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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.”
Yasushi Yamamoto, Atsunori Ishidou, Kazuyuki Noborio, Satoshi Konishi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 56 | Number 2 | August 2009 | Pages 761-765
Nuclear Analysis | Eighteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST09-A9001
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
We have investigated the neutron generation characteristics of discharge-type fusion neutron source by experiments and computer simulations for several years. The cylindrical inertial electro-static confinement device used for these studies has been considered to be a point source where neutrons emitted isotropic. The aspect ratio (length divided by diameter) of the device is 1∼2. For neutron applications, a beam shape where neutrons are emitted in a specific direction may be more convenient.In this paper we describe recent results of neutronic calculations for making a beam-type neutron source by increasing aspect ratio of the device and by locating reflecting material around the device. It is found that the increase of aspect ratio of 2∼5 does not strongly affect the neutron flux distribution, but that neutron fluxes in the axial direction becomes 2∼3 times larger than those without reflectors and more than 1 order stronger than the radial direction by adding reflector.
