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Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) DuPage County, Illinois, 1941 (Argonne was named the first National Laboratory in 1946) UChicago Argonne, LLC (UChicago since 1941) 3,532 US$1,100,000,000 Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1943 UT–Battelle (since April 2000) [5] 4,368 US$2,130,000,000 Ames National Laboratory: Ames ...
Argonne National Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center in Lemont, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1946, the laboratory is owned by the United States Department of Energy and administered by UChicago Argonne LLC of the University of Chicago. [2] [3] The facility is the largest national laboratory in the Midwest.
John McLean (1791–1830), United States Representative and United States Senator from Illinois (the latter from 1824–25 and 1829–30) 170,441: 1,183 sq mi (3,064 km 2) Menard County: 129: Petersburg: 1839: Sangamon County: Pierre Menard (1766–1844), prominent early settler and first Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: 11,954: 314 sq mi (813 ...
The Illinois Congressional Reapportionment Act of 2001 (10 ILCS 76) defined its boundaries following the 2000 U.S. census. Following the 2010 U.S. census the district includes Joliet in Will County, parts of Naperville in southern DuPage County, and Aurora in Kane County. It includes the Argonne National Laboratory.
In 1994, the United States Department of Energy and the Argonne National Laboratory yielded to public pressure and earmarked $24.7 million and $3.4 million respectively to rehabilitate the site. As part of the cleanup, 500 cubic yards (380 m 3 ) of radioactive waste was removed and sent to the Hanford Site for disposal.
Site A was a research facility near Chicago where, during World War II, research on behalf of the Manhattan Project was carried out. Operated by the University of Chicago's Metallurgical Laboratory, it was the site of Chicago Pile-2, a reconstructed and enlarged version of the world's first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1.
DuPage County (/ d uː ˈ p eɪ dʒ / doo-PAYJ) is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois, and one of the collar counties of the Chicago metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census , the population was 932,877, making it Illinois' second-most populous county .
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