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Kenneth D. Nicholas
Kenneth D. Nicholas
Pages 182-187
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Waterways Experiment Station. This station was engaged primarily in experimental work in conjunction with flood control on the Mississippi River and with river and harbor responsibility of the U.S.
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In this capacity, General Nichols supervised the research and development connected with and the design, construction, and operation of all plants required for the production of plutonium and uranium-235, including the construction of the towns of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Richland, Washington. His office at Oak Ridge became the administrative center of the wartime atomic energy activities.
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During the same period, he was deputy director for Atomic Energy Matters, Plans, and Operations Division of the general staff of the U.S. Army and was senior army member of the Military Liaison Committee to the U.S.
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Atomic Energy Commission; Consolidation Coal Company; the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; and the Electric Power Research Institute.
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, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's Distinguished Service Awarcl, the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (Degree of Commander)
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