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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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The Frisch-Peierls memorandum: A seminal document of nuclear history
The Manhattan Project is usually considered to have been initiated with Albert Einstein’s letter to President Franklin Roosevelt in October 1939. However, a lesser-known document that was just as impactful on wartime nuclear history was the so-called Frisch-Peierls memorandum. Prepared by two refugee physicists at the University of Birmingham in Britain in early 1940, this manuscript was the first technical description of nuclear weapons and their military, strategic, and ethical implications to reach high-level government officials on either side of the Atlantic. The memorandum triggered the initiation of the British wartime nuclear program, which later merged with the Manhattan Engineer District.
14th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Applications of Accelerators
Technical Session
Friday, December 3, 2021|10:00–11:45AM EST |Lincoln West
Session Chair:
Lin Shao (TAMU)
Session Organizer:
Andrew Hutton
Student Assistant:
Chaithanya Balumuru
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Application of Pyrochemical Processing to ADS Partitioning and Transmutation Systems
10:05–10:25AM EST
Mark A. Williamson (ANL), Krista L. Hawthorne (ANL), James L. Willit (ANL)
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Subcritical Fuel Burnup of KIPT ADS Facility
10:25–10:45AM EST
Yousry Gohar (ANL), Zhaopeng Zhong (ANL), Igor Bolshinsky (INL)
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Superconducting Linac Design Concepts for Accelerator Driven Systems
10:45–11:05AM EST
Robert J. Abrams (Muons, Inc.), Rolland P. Johnson (Muons, Inc.), John D. Galambos (ORNL), Charles Peters (ORNL), Andrei Shishlo (ORNL)
Diagnosing New Problems at Chernobyl Via the Chernobyl Accelerator Project (CAP)
11:05–11:25AM EST
Charles D. Bowman (The ADNA Corporation)
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