DECLASSIFIED Hy 31734

. , . ._--- ,' -I Operated for the Atomic Energy commission kY the Oeneral Electric Company under Contract # W-31-109q-S2 THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN SCANNED THIS DOCUMENT 1s puBLlcLy WFk A 'J A I L A 8 L E AND IS STORED ON THE OPTICAL DISK DRIVE I I I Date I I COPY- DISTRIBUTION 1 F. K. McCune - Tellow Copy 2 Km Hm udm 3 & Id. B. Johnson 5 6 7-8 Atomic kergy Co~dssion Hanford Operation8 Office Attention8 DmF. %an, Manager 9 - AtopdC bmCOdSSi~ Word Qmrations Office Attentionr J. J. Joyce 10 . Atomic Energy Commission Forr B. PIm Fry, AEC, Washington 700 Pile 300 File DECLASSIFIED Hy 31734 -0fmlmae 0 0 0 0 . 0 C-ladC-2 Per~-lMstribUt%a~r 0 0 0 0 0 D-1 l¶anufacturingDapmnt .................... E-1 through E-5 mthly Operptine R0~a2.t 0 0 0 Ea01 through Ea-7 &tal Pmparatlon Section ................. Eb-1 through Eb-8 Reactor Section ...................... Ec-1 through Ec-& mtiOMSection 0 0 0. 0 Ed01 through Ed-17 Eugineering Dspartment .......... ............F-lthroughF-S Wb-ring stration. ..................Pa4 and Fa-2 me Technology- ...................... Fb-1 through Fb-a S.paraticw8 Technology .................. Fc-1 through Fc-22 . Applied Reaearch ..................... Fd-1 through Fd-17 Fuel Twhnology ......................Fe-1 through Fe-13 h8-0 0 0 rn 0 Ff-2throughFf-15 RoJeat ......................... Fg-2 through Fg-19 Employee and Public Relations Department ............ El through G-& UuplayeeBelations. ................... Qa-1 through Fa=* Public Belatiom. .................... ob-1 through Ob-9 DnionRelations ..................... OC-1 through OCA Salary Administration ................... ....... Gd-1 TechnicalRecruiting ...................... Ge-1 and Ge-2 HealthandSafety.. ................... of-1 through Gf-IL Community Operations ................... Gg-1 through Gg-33 CommtlnityaealEStats .................. Gh-1 through Gh-a Radiological Sciences Department ................ H-1 through H-16 Financial Dep-d 0 .. 1-1 through 1-24 Plant Auxiliary Operations l)epaz%mnt Plant Protection Section ................. Ja-1 through Ja-28 PurCbSiw adStoms Section 0 0 0 . 0 Jb-1 through Jb-9 Transpartation Section ...................Jc-1 through Jc-4 Electrical Distribution and Telephone Section .......Jd-1 through Jd-5 Operations balysis Section ............... Je-2 through Je-19 DECLASSIFIED production oparatians In the Metal Praparation Section production of nodcharge mpterial for the month y~g96 parcant of forecatst. Lower Wmn forecasted production \1p9 due principally to canrarting sntimly to winch slug production toward the end of the month. The overall c- seld Lor April ~lps83.7 percent. The total rsrctor input plutonium production was 102.9 percent of the official forucast and the output upd 112.3 percent of forecast. P-10 production uas Ii Of LO-* A tatrl of 2L rUptUrW 0Cc-d dhgbril including 20 noduranium slugs, OM "P slug, twa "E? slues, and one 10-66 piece. On 4d 28, Ute Perricr sulfate water troatxwnt prwsss uas changed to the alum- activated silica co8gul&t proteas at B Reactor. All areas are nay using alum- activated silica in the preparation of process uater. The first irradiated J lppterial of the present J-N program was shipped offsite on April 12. The Redox production vas l2b percent of forecast for the month. l" production was 167 percent of the official forecast. lJO3 facility production YM 150 percent of forecast. dll coamnitments for 23b-5 production uem Et uith the exception of un- fabricated buttons vhich mre 99 percent achieved. eetring Technolorn Design of the Hot Sduorka Conversion, U-93-D uas ad-ed to 100 percent campletion during 4rU. Thia does not include the design of the waste self-con- centrator, which upd .dvpnced to 75 pement completion. Detail design of the 300 Area Expansion, CA-D, flos advancad to 90 percent completion. Overall design on Co-558, Reactor Plant Modipicatian for Ipcreosed Production, was advanced to 15-6 percent completion. hranty-e info&, five Claas I and one Class XI radiation incidents were recorded. Personnel and Se~dces No major injuries were mported in Agril. Three sub-major injuries uere repmted. mor injuries increased from 313 to 387. The employee separation rate increased from .52 percent for March to .67 percad for April. On April 1s a bill was presented to Congress for disposal of federally-owned properties at mchland, and studies are being made of the proposed $egislation. i As of April 30 there we= 267 housing applications pending. '. General mer, kmlc Products Division ............F. K. MccUne General mger, WordAtomic Products Operation .......Y. E. Johnson Counsel ............................ .G.C.Butler Muuge+,Finmce ....................... .Dol¶. Johnson I kUgc#r, $mployee and hblic Belatione ............. C. N. Gross Director, BadiolOgical Sciences .................H. M. Parker & Manager, Engineering ....................... A. B. Greninger Manager, IYarmfactu.rtng ..................... J. E. Maider Manager, Plant Auxiliary Operations ..............H. D. Mddel DECLASSIFIED 17 7k 7t msien 17k u9 137 prohe* 268 170 191 Techsical Section 0-M 10 2 2 rrpplied Reaiearah 122 52 55 sepurdion8 ?&logy la 39 38 p+le Techaology 1Cn 66 63 Fuel Technology 71 71 60 Advance Technology u J 1 ~ufpcturingDeparrrplbn t General =rs 7 7 €&u&or 245 1 077 1063 sepe3.rtions a 12as 1 228 Metal prrpurtiorr 96 rs9 ws mant ope~UM Dew c 0eXlOZ-d. 1 1 1 Eltc. Dist. & Telspbom 30 139 139 '&amporktiLon u wr2 4&3 pprchaaing at Stoma 52 226 a22 mant ProtectLon General 1 1 1 Pa-1 & secwity 59 wr2 Lt9 sirfety & h 30 107 108 Office Sendces 20 281 281 Mndniak?atfoa Main. serdce y3 52 53 Operations hlalmi8. Iro 65 67 Fxnancial Dep€K?tment Financial General 6 k 2 Costs & Budge- a7 101 98 General & Personnel Accounting 18 u1 U8 Propellt;y Accotmtdng 15 40 40 Audits & procedares 18 3 3 SF pcccountability 5 22 2%e) Employee & Public Relations Dept. Community General - - 1 ConxnuniQ Operations 69 149 167 Red &tat6 Services 22 164 162 hdth & safety SL a3 a4 Management 7 3 2 Salary &&histration 5 6 5 Employee Belatione a 43 4 Public Relations L 22 P Union Relations 8 8 8 Technical Personnel Staff \ k 7 7 Others m 46 k7 (a- Included in Mministratiw Practices Department at 3/31/54. In addition nine other employees included above as Financial Department were in Mdnistrative kactices Department at 3/31/54. Gl 3 u3 ld 61 60 37 3s z 1 , C-2 . -I=' ' 'I' 1 i u .- __... .). 1 .. i , .. .. , , -, . .* _.... ., -.. ,* ... -, ..* *.. The net probetian of acrceptabla slugs was 241 tons whlch was 96 percent of the officisl forecast. Ihe lavler than foreca6ted prodnctian ass due principally to converting extirely to four-inch slug prodnetion tovard the end of the morrth. Bm lover of four-inch material combinad vlth the low yields resulted in mdnced production rates. A total of 223 tapa was canned as elght-inch slugs aud the mmmhing 18 tons as four-inch meterial- 'Ehe aanning yields were 85.3 percent and 65 percent, respectidy. me over4 canning field was 83.7 percent- The inprorcrent in the elgh%-iikh canning field resulted from a reduetion in the poor bond tspe rejeats. Ima four-inch Seld on the other hand was adversely affected by lnaxmwed poor bond typa rejeete vhich occurred in large PlIlljbex-8 with the defeote &Owlng as d pinholes in the aide of the veld. The cause has not yet been &terndned, '&e canning of enriched uranium alloy fuel dugs contirmed with 9,582 slugs being cold canned vith a field of 75 percent. A total of ll,lOO lithium alloy target slugs was cold canned with a yield of 79 percent, A canuhg yield of 56 percent vas realized on the hot press canning of 391 ex- truded fuel slugs dethe month, Poor banding vas the major reject cause. Ihe tatd reactor hput plutanitnn production was 102.9 percent of the official forecast, and the outppt was U,3percent of forecast. The aver-dl reactor operating efficiency for the month was 78.8 percent. 'Ihe low operating efficiency was due principally to the outages associated with 24 ruptured slugs. Ihe established nmximm operating levels (excluding enrichment burnout) were increased a total of 64 MU dnring Ape including 15 at the B Reactor, 25 (PU and P-10) at the DR Reactor and 24 at the H Reactor. At the B Reactor the increase was attributed to improved flattening; at the DR Reactor to a revision of exit water temperature permissible limits (now based on average of highest ten tubes rather than the highest individual tube temperature); at the H Reactor to increased helium concentrations up to 50 percent as permitted by the production test on irrsdiation of thorium and U-235 alloy slugs for U-233 production. me program for discharging the normal irradiated uranium metal, at two concentrations as originally planned, continued with a total of 94 tons of metal being dis- charged at the low and 189 tons at the higher concentrations. Ihe P-10 prog~amat DE Reactor continued dralng 4- vith the charging of an sdditional 327 J-B tubes as part of the second P-10 irradfstion cycle. The P-10 program at C Reactor contipuhd drrring april without incidcat, and wlthout the cbargine of any Sdditionsl tubes. 'Ihe Irradiation of 12 J-Q (thorium) tubes, charged at H Reactor in March on a production test basis to Investigate the feasibility of large scale thorium inadistian, contirmed vith no difficulties during April. A t&UJ Of 24 m-8 OC-d @d mcludirrg 2O 90- tpsniUm Slugs, one J slug, two (enriched uxmimn) slugs a& one lo66 (Mum) piece. Of the umaium pieces, tbirtear were eight-inch and seven the fora-inch materid. A total of 470 h0f;trS of uutage thm resulted from the *urea.

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