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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.”
Erbang Hu, Maoshuan Zhang, Shoushu Wang, Zhanrong Gao, Rentai Yao, Naixian Pan, Jiayi Chen, Zhong Chen, Jinsong Qiao, Huaide Zhang
Nuclear Technology | Volume 124 | Number 1 | October 1998 | Pages 1-17
Technical Paper | Fission Reactors | doi.org/10.13182/NT98-A2905
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The Qinshan nuclear power plant (NPP) is one of China's nuclear power bases. An atmospheric experiment concerning siting of Qinshan NPP phase II is outlined and described. Hourly meteorological data were taken for 1 yr (from October 31, 1991 to October 31, 1992) at five different heights of a 100-m-high tower. Observations using a low-altitude radiosonde and a lost balloon were made for 40 days at three sites to measure the variance of turbulence at different heights and different distances from the coast. The diffusion parameters of the phase II site were measured using photographs of the plume and flight tests of the balance balloon. A wind tunnel simulation test was done to modify the influence of buildings on the diffusion parameters under D stable conditions. Synchronous low-altitude-wind, temperature, and surface-wind-field observations were made at three sites (phases I, II, and III) during September and October 1995 to provide a basic date for siting phase III. A method to estimate the annual atmospheric dispersion factor for a new site (phase III) using the available 1 yr of hourly meteorological observation data for an operating NPP (phase I) based on a meteorological correlation experiment is presented.
