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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 Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant was renamed the Oak Ridge K-25 Site in 1989 and the East Tennessee Technology Park in 1996. [98] Production of enriched uranium using gaseous diffusion ceased in Portsmouth in 2001 and at Paducah in 2013. [ 102 ]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy multipurpose national laboratory and the site of several active and historical nuclear energy projects X-10 Graphite Reactor , on the Oak Ridge National Laboratory campus, built during World War II and the first reactor designed and built for continuous operation
The project was announced by city, state and federal officials in a Sept. 4 event at the Oak Ridge Enhanced Technology and Training Center, near the 920-acre parcel of land set to be donated by ...
It's easy to lose track of nuclear news out of Oak Ridge. Here's why the Sept. 4 announcement was so different.
Orano is now hiring for its multibillion-dollar uranium enrichment facility planned for Oak Ridge, set to be the largest of its kind in the U.S.. The French nuclear fuels company recently posted ...
The Y-12, K-25, and S-50, plants were each built in Oak Ridge to separate the fissile isotope uranium-235 from natural uranium, which consists almost entirely of the isotope uranium-238. The X-10 site, now the site of Oak Ridge National Laboratory , was established as a pilot plant for production of plutonium using the Graphite Reactor, used to ...
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is a federally funded research and development center in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1943, the laboratory is now sponsored by the United States Department of Energy and administered by UT–Battelle, LLC .