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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
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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.”
Technical Session
Tuesday, September 27, 2022|1:15–3:20PM PDT|Seaport
Session Chair:
Andrew Rosenstrom (Georgia Tech)
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Alternate Chair:
Sandra Bogetic (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
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Novel Bremsstrahlung Converter Designs for Ultra High Dose Rate Radiotherapy Systems
1:15–1:40PM PDT
Andrew Rosenstrom (Georgia Tech), Mario Santana Leitner (SLAC), Sayed Rokni (SLAC), Shaheen Dewji (Georgia Tech), Billy W. Loo Jr. (Stanford Univ.)
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MLEM Neutron Spectra Unfolding for Radiotherapy Photon Beams Using Bonner Sphere Spectrometer: A Simulation Study.
1:40–2:05PM PDT
S. Oliver (Univ. Politècnica de València), S. Morató (Univ. Politècnica de València), B. Juste (Univ. Politècnica de València), R. Miró (Univ. Politècnica de València), G. Verdu (Univ. Politècnica de València), N. Tejedor (Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe de València), J. Pérez-Calatayud (Unidad Mixta de Investigación en Radiofísica e Instrumentación Nuclear en Medicina)
Monte Carlo Calculations in Different Tumor Phenotypes for Radiopharmaceutical Therapy Using Auger Electron Emitting Radionuclides
2:05–2:30PM PDT
Jorge Borbinha (Instituto Superior Técnico), Durval Costa (Fundação Champalimaud), Paulo Ferreira (Fundação Champalimaud), Pedro Vaz (Instituto Superior Técnico), Salvatore D. Maria (Instituto Superior Técnico)
Development of Improved Dosimetry Standards for FLASH Radiotherapy: The UHDpulse Project
2:30–2:55PM PDT
A. Cimmino (ELI Beamlines), A. Schüller (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt), S. Heinrich (Institut Curie), C. Fouillade (Institut Curie), A. Subiel (National Physical Laboratory), L. De Marzi (Institut Curie), F. Romano (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), P. Peier (Eidgenössisches Institut für Metrologie), M. Trachsel (Eidgenössisches Institut für Metrologie), C. Fleta (Centro Nacional de Microelectronica), R. Kranzer (Physikalisch-Technische Werkstaetten-Freiburg), M. Caresana (Politecnico di Milano), S. Salvador (Normandie Univ.), S. Busold (Varian Medical Systems), A. Schönfeld (Sun Nuclear Corp.), M. McEwen (National Research Council of Canada), F. Gomez (Univ. Santiago de Compostela), J. Šolc (Czech Metrology Institute), C. Bailat (Centre Hospitalier Univ. Vaudois), J. Jakubek (ADVACAM), J. Pawelke (Technische Univ. Dresden), M. Borghesi (Queen's Univ. Belfast), R-P. Kapsch (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt), A. Knyziak (Central Office of Measures), V. Olšovcová (ELI Beamlines), C. Kottler (Eidgenössisches Institut für Metrologie), D. Poppinga (Physikalisch-Technische Werkstaetten-Freiburg), I. Ambrožová (Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS), C-S. Schmitzer (EBG MedAustron), S. Rossomme (IBA Dosimetry), M-C. Vozenin (Centre Hospitalier Univ. Vaudois)
External Dose Coefficients: Then, Now, and In the Future
2:55–3:20PM PDT
Nolan Hertel (Georgia Institute of Technology)
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