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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
Tuesday, August 22, 2023|3:30–5:10PM EDT|Columbia 1
Session Chair:
Jean-Marie Le Corre
Alternate Chair:
Yue Jin
Session Organizer:
Xiaodong Sun
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Reflood Thermal-Hydraulics Testing Using the NRC-PSU Rod Bundle Heat Transfer (RBHT) Test Facility
3:30–3:50PM EDT
Brian R. Lowery (Penn State), Molly K. Hanson (Penn State), Grant R. Garrett (Penn State), Douglas J. Miller (Penn State), Turki Almudhhi (Penn State), Fan-Bill Cheung (Penn State), Stephen M. Bajorek (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Kirk Tien (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Chris L. Hoxie (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
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Towards a Better Understanding of Reflood Thermal-Hydraulics: A Summary of the OECD/NEA RBHT Project
3:50–4:10PM EDT
Stephen M. Bajorek (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Brian Lowery (Penn State), Fan-Bill Cheung (Penn State), Alessandro Del Ferraro (NINE), Marco Cherubini (NINE), Alessandro Petruzzi (NINE), Jinzhao Zhang (Tractebel Engineering), Martina Adorni (OECD/NEA)
METERO-V and PRIUS Experimental Programs: Complementary Separate Effects Tests for Core Mixing Validation
4:10–4:30PM EDT
Philippe Fillion (CEA), Seok Kim (KAERI), Clément Melin (CEA), Gilles Bernard-Michel (CEA), Benjamin Cariteau (CEA), Kyoung-Ho Kang (KAERI)
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