuclear reactors by
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commercial power in the period 1960 to 1980 is reported.
Production of
fission products at present AEC installations is not considered.
Conclusions
drawn from this work are as follows;
1965 will be several times that of the estimated present capability of AEC
production facilities, and by 1980, greater than in 1965 by an additional
factor of 20.
3.
It is predicted that there could exist an RW stockpile
large enough to contaminate fifteen 20-sq mi targets in 1965 and three
hundred thirty-five 20-sq mi targets in 1980 to a level of 5 megacuries/.
sq mi; and an RW production rate large enough to contaminate three additional
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targets per month in 1965 and 70 additional targets per month in 1980.
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The estimated quantity of Zr99-Nb?? to be produced by 1965
is sufficiently large to warrant the early resumption of a research and
development program geared to the development of a prototype agent-munition
delivery system in 1965.
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CRLR - 607
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APPLICATION OF RECIPROCITY TO GAMMA-RAY SHIELDING STUDIES (¥).
Ralph R. Fullwood and Donald R. Roberts, 28 March 1956.
UNCLASSIFIED, Special Report
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The attemation of gamma radiation by common structures is
studied on the basis of reciprocating source and detector.
The solution
for an infinite plane field of radiation outside the structures is
obtained by using the observation point as an influence function.
The
mathematics necessary to apply the reciprocity theory are developed.
The
attenuation of three buildings is obtained umder conventional and reciprocal
techniques.
Suggestions for the improvement of the agreement between the
two techniques are made and the advantages of the reciprocal technique are
discussed,
merit.
ATOM
REST
It is concluded that the reciprocal method appears to have
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