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Members are devoted to applying nuclear science and engineering technologies involving isotopes, radiation applications, and associated equipment in scientific research, development, and industrial processes. Their interests lie primarily in education, industrial uses, biology, medicine, and health physics. Division committees include Analytical Applications of Isotopes and Radiation, Biology and Medicine, Radiation Applications, Radiation Sources and Detection, and Thermal Power Sources.
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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|New and Advanced Reactors
Wednesday, August 23, 2023|3:30–5:10PM EDT|Cardozo
Session Chair:
Ferry Roelofs
Alternate Chair:
Emre Tatli (Westinghouse)
Session Organizer:
Rui Hu (ANL)
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CFD - STH Code Coupling for the Thermal Hydraulic Analysis of NACIE-UP Experimental Facility
3:30–3:50PM EDT
P. Cioli Puviani (Politecnico di Torino), R. Zanino (Politecnico di Torino), T. Del Moro (Sapienza Univ. Rome), F. Giannetti (Sapienza Univ. Rome), B. Gonfiotti (ENEA), I. Di Piazza (ENEA), D. Martelli (ENEA), M. Tarantino (ENEA)
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Transient Behavior of Multi-Dimensional Core Cooling by D-DHX in Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactors
3:50–4:10PM EDT
T. Ezure (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Y. Akimoto (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), T. Onojima (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), A. Kurihara (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), M. Tanaka (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
Development of a new Thermal-Hydraulic Module for FRENETIC, a Code for the Multiphysics Analysis of Liquid Metal-Cooled Reactors
4:10–4:30PM EDT
A. Lombardo (Politecnico di Torino), G.F. Nallo (Politecnico di Torino), N. Abrate (Politecnico di Torino), S. Dulla (Politecnico di Torino)
Multi-Physic Coupled Simulation of the Loss of Flow WithOut Scram Transient of the Fast Flux Test Facility
4:30–4:50PM EDT
Simon Li (CEA), Héloïse Velardo (CEA), Georis Billo (CEA), Pierre Sciora (CEA), Matteo Monegaglia (CEA)
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