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Employees of the Manhattan Project operating calutron control panels at Y-12, in a US government photo by Ed Westcott. Y-12 is the World War II code name for the electromagnetic isotope separation plant producing enriched uranium at the Clinton Engineer Works in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, as part of the Manhattan Project.
The K-25 building of the Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant aerial view, looking southeast. The mile-long building, in the shape of a "U", was completely demolished in 2013. K-25 was the codename given by the Manhattan Project to the program to produce enriched uranium for atomic bombs using the gaseous diffusion method.
The X-10 Graphite Reactor is a decommissioned nuclear reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.Formerly known as the Clinton Pile and X-10 Pile, it was the world's second artificial nuclear reactor (after Enrico Fermi's Chicago Pile-1) and the first intended for continuous operation.
Oak Ridge history makes it friendly to nuclear. When the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management finished demolition and cleanup of the historic K-25 site, a massive Manhattan Project ...
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Orano previously had plans to build a similar multibillion-dollar uranium enrichment plant in Idaho, ... the city of Oak Ridge and the state nuclear fund will each contribute $5 million. The ...
There are five campuses on the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge reservation: the National Laboratory, the Y-12 National Security Complex, the East Tennessee Technology Park (formerly the Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant), the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, and the developing Oak Ridge Science and Technology Park, although the ...
Oak Ridge nuclear facility may refer to one of several active or historical U.S. federal government facilities in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, including: Clinton Engineer Works , the complex of production facilities at Oak Ridge during the World War II Manhattan Project, superseded by the following: