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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 ]
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 ...
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 ...
A landmark labor deal recognizes the skills of workers who clean up hazardous nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project and the Cold War. Oak Ridge's nuclear cleanup contractor UCOR signs deal to ...
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 University of Chicago temporarily re-assumed responsibility, with the site receiving the prestigious "National" laboratory designation, until in December 1947, when Union Carbide and Carbon Co., which already operated two other facilities at Oak Ridge, took control of the laboratory and renamed the site Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
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 ...
“Why would you give something as critical as uranium enrichment to a foreign entity?” said Steve Mullins, president of Oak Ridge Tool. Centrus faces European competitors for U.S. funds to grow ...