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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|Severe Accidents
Wednesday, August 23, 2023|10:45AM–12:25PM EDT|Columbia 9/10
Session Chair:
David L. Luxat
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Fulvio Mascari
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Sensitivity Analysis of Consequential Steam Generator Tube Rupture (C-SGTR) of Typical Korean NPP
10:45–11:05AM EDT
Byeonghee Lee (KAERI), Jin Ho Song (KAERI), Kwang Soon Ha (KAERI)
Paper
A Methodology for Real-Time Identification of a PWR Accident and Predictive Analysis
11:05–11:25AM EDT
Paul McMinn (Fauske & Assoc.), Nick Karancevic (Fauske & Assoc.), Chan Y. Paik (Fauske & Assoc.), Wei Wei (China Nuclear Power Operation Technology Corp.), Ma Guoyang (China Nuclear Power Operation Technology Corp.)
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Hysteresis Impacts in Steady Flow Transitions of the Rayleigh Bénard Problem with Internal Heating; Implications on Heat Transfer Margin in External Reactor Vessel Cooling Strategies
11:25–11:45AM EDT
A. Lentner (George Washington Univ.), E. Balaras (George Washington Univ.)
Source Term Uncertainty Analysis of Severe Accidents in Nordic BWRs
11:45AM–12:05PM EDT
Govatsa Acharya (Royal Institute of Technology), Ioannis Komlikis (Royal Institute of Technology), Dmitry Grishchenko (Royal Institute of Technology), Pavel Kudinov (Royal Institute of Technology), Sergey Galushin (Vysus Group)
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