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Isotopes & Radiation
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.”
Technical Session
Wednesday, July 24, 2024|10:15AM–12:05PM CDT|Madison Ballroom
Session Chair:
Kate Borowiec (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Ethan Peterson (Massachussets Institute of Technology)
Session Organizer:
Paul P. Wilson
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Scheme for Calculating the Complete Stochastic Uncertainty in Nuclear Analysis Based on 2 Monte Carlo Code Systems
10:15–10:40AM CDT
J. Alguacil (Univ. Nacional de Educacion a Distancia), I. Lopez (Univ. Nacional de Educacion a Distancia), J.P. Catalan (Univ. Nacional de Educacion a Distancia), P. Sauvan (Univ. Nacional de Educacion a Distancia), J. Sanz (Univ. Nacional de Educacion a Distancia)
Paper
Local Uncertainty and Unstructured Mesh Element Volume in MCNP
10:40–11:05AM CDT
John Tortorello (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Andrea A. Saltos (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Ryanne Kennedy (Commonwealth Fusion Systems)
Uncertainty Analysis of OpenMC Shutdown Dose Rates Calculation
11:05–11:25AM CDT
Bamidele Ebiwonjumi (MIT), Ethan Peterson (MIT)
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Optimization of SPARC Vacuum Spectroscopy Shielding Design Using Cottonwood Adjoints
11:25–11:45AM CDT
Ian R. Miner (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Inwoo Song (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Andrea Saltos (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Ryanne Kennedy (Commonwealth Fusion Systems)
Machine Learning Uncertainty Quantification for Fusion Plasma Controllers
11:45AM–12:05PM CDT
Cyd Cowley (digiLab Solutions), Andy Corbett (digiLab Solutions), Mikkel Lykkegaard (digiLab Solutions), Adam Parrott (Culham Centre for Fusion Energy)
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