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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|Water-Cooled Reactor Operations and Accident Analysis
Monday, August 21, 2023|1:30–3:10PM EDT|Columbia 3/4
Session Chair:
Caleb Brooks (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Alternate Chair:
Hyun Sik Park
Session Organizer:
Cesare Frepoli
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BWRX-300 Chimney Evaluations (1): Conceptual Design of the Chimney
1:30–1:50PM EDT
Charles Heck (Global Nuclear Fuel), Scott Bowman (Global Nuclear Fuel), Kazuaki Kito (Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy)
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Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees) — presentation paper #40308
BWRX-300 SMR Chimney Evaluations (2): Strategy for Qualifying TRACG Evaluations of Chimney Void Fractions
1:50–2:10PM EDT
A. Povolny (Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy), K. Katono (Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy), C. Heck (Global Nuclear Fuel), Z. Zhang (GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy)
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BWRX-300 SMR Chimney Evaluations (3): HUSTLE Testing in Large Diameter Chimney at Nominal Pressure and Temperature
2:10–2:30PM EDT
Kenichi Katono (Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy), Antonin Povolny (Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy), Hajime Furuichi (Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy), Kiyoshi Fujimoto (Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy), Kenichi Yasuda (Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy), Kazuaki Kito (Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy)
BWRX-300 SMR Chimney Evaluations (4): Measurement of Void Fraction and Velocity Distributions in Large Diameter Chimney at Nominal Pressure and Temperature Using Double-Plane Wire-Mesh Sensor
2:30–2:50PM EDT
Hajime Furuichi (Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy), Antonin Povolny (Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy), Kenichi Katono (Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy), Kenichi Yasuda (Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy), Kazuaki Kito (Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy)
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Feasibility Analysis of Flooding Safety System of i-SMR with MELCOR Code
2:50–3:10PM EDT
Chang Hyun Song (Hanyang Univ.), Jae Hyung Park (Hanyang Univ.), Sung Joong Kim (Hanyang Univ.)
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