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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|Experimental Thermal Hydraulics
Monday, August 21, 2023|3:30–5:10PM EDT|Gunston East/West
Session Chair:
Jun Wang (TerraPower)
Alternate Chair:
Minghui Chen
Session Organizer:
Xiaodong Sun
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Performance Analysis of Water Heat Pipe for Application of the Passive Cooling System in Nuclear Power Plants
3:30–3:50PM EDT
Ye Yeong Park (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology), In Cheol Bang (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology)
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Experimental Investigation of Heat Pipe Flow Dynamics and Performance
3:50–4:10PM EDT
Ilyas Yilgor (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Shanbin Shi (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Experimental Study on the Start-up of the Annular Wick Type Heat Pipe Using Fiber Optical Temperature Measurement Technique
4:10–4:30PM EDT
Joseph Seo (TAMU), Hansol Kim (TAMU), Yassin A. Hassan (TAMU)
Experimental Study on the Characteristics of Thermal Interaction Between Liquid Metal with Water
4:30–4:50PM EDT
Lin Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.), Chang Deng (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.), Xiaojing Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.)
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