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Manhattan Project National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park commemorating the Manhattan Project that is run jointly by the National Park Service and Department of Energy. The park consists of three units: one in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, one in Los Alamos, New Mexico and one in Hanford, Washington.
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]
After the township was established in mid-1943, the name Oak Ridge was chosen from employee suggestions. The site met the Manhattan District's approval because "its rural connotation held outside curiosity to a minimum". [17] Oak Ridge then became the site's postal address, but the site was not officially renamed Oak Ridge until 1947. [18]
Oak Ridge Historic District (also known as Clinton Engineer Works Townsite) is a historic district in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Roughly bounded by East Drive, Outer and West Outer Drives, Louisiana Avenue, and Tennessee Avenue, the district comprises much of Oak Ridge's original Manhattan ...
The transfer of land seized by the federal government in the 1940s to a French company that will revamp uranium enrichment in Oak Ridge is a symbol of a new Manhattan Project in a globalized world.
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.
Y-12 is credited as the final destination for uranium enrichment in Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project, but K-25 carried the technology further during the Cold War, expanding into U.S. Navy ...
Col. Kenneth D. Nichols, district engineer for the Manhattan Engineer District, at the Oak Ridge Administration Office at the Federal Building, known as "The Castle On The Hill."