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ANS Student Conference 2025
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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
Wednesday, September 28, 2022|3:50–5:55PM PDT|Harbor
Session Chair:
Mathieu Dupont (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Robert E. Grove (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Thomas M. Miller (ORNL)
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Consistency Among the Results of the ASPIS Iron88, PCA Replica and PCA Benchmark Results
3:50–4:15PM PDT
Ivan A. Kodeli (UKAEA), Steven van der Marck (NRG)
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Attila Benchmark Calculations Using the SINBAD Database
4:15–4:40PM PDT
E. Heritage (Kinectrics), M. Smith (Kinectrics), G. Failla (Silver Fir Software), A. Cooper (Silver Fir Software)
Evaluation of the HCLL Experiment for SINBAD
4:40–5:05PM PDT
Pedro Ortego (SEA)
Presented by Robert E. Grove (ORNL)
Benchmarking of Stainless Steel Cube Neutron Leakage in Research Center Rez
5:05–5:30PM PDT
Michal Kostal (Research Center Rez), Zdeněk Matěj (Masaryk Univ.), Martin Schulc (Research Center Rez), Evžen Losa (Research Center Rez), Jan Šimon (Research Center Rez), Evžen Novák (Research Center Rez), František Cvachovec (Masaryk Univ.), Václav Přenosil (Masaryk Univ.), Filip Mravec (Masaryk Univ.), Tomáš Czakoj (Research Center Rez), Vojtěch Rypar (Research Center Rez), Andrej Trkov (IAEA Nuclear Data Section), Roberto Capote (IAEA Nuclear Data Section)
Health Physics Research Reactor Criticality Accident Alarm System Benchmark Overview
5:30–5:55PM PDT
Mathieu N. Dupont (ORNL)
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