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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
Wednesday, October 6, 2021|1:20–2:10PM EDT
Session Chairs:
Imre Pázsit (Chalmers University of Technology)
Anil K. Prinja (Univ. of New Mexico)
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Student Producer:
Vincent Novellino (NC State Univ.)
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New Paradigm in Neutron Fluctuation Analysis: Extracting the Statistics of Discrete Detection Events from Time-Resolved Signals of Fission Chambers
1:20–1:45PM EDT
Lajos Nagy (Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics), Yasunori Kitamura (Kyoto Univ.), Imre Pázsit (Chalmers Univ. of Technology), Mate Szieberth (Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics)
Paper
Experimental Demonstration of Neutron Fluctuation Analysis Based on the Continuous Signal of Fission Chambers: Neutron Multiplicity and Reactor Noise Measurements
1:45–2:10PM EDT
M. Szieberth (Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics), L. Nagy (Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics), G. Klujber (Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics), Y. Kitamura (Kyoto Univ.), T. Misawa (Kyoto Univ.), I. Barth (Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics), I. Pázsit (Chalmers Univ. of Technology)
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