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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.”
S.A. Korepanov, P.A. Bagryansky, P.P. Deichuli, A.A. Ivanov, Yu.A. Tsidulko
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 35 | Number 1 | January 1999 | Pages 345-348
Poster Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST99-A11963881
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The diagnostic based on neutral beam injector DINA-5 is developed for the plasma density measurements at midplane of Gas Dynamic Trap (GDT1) experiment. The deuterium neutral beam with energy of 25 keV and equivalent current of up to 2 A is injected perpendicularly to plasma column at the midplane of the device. The beam is attenuated by 2–3 times passing through the plasma. The generated ions are deflected by the magnetic field and registered by a detector array located between the plasma and first wall. The deuterium ions produced in various points along the initial beam trajectory are detected in different channels. The signal in each detector depends on the local plasma density in corresponding point enabling to reconstruct the plasma density profile along the beam. In the experiments with the powerful neutral beam injection the plasma diamagnetism achieves considerable value (β ~ 20%) therefore it has to be taken into account for the accurate calculation of the D+ trajectories. The space resolution of the method was estimated to be about 2 cm. The duration of the beam (up to 4 ms) is large enough to overlap the duration of the GDT shots.