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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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General Kenneth Nichols and the Manhattan Project
Nichols
The Oak Ridger has published the latest in a series of articles about General Kenneth D. Nichols, the Manhattan Project, and the 1954 Atomic Energy Act. The series has been produced by Nichols’ grandniece Barbara Rogers Scollin and Oak Ridge (Tenn.) city historian David Ray Smith. Gen. Nichols (1907–2000) was the district engineer for the Manhattan Engineer District during the Manhattan Project.
As Smith and Scollin explain, Nichols “had supervision of the research and development connected with, and the design, construction, and operation of, all plants required to produce plutonium-239 and uranium-235, including the construction of the towns of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Richland, Washington. The responsibility of his position was massive as he oversaw a workforce of both military and civilian personnel of approximately 125,000; his Oak Ridge office became the center of the wartime atomic energy’s activities.”
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9:30–11:10AM EST
Ossabaw
Session Chair: Michael Marler|Alternate Chair: Billy Wilson
Talbot
Session Chair: Bert Barnes|Alternate Chair: Charles Lease
Conference 2/3
Session Chair: Douglas Batche|Alternate Chair: Jeff Walton
1:00–2:40PM EST
Session Chair: Thomas S. Dean
Session Chair: Russ Coon|Alternate Chair: Dan Randolph
Session Chair: Patrick J. Berry
3:20–5:00PM EST
Panel|Amelia 3/4
Session Chair: Gregg Ludlam|Alternate Chair: Patrick J. Berry
8:00–9:40AM EST
Session Chair: Ray Dean|Alternate Chair: Lisa Marshall
Session Chair: Juan Cortez|Alternate Chair: Jim Caery
10:10–11:50AM EST
Session Chair: Gerry Hildebrandt|Alternate Chair: Michael Marler
Session Chair: Michael Johnson|Alternate Chair: Bert Barnes
1:10–2:50PM EST
Session Chair: Lisa Marshall|Alternate Chair: Douglas Batche
Session Chair: Jim Caery|Alternate Chair: Tom Dean
Session Chair: Alan Lowe|Alternate Chair: Russ Coon
Session Chair: Dan Randolph|Alternate Chair: Gregg Ludlam
Session Chair: Dave Helling|Alternate Chair: Juan Cortez
Session Chair: Jeff Walton|Alternate Chair: Ray Dean
10:00–11:40AM EST
Session Chair: Charles Lease|Alternate Chair: Gerry Hildebrandt
Session Chair: Billy Wilson|Alternate Chair: Michael Johnson
