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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.”
Satoshi Fukada, Katsuhiro Fuchinoue, Masabumi Nishikawa
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 28 | Number 3 | October 1995 | Pages 608-613
Tritium Processing | Proceedings of the Fifth Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology in Fission, Fusion, and Isotopic Applications Belgirate, Italy May 28-June 3, 1995 | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A30470
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A continuous hydrogen isotope separation system using twin beds of metals or alloys is here proposed. The isotope separation system called a twin-bed periodically counter-current flow (TB-PCCF) is analytically and experimentally investigated. Palladium and LaNi4.7Al0.3 were selected based on experimental data of the isotope separation factor and the isotopic exchange rate. Numerical calculations by a plate model revealed effectiveness of the TB-PCCF method which is composed of an enriching column packed with Pd particles and a stripping column packed with LaNi4.7Al0.3 particles. A preliminary experiment was performed at the condition where absorption and desorption cycles are repeated between room temperature and 473K for Pd and 363K for LaNi4.7Al0.3 at the total reflux, and it showed possibility of the hydrogen isotope separation.
