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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
Monday, November 8, 2021|2:50–4:50PM EST
Session Chair:
Matt Degonish (Westinghouse)
Alternate Chair:
Yunfei Zhao (OSU)
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Session Producer:
Chase Blaeser
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Use of Machine Learning to Evaluate Maintenance Rule Functional Failures at Exelon
2:50–3:20PM EST
Stephen M. Hess (Jensen Hughes), Jonathan L. Hodges (Jensen Hughes), Jenna M. Burr (Exelon Generation), Scott W. Diven (Exelon Generation)
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Fault Tree Generation From P&IDs Using Deep Learning
3:20–3:50PM EST
Jaydeep Thik (Ohio State Univ.), Xiaoxu Diao (Ohio State Univ), Pavan Kumar Vaddi (Ohio State Univ.), Carol Smidts (Ohio State Univ.)
Integration of Data Analytics With System Health Programs
3:50–4:20PM EST
D. Mandelli (INL), C. Wang (INL), S. Hess (Jensen Hughes), R. Sugrue (Jensen Hughes), D. Morton (Northwestern Univ.), I. Popova (Texas State Univ.), C. Pope (Idaho State Univ.), J. Miller (Idaho State Univ.), S. Ercanbrack (Idaho State Univ.), D. Cole (Univ. of Pittsburgh), J. Yurko (Univ. of Pittsburgh)
Use of Data Analytics to Evaluate Nuclear Plant Maintenance Historical Data
4:20–4:50PM EST
Stephen M. Hess (Jensen Hughes), Jonathan L. Hodges (Jensen Hughes), Stefan M. Kraft (Jensen Hughes), David Olack (EPRI), Jeff Greene (EPRI)
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