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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.
Over the next decade, four more uranium enrichment plants joined K-25, and the site was renamed the Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant. The added enrichment facilities included K-27 in 1945, K-29 ...
The memory of K-25, larger than the Pentagon, lives in those who worked there and in the museum hosting a reunion for them.
Diffusion columns, S-50 Liquid Thermal Diffusion plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1945. Sites at Watts Bar Dam, Muscle Shoals and Detroit were considered, but it was decided to build it at the Clinton Engineer Works, where water could be obtained from the Clinch River and steam from the K-25 powerhouse. [49]
The K-25 Gaseous Diffusion Plant, including K-25, K-27, K-29, K-31, and K-33 gaseous diffusion process buildings. ... Oak Ridge City Historian D. Ray Smith's "Historically Speaking" column appears ...
K-25, another facility in Oak Ridge, produced enriched uranium using gaseous diffusion. However, K-25 did not begin operating until March 1945 and fed slightly enriched uranium to Y-12's Beta Calutrons as the push to obtain enough uranium-235 for Little Boy came in the early summer of 1945.
After the war, four more gaseous diffusion plants named K-27, K-29, K-31 and K-33 were added to the site. The K-25 site was renamed the Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant in 1955. Production of enriched uranium ended in 1964, and gaseous diffusion finally ceased on the site on 27 August 1985.
Centrus Energy said it would invest $60 million to resume centrifuge manufacturing at its Oak Ridge plant. ... where the K-25 gaseous diffusion plant stood during the Manhattan Project and Cold ...