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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
Friday, November 12, 2021|10:10AM–12:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Vaibhav Yadav (INL)
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Alternate Chair:
Douglas Osborn (Sandia)
Session Producer:
John Greenwood
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Integration of Nuclear Power Plant Safety and Security Codes Through EMRALD
10:10–10:40AM EST
Brian Cohn (Sandia), Emily Sandt (Sandia), Douglas Osborn (Sandia), Steve Prescott (INL), Robby Christian (INL)
Paper
Exploring Vital Area Identification Using Systems-Theoretic Process Analysis
10:40–11:10AM EST
Emily Sandt (Sandia), Andrew Clark (Sandia), Adam Williams (Sandia), Brian Cohn (Sandia), Douglas Osborn (Sandia), Tunc Aldemir (The Ohio State Univ.)
Attachment
Advantages of Direct Coupling of Dynamic PRA and Physical Security Simulation, Adding Operator Actions and Risk Methodologies
11:10–11:40AM EST
John Halsema (ARES Security), Christopher Guryan (ARES Security), Ben Russell (ARES Security), Christine Yeager (ARES Security), Steven Prescott (INL)
Integrating Human Reliability Analysis With Dynamic Modeling of Physical Security Effectiveness
11:40AM–12:10PM EST
Vaibhav Yadav (INL), Tina M. Miyake (INL), Robby Christian (INL), Steven Prescott (INL), Shawn St. Germain (INL), Ronald Boring (INL)
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