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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|New and Advanced Reactors
Wednesday, August 23, 2023|1:30–3:10PM EDT|Gunston East/West
Session Chair:
Piyush Sabharwall
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Alternate Chair:
Jun Liao (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
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Convective Heat Transfer Characteristics Within a Shipping Container Transporting a Micro-HTGR
1:30–1:50PM EDT
T-Ying Lin (Purdue), Hitesh Bindra (Purdue), Piyush Sabharwall (INL), Richard Schultz (Idaho State)
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Development of Design Basis Safety Analysis Phenomena Identification and Ranking Table for the eVinci Microreactor
1:50–2:10PM EDT
Michael J. Patterson (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Jun Liao (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Megan E. Durse (Westinghouse Electric Co.), William Brown (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Richard F. Wright (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
Benchmark Studies of the MOOSE-Based Sockeye and BISON Codes for the eVinci Heat Pipe Microreactor
2:10–2:30PM EDT
Michael A. Shockling (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Megan E. Durse (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Liping Cao (Westinghouse Electric Co.), John Lojek III (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Rory A.F. Blunt (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
CFD Thermal Analysis of eVinci™ Microreactor -- Integrating Reactor Core and Primary Heat Exchanger
2:30–2:50PM EDT
Hong Xu (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Liping Cao (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
Presented by Michael Patterson (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
Size Assessment of the Heat Exchanger for He-Xe Closed Brayton Cycle Applied in Mobile, Land-Based Microreactor System
2:50–3:10PM EDT
Chaoran Guan (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.), Xiang Chai (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.), Tengfei Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.), Xiaojing Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.)
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