Oak Ridge is a constant source of pride for East Tennesseans more than 80 years after it was created by the U.S. government as the first site of the Manhattan Project. In the space of a few years ...

Y-12 workers will have to wait longer to move out of a crumbling Manhattan Project building, as its replacement becomes ...

The department has finished cleanup at 92 sites, and Oak Ridge is one of the 15 remaining, along with fellow Manhattan Project sites in Hanford, Washington and Los Alamos, New Mexico. Mullis ...

It includes the laboratories and living quarters of the Manhattan Project scientists in Los Alamos ... and three facilities for enriching uranium at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Together, these sites tell ...

Why would you give something as critical as uranium enrichment to a foreign entity?” said Steve Mullins, president of Oak ...

Ample reasons, most notably leadership skills, personality traits and qualifications, led to choosing General (then Colonel) Kenneth D. Nichols as deputy district engineer and subsequently as district ...

Redundancy unquestionably increased the cost of the Manhattan Project, but we did not feel we dared take a chance concentrating on only one production plant, or even one type of bomb. “Well, you take ...

The American Physical Society has recognized the Graphite Reactor, located at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National ...

He is an Oak Ridge Manhattan Project historian, Oak Ridge History Museum tour coordinator, tour guide, and vice-president of the ORHPA board. He will talk about Westcott and his career ...

The Europeans settled the United States via waterborne transportation. Settlements, and then cities, first arose where there ...

He arrived at Bucknell in 2015 after completing his PhD at Fordham University in the Bronx. He grew up in Oak Ridge, TN (a Manhattan Project Secret City) and went to college at Elon University in ...