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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.”
Mustafa K. Jaradat, Namjae Choi, Abdalla Abou-Jaoude
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 198 | Number 12 | December 2024 | Pages 2403-2436
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2306702
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The molten salt reactor (MSR) flowing-fuel simulation capability of the Griffin-Pronghorn-coupled multiphysics code system developed by Idaho National Laboratory (INL) was verified against the Center National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) MSR benchmark problem. Griffin and Pronghorn, which are INL’s neutronics and thermal-hydraulics codes built upon the Multiphysics Object-Oriented Simulation Environment (MOOSE) framework, have been recently extended to handle the flowing fuel of MSRs causing the drift of delayed neutron precursors (DNP). In the Griffin-Pronghorn code system, Griffin provides the fission rate density to Pronghorn, which simulates the generation, decay, and transport of DNPs along with the fluid, and the redistributed DNP densities are fed back to Griffin. The coupling and transfers are largely automatically managed at the framework level by the powerful MultiApp system of MOOSE. The verification results against the CNRS benchmark problem demonstrate that the Griffin-Pronghorn code system can accurately simulate the unique physics phenomena of MSRs in both steady-state and transient conditions.