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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.”
K. D. Lathrop
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 21 | Number 4 | April 1965 | Pages 498-508
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE65-A18794
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The effects of anisotropic scattering approximations in the monoenergetic transport equation are evaluated by calculating discrete eigenvalues, fluxes due to a plane source, and slab critical half-thicknesses, all for homogeneous media. Relative to P2 scattering approximation results, which are deemed accurate because of their agreement with P4 solutions, the simple transport approximation overestimates eigenvalues and underestimates half-thicknesses in multiplying media while a P1 scattering approximation underestimates eigenvalues and overestimates thicknesses, but with smaller error. In the plane source problem, where the detailed flux behavior is observed, the transport approximation is even less accurate; but an extended transport approximation is found to be much more adequate. In overall effectiveness, in order of increasing accuracy, the approximations considered are ranked as follows: 1) transport, 2) forward-backward, 3) first-order Legendre, 4) extended transport, and 5) higher order Legendre. Some evidence is given to indicate that, even for severely anisotropic scattering, relatively low-order Legendre approximations are sufficient to include anisotropic scattering effects.