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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.
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It's easy to lose track of nuclear news out of Oak Ridge. Here's why the Sept. 4 announcement was so different.
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 ...
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 ...
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