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PHYSICS RESEARCH QUARTERLY REPORT, APRIL-JUNE 1962

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:4774076
Performance tests were carried out on a circuit designed to distinguish between recoil electrons and recoil protons, due to incident photons and neutrons, respectively, in a hy'drogenous scintillator. The activities produced in lutetium foils by irradiation were found to be a function of thickness. Data are presented for correction of lutetium activity measurements from thick foils to that for thin foils. Subcritical experiments with 1.82 wt% Pu--Al rods in light water were conducted. A series of criticality experiments were begun with plutonium--nitrate solutions in a 14-in. diameter stainless steel sphere fully reflected with water. Monte Carlo calculations were made of the limiting critical concentration of Pu/sup 239/ and U/sup 235/ in aqueous solutions. (M.C.G.)
Research Organization:
General Electric Co. Hanford Atomic Products Operation, Richland, Wash.
DOE Contract Number:
AT(45-1)-1350
NSA Number:
NSA-16-033580
OSTI ID:
4774076
Report Number(s):
HW-74190
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English