NNES

Serie Nacional de Energía Nuclear

From the Preface to the series:

"The name Manhattan Project was assigned by the Corps of Engineers, War Department, to the far-flung scientific and engineering activities which had as their objective the utilization of atomic energy for military purposes. In the attainment of this objective, there were many developments in scientific and technical fields which are of general interest. The National Nuclear Energy Series (Manhattan Project Technical Section) is a record of these scientific and technical contributions, as well as of the developments in these fields which are being sponsored by the Atomic Energy Commission.

The National Nuclear Energy Series, when completed, is expected to consist of approximately 100 volumes. These will be grouped into ten divisions, as follows:

Division I — Electromagnetic Separation Project

Division II — Gaseous Diffusion Project

Division III — Special Separations Project

Division IV — Plutonium Project

Division V — Los Alamos Project

Division VI — University of Rochester Project

Division VII — Materials Procurement Project

Division VIII — Manhattan Project

Division IX — Thermal Diffusion Project

Division X — Centrifuge Project

Soon after the close of the war the Manhattan Project was able to give its attention to the preparation of a complete record of the research work accomplished under Project contracts. Writing programs were authorized at all laboratories, with the object of obtaining complete coverage of Project results. Each major installation was requested to designate one or more representatives to make up a committee, which was called first the Manhattan Project Editorial Advisory Board and later simply the Project Editorial Advisory Board. This group was planned to coordinate the writing programs at all the installations and to act as an advisory group in all matters affecting the Project-wide writing program.

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Many difficulties were involved in preparing a unified account of Atomic Energy Project work. For example, the Project Editorial Advisory Board was the first committee ever organized with representatives from every major installation of the Atomic Energy Project. Compartmentation for security was so rigorous during the war that it had been considered necessary to allow a certain amount of duplication of effort rather than to permit unrestricted circulation of research information between certain installations. As a result, the writing programs of different installations inevitably overlapped markedly in many scientific fields. The Editorial Advisory Board has exerted itself to reduce duplication in so far as possible and to eliminate discrepancies in factual data included in the volumes of the NNES. In particular, unified Project-wide volumes have been prepared on Uranium Chemistry and on the Analysis of Project Materials. Nevertheless, the reader will find many instances of differences in results or conclusions on similar subject matter prepared by different authors. This has not seemed wholly undesirable for several reasons. First of all, such divergencies are not unnatural and stimulate investigation. Second, promptness of publication has seemed more important than the removal of all discrepancies. Finally, many Project scientists completed their contributions some time ago and have become engrossed in other activities so that their time has not been available for a detailed review of their work in relation to similar work done at other installations.

The completion of the various individual volumes of the series has also been beset with difficulties. Many of the key authors and editors have had important responsibilities in planning the future of atomic energy research. Under these circumstances, the completion of this technical series has been delayed longer than its editors wished. The volumes are being released in their present form in the interest of presenting the material as promptly as possible to those who can make use of it.

As many as possible of the volumes have been declassified for general distribution. Reproduction of this classified edition has been approved only for limited circulation within the Atomic Energy Project, and circulation of this edition must be closely limited to facilities and personnel definitely associated with work done for the Atomic Energy Commission. The negatives from which the limited edition is prepared will be preserved and will be available for publication of a public edition at such time as such action is determined to be consistent with the national security.

The Editorial Advisory Board"

Division Title	Volume Title	Editor(s)	Place	Publisher	Year
Division I - Electromagnetic Project	Volume 1 - Vacuum Equipment and Techniques	Guthrie, A. and Wakerling, R. K., Eds.	Oak Ridge	USEAC Technical Information Service	1951
Division I - Electromagnetic Project	Volume 12 - Chemical Processing Equipment: Electromagnetic Separation Process	Akin, G. A., Kackenmaster, H. P., Schrader, R. J., Strohecker, J. W., and Tate, R. E., Eds.	Oak Ridge	USEAC Technical Information Service	1951
Division I - Electromagnetic Project	Volume 5 - The Characteristics of Electrical Discharges in Magnetic Fields	Guthrie, A. and Wakerling, R. K., Eds.	Oak Ridge	USEAC Technical Information Service	1951
Division I - Electromagnetic Project	Volume 7 - Separation of Isotopes in Calutron Units	Savage, H. Wesley, Ed.	Oak Ridge	USEAC Technical Information Service	1951
Division II - Gaseous Diffusion Project	Volume 16 - Engineering Development in the Gaseous Diffusion Process	Benedict, Manson and Williams, Clarke, Eds.	New York	McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
Division III - Special Separations Project	Volume 1B - The Theory of Isotope Separation as Applied to the Large-scale Production of U235	Cohen, Karl and Murphy, George M., Eds.	New York	McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
Division III - Special Separations Project	Volume 2 - Spectroscopic Properties of Uranium Compounds	Dieke, G. H. and Duncan, A. B. F., Eds.	New York	McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
Division III - Special Separations Project	Volume A - Physical Properties and Analysis of Heavy Water	Kirshenbaum, Isidor, Murphy, George M., and Urey, Harold C., Eds.	New York	McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
Division III - Special Separations Project	Volume 4C - Bibliography of Research on Heavy Hydrogen Compounds	Kimball, Alice H., Urey, Harold C., and Kirshenbaum, Isidor, Eds.	New York	McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
Division IV - Plutonium Project	Volume 14B - The Transuranium Elements: Research Papers	Seaborg, Glenn T., Katz, Joseph J., and Manning, Winston M., Eds.	New York	McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
Division IV - Plutonium Project	Volume 19B - The Chemistry and Metallurgy of Miscellaneous Materials: Thermodynamics	Quill, Laurence L., Ed.	New York	McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
Division IV - Plutonium Project	Volume 20 - Industrial Medicine of the Plutonium Project: Survey and Collected Papers	Stone Robert S., Ed.	New York	McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
Division IV - Plutonium Project	Volume 22E - Biological Effects of External Beta Radiation	Zirkle, Raymond E., Ed.	New York	McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
Division IV - Plutonium Project	Volume 22I - Histopathology of Irradiation from External and Internal Sources	Bloom, William, Ed.	New York	McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
Division IV - Plutonium Project	Volume 23 - Toxicology of Uranium: Survey and Collected Papers	Tannenbaum, Albert, Ed.	New York	McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.	1951
Division IV - Plutonium Project	Volume 8 - Optical Instrumentation	Monk, S. George and McCorkle, W. H., Eds.	New York	McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
Division IV - Plutonium Project	Volume 9 - Radiochemical Studies: The Fission Products	Coryell, Charles D. and Sugarman, Nathan, Eds.	New York	McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
Division V - Los Alamos Project	Volume 1 - Electronics: Experimental Techniques	Elmore, William C. and Sands, Matthew, Eds.	New York	McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
Division V - Los Alamos Project	Volume 2 - Ionization Chambers and Counters: Experimental Techniques	Rossi, Bruno B. and Staub, Hans H., Eds.	New York	McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
Division V - Los Alamos Project	Volume 3 - Miscellaneous Physical and Chemical Techniques of the Los Alamos Project	Graves, Alvin C. and Froman, Darol K., Eds.	New York	McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
Division VI - University of Rochester Project	Volume 1 - Pharmacology and Toxicology of Uranium Compounds	Voegtlin, Carl and Hodge, Harold C., Eds.	New York	McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
Division VI - University of Rochester Project	Volume 3 - Biological Studies with Polonium, Radium, and Plutonium	Fink, Robert M., Ed.	New York	McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
Division VII - Materials Procurement Project	Volume 1 - Preparation, Properties, and Technology of Fluorine and Organic Fluoro Compounds	Slesser, Charles and Schram, Stuart R., Eds.	New York	McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
Division VIII- Manhattan Project	Volume 1 - Analytical Chemistry of the Manhattan Project	Rodden, C. J., Furman, N. H., Huffman, E. H., Price, T. D., Quill, L. L., Watters, J. I., Petretic, G. J., and Templeton, D. H., Eds.	New York	McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
Division VIII - Manhattan Project	Volume 5 - The Chemistry of Uranium. Part I. The Element, Its Binary and Related Compounds	Katz, Joseph J. and Rabinowitch Eugene, Eds.	New York	McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.