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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
Wednesday, August 23, 2023|10:45AM–12:25PM EDT|Cardozo
Session Chair:
Guanyu Su (UCB)
Session Organizer:
Bao-Wen Yang (DEDQ)
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Experimental Investigations of Material-Conjugated Subcooled Flow Boiling
10:45–11:05AM EDT
Mingfu He (Univ. New Mexico), Minghui Chen (Univ. New Mexico)
Paper
The Effect of Time Varying Axial Power Shape on Transient Critical Power Performance of BWR Fuel
11:05–11:25AM EDT
B. Ward (Global Nuclear Fuel Americas), S. Oh (Global Nuclear Fuel Americas), J. Andersen (Global Nuclear Fuel Americas), C. Heck (Global Nuclear Fuel Americas), D. Rock (Global Nuclear Fuel Americas), M. Sugawara (Global Nuclear Fuel Americas), J. Lamy (Global Nuclear Fuel Americas)
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Steady-State and Power Transient Critical Heat Flux Experiments of FeCrAl and Zircaloy Claddings Under Saturated Pool Boiling
11:25–11:45AM EDT
Experimental Research About Corrosion Effect on Boiling Heat Transfer Performance of Plate-Type Samples with Micro-Structures
11:45AM–12:05PM EDT
Wei Xu (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.), Xiaojing Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.), Kun Ouyang (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.), Xiaoqiang He (Nuclear Power Institute of China)
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