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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.”
Maurizio Bottoni, Robert W. Lyczkowski
Nuclear Technology | Volume 106 | Number 2 | May 1994 | Pages 186-201
Technical Paper | Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT94-A34975
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The theoretical and computational bases of the BACCHUS-3D/TP computer program are reviewed. The computer program has been developed in the frame of the liquid-metal fast breeder reactor safety project at the Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe and is used for thermal-hydraulic analyses of nuclear fuel bundles under normal and accident conditions. The present program combines two models and solution procedures previously used separately, namely, an improved slip model and a separated-phases model. The first model uses mixture equations and accounts for slip between the phases, whereas the latter uses separate continuity and momentum equations. At the present stage of development, both assume thermodynamic equilibrium. Techniques used to affect smooth transitions between the two models are described, including treatment of frictional pressure drop and solution of the Poisson pressure and momentum equations. A detailed derivation of the computation of mass transfer between the phases is given because it is a central and novel feature of the model. A summary of validations performed to date, together with the quantities measured and compared with computations is given in tabular form.