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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
Wednesday, October 6, 2021|3:30–5:10PM EDT
Session Chair:
Agustin Abarca (NC State Univ.)
Session Organizer:
Shawn D. Pautz (Sandia National Laboratory)
Student Producer:
Aaron Tamashiro (Oregon State Univ.)
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Status of the OECD/NEA TVA Watts Bar 1 Benchmark and Monte Carlo Modeling of the "Zero Power Physics Test" Exercise
3:30–3:55PM EDT
T. Albagami (NC State Univ.), P. Rouxelin (NC State Univ.), A. Abarca (NC State Univ.), M. Avramova (NC State Univ.), K. Ivanov (NC State Univ.)
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Verification of MPACT and VERA-CS for the APR1400 Benchmark
3:55–4:20PM EDT
Kaitlyn Barr (Univ. of Michigan), Sooyoung Choi (Univ. of Michigan), Brendan Kochunas (Univ. of Michigan)
Preliminary Results of the NEA FHR Benchmark Phase I-A and I-B (Fuel Element 2-D Benchmark)
4:20–4:45PM EDT
B. Petrovic (Georgia Institute of Technology), K. Ramey (Georgia Institute of Technology), I. Hill (OECD/Nuclear Energy Agency), E. Losa (Research Centre Rez), M. Elsawi (PNNL), Z. Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), C. Lu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), J. Gonzalez (McMaster Univ.), D. Novog (McMaster Univ.), G. Chee (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), K. Huff (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), M. Margulis (Univ. of Cambridge), N. Read (Univ. of Cambridge), E. Shwageraus (Univ. of Cambridge)
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