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Members are devoted to applying nuclear science and engineering technologies involving isotopes, radiation applications, and associated equipment in scientific research, development, and industrial processes. Their interests lie primarily in education, industrial uses, biology, medicine, and health physics. Division committees include Analytical Applications of Isotopes and Radiation, Biology and Medicine, Radiation Applications, Radiation Sources and Detection, and Thermal Power Sources.
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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.”
Workshop
Thursday, April 4, 2024|1:00–4:00PM EDT|Eric J. Barron Innovation Hub Room 603
Session Organizer:
Luiz Aldeia Machado (Penn State University)
Want to learn about Monte Carlo methods and how to use a powerful, open-source software? Join our PSU students and Dr. April Novak (ANL/UIUC) for a workshop that will take attendees step-by-step through how to use/work with the OpenMC software. By the end of the workshop, all attendees should be able to: understand OpenMC’s capabilities, understand what the Monte Carlo method is, and model a pin cell and BWR example. All attendees are expected to bring their personal computers. No prior experience with using the software is required!
Speaker
April Novak
Dr. April Novak is an Assistant Professor of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Before joining the faculty at UIUC, she was a Maria Goeppert-Mayer Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2020. Her research focuses on multiphysics methods and applications, multiscale thermal hydraulics, Monte Carlo transport methods, reactor design and analysis, and high-performance computing.
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