Tennessee

Location 1 Science Way Oak Ridge, TennesseeBuilt 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 bomb....

Location Bear Creek Road Erwin, TennesseeThe 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. Correspondence from...

Location North Hawthorne Street Chattanooga, TennesseeRecords 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 met with members of the beryllium...

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 of Energy and its predecessor agencies....

Location Gallaher Road Oak Ridge, TennesseeThe 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 developed at the Naval Research...

Location Bethel Valley Road Oak Ridge, TennesseeDuring 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 test plant that would move the...

Location 130 Badger Road Oak Ridge, TennesseeOak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) is a university consortium leveraging the scientific strength of 105 major research institutions to advance science and education by partnering with national laboratories, government...

Location Oak Ridge Turnpike Oak Ridge, TennesseeOriginally a US Army Hospital for the Manhattan Project workers, this facility was operated for the AEC by Roane-Anderson Co. In 1959, ownership of the hospital was privatized and its operation taken over by the Oak...

Location Blair Road Oak Ridge, TennesseeThe K-25 gaseous diffusion plant was built as part of the World War II Manhattan Project to supply enriched uranium for nuclear weapons production. Construction of K-25 started in 1943. It was the first diffusion facility for...

Location 804 South Illinois Avenue Oak Ridge, TennesseeManufacturing Sciences Corporation performed beryllium work for Los Alamos National Laboratory. Type of Facility Beryllium Vendor Covered by EEOICPA Part B EEOICPA Covered Years 1992-1994  Did work for: Los Alamos...

Location Oak Ridge, TennesseeIn 1943, as part of the Manhattan Engineer District, the US. Government purchased 59,000 acres 12 miles west of Knoxville, Tennessee because it needed a remote location to build production plants and laboratories to produce plutonium and...

Location Clarksville, Tennessee The Clarksville Modification Center was established in 1958 for the purpose of testing and modifying the components of nuclear weapons. The Center was located near Clarksville, TN, on a corner of the Ft. Campbell, KY, military...