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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
Wednesday, November 10, 2021|12:40–2:40PM EST
Session Chair:
Michael Muhlheim (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Alex Huning (ORNL)
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Session Producer:
Chase Blaeser
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Practical Insights for Assessing Multi-Unit Risk to Support Risk-Informed Decision-Making
12:40–1:10PM EST
Fernando Ferrante (EPRI), Andrea Maioli (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Ken Kiper (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Carrol Trull (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Adriana A. Sivori (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
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Analysis of Common Cause Failures With Effects of Degradation and Maintenance
1:10–1:40PM EST
Taotao Zhou (Univ. of Maryland), Mohammad Modarres (Univ. of Maryland), Enrique López Droguett (Univ. of Chile)
PSA-Based Seismic Margin Assessment for a New Reactor Design
1:40–2:10PM EST
Manuel Pellissetti (Framatome), Gerben Dirksen (Framatome), Artem Shevchenko (Framatome), Hugo Jadot (EDF), Romain Tricard (EDVANCE)
Shutdown Level 2 PSA Methodology for a Small Modular Reactor
2:10–2:40PM EST
Hugo da Costa Romberg Júnior (Univ. of São Paulo), Nathália Nunes Araújo (Univ. of São Paulo), Maritza Rodriguez Gual (Univ. of São Paulo), Marcos Coelho Maturana (Univ. of São Paulo), Marcelo Ramos Martins (Univ. of São Paulo)
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