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ANS designates Armour Research Foundation Reactor as Nuclear Historic Landmark
The American Nuclear Society presented the Illinois Institute of Technology with a plaque last week to officially designate the Armour Research Foundation Reactor a Nuclear Historic Landmark, following the Society’s decision to confer the status onto the reactor in September 2024.
Richard M. Bidwell, L. D. P. King, Walter R. Wykoff
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 1 | Number 6 | December 1956 | Pages 452-454
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE56-A18460
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Yields of nitrogen and hydrogen from several Water Boiler uranyl nitrate solutions were measured in the presence of excess oxygen gas. Nitrogen yield increased with increased uranyl nitrate concentration, but hydrogen yield decreased. The hydrogen yields agreed with those obtained by different techniques at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The nitrogen yield for a uranyl nitrate solution 1.0 M in nitrate is 0.004 molecule N2 per 100 ev.