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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|Special Topics
Wednesday, August 23, 2023|1:30–3:10PM EDT|Columbia 3/4
Session Chair:
Marilyn Delgado (BWXT)
Alternate Chair:
Han Bao
Session Organizer:
Kurshad Muftuoglu
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Digital Twin Development for Advanced Reactor System Based on Graph Neural Networks Using SAM Code Simulation
1:30–1:50PM EDT
Yang Liu (ANL), Farah Alsafadi (NCSU), Travis Mui (ANL), Daniel O'Grady (ANL), Rui Hu (ANL)
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Introducing the OECD/NEA WPRS Benchmark on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Scientific Computing in Nuclear Engineering
1:50–2:10PM EDT
Xu Wu (NCSU), Gregory Delipei (NCSU), Maria Avramova (NCSU), Kostadin Ivanov (NCSU), Oliver Buss (OECD/NEA)
Application of a Physics-Informed Convolutional Neural Network for Temperature Field Monitoring in Advanced Reactors
2:10–2:30PM EDT
Victor Coppo Leite (Penn State), Elia Merzari (Penn State), April Novak (ANL), Roberto Ponciroli (ANL), Lander Ibarra (ANL)
Prediction of Turbulent Flow Regime Boundary and Pressure Drop for Hexagonal Wire-Wrapped Rod Assemblies Using Artificial Neural Networks
2:30–2:50PM EDT
Hansol Kim (TAMU), Joseph Seo (TAMU), Yassin A. Hassan (TAMU)
Physics-Informed Forecasting of NPPs Operating Parameters Using Machine Learning
2:50–3:10PM EDT
Houde Song (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.), Meiqi Song (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.), Yanjie Tuo (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.), Xiaojing Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.)
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