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The Y-12 National Security Complex is a United States Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration facility located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, near the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It was built as part of the Manhattan Project for the purpose of enriching uranium for the first atomic bombs. [ 1 ]
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. The Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant was renamed the Oak Ridge K-25 Site in 1989 and the East Tennessee Technology Park in 1996.
Athens, Georgia: 2.8: 1910 [21] Bartletts Ferry Hydroelectric Generating Plant: Columbus, Georgia: 173.0: 1926/1951/ 1985 Blue Ridge Dam (owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority) Blue Ridge, Georgia: 13: 1931/1994 [22] Buford Dam: Forsyth County, Georgia: 126: 1956: Burton Hydroelectric Generating Plant: Clayton, Georgia: 6.12 ...
Oak Ridge National Laboratory is dwarfed by weapons labs, though the city of Oak Ridge still works on the U.S. nuclear arsenal. No, Oak Ridge is not 'the lab.' Here are 5 misconceptions about the ...
Created in 1942 as the first production site of the Manhattan Project, Oak Ridge was the birthplace of the world's first continuously operating nuclear reactor and the Nuclear Navy, whose reactors ...
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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
As more nuclear firms move in, Oak Ridge is trying to overcome its status as an all work, no play company town. Secret workplace or urban destination: Can Oak Ridge be both amid a nuclear surge ...