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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.”
Ricardo Diniz, Adimir dos Santos
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 152 | Number 2 | February 2006 | Pages 125-141
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE04-69
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A reactor noise approach has been successfully performed at the IPEN/MB-01 research reactor facility to determine experimentally the effective delayed neutron parameters i and i in a six-group model. The method can be considered a novel one because it exploits the very low-frequency domain of the spectral densities. The proposed method has some advantages to other in-pile methods since it does not perturb the reactor system and consequently does not "excite" any sort of harmonic modes. As a by-product and a consistency check, the eff parameter was obtained without the need of the Diven factor and power normalization, and it is in excellent agreement with independent measurements. The theory/experiment comparison shows that for the abundances the JENDL3.3 presents the best performance, while for the decay constants the revised version of ENDF/B-VI.8 shows the best agreement. The best performance for the eff determination is obtained with JENDL3.3. In contrast, ENDF/B-VI.8 and its revised version performed at Los Alamos National Laboratory overestimate eff by as much as 4%. The eff results of this work totally support the proposal by Sakurai and Okajima to reduce the thermal delayed neutron yield of 235U.
