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Isotopes & Radiation
Members are devoted to applying nuclear science and engineering technologies involving isotopes, radiation applications, and associated equipment in scientific research, development, and industrial processes. Their interests lie primarily in education, industrial uses, biology, medicine, and health physics. Division committees include Analytical Applications of Isotopes and Radiation, Biology and Medicine, Radiation Applications, Radiation Sources and Detection, and Thermal Power Sources.
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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.”
Technical Session
Thursday, September 29, 2022|1:15–3:20PM PDT|Seaport
Session Chair:
Ethan A. Asano (Georgia Tech)
Alternate Chair:
Ahmad Ibrahim (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Thomas M Miller (ORNL)
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Decay Dose Shielding Analysis with Hybrid Unstructured Mesh/Constructive Solid Geometry Monte Carlo Calculation and ADVANTG Acceleration
1:15–1:40PM PDT
Ahmad Ibrahim (ORNL), Tucker McClanahan (ORNL), Igor Remec (ORNL)
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Efficiency Comparison of Radiation Transport Variance Reduction Methods for Wide-Area Environmental Contamination Assay Applications
1:40–2:05PM PDT
E. Asano (Georgia Tech), S. Dewji (Georgia Tech)
An Overview of the Capabilities and Recent Developments of the FLUKA Particle Transport Code
2:05–2:30PM PDT
F. Salvat-Pujol (European Org. for Nuclear Research), V. Vlachoudis (European Org. for Nuclear Research)
Monte Carlo Delta Tracking with Next-Event Estimators
2:30–2:55PM PDT
Timothy P. Burke (LANL)
Improved Heavy Ion Inelastic Reaction Simulation of PHITS by JQMD2.1
2:55–3:20PM PDT
Tatsuhiko Ogawa (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Shintaro Hashimoto (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Tatsuhiko Sato (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Koji Niita (Research Org. for Information Science and Technology)
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