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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|Assembly
Session Chair:
Pierre-Clément A. Simon (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Junliang Liu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Session Organizer:
Paul P. Wilson (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
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Development of Tungsten Recrystallization Budget for Management of SPARC Plasma-Facing Component Lifetime
10:15–10:40AM CDT
D.V. Yuryev (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), T. Looby (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), L.M. Garrison (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), P. Ermoshkina (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), O. Madrigal (Commonwealth Fusion Systems)
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Synergistic Effects of Tungsten and Tungsten-Rhenium Alloy Exposed to Fusion Reactor Conditions
10:40–11:05AM CDT
T.E. Ray (Purdue Univ.), J.T. Tripathi (Purdue Univ.), J.C. Johnson (Purdue Univ.), A. Hassanein (Purdue Univ.)
High Heat Flux Testing and Modeling of SPARC Plasma-Facing Components
11:05–11:25AM CDT
Michael Lagieski (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Pele Collins (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Bernd Böswirth (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics), Lauren M. Garrison (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), H. Greuner (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics), Katja Hunger (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics), Adam Kuang (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Tom Looby (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Clint Luna (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Johann Riesch (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics), Aaron Rosenthal (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Dina Yuryev (Commonwealth Fusion Systems)
Novel Liquid Metal Alloys Enabling High Fusion Performance
11:25–11:45AM CDT
D.R. Hatch (Univ. Texas, Austin), M. Kotschenreuther (ExoFusion), M. Nieto-Perez (Penn State), A. Khodak (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), S.M. Mahajan (Univ. Texas, Austin), R. Maingi (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), C. Michoski (Sapientai), Victoria Miller (Univ. Florida), Carlos Romero-Talamas (Univ. Maryland, Baltimore Co.)
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