Y-12 Plant Location 1 Science Way Oak Ridge, Tennessee Built in a rural section of East Tennessee, the Y-12 National Security Complex, previously known as the Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant, was part of the Manhattan Project. Its job was to process uranium for the first atomic...
W.R. Grace Location Bear Creek Road Erwin, Tennessee The Davison Chemical Division of W.R. Grace Co. (later Nuclear Fuel Services) processed unirradiated uranium scrap for the AEC, recovering enriched uranium from it for use in the nuclear weapons complex....
Vitro Corporation of America Location North Hawthorne Street Chattanooga, Tennessee Records indicate that “Vitro Corporation” of Chattanooga, TN performed some beryllium work for Y-12 during the period 1959-1965. A 1962 document also mentions that the AEC...
Office of Scientific and Technical Information Location 4000 North Hawthorne Street Oak Ridge, Tennessee The Office of Scientific and Technical lnformation was created to serve as a federal government repository for all technical reports pertaining to the Department...
Oak Ridge Thermal Diffusion Plant Location Gallaher Road Oak Ridge, Tennessee The S-50 Plant at Oak Ridge was constructed in 1944 to enrich uranium feed material for the Y-12 electromagnetic facility using a liquid thermal diffusion process. The process was originally...
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Location Bethel Valley Road Oak Ridge, Tennessee During the Manhattan project, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) site was used by the University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory to construct the first pile semiworks – a... 