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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
Thursday, September 29, 2022|3:50–5:55PM PDT|Seaport
Session Chair:
Odile Petit (Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission)
Alternate Chair:
Yi-Kang Lee (CEA)
Session Organizer:
Thomas M. Miller (ORNL)
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Coupling Fixed-Sources Criticality and AMS Shielding Modes within TRIPOLI-4® Code
3:50–4:15PM PDT
Odile Petit (CEA), Yannick Peneliau (CEA)
Paper
Methodology for Phase Space File Computational Generation for Monte Carlo Simulations at the Exit of a Medical Linear Accelerator
4:15–4:40PM PDT
S. Oliver (Univ. Politècnica de València), B. Juste (Univ. Politècnica de València), R. Miró (Univ. Politècnica de València), G. Verdu (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia)
Weight Values for MCNP Calculations Based on Recursive Monte-Carlo Method
4:40–5:05PM PDT
Pratibha Yadav (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf), Reuven Rachamin (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf), Jörg Konheiser (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
Development of Neutron Shielding Evaluation Technique in a Carbon Ion Therapy Facility Based on Parameterized Source Term: A Monte Carlo Study
5:05–5:30PM PDT
Bo-Wi Cheon (Yonsei Univ.), Wook-Geun Shin (Massachusetts General Hospital), Soo Min Lee (Yonsei Univ.), Hyoujun Park (Yonsei Univ.), Hyungjoo Choi (Yonsei Univ.), Saerom Sung (Yonsei Univ.), Seongmoon Jung (Seoul Nat'l Univ. Hospital), Chul Hee Min (Yonsei Univ.)
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