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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.”
T. A. Germogenova
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 124 | Number 1 | September 1996 | Pages 63-71
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE96-A24223
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The analytical representation of eigenfunctions for finite moments method approximations of radiative transport equations is constructed in slab geometry problems. The truncated balance algorithm is used. An angle dependence of discrete eigenfunctions is determined by discrete characteristic equation solutions. It is established that space-dependent factors of discrete eigenfunctions are Pade approximations of the exponential functions and correspond to the original transport problem eigenfunctions. This technique proves to be useful for analyzing solvability and accuracy of finite moment approximations and also for developing computational algorithms. Slowly changing eigenfunctions are included in the regular component of the optically thick slab problem solution. Coarse-mesh algorithms or diffusion approximations at specific boundary conditions can be used to determine these components. Other eigenfunctions determine the singular component of the mesh solution. This component represents the transition regime on coarse meshes with typical oscillations or with a slow decrease in boundary layers. It is strongly different from the singular component of the exact solution.