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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 .
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.
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 20 ...
The investment to build a $300 million advanced nuclear fuel facility could result in at least 400 jobs in Oak Ridge. $300M investment in Oak Ridge ushers in new era of nuclear power with 'gumball ...
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 Orano enrichment plant in Oak Ridge will produce nuclear fuel for commercial power reactors, not weapons. The U.S. has not built new nuclear weapons since the 1990s, and Oak Ridge's wartime ...
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.